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1. GETTING STARTED
1.1 Welcome . Page 1
1.2 Introduction . Page 2
1.3 Main Screen . Page 3
1.4 Creating A Project . Page 5
2. RECORDING
2.1 Overview . Page 6
2.2 Recording Audio . Page 7
2.3 Recording Midi . Page 8
3. INSTRUMENTS
3.1 Overview . Page 9
3.2 Micro Sonic . Page 10
3.3 Micrologue . Page 12
3.4 Mini Sampler . Page 14
4. ADDING EFFECTS
4.1 Overview . Page 16
4.2 Inspector . Page 17
4.3 Insert Effects . Page 18
4.4 Send Effects . Page 20
4.5 MIDI Effects . Page 21
5. MIXING
5.1 Overview . Page 22
5.2 Mixer . Page 23
5.3 Group Tracks . Page 24
5.4 Factory Presets . Page 26
5.5 Automation . Page 28
TABLE OF CONTENTS
6. ARRANGEMENT
6.1 Overview . Page 29
6.2 Events . Page 30
6.3 Arrangement Track . Page 32
6.4 Audio Editor . Page 33
6.5 MIDI Editor t ••Page 35
7. FILE MANAGEMENT
7.1 Overview . Page 37
7.2 MediaBay . Page 38
7.3 Mixdown . Page 40
8. MASTERING
8.1 Overview . Page 42
8.2 Mastering Strip . Page 43
9. ADDITIONAL SETTINGS
9.1 Overview . Page 45
9.2 Audio Settings . Page 46
9.3 MIDI Learn . Page 47
Insert Effects
Send Effects
MIDI Effects
Automation
Notepad
Channel
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GETTING STARTED
When you first open Cubasis 3 you'll be greeted with the demo
project named "Smear" to help familiarize yourself with the basics
of the app.
All of your projects and audio/midi files live in the Media Bay
which can be accessed by clicking the "Media" button in the top
left hand corner.
In the next page we'll highlight the main points of interests of the
user interface.
MAIN SCREEN
1. Top Menu Bar - Go to the MediaBay to create or share your
songs with the world. Open the virtual keyboard, drums and chord
pads to instantly record great tracks. start playback or adjust
song-related settings.
Once you have the Media Bay window open, tapping the
"Projects" tab on the left hand side will reveal a list of all your
projects with the currently opened project selected.
From this window you can Create a New Project, or Import, Delete,
Duplicate, and Share your projects as well. ~
RECORDING
Cubasis 3 allows you to record both Audio and MIDI tracks. You
can hook up physical instruments via an audio interface or you
can use virtual instruments such as the stock plugins
from Steinberg or even use 3rd party Audio
Unit (AUv3) plugins. To add a new track
Simply click the" ADD +" button.
RECORDING
CREATING AN AUDIO TRACK
To create a new Audio Track tap the "ADD +" button on the
bottom left hand corner of the arrange window and then tap
"Audio Track".
You can now add audio from the Media Bay such as a sample or
a loop. You can also record a physical instrument via your audio
interface or record a 3rd party virtual instrument via Audiobus.
INSTRUMENTS
Cubasis 3 comes with 3 stock virtual instruments including the
Micro Sonic, Micrologue and Mini Sampler.
MICRO SONIC
Micro Sonic is a condensed version of HALion Sonic, Steinberg's
premier VST workstation. It allows you to browse and customize
more than 150 production-ready kits and sampled instruments.
MICROLOGUE
Micrologue is a virtual synthesizer for Cubasis, based on the
award-winning Retrologue VST instrument.
4. Edit Instrument - This button will bring up the Mini Sampler Editor
interface where you can import samples and assign them to one or
more keys across the keyboard.
5. Pad Controller - If you have a drum kit selected the pads will
play drum samples by default or if you have an instrument
selected the pads will play chords by default. You can assign
specific chords to each pad by clicking on the "Edit" button in the
upper left hand corner of the pad controller.
You can also purchase additional effects from the shop or use 3rd
party AUv3 effects from the app store.
To add a new effect in anyone of these slots types, tap the "Tap
To Add Effect" Button. ~
ADDING EFFECTS
Inspector - All of your effects and automa-
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To open the inspector, tap the a symbol on
the far left of your screen which is colored
according to your selected track.
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MIXING
Cubasis 3 comes with the ability to fully mix and master your songs
with a studio quality mixer, legendary steinberg quality plugins and
carefully crafted mixing presets.
1. Mixer Size - Use the two finger pinch gesture or the "5", "M" or
"XL" buttons (available on tablets only) to change the width of the
channel strips in the mixer. On tablets, you can hold and drag the
upper bar up or down to change the overall height of the mixer.
MIXING
2. Pan fader - Slide horizontally to adjust your track's stereo pan.
3. Automation Editor - Here you can view and edit changes via
automation curves.
Insert Effects
Send Effects
MIDI Effects
Automation
Notepad
Channel
Color
ARRANGEMENT
Arrangement is the flow of a song from start to finish. Depending on
the genre it typically has sections such as an intro, verse,
pre-chorus, chorus, bridge, and outro. Arrangement is a way of
looking at your track from several angles to carve away the excess
and support what's already working.
You can also adjust the length of your event by dragging the
bottom left / right handle horizontally.
ARRANGEMENT
1. Transpose - Transposes notes on a semitone and octave scale
for MIDI events and pitch shifts audio material by cents, semitones
or octaves.
4. Ruler - The vertical lines and numbers on the ruler indicate the
bars and beats (measures). The ruler holds the playhead (black
vertical line) and two locators. To position the playhead, slide any-
where on the ruler.
5. MIDI Event - A midi event that could have either been drawn di-
rectly in the Key Editor or recorded into Cubasis using an external
MIDI device.
Insert Effects
Send Effects
MIDI Effects
Automation
Notepad
Channel
Color
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ARRANGEMENT TRACK
Cubasis by default doesn't yet feature an arrangement track like its
desktop counter-part, Cubase. However, you can create your own
by drawing in MIDI Events.
5. Miniature panel - The top grey panel shows the entire waveform
of your audio file. The marked region is displayed in the main
window. Drag the left or right marker to zoom in / out and drag the
region to adjust your view's position.
5. Note - A MIDI note that was entered in. When in draw mode you
can tap anywhere to add a note or tap on an existing note to
delete it. You can also use the controls on the far left side to assist
in moving and resizing MIDI notes.
In the next section we'll discuss the MediaBay which is where you'll
be spending the most amount of time managing your files.
To access the MediaBay tap the "MEDIA" button in the top left-
corner.
You can drag and drop files onto a track by tapping and dragging
a file icon in the MediaBay or by tapping and holding a file any-
where in the file list.
FILE MANAGEMENT
1. MediaBay Menu - The MediaBay is navigated with these 6 menu
items on the far left side.
2. File List - The file list shows category, name, type, modification
date and size of all files used in Cubasis. All files are automatically
organized according to their extension (file type).
4. Start Mixdown - Click this button to start your mixdown. This pro-
cess can take a short while depending on how long your song is.
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Next we'll dive into the setup menu and explain some of the most
common settings.
4. Input Gain - Adjust the input gain scale from your microphone or
MIDI LEARN
MIDI learn allows you to map any hardware button, knob, fader or
other control that sends MIDI CC or MIDI note messages to a
button, knob or fader in Cubasis.
3. Midi Learn Menu- Easily access MIDI learn controls while in learn
mode such as Exit MIDI Learn or Reset MIDI Earn from wherever you
are in Cubasis
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