Getting Started

Getting Started Manual by Ludvig Carlson, Anders Nordmark, Roger Wiklander Quality Control: C. Bachmann, H. Bischoff, S. Pfeifer, C. Schomburg The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not rep- resent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. All product and company names are ™ or ® trademarks of their respective owners. Windows 2000 and Windows XP are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. The Mac logo is a trademark used under license. Macintosh and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks. © Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, 2004. All rights reserved. Table of Contents 7 Introduction 61 Tutorial 1: 8 Welcome, Recording and 9 About the manuals and the playing back audio Help 62 About this chapter 12 How you can reach us 63 Creating a new project 65 Preparing to record 13 Installation and 69 Recording Requirements for 69 Playing back what you just Windows recorded 14 About this chapter 70 Recording more events 14 Requirements 71 Playing back in a cycle 18 Hardware installation 20 Installing Cubase LE 73 Tutorial 2: Recording and playing back MIDI 23 Installation and 74 About this chapter Requirements for Mac 75 Setting up for recording OS X MIDI 24 About this chapter 79 Recording MIDI 24 Requirements 79 Playing back what you just 27 Hardware installation recorded 28 Installing Cubase LE 80 Playing back in a cycle 81 Transposing the MIDI track 31 Setting up your 85 Tutorial 3: Mixing system 86 About this chapter 32 Setting up audio 87 Opening the Mixer 40 Setting up MIDI 88 Setting the level 44 Connecting a synchronizer 88 Setting pan 44 Setting up video 89 Using Mute and Solo 45 Optimizing audio 90 Adding EQ to an audio performance channel 51 Guided Tour 92 Adding audio effects 94 Automating a fader 52 The main windows …