VST Sound™ – Universal Sound Manager
VST Sound™ is the collective name for a number of features that form a breathtakingly powerful system that manages all your sounds, presets and loops in one centralized database. Thanks to the excellent integration within the creative composition and production processes, VST Sound™ has the power to revolutionize your workflow. The heart of VST Sound™ is MediaBay, a high-performance media database with outstanding search and categorization features. If you’re looking, say, for a piano sound suitable for jazz with warm characteristics, just set these filters in the MediaBay and the right sounds will be shown there, regardless of which instruments provide them. MediaBay also allows previewing of loops in the song context including the tempo. Track Presets can also save huge amounts of time – importing, say, a vocal track loads EQ and your favorite compressor with all settings. And these are just several of the ways that VST Sound™ can radically speed up your workflow: once it’s a part of your production process, you’ll wonder how you managed without…
MediaBay
MediaBay is the central Media Management system introduced with Cubase 4, and sets new standards in convenient, easy handling of instrument and plug-in presets, audio loops and clips, MIDI files, Track Presets, videos and even entire Cubase project files. MediaBay is so much more than traditional file browsers because it binds all media resources on your system directly into your creative composition and production processes.
MediaBay searches your hard drives automatically for media files and gives direct access through a clearly laid out file browser. User-definable search locations and a powerful filter section and category search functions make finding exactly the right sound easier than ever before, regardless of where the sound is located. The search results can be sorted by category, file type or any user-defined attribute. The desired sound is then simply pulled into the project using drag & drop. MediaBay even offers file organization capabilities such as cut, copy, paste, delete and rename, allowing you to manage and organize your media files directly within Cubase.
The Scope section shows a preview of the selected file; MediaBay then allows you to instantly preview audio and MIDI files as well as Instrument presets – even in the context of the project if desired. With the Tag Editor you can give any media file either your own attributes or use the range of predefined labels. These form the basis for the powerful category search and filter functionality that quickly becomes indispensable.
Cubase 4 also offers countless predefined Track Presets and categorized Instrument Presets – stored ‘patches’ containing all track or instrument information – that reveal the depth of the MediaBay concept. As well as the main window view, adapted MediaBay views can be called up in different areas of Cubase. The Loop Browser offers one-click access to your loop library and features previewing in the song tempo, while the VST Sound™ Browser provides direct access to presets for any VST instruments, effect plug-ins and external hardware. When creating a new Instrument Track, for example, the VST Sound™ Browser already provides exactly the right sound when loading the instrument. VSTi's and available external MIDI instruments can even be previewed directly in the VST Sound™ Browser without you even having to load the required instrument in the VST Rack.
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The Pool
The Pool serves not only as a list of all audio and video clips used by a project, but also offers many processing tools for audio files shown there, including file format conversion and effect rendering. The entire Pool can also be archived and imported to another project – a boon for tzransferring projects to another Mac or PC.
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