Tips Tricks And Workflow Goodness

Alt+mouse scroll (a little hand icon appears) to move the projects view around
Edit:my english messed up, SteveInChicago correct me on this.

click mouse wheel and Drag project and editors Screen area + projects inspector( seems it doesn’t work on inspector areas inside editors)

Edit 2: another related to navigation… try ctrl+ scroll wheel … Shift+scroll wheel and see what it does :slight_smile:

(its all new to me so i share it for those like me who didn’t know about it…)

You’re saying you drag the interface or you use the scroll wheel? Drag, I suppose…

For Mac that would be Middle-Click drag, works everywhere.

Drag indeed :slight_smile: its new to me so i didn’t examine it yet on other places… good to know it works everywhere

Check it out in the Inspector.

:mrgreen: nice… not sure if i gonna use it personally, but good to know its there.
actually i probably will use it, cuz sometimes opening more than one inspector “slot” can exceed the screen, now i can drag the inspector up and down :exclamation: cool

Exactly.

Boy, that sure would be nice to control my DAW from down the hall and into the next room!

I tried to see how far this home computer’s keyboard could be from the tower and still control the computer … not too far :cry: .

What is it that determines how far one can be … battery power, specific models of keyboard, “muscleness” of the wireless system, … ?

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And if this is asking too much from a tool that is not meant to be used in that fashion (wireless keyboard as a very remote controller) … does anyone have personal experience with an “in-the-next-room” controller for Cubase (7.5.20) on PC?


Thanks for any thoughts!

What is it that determines how far one can be … battery power, specific models of keyboard, “muscleness” of the wireless system, … ?

Bluetooth wireless has a range of about 30 feet. At around that limit my wireless mouse is quite laggy, but combined with Cubase iC it does the trick. You can buy a bluetooth usb dongle which may give you an extra 10 feet or so on the end of a usb cable, but usb cables have a limited length as well. I would imagine that it also depends on how much junk the signal has to get past-ie appliances, walls full of plumbing and electrical boxes, etc. In my case the five feet of iso booth can kill the connection so placing it on the wall closest to the transmitter makes all the difference.

Hi. Sorry for the long post, but I wanted everyone in the solution below to get credit!

I was looking for a way to save an entire folder as a preset. An interesting solution emerged (below). Apologies if this is something obvious; It’s a real timesaver for me!

After using this for a month, I can honestly say that this post from Stealth has improved my life no end.

Thanks again!

Don’t know if my tip is already posted in this thread ( sorry, thread is just too long to read all).
But a way to delete a plugin from the Inserts pane in the Inspector in the Project window:

Just click the plugin and drag it out of the slot: It will be deleted from the Insert Slot !! :smiley:
I can’t remember from which person i got this info but i really want to thank him and i assume this workflow is faster than
opening the plugin choose window and choose “no plugin” :sunglasses:
How simple and nice can things be … yikes !

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Nice one!

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1:To start play from event start to its end:
select an event(s) (also works on midi notes in midi editor), use alt+spacebar

2: to set locators upside down to an event (red locators) select event use ; control+enter(on numeric pad).
to skip that event in playback when locators are red activate the cycle on transport bar.

I just upgraded to a SSD and Cubase 64bit :smiley: It took me 3 days to reinstall everything, but man I’m glad I did!!! So much faster, more stable ect!

On an instrument track in the mixer, left-click and drag the mouse over ‘e’ for edit and let go before your mouse leaves the ‘e’ button and you’ll open the VSTi panel.

So, a quick, short left click drag over the e to open the instrument.

Not sure if everyone knows that already.

So, a quick, short left click drag over the e to open the instrument.

Is this any different from the official click and hold to open the vsti?
I suspect this is all you are really doing and the short left drag is unconnected.

I find also it depends what you put the keyboard on:

substantial metal desk music stand - doesn’t work at all
lightweight music stand - range about 10 feet
cheap fally-over music stand - 20 feet but your keyboard crashes to the ground.
Upended cardboard box - all over the studio!

Very useful for dialog editing and AFAIK not documented specifically:
You might know the situation where an actor, while speaking, turns her or his head. The sound changes dramatically and you want to apply some EQ on just a small section of a clip. So you chop it up, hit your KC (another situation where its a huge time saver) to bring up your preferred offline EQ, adjust and hit process.
Now, as your clip is still selected, all you have to do is hit “X” (the default KC for Crossfades) and Crossfades will be created at the beginning and end of that clip. There is no need to select the clip before and after the one that you processed !
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Don’t know if it’s been brought up already, but there are plenty of wifi solutions that would work much better for a wireless controller situation. And many are quite cheap as well. Cubase IC and V-control pro for instance if you already have an iphone, ipad, android phone, android tablet or the like. Your going to get much better range using wifi than with bluetooth or IR. V-control pro is still pretty viable for multi touch wireless mixing with C7.5 although I do hope they end up updating it for the new mixer. Cubase IC is great if all you need is basic transport functions. Just a few suggestions if your concerned about range. Also, if your dealing with an iso booth, you may just want to drop a hotspot above the ceiling, or even snake one into the booth if reception is that bad.

Hope it was not listed yet:
In the Track Inspector, Alt+Click on the Bypass buttons will reset the settings of Insert / Strip / Equalizer / Send.

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