Sound Management Tools
Cubase Essential 4 includes a set of features that form a breathtakingly powerful new system that manages all your sounds, presets and loops in one centralized database. The heart of the sound management tools 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.
MediaBay
MediaBay is the central Media Management system of Cubase Essential 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 Essential 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 other attributes. 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 Essential.
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.
Cubase Essential 4 also offers countless predefined Track Presets and categorized Instrument Presets for HALion One – stored ‘patches’ containing all track or instrument information – that reveal the depth of the MediaBay concept.
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 transferring projects to another Mac or PC.
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