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File handling
• If you want to copy and import a section of an audio CD
track only, select the track in the list and specify the start
and end of the selection to be copied by dragging the
handles in the copy selection ruler.
Ö Note that you can import sections of several audio CD
tracks by selecting them in turn and adjusting the selec-
tion. The start and end settings for each track are dis-
played in the list.
• You can audition the selected audio CD track by click-
ing the Play button.
The track will be played back from selection start to selection end (or un-
til you click the Stop button).
• The Play from left Marker (down arrow) and Play to
Right Marker (up arrow) buttons allow you to audition the
start and end of the selection only.
The down arrow button will play a short snippet beginning at the start of
the selection, while the up arrow button will play a snippet starting just
before the end of the selection.
• To open the CD drive, click on the Eject button at the
top of the dialog.
Importing Audio from video files
While you can automatically extract the audio when im-
porting a video file (see “Extracting audio from a video file”
on page 516), it is also possible to import the audio from a
video file without importing the video itself:
1. Pull down the File menu, open the Import submenu
and select “Audio from Video File…”.
2. In the file dialog that opens, locate and select the
video file and click Open.
The audio in the selected video file is extracted and converted to a Wave
file in the project’s Audio folder.
• A new audio clip is created and added to the Pool. In
the Project window, an event referencing the audio file is
inserted on the selected track at the project cursor posi
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tion. If no track was selected, a new track is created.
This works just like importing regular audio files.
Ö For information about importing video files, see “Im-
porting video files” on page 511.
Importing ReCycle files
ReCycle by Propellerhead Software is a program designed
especially for working with sampled loops. By “slicing” a
loop and making separate samples of each beat, ReCycle
makes it possible to match the tempo of a loop and edit the
loop as if it was built of individual sounds. Cubase can im
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port two file types created by ReCycle:
• REX files (export file format of the first versions of ReCycle,
extension “.rex”).
• REX 2 files (file format of ReCycle 2.0 and later, extension
“.rx2”).
Proceed as follows:
1. Select an audio track and move the project cursor to
where you want the imported file to start.
You probably want to import REX files to tempo based audio tracks, since
this will allow you to change the tempo later on (having the imported REX
file automatically adjust).
2. Select “Audio File…” from the Import submenu of the
File menu.
3. On the file type pop-up menu in the file dialog, select
REX File or REX 2 File.
4. Locate and select the file you want to import, and click
Open.
The file is imported and automatically adjusted to the current Cubase
tempo.
Unlike a regular audio file, the imported REX file will con-
sist of several events, one for each “slice” in the loop. The
events will automatically be placed in an audio part on the
selected track and positioned so that the original internal
timing of the loop is preserved.
5. If you now open the part in the Audio Part Editor, you
can edit each slice separately by muting, moving and re-
sizing events, adding effects and processing, etc.
You can also adjust the tempo and have the REX file automatically follow
(provided that its track is tempo based).
Play
Stop
Play from Left Marker
Play to Right Marker
Start of selection handle End of selection handle
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For this to work, the REX Shared Library needs to be
installed on your system. If this is not the case, you will
find the corresponding installer on the installation
DVD (in the “Additional Content\Installer Data” folder).