Understanding Cubase’s various saving and exporting options

Saving and exporting might seem like trivial aspects of Cubase, but they’re vital to making sure you’re sharing your work in the best possible way. It’s likely that you’ll want to make several copies of your project to try out different arrangements or sounds, so you don’t want to accidentally overwrite your primary session before doing so. You’ll also want to be exporting your project as an audio file of the best quality for your listeners.

In this Cubase tutorial, Bruce Aisher guides you through Cubase’s visibility options. You’ll learn how the Visibility tab can help you arrange your projects by hiding or showing specific channels. You’ll also learn how to alter the visibility of the mixer and its various features, and how to organise Cubase’s multiple Channel Types.

In our Cubase Tutorial series, we’re starting with the basics and gradually moving into more advanced and creative techniques, as in our Logic Tips and Ableton Live Tutorials series. Subscribe to our newsletter and YouTube Channel for weekly updates on new videos and content.

So far, we’ve covered:

• Introduction to Cubase
• Exploring the interface
• Track types and tools
• Cubase instruments
• Getting started with MIDI 
• Get familiar with Cubase’s editors
• MIDI editing tools
• Drum Editor
• Make beats with Cubase’s Groove Agent SE
• Insert Effects
• MixConsole
• Using Audio Loops
• Delay and echo
• Sidechain compression

Bruce Aisher is an English music producer, music technology journalist and lecturer. As one half of the duo Brancaccio & Aisher, he has had club hits for labels including Bedrock, Parlophone and his own Player One Records. He regularly contributes to MusicTech content and is one of our Cubase Experts.

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