Clip Gain tool?

Cubasis
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Is there a clip gain tool in Cubasis?

I’m looking for the classic clip gain capability for audio, not midi.

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Hi @dovjgoldman,

Thanks for your message.
So far, Cubais does not offer a clip gain control.

Please let me have an example about what you want to achieve, to let you know about a possible workflow.

Best,
Lars

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Hi Lars,

If I import audio into my template, in order to gain-stage it properly, I need to visually set the track so the audio occupies about 50% of the audio space.

This is the Billy Decker method of gain staging audio.

If I’m recording myself I use a channel strip to set the pre-gain.

Thanks,
Dov

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Hi @dovjgoldman,

Maybe I’ve answered to quickly.

Please check the audio event handles, which allow to easily create fade ins and outs, as well as changing the overall event or clip volume.

Does this help?

Best,
Lars

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Hi Lars,

I tried splitting out a small clip of a quite Piano passage (from a beautiful Scarlatti Sonata I’m learning).

The top middle event handle slides up and down with no effect on the waveform in the clip.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Dov

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The online documentation shows how the top handle changes the volume in Cubase.

It seems this function isn’t available in Cubasis.

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Hi @dovjgoldman,

The waveform will not be updated in real-time, as it is the case with Cubase.
However you can make your way around it, using track freeze.

You may give our “Getting started with Cubasis” tutorial a check, to learn more about the generic workflow of the app:

There are lots of additional tutorials available in our channel.

Hope that helps.

Best,
Lars

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The strange thing is that the normalize function changes the waveform. So there seem to be a gain information somewhere. Additionally, there is no “unnormalize" function.

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Currently Cubasis only allows the user to non-destructively lower the gain of an audio-event (the middle handle of an audio event) but there is no way to increase the level without normalizing the audio first. (Ok there is the option to use the Channel Strip plug-in to increase the gain but it’s not the same as it would adjust the gain of all audio-events on the track unless applying per event automation…)

Suggestion here would be to have a non-destructive ‘clip gain’ tool that allows both positive and negative gain adjustment for an audio event and adjusting the ‘clip gain’ the waveform would reflect the change.

On a similar topic a ‘vertical zoom’ of the waveform (without adjusting its gain) could be handy when editing low-level recordings.

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This would indeed be a great feature.

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Hi @Jean-Michel_Rbt

You can undo ‘Normalize’ as shown in the clip below.

Best,
Lars

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Something like this could be handy in Cubasis…

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OK so as undo, as long as the undo history allows it.