PC. Cubase 15.
When creating slices in the Sample Editor’s Slice menu, after the slices are achieved (and seen in both the Project Window and the Sample Editor, the Sampler editor’s Inspector becomes unavailable and I have found no way of getting it back.
Is there some logic to this I do not understand people?
Thank you
Z
After you apply Slices to the event, it becomes an audio part.
As @Buer said in another thread:
You can covert those slices into events if you want to use the sample editor.
If you want to open the same event in the sample editor, you have to convert the part back to event-status:
If you want to edit another event in sample editor, just select it and click.
Very enlightening folks! Thank you.
I might say I am making detailed notes on all this and writing a psuedo tutorial (it’s a way to make it sink in for me). I may post it here when it is right.
I have been looking at slicing Events using the Sample Editor’s Inspector, then Hitpoints Section/ Slice. I have been studying how Cubase behaves when performing these actions. This seems to be a good case study for getting into finer details.
Cubase terms in Bold.
I shall be trying to keep my tech language accurate, as it matters for detail:
So…
If you have Copy Files on Import: in preferences enabled… (default)
…When an Audio File is imported (or dragged into Cubase (15 pro here) a copy of the Audio File is copied into the Pool and is saved within Cubase - (preferable to having used files distributed across various locations). In the Pool the original audio is thus protected, almost all further edits are made on copies of the whole or part of the mother file.
In the Project Zone the rectangle you initially see on import, refers to an Event, (it is not directly the audio you imported) which Event, on initial Audio import, represents a copy of the whole of the file (plus hitpoints if automatic hitpoints is enabled). * see below for an issue with this.
The Project Zone can display two entities in the tracks - Events and Parts. Both are rectagular images. Events are a portion copies of the original audio file, which can include, as in our case, a 100% portion). Parts are collections of events, including a collection of one single Event. Parts and Events look very similar in the Project Zone.
How to distinguish parts from events?
An Event will have one color. It will attempt to show a singular waveform in the Project Zone view (if at sufficient Zoom). A Part will contain multipleEvents, they may be the same color or not so. Cubase will try to create a graphic showing the beginning and ends of these contained Parts.
Note: One can change a single event, or multiple events (on the same track), into a Part by going to Audio/Events to Part.
Conversely, if you have a Part, you may wish to dissolve it back into it’s constituent Events *(which may only be a single Event!), by clicking on the part in the Project Zone, then going to Audio/Dissolve Part in the top Menu. If this is greyed out, then you are probably already looking at a series of sliced events not contained in a Part.
When you take an Event and slice it using the tools in the Sample Editor, from one event you create multiple smaller Events, in this case sliced at active Hitpoint Locations. This is comparable to cutting a loaf of bread into small slices. These events then initially appear in the Project Zone Contained in a Part. The fact they are automatically contained in a PART, alters the tools Cubase makes available. One can no longer access the Sample Editor, but only the Part Editor, which lookes very similar!
If you try going to the lower zone editor you will find you are in the Part Editor - therefore the Sample Editor tools in the Sample Editor’s Inspector have now vanished.
Note:
It appears that the Sample Editor has it’s own Inspector, but the Part Editor does not. I am not sure why? When in the Part Editor, Cubase shows the Project Inspector only. If the Sample Editor is active in the lower zone, then Cubase Shows the Project Inspector when one clicks in the Project Zone, and the Sample Editor’s Inspector when clicking in the Lower Zone’s Sample editor.
If you wish you can unpack the Project Zone Part “container” back to individual Events., going to Audio/Dissolve Parts. This takes the Part "container away, and in the Project Zone you see a series of events, visually appeariing almost identical to the Part it has now unpacked!
Further, If you might recall, a single Event can become a Part without being sliced up. In other words a Part can contain only one Event. This can be achieved by File/Events to Part. I can confirm this action does work on a single Event.
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So, during the slicing exercise we are examining here, (importing a single AudioFile and Slicing it at Hitpoints in the Sample Editor’s Inspector) there are in fact THREE views of our original Audio File import, available in the Project Zone. The audio can be a single Event. It can be Sliced into smaller Events AND contained in a Part , or, after applying Dissolve Part, it can be MULTIPLE Events on the same track.
It takes a while to be able to recognise that all this is occuring. If your a newbie rfeading all this, I suggest creating a project with a single Audio File and slicing it as you work through.
Depending on which state the data is in the Project Zone the three states are :
1] A single Event for the whole audio file
2] A Part Containing multiple Slices as Events
3] A series of smaller Events not in a Part container., but also collectively representing the whole of the sliced audio.
If the contained Events are the same color (as when you have just sliced an event) , then the Part will also appear the same color as the former Event that you sliced. How to distininguish? A Part does not display a graphic of the wave form, rather it attempts to show the individual parts it contains.
A newbie might not realise there has been a change in the Project window.
This is what is confusing me and I think other beginners:
I think the Sampler Editor would be better named the Event Editor. But hey..
I have just imported two audio files and no hitpoints are automatilly displayed even though preferences are correctly set up.
It would be good to have a clearer visual distinction between parts and events in the Project Zone.
For a beginner, working in this area, the difference between the Sampler Editor and The Part Editor, is
If you are working in the lower zone, the Sample Editor and the Part Editor look more or less identical. Only in full view can you see the Editors’ names. So the learner, if he does not have this information in mind, is required to be telepathic.
Under some circumstances if you click in the Part Editor in the lower Zone, to open a full editor (top right arrow) what opens is the Sampler Editor, NOT the Part Editor. In the Part Editor, it depends. If you only have one (sliced) part selected (in the lower zone Part Editor) then the Sampler Editor arises. If in the lower zone you have more than one slice selected, then the Part Editor will open.
Anyways…! the monitor is playing up and I go to bed. If you think I am wrong about any of this please let me know.
I am doing a deep dive I want every detail right!
