Need help figuring out a mixing "move" in Cubase

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Hi -- I'm running Cubase LE/Win XP with a Firepod, and need some help figuring out how to edit something in Cubase. Remember in the analog world where you'd get like 5 pairs of hands on the board and everyone would simultaneously mute or un-mute tracks at the same time? We'd do it for intros where we wanted the full band to come crashing in, or cut everything so it was quiet for a middle part.

In Cubase, I want to bring all my audio drum tracks in at a certain point, precisely on beat #1. I'd like to "mute" (or erase) the first 8 bars of drums, then have them come in on bar 9. When I try to edit/cut the drum tracks at a precise point -- the "cut" point jumps around to the closest sample endpoint. The result is the drums come in on the "and" of 4, or just after the downbeat on 1.

How do I do the edit so the drums come in exactly where I want them?

Thanks!

Keith
 
Sounds like you need to turn the Snap to.. function off. Search the help database in cubase if you don't know what I mean; I'm not familiar with Cubase LE (or du you mean SE?), so I cannot tell you which particular button it is ;)
 
That's it!

I turned off the Snap to function and that fixed it -- thank you!

Keith
 
Be ware though, that once you turn Snap off, your not cutting waveforms very precisely anymore. What I think would be better is leave snap on, but instead of snapping to every Bar or Team, select "Snap to Quantize" in the drop-down box (easy to find) and then use the quantize box to select where you want to snap to (every full note, every sixteenth etc.). That way, you still snip very precisely, but are alot more free to snip where and what you want.
 
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