The Pool V2 in Cubase 12

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The Pool V2 in Cubase 12

hello everybody andrew blake from thedigitalaudiomanual.com today we move on to our second video discussing the pool in cubase 12. but before we start i want to remind you that there's a link below to the free content navigation guide which is an easy to navigate webpage with links to all the content on this channel and besides that in the near future i'm going to begin adding tips and other bits of information that will only be available there you know things like simple steps that will get you started and up and running quick things that are in the videos but are written down in simple steps that serve as quick reminders when you need information down the road if you're working with programs like wavelab or cubase plugins or the cable guys shaperbox2 and many many other projects that are in the works then i know you're going to find just like i have that this is an invaluable study aid and the other thing i want to make sure you understand is that this is not a simple pdf this is a constantly updated page that has any information that is new or anytime videos are changed really anything updated and once you have it you will always have the latest information constantly updated so if you haven't gotten it already go to the link below click on it and save it to your favorites it's my gift to you and it's absolutely free okay so let's get started so in the last video we kind of got into this a little bit looked at some of the basic features of the pool and now we're going to go a little deeper also just always as a reminder that previous videos are always located in the navigation guide in the link below in case you want to catch up on what's already been posted so we're going to look a little bit about adding and removing the files and the effect it has but i want to run some tests so we can see how much hard disk space is being used so first of all let's run a couple of experiments right now we're looking at the pool and i have this project behind me here it's got about seven tracks right dramas bass that kind of thing and if we look at the pool window as we talked about in the last video there's an info line at the bottom that kind of gives us you know an idea of what actually is being used in the project and this right now is telling us that there's seven audio files and of those seven seven are being used and the total size on the disk is 227 megabytes give or take no external files all right so pretty small file size so far in terms of the amount of tracks and the amount of disk space let's make some changes and see what this does to this so the first change i'm going to make is i'm going to take you see if you're having a ranger track so i'm going to take this arranger track with this one section that i have and i'm going to triple it three times so everything here that we look at is going to get tripled three times so i can open up my ranger track just dial in those changes put this a section in here three times so now as you can see we have an a section three different times here and all these files have been added so there's a lot more audio files here right that's the way it appears let's go ahead and open the pool back up and as we can see let me expand this window here a bit it's still only using seven audio files seven of them are being used and the amount of disk space is exactly the same so even though it increased all this extra audio file here it made no difference in the project because it just reused the existing audio files so it didn't increase any amount of usage on our disk or anything like that so let's slice these up a little bit and see what effect that has so i'm gonna put everything in one folder so i can just start taking my scissors tool and just start chopping this folder up and open it back up again now all these files or at least a lot of them have been changed from one file to little pieces of files okay so we have a lot of different smaller pieces of audio files let's see what the pool says about that open it back up again and what does it say lo and behold still only seven audio files only seven being used still the same amount of disk space so even though i've cut these zip into smaller pieces and there's multiple extra audio files it still has not increased any extra size on the disk i'm going to do some real-time processing to this i'm going to bring up the real-time processor and i'm going to i'm going to normalize every single one of these clips let's see what happens there so it's looking at 66 different clips that it's going to normalize let's see what it does all right it completed that process so now we have 66 different clips that got normalized let's open the pool back up again now because each one of those clips got normalized they all got recognized as individual audio clips so now instead of seven audio files we now have 66 audio files being used the amount of disk space has not uh significantly increased it hasn't uh 227 is still the same so even though all those files got processed and even though we got a huge amount of extra audio files used in the pool it didn't add any extra usage on this space so that that says a lot for the real-time processing and now i'm going to actually erase a lot of these clips little bits in the middle we're going to totally see if we can cause it some despair in terms of what it's looking at all right so we erased a bunch of clips let's open the pool back up so it still shows 66 audio you know files even though we erased them it didn't remove them from the pool there's still 66 audio files being recorded but it's showing only used 49 so it's keeping track of that but the disk size again still has not changed at all 227 so we're making no changes at all with everything we're doing here in terms of how much space we're taking up on our hard drive i'm going to use my arranger track and remove these extra two sections go back to just one section again and see what we got so now we're back to just one section a lot of a lot of audio files got removed there because we removed two full sections of the same thing let's see what the pool is telling us it's still showing 66 audio files those are still there even though they're not showing up it's showing that only 26 are being used but still no difference whatsoever on the hard drive so interesting interesting amount of data in terms of what's happening now in terms of using the pool let's look at this next feature here let's talk about removing some of these files you have this option if you right-click to go down to where it says remove the unused media so because we know that we've taken just a whole bunch of audio files out of this project a lot of stuff in this list is no longer being used so let's go ahead and before we do that if we look down the trash has nothing in it the video folder has nothing in it so it's all audio files in the list here so i'm going to right click on this big long list i'm going to choose remove the unused media and we're given three options we can throw the unused stuff into the trash we can remove it from the pool now in the last video we discussed at great length to being careful when you're removing this in this project because i'm just doing experiments there's no danger with anything i erase or get rid of but i cautioned you to pay you know really close attention to if you erase what you're going to see here in a minute there's going to be an option to erase but if you come to the erase option that you there's no turning back once you start erasing files you lost them forever you won't be able to you know recoup them and that's something you really want to make sure you understand right now it's giving us the option to throw the unused media files into the trash or remove them from the pool if we throw them into the trash which we're going to do here they're going to take all the unused files out of the 66 that's going to decide which ones aren't being used throw them in the trash and then we can go from there but if i go back to remove from the pool that's going to take them out of this list and it's going to take them out of the project but where do they go that's you know that's kind of a mystery isn't it because there's nothing we haven't really seen where it actually goes when it says removed from the pool and i said the remove from the pool is the safest option that's what i recommended if you know when you're doing this kind of stuff but if i remove them from the pool what happens is they just stay on the hard drive that's all that happens they're going to be taken out of the project they're going to take up less space in the project in case you want to back this project up but they're still going to be on your hard drive so if you ever did a search for it and we'll be we'll be discussing where the locations are that these things are saved as we go along we're not going to get into that quite yet let's go ahead and throw all these unused files into the trash let's see what it does so now we have still in our tally at the bottom we still have 66 audio files but if we look at the list the list has broken them down now to quite a few of them in the audio folder but quite a few of them are now in the trash folder and they're still taking up the same amount of space on the hard drive which is 227. so let's go ahead and in this case i'm going to go ahead and empty the trash now remember when we empty the trash we've lost these files forever so if this was something actually important to me i would not perform this option but i'm going to go ahead and do it for the sake of us to observe so i'm going to click right click in this area and i'm going to go up to where it says empty the trash hit that guy and now it's giving me again that more severe option is saying you want to erase this stuff or just remove it from the pool again if we remove it from the pool it will take it out of the project and that'll lighten up you know the amount of audio we have being used but i'm just going to go ahead and erase them so let's erase them and it took a quite a chunk of files out and it did make a difference in how much hard disk space is being used we now have a total left of only 26 audio files out of 66 so it'll remove quite a few and out of those 26 26 are being used so everything here is being used but the hard disk space did bump back was it 227 and we've now freed up we're down to only 214 so removing those files does make a difference and the reason i want to go over that is because again when you're saving you know cubase projects on a hard drive especially when you start backing them up over time i mean shoot i have you know years and years of projects and external hard drives to save a month so you know it we're talking using space when you you know when you do this stuff so space is important to understand so when you remove these unused files you do gain some extra space okay let's talk about regions for a second and how they show up in the pool let's go back to the pool for a second as we look down the list of audio files that's exactly what we have is audio files and there's nothing else but audio files we're going to close out of that for a minute go back to the project and let's take this kick drum for example i'm going to double click the kick drum which now opens up in the sample editor and while we're looking at the sample editor if i go over to the top right and hit this right pane opens up the regions and there's this window here now that shows the regions and what regions are are if i'm looking at the sample editor and i make a selection let's say i select some of these uh drum hits and then i go over into this region area and i hit this area that says add region it then puts these little brackets around that area and creates this region and then i can create other regions maybe i go this area and i'll select these drums and i'll say add a region and maybe i'll take just a couple of drum hits over here and i'll say add a region once you've got regions in place you can do a few things with them but one thing you can do is you know audition them for example if i go to my region 2 and i click on it and then i play it the first one here play it so i can create these little snippets of audio within an audio file i don't have to cut the audio file up i just can pick these little sections so now if i go back to my pool and i browse down my list of audio files when i get to this kick drum mid-way down it now has a little plus sign by it which shows like a hidden list and when i hit that it opens up and shows those three regions which i can audition if i want i can click on one i can hit the play button i can click on a different one hit the play button and one thing you can do with these regions is you can actually now think of them as audio files so again without cutting up the audio i can go into my pool and take i want this region and i click it and i drag it out into the project and now i have that little loop of audio that came from this file originally but it's already been pre-cut and it you know it's there to be used as a little snippet so when i'm back in my pool if i want to delete those i can just like these other audio files i can click on them and i can hit the backspace or the delete key the only thing is with these there's no warning that comes up and says delete from the pool or go to the trash or whatever if i hit this and then i hit the say the backspace it just gets rid of it that's it there's no warning or anything let's do the other one and the other one it's not detrimental in terms of like taking that audio clip back out of the project but what it does do is back in the main audio in the sample error it's now deleted those regions out of the list and they no longer exist so if i want regions i got to start over making regions so anyway you can you can delete them in the pool as well when you're in the pool and you're looking at all your files and you are looking at one that for whatever reason you're interested in you have the option to right click on that and go down your list and there's an option that says select in the project when i go back to the project that clip has been selected you can do that with multiple clips if i have this clip and i hold ctrl i have this clip and i have control i hit this now i have these three clips and if i right click on them and i go down select in project now those three clips are selected in the project and i can see where they're at and then it doesn't stop there you can do the same thing going backwards from the project so if i'm in the project and i have this clip and i select this clip and i want to find those in the pool instead of going through the long list i can go up to audio menu and there's an option set up that says find the selected in the pool if i click on that the pool opens up and there they are both those files are selected to find them very easily all right so there you go as we move along searching through these options in the pool got a lot of great search and finding and converting all kinds of great options to understand what kind of files and where they are in your project if you haven't grabbed your navigation guide be sure to grab that before you go has links to all the content on the channel ever growing free to use and it's great to learn from and it's great to review from so get it and keep it in your favorites i use the thing all the time myself as we continue looking at the pool and all the things that it offers as we work our way into all the features in cubase as usual great to have you guys here and we'll see you on the next video