Auditioning Clips in the Pool
You can audition clips in the Pool using key commands, the Audition button, or by clicking in the waveform image for a clip.
Key commands
If you activate the Playback Toggle Triggers Local Preview option in the Preferences dialog (Transport page), you can use Space to audition. This is the same as activating Audition on the toolbar.
Select a clip and activate Audition.
The whole clip plays back. To stop playback, click Audition again.
Click in the waveform image for a clip.
The clip plays back from the selected position in the waveform until the end. To stop playback, click Audition or anywhere else in the Pool window.
The audio is routed directly to the Control Room if activated (Cubase Pro only). When the Control Room is deactivated, the audio is routed to the Main Mix (the default output) bus, bypassing the settings of the audio channel, effects, and EQs. In Cubase Artist, the Main Mix bus is always used for auditioning.
You can adjust the auditioning level with the miniature level fader on the toolbar. This does not affect the regular playback level.
If you have activated Audition Loop before you audition, the following happens:
When you click Audition to audition a clip, the clip is repeated indefinitely until you stop playback by clicking Audition or Audition Loop again.
When you click in the waveform image to audition, the section from the selected point to the end of the clip is repeated indefinitely until you stop playback.