What is the Shuttle feature used for in Cubase SX?
The Shuttle and Jog wheels are circular controls found on the Transport window. Both features are designed to make it easy to find exact portions of your song. Although jog and shuttle were initially power tools for tape machines before the ability to “see” song positions on a huge display screen in a rainbow of spiffy colors, they can still be useful for zeroing in on exactly the right spot of a downbeat. The Jog Wheel is “endless” in the way that you must keep rotating it in the desired direction to keep the file moving in its path, and it’s best imagined as a fancy scrub tool. On the other hand, the Shuttle Wheel moves the signal at faster speeds as you turn the wheel in the desired direction. In any case, the shuttle wheel is just plain fun to play around with. Short on song ideas? Shuttle your song backwards and prepare to freak out. Melodies, chord patterns and reversed hi-hats are likely to send you rooting around for a way to record the wacky stuff to another source so you can
