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Put another way =
Cubase will only export what is between the left and right locators. You can see and set the locators value in the info bar and on the transport, to the left. I had that same problem when I first started. The good thing is that you can set your locators, for example to 00:05:000 to 03:13:000 and eliminate the count in that was in the first 5 seconds as well as all the other noise after the song ends at 3:13. Very handy, but not intuitive the first time you go to use it.