Steinberg Cubase 5 Operation Manual

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The mixer
Loading All Mixer Settings
Selecting “Load All Mixer Settings” from the context menu 
allows you to open a saved mixer settings file, and have 
the stored settings applied to all channels for which there 
is information included in the file. All channels, output set-
tings, VST Instruments, sends and “master” effects will be 
affected.
ÖPlease note that if the saved mixer settings were for 
24 channels, for example, and the mixer you apply it to 
currently contains 16 channels, only the...

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The mixer
VST Mixer Diagrams
Input Objects
Channel Objects
!Note that the AFL/PFL Listen Bus architecture is 
available only in Cubase.
Input Channel External Input Channel (Cubase only) Talkback Channel (Cubase only)
Audio ChannelReWire Channel
VSTi ChannelExternal Instrument (Cubase only) 

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The mixer
Summing Objects
Control Room Objects (Cubase only)
Group ChannelFX Channel
Output BusMain Mix Bus
Control Room ChannelPhones Channel
Studio ChannelMonitor 

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The mixer
Overall (Cubase only) 

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Control Room (Cubase only) 

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Control Room (Cubase only)
Background
Large console Monitoring sections
In traditional analog studios, the audio console maintained 
control over every audio signal in the studio, including the 
control room monitors, headphone systems, external 
2-track tape machines and communications such as the 
talkback system.
The console itself provided a means of creating multiple 
cue mixes for performers in the studio. Using available aux 
sends, the engineer could create multiple cue mixes for 
the various...

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Control Room (Cubase only)
Control Room operations
In traditional analog studios, the control room section of 
the console contained the most used set of controls in the 
whole studio. Often, the studio monitor level had all the 
markings rubbed off from so much use.
The need to constantly be able to switch monitoring 
sources, adjust the volume of monitors and route various 
cue mixes and other sources to headphone systems is the 
norm in most sessions. Meeting the needs of several per-
formers in...

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Control Room (Cubase only)
A great deal of confusion can result if outputs and Monitor 
channels share the same device ports. As a starting point, 
set all the outputs to “Not Assigned” while the Control 
Room is set up.
Creating a Control Room channel
To create a new channel, open the the Studio tab of the 
VST Connections window and click on the Add Channel 
button. A pop-up menu lists all available channel types 
along with how many of each type are available. Select the 
type of channel you wish...

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Control Room (Cubase only)
External inputs
Create external input channels for every playback device 
you wish to be able to monitor in the Control Room. There 
are six available external inputs with channel configura-
tions from mono up to 6.0 surround. Use external inputs to 
quickly listen to CD players, master recorders, or other 
workstations. 
Talkback
Create a Talkback channel if you have a microphone in the 
control room available for communication with performers 
in the studio. The Talkback...

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Control Room (Cubase only)
The Control Room Overview
You can access the Control Room Overview from the De-
vices menu. The Control Room Overview is designed to 
display the current configuration of the Control Room. The 
window shows all possible channels, with active channels 
highlighted once they have been created in the VST Con-
nections window. Channels that are grayed out have not 
been defined in the VST Connections window.
The Control Room Overview allows you to see the signal 
flow through...