Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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The Control Room (Cubase only)
The concept behind the Control Room features is to divide the studio environment 
into the performing area (studio) and the engineer/producer area (control room) 
common to traditional studios. With its Control Room features, Cubase provides all 
the functionality of the analog console’s monitoring section, along with many more 
features, in a virtual, VST-based audio environment where flexibility and instant recall 
are expected.
Control Room Features
The following...

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The Control Room (Cubase only)Setting Up the Control Room Channels
Setting Up the Control Room Channels
The Studio tab of the VST Connections window is where you add channels to the 
Control Room and configure the input and output routing.
Adding Channels to the Control Room
To add a new channel to the Control Room, proceed as follows:
1.Open the Studio tab of the VST Connections window and click the Add Channel 
button.
A pop-up menu lists all available channel types and shows how many instances of...

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The Control Room (Cubase only)Setting Up the Control Room Channels
Monitor Channels
Each Monitor channel represents a set of outputs that are connected to monitor 
speakers in the Control Room. Up to four Monitor channels can be created for the 
different sets of speakers in a studio. Monitor channels can be configured for a mono, 
stereo or surround speaker configuration. 
Each Monitor can have its own custom downmix settings, input gain, and input phase 
settings.
Phones
The Phones channel is used...

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The Control Room (Cubase only)Opening the Control Room
Routing Channels to Outputs
The Main Mix Output
For the Control Room to function correctly, the Main Mix bus must be assigned to the 
set of outputs that contains your final mix signal. If you only have one output bus, it is 
the Main Mix by default.
If you have defined more than one output bus, you can specify the Main Mix by right-
clicking on the output name and selecting “Set ‘Out’ as Main Mix”. The Main Mix bus 
is marked by a small speaker...

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The Control Room (Cubase only)The Control Room Mixer
The Control Room Mixer
The Control Room Mixer displays information and controls for the channels that are 
defined on the Studio tab in the VST Connections window.
Sections
The Control Room Mixer is divided into a number of sections. 
•Click a section header to display the controls and settings for the section. 
•In the upper left corner of the different channel sections, you find the button to 
activate/deactivate the corresponding channel. The...

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The Control Room (Cubase only)The Control Room Mixer
Control Room channel
The Control Room channel is the representation of the bus that is set up as the Main 
Mix bus on the Outputs tab in the VST Connections window. It is shown below the 
other channels in the Control Room Mixer.
Input Selectors
You can select the source for the Control Room channel with the buttons directly 
below the header. Which sources are available depends on the channels that you 
added to the Control Room. The signal...

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The Control Room (Cubase only)The Control Room Mixer
Deactivate All Listen States
When this button is lit, one or more channels in the MixConsole are listen-enabled. 
Click this button to deactivate Listen for all channels.
Use Reference Level
When you click this button, the Control Room level is set to the reference level 
specified in the Preferences dialog (VST–Control Room page). The reference level is 
the level that is used in calibrated mixing environments, such as film dubbing stages. 
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The Control Room (Cubase only)The Control Room Mixer
Cue Channels Section
The section for cue channels contains the following parameters:
Signal Level
The Signal level for the cue channel.
Source Buttons
Here, you can select which source to use for the cue channel: Mix (Monitor Mix), 
External Inputs, or the Cue Sends (Cues).
The signal presence indicators in the upper left corner of the input selector buttons 
light up when the source channel is sending data to the cue channel.
Click
Activates the...

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The Control Room (Cubase only)The Control Room Mixer
Click
Activates the metronome click.
•Use the Click Level and Click Pan controls to set the volume and the pan position 
of the metronome click for this channel.
Listen Enable for Output
This button activates the Listen bus function for the Headphone output. If this button 
is not enabled, the Listen bus is not routed to the Headphones channel.
Listen Level
This control determines how loud Listen bus signals are when they are routed to the...

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The Control Room (Cubase only)The Control Room Mixer
Speakers Section
In the Speakers section, you can select and configure the Monitor sets.
The top row of buttons shows what is currently used. Click the first two buttons to 
step through the available Monitor sets. Each Monitor set has its own settings, 
including Monitor channel, downmix preset, and inserts, input gain, and input phase. 
Click the two following buttons to select one of the available downmix presets for the 
current Monitor. Click...