Steinberg Cubase 7 User Manual

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The Control Room (Cubase only)The Setup Pane
The Setup Pane
The Setup pane contains additional settings for the channels. To open the pane, click 
the Setup tab at the bottom right of the Control Room.
Input Gain
For external inputs, Monitor speaker outputs, and Talkback inputs, you can set the 
input gain. This can be useful in the following situations: 
•Use the Gain settings on the external inputs to balance the level of CD players and 
other sources to the Main Mix level, for A/B comparisons....

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The Control Room (Cubase only)The Setup Pane
Insert Effects
Each Control Room channel has a set of insert effect slots.
Inserts for the Control Room Channel
•Use the inserts on the Control Room channel for metering and spectral analysis 
plug-ins. All solos including the Listen bus will come through the Control Room 
channel allowing analysis of individual sounds.
•A brickwall limiter in the last insert slot of the Control Room channel can prevent 
accidental overloads and damage to speaker systems....

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The Control Room (Cubase only)The Setup Pane
The Main Mix and the Control Room Channel
The channel configuration of the Main Mix determines the channel configuration of the 
Control Room channel. Switching between a project that has a stereo Main Mix to a 
project that has a 5.1 Main Mix will cause the Control Room channel in the Control 
Room Mixer to change from a stereo to a 5.1 configuration.
The Control Room configuration also determines the layout of the solo buttons of the 
channels panner. If...

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The Control Room (Cubase only)Cue Channels and Cue Sends
•Reference Level 
This setting determines the Control Room level used when the “Reference Level” 
button is activated.
•Main Dim Volume 
This is the amount of gain reduction applied to the Control Room channel when 
the DIM button is activated.
Cue Channels and Cue Sends
Cue Sends are used to create discrete cue mixes that performers can listen to during 
recording. They can be displayed in the MixConsole and in the Inspector of the 
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The Control Room (Cubase only)Cue Channels and Cue Sends
ÖTo apply the function for all cue channels, click anywhere but on a cue channel to 
open the context menu. 
The following options are available:
•Use Current Mix Levels
This copies the fader levels of the selected tracks to the cue sends. This option 
sets all cue send levels for the selected tracks to the level of the main channel 
fader. It also changes the cue send status to pre-fader, so that changes in the main 
mix do not affect the cue...

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The Control Room (Cubase only)The Control Room Overview
The Control Room Overview
You can access the Control Room Overview from the Devices menu. The Control 
Room Overview displays the current Control Room configuration. The window shows 
all possible channels. Channels that have been added in the VST Connections 
window, are highlighted, channels that have not been added are grayed out.
The Control Room Overview allows you to see the signal flow through the Control 
Room Mixer. All the routing...

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Audio effects
Cubase comes with a number of effect plug-ins included. This chapter contains 
general details about how to assign, use and organize effect plug-ins. The effects and 
their parameters are described in the separate PDF document “Plug-in Reference”.
Overview
Audio effects can be used in Cubase as follows:
•As insert effects.
An insert effect is inserted into the signal chain of an audio channel, which means 
that the whole channel signal passes through the effect. This makes inserts...

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Audio effectsOverview
Smart plug-in processing
The VST3 standard features smart plug-in processing, i. e., processing by a plug-in 
can be disengaged if there is no signal present. This can greatly reduce the CPU load, 
thus allowing for more effects to be used. 
This is achieved by activating the “Suspend VST3 plug-in processing when no audio 
signals are received” option in the Preferences dialog (VST–Plug-ins page).
When this is activated, VST 3 plug-ins will not consume CPU power on silent...

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Audio effectsInsert effects
Insert effects
As the name implies, insert effects are inserted into the audio signal path – this means 
that the audio channel data will be routed through the effect. You can add up to eight 
different insert effects independently for each audio-related channel (audio track, 
group channel track, FX channel track, VST instrument channel or ReWire channel) or 
output bus. The signal passes through the effects in series from the top downwards, 
with the signal path shown...

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Audio effectsInsert effects
The effect is loaded and automatically activated and its control panel opens. You can 
open the control panel for a loaded effect by double-clicking in the middle of the insert 
slot.
•If the effect has a dry/wet Mix parameter, you can use this to adjust the balance 
between the dry signal and the effect signal.
•To remove an effect, open the pop-up selector and select “No Effect”.
•You can add up to 8 insert effects per channel this way.
•You can reorder the effects by...