Steinberg Cubase LE Operation Manual
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CUBASE LEThe Mixer 7 – 131 2.Click the View Options pop-up in the Common panel (the down arrow at the top of the normal Common panel strip). A pop-up menu with the different channel types appears. By default all channel types are viewable (i.e. ticked). 3.You can now untick the channel type(s) that you wish to hide from view by unticking the corresponding item(s) from the menu. Regular audio tracks are named “Disk” channels on the menu. Clicking here... ...opens the View Options pop-up.
CUBASE LE7 – 132 The Mixer •This can also be done using the Channel type show/Hide indicators at the bottom of the Common panel. These are lit for visible channel types. Click on the corresponding channel type indica- tor to hide or show the corresponding channel type in the Mixer. The Channel type show/hide indicators. From top to bottom Disk, Group, VSTi, ReWire and MIDI channels. Selecting individual channels to show/hide You can also select to show/hide individual channels in the Mixer. Pro- ceed as follows: 1.Open the View Options pop-up for a channel that you wish to hide by clicking on the down arrow at the top of the channel strip. 2.Activate the “Hideable” item from the menu. The menu item is now ticked, but the channel strip is still visible. 3.Repeat steps 1-2 for each channel that you wish to hide.
CUBASE LEThe Mixer 7 – 133 4.When you have activated “Hideable” status for all channels you wish to hide, pull down the Global View Options pop-up for the Common panel and deactivate (untick) the “Hideable” item. When the “Hideable” item is deactivated (unticked) on the Common panel View Options pop-up, all individual channel strips that are set to “Hideable” status will be hidden in the Mixer. 5.To make hidden channels visible again, activate Hideable on the Com- mon panel View Options menu. You can store different configurations of the show/hide status for channels by using the Channel View Sets function, see page 135.
CUBASE LE7 – 134 The Mixer Setting the width of channel strips Each channel strip’s width can be sized to either “Wide” or “Narrow” mode from the View Options pop-up at the top of each channel strip. •Narrow channel strips contain a narrow fader, miniature buttons, plus the View Options pop-up. Wide and narrow channel strips. •When selecting wide or narrow channel strips from the Common panel View Options pop-up, all channel strips are affected.
CUBASE LEThe Mixer 7 – 135 Channel View Sets Channel View Sets are user definable configurations of the Mixer win- dow. If you are working with a large number of channels, it may be convenient to be able to hide certain channels (or channel types). Pro- ceed as follows: 1.Set up the Mixer the way you wish to store it as a View Set. The following settings will be stored: • Settings for individual channel strips (e. g. narrow or wide mode and whether the channel strip is hidden or not). • The hide/show status for channel types and for the Master section. 2.When you have set up the Mixer as you want it, click the “Create/Se- lect Channel View Sets” button at the bottom of the Common Panel, and select “Add” from the pop-up menu that appears. By selecting from the items on this menu, you can create, load and delete View Sets. If no View Sets have been stored there will only be two items on the menu; Add and Re- move. The items at the top of the menu in the picture to the right are previously stored Channel View Sets. 3.A dialog appears, allowing you to type in a name for the View Set. Do so and click OK to store the current Mixer View Set.
CUBASE LE7 – 136 The Mixer •You can now return to this saved configuration at any time, by clicking the Channel View Sets button and selecting it from the pop-up menu. •To remove a stored Channel View Set, select it from pop-up so that the View Set is active, then pull down the pop-up again and select Re- move. ❐Some remote control devices (such as Steinberg’s Houston) feature this function, which means that you can use the remote device to switch be- tween the Channel View Sets.
CUBASE LEThe Mixer 7 – 137 The audio channel strips All audio related channel types (audio, group, VST Instrument or Re- Wire) basically have the same channel strip layout. Only audio track (disk) channels have an Input source pop-up, a Record Enable and Monitor button (since audio inputs are never routed to group or VST Instrument channels). VST Instrument channels have an additional Edit button for opening the instrument’s control panel. The Common panel (see page 140) Level meter Level fader Channel automation controlsPan control Edit button (opens the Channel Settings window) Insert/EQ/Send indicators and bypass buttons (see below) Record Enable and Monitor buttonsChannel output routing pop-up Channel input source pop-up Channel name field Global View Options pop-up (left) and Channel View options pop-up
CUBASE LE7 – 138 The Mixer About the Insert/EQ/Send indicators and bypass buttons The three indicator buttons in each audio channel strip have the fol- lowing functionality: •If an Insert or Send effect or EQ module is activated for a channel, the corresponding button is lit. The effect indicators will be blue, the EQ indicator will be green. •By clicking these buttons when lit, the corresponding EQ or effects section will be bypassed. Bypass is indicated by yellow buttons. Clicking the button again deactivates bypass.
CUBASE LEThe Mixer 7 – 139 The MIDI channel strips The MIDI channel strips allow you to control volume and pan in your MIDI instrument (provided that they are set up to receive the corre- sponding MIDI messages). The settings here are also available in the Inspector for MIDI tracks (see page 321). Level fader (MIDI volume) Level (velocity) meter Channel auto- mation controlsPan control Monitor and Record Enable buttonMIDI output routing pop-up MIDI input source pop-up Edit button Mute and Solo
CUBASE LE7 – 140 The Mixer The Common panel The Common panel appears to the left in the Mixer and Channel set- tings windows and contains settings for changing the look and behav- ior of the Mixer, as well as global settings for all channels. Global automation Read/Write buttons, see the “Automation” chapter. Channel Settings Copy/Paste, see page 152. Global Solo/Mute On/Off, see page 145. These 5 buttons select what channel types are shown/hidden in the Mixer. Show Master bus fader (not shown in Channel Settings Common panel, only in the Mixer). Channel Select pop-up. This button allows you to save, load and delete Mixer View Sets, see page 135.