Steinberg Cubase SE 3 Operation Manual

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4.To adjust the shapes of Auto Fade In and Auto Fade Out, select the 
“Fades” tab and make settings as in the regular Fade dialogs.
5.To adjust the shape of the Auto Crossfade, select the “Crossfades” 
tab and make settings as in the regular Crossfade dialog.
6.If you want to use the settings you have made in forthcoming new 
projects, click the “As Default” button.
The next time you create a new project, it will use these settings by default.
7.Click OK...

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9
The mixer 

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About this chapter
This chapter contains detailed information about the elements used 
when mixing audio and MIDI, and the various ways you can configure 
the mixer. 
Some mixer related features are not described in this chapter. These 
are the following:
•Setting up and using audio effects.
See page 188.
•Setting up and using MIDI effects.
See page 352.
•Automation of all mixer parameters.
See page 222.
•How to mix down several audio tracks (complete with automation and...

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Overview
The mixer offers a common environment for controlling levels, pan, 
solo/mute status etc. for both audio and MIDI channels. 
Opening the mixer
The mixer can be opened in several ways:
•By selecting Mixer from the Devices menu.
•By clicking the Mixer icon on the toolbar
•By using a key command (by default [F3]).
•By clicking the Mixer button in the Devices panel.
You open the Devices panel by selecting Show Panel from the Devices menu.   

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What channel types can be shown in the mixer?
The following track based channel types are shown in the mixer:
• Audio
• MIDI
• Effect return channels (FX channel tracks are referred to as effect return 
channels in the mixer). 
• Group channels. 
The order of audio, group, effect return and MIDI channel strips (from 
left to right) in the mixer corresponds to the Project window Track list 
(from the top down). If you reorder tracks of these types in the Track 
list, this will...

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Configuring the mixer
As mentioned earlier, the mixer window can be configured in various 
ways to suit your needs and to save screen space. Here follows a run 
through of the various view options (the following descriptions assume 
that you have an active project containing some tracks):
Setting the width of channel strips
Each channel strip’s width can be sized to either “Wide” or “Narrow” mode 
by using the Narrow/Wide button. This is the two left/right arrows just 
above...

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Selecting what channel types to show/hide
You can specify what channel types to show or hide in the mixer. In the 
common panel you find a vertical strip with different indicator buttons. 
Each indicator represents a channel type to show or hide:
•To hide or show a channel type, click the corresponding indicator.
If an indicator is dark, the corresponding channel type will be shown in the mixer. If it is 
orange, the corresponding channel type will be hidden.
Selecting...

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2.Repeat this for all channels you want to hide.
3.Click the bottom “hide button” in the common panel.
This hides all channels set to “Can Hide”. To show them, click the button again.
Channel view sets
Channel view sets are saved configurations of the mixer, allowing you 
to quickly switch between different layouts. Proceed 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...

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The audio channel strips
The mixer showing (from left to right): the common panel, a VST Instrument 
channel, a stereo audio channel, an effect return channel and a group channel strip.
All audio related channel types (audio, output channels, group, effect 
return, VST Instrument or ReWire) basically have the same channel 
strip layout, with the following differences:
• Only audio track channels have a Record Enable and Monitor button.
• VST Instrument channels have an...