Steinberg Cubase Studio 4 Operation Manual Studio Manual

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The mixer
Any individual channel settings you have made before 
linking will remain until you alter the same setting for any of 
the linked channels.
For example, if you link three channels, and one of them was muted at the 
time you applied the Link Channel function, this channel will remain muted 
after linking. However, if you mute another channel all linked channels will 
be muted. Thus, the individual setting for one channel is lost as soon as 
you change the same parameter setting for any of...

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The mixer
Right-clicking somewhere in the mixer panel or in the 
Channel Settings window brings up the Mixer context 
menu where the following Save options can be found:
“Save Selected Channels” will save all channel settings 
for the selected channels.
Input/output routings are not saved.
“Save All Mixer Settings” saves all channel settings for 
all channels.
When you select any of the above options, a standard file 
dialog opens where you can select a name and storage lo-
cation on your disk for...

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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 talk-
back 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...

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Control Room (Cubase only)
 Adjustable Input Gain and Input Phase on all external inputs 
and Speaker outputs.
 Full-sized meters on every Control Room channel.
 Support for up to four aux sends (Studio Sends) for creation 
of discrete cue mixes for performers. Each Studio output has 
its own cue mix.
 The ability to disable the Control Room Section when working 
with an external monitoring solution or console.
Configuring the Control Room
The Control Room features are configured in several loca-...

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Control Room (Cubase only)
Creating a Control Room channel
To create a new channel, click on the Add Channel button 
in the Studio tab of the VST Connections window. A pop-
up menu lists all available channels along with how many 
of each type are available. Select the type of channel you 
wish to create and a dialog will appear allowing you to 
choose the configuration of the channel (stereo, 5.1, etc.). 
The Studio tab of the VST Connections window with several Control 
Room Channels created
After...

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Control Room (Cubase only)
Disabling the Control Room
Once you have created all the channels for your studio 
configuration, the Control Room functions are available for 
use. If you need to use Cubase without the Control Room 
functions, you can simply press the Disable Control Room 
button on the Studio tab of the VST Connections window. 
Any channels you have created will be saved and when 
you enable the Control Room again, that configuration will 
be reloaded.
You can also create presets for the...