User manual

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The mixer
Copying settings between audio channels
It is possible to copy all channel settings for an audio chan-
nel and paste them to one or several other channels. This
applies to all audio-based channel types. For example, you
can copy EQ settings from an audio track and apply these
to a group or VST Instrument channel, if you want them to
have the same sound.
Proceed as follows:
1. In the mixer, select the channel you want to copy set-
tings from.
You can also select channels with the Channel Select pop-up menu –
see “Changing channels in the Channel Settings window” on page 133.
2. Click the “Copy First Selected Channel’s Settings”
button on the common panel.
3. Select the channel(s) you want to copy the settings to
and click the “Paste Settings to Selected Channels” but-
ton (below the “Copy First Selected Channel Settings”
button).
The settings are applied to the selected channel(s).
• You can copy channel settings between different types
of channels, but only those channels will be used for
which corresponding settings are available in the target
channel:
• For example, as input/output channels don’t have send ef-
fects, copying from them will leave the Sends settings in the
target channel unaffected.
• Also, in case of Surround Sound (Cubase only), for example,
any Insert effects routed to surround speaker channels will be
muted, when the settings are pasted to a mono or stereo
channel.
Initialize Channel and Reset Mixer
The Initialize Channel button can be found at the bottom in
the Control Strip section of the Channel Settings window
(if this section is not shown in the Channel Settings win-
dow, open the context menu and select “Control Strip” on
the Customize View submenu). Initialize Channel resets
the selected channel to the default settings.
Similarly, the mixer common panel holds a Reset Mixer/
Reset Channels button – when you click this, you will be
asked whether you want to reset all channels or just the
selected channels.
The default settings are:
• All EQ, Insert and Send effect settings are deactivated and re-
set.
• Solo/Mute is deactivated.
• The fader is set to 0dB.
• Pan is set to center position.
Changing the meter characteristics
In the Mixer context menu, opened by right-clicking any-
where on the mixer panel, there is a submenu named “Glo-
bal Meter Settings”. Here you can make settings for the
preferred meter characteristics, with the following options:
• If “Hold Peaks” is activated, the highest registered peak
levels are “held” and are shown as static horizontal lines in
the meter.
Note that you can turn this on or off by clicking in any audio level meter in
the mixer.
Hold is activated. The highest regis-
tered peak is displayed in the meter.