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Track Quick Controls
Replacing a quick control assignment
• To replace a parameter assignment with a different pa-
rameter, click on the corresponding quick control slot and
double-click on a different parameter in the browser pop-
up menu list.
The parameter assignment in this slot is changed.
Removing a quick control assignment
To remove a parameter from a slot, you have the following
possibilities:
• Double-click the parameter name to select it and press
the [Delete] or [Backspace] key. Confirm this operation by
pressing [Enter].
• Click in the corresponding slot and select “No parame-
ter” from the browser pop-up menu.
The parameter assignment is removed, and the quick con-
trol slot is empty.
Options and settings
• Quick control assignments are saved with the current
project.
• Since quick control settings are part of the track setup,
you can save them as track presets, allowing you to re-use
your settings across different projects.
Track presets are described in the chapter “Track Presets” on page 300.
• You can automate all parameter settings on the Quick
Controls tab using the Read/Write Enable buttons (R and
W) at the top right.
The automation features of Cubase are described in detail in the chapter
“Automation” on page 203.
Quick controls and automatable parameters
The quick controls feature has one special extension that
should be used with caution: you can use quick controls
not only to access certain parameters of the current track,
but also to control all automatable parameters.
This makes it possible to use the Quick Controls tab of a
dedicated track as a kind of “mini mixer”, controlling pa-
rameters on other tracks. Proceed as follows:
1. Create a new, empty audio track and open its Quick
Controls tab.
This track has no events or parts.
2. Hold down the [Ctrl]/[Command] key and click on the
slot for quick control 1.
The parameter selection context menu is opened, but it lists not the pa-
rameters of the current track, but all automatable parameters.
3. Click the + sign in the list to open the VST Mixer folder.
The pop-up lists all channels available in the mixer of your
current project.
4. Now assign a parameter of one particular channel to
quick control 1, and another parameter of another channel
to quick control 2.