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The mixer
Proceed as follows:
1. In the mixer, select the channel you want to copy set-
tings from.
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, since input/output channels do not 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 in the lower
part of the Control Strip section in the Channel Settings
window (if this section is not shown in the Channel Set-
tings window, 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 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.
• If “Hold Forever” is activated, the peak levels will be
shown until meters are reset (by clicking the numerical
peak display below the meter).
If “Hold Forever” is off, you can specify for how long the peak levels will
be held with the parameter “Meters’ Peak Hold Time” in the Preferences
(VST–Metering page). The peak hold time can be between 500 and
30000ms.
• If “Meter Input” is activated, meters will show input lev-
els for all audio channels and input/output channels.
Note that the input meters are post input gain (Cubase only).
• If “Meter Post-Fader” is activated, meters will show
post-fader levels.
This is the default setting for channels in the mixer.
• In Cubase, there is also a “Meter Post-Panner” mode.
This is similar to “Meter Post-Fader”, but the meters will reflect pan set-
tings as well.
• If “Fast Release” is activated, the meters respond very
quickly to level peaks. If “Fast Release” is deactivated, the
meters respond more like standard meters.
You can set the time it takes for the meters to “fall back” in the Preferen-
ces (VST–Metering page).
Hold Peaks is activated. The
highest registered level is dis-
played in the meter.