User manual

138
Control Room (Cubase only)
A great deal of confusion can result if outputs and Monitor
channels share the same device ports. As a starting point,
set all the outputs to “Not Assigned” while the Control
Room is set up.
Creating a Control Room channel
To create a new channel, open the the Studio tab of the
VST Connections window and click on the Add Channel
button. A pop-up menu lists all available channel types
along with how many of each type are available. Select the
type of channel you wish to create. For most channel types
a dialog opens, allowing you to choose the configuration of
the channel (stereo, 5.1, etc.).
The Studio tab of the VST Connections window showing several Con-
trol Room channels
After clicking OK, the new channel will appear in the VST
Connections window. For each audio path an audio device
must be selected. You can assign device ports to channels
in the same fashion as assigning any VST connection.
Monitors
Create a Monitor channel for every set of speakers in your
studio. A typical post-production studio could have one
set of 5.1 surround speakers, another stereo set of speak-
ers and even a single, mono speaker for checking bal-
ances for mono broadcast. The Control Room Mixer will
allow you to switch speakers easily. Each set of Monitors
can have its own custom downmix settings, input gain and
input phase adjustments.
Phones
Create a Phones channel if you intend to listen to head-
phones in the control room. The Phones channel is not in-
tended for use by performers in the studio. It is designed
for the engineer to quickly listen to any source in the stu-
dio, including the four cue mixes, as a reference.
Studios
Create a Studio channel for each cue mix you wish to cre-
ate for performers in the studio. For example, if you have
two available headphone amplifiers for performers to use,
create two Studio channels, one for each headphone mix.
There are four available Studio channels.
!
The Control Room Mixer is designed to display infor-
mation and controls only for the channels you have
defined in the VST Connections dialog. For example, if
you have not defined any Studio channels, they will
not appear in the Control Room Mixer. The Control
Room Overview displays all the possible channels but
only highlights the ones that have been defined. To
see all available controls in the Control Room Mixer,
start by creating the maximum amount of channels on
the Studio tab of the VST Connections window.
!
Note that the port assignments for all Control Room
channels except Monitor channels are exclusive,
meaning that you cannot assign the same device
port to an input or output and a Control Room chan-
nel at the same time.
!
Monitor channels, however, can share device ports
with each other as well as inputs and outputs. This
can be helpful if you use the same speakers as a ste-
reo pair and also as the left and right channels of a
surround speaker configuration. Switching between
monitors that share device ports will be seamless,
providing any downmix of multi-channel audio to ste-
reo if needed. Only one monitor set can be active at
a time.
!
The Phones channel is stereo only.
!
Studio channels can either be mono or stereo.