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The Mixer
Selecting a track in the Project window automatically
selects the corresponding channel in the Mixer (and vice
versa). If a Channel Settings window is open, this will im
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mediately switch to show the settings for the selected
channel. This allows you to have a single Channel Settings
window open in a convenient position on the screen, and
use it for all your EQ and channel effect settings.
You can also select a channel manually (thereby changing
what is shown in the open Channel Settings window).
Proceed as follows:
1. Open the Channel Settings window for any channel.
2. Open the “Choose Edit Channel” pop-up menu by
clicking the arrow button to the left of the channel number
at the top of the Fader view.
3. Select a channel from the pop-up menu to show the
settings for that channel in the open Channel Settings
window.
• Alternatively, you can select a channel in the Mixer by
clicking its channel strip (make sure not to click on a con
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trol as this will change the respective parameter setting
instead).
This selects the channel, and the Channel Settings window is updated.
• To open several Channel Settings windows at the same
time, press [Alt]/[Option] and click the Edit buttons for the
respective channels.
Making EQ settings
Each audio channel in Cubase has a built-in parametric
equalizer with up to four bands. There are several ways to
view and adjust the EQs:
• By selecting one of the EQ display modes from the
View Options pop-up menu (“EQs” or “EQs Curve”) for
the extended channel strip in the Mixer. These modes con
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tain the same settings but present them in different ways:
• By selecting the Equalizers or Equalizer Curve tab in the
Inspector.
The Equalizers section is similar to the EQs mode in the extended Mixer
or the Equalizers section in the Channel Settings window, while the
Equalizer Curve section shows a display in which you can “draw” an EQ
curve. Setting EQ in the Inspector is only possible for track-based audio
channels.
Ö By default, only the Equalizers tab is shown. To display
the Equalizer Curve tab, right-click on an Inspector tab
(not in the empty area below the Inspector) and activate
the Equalizer Curve option.
• By using the Channel Settings window.
This offers both parameter sliders and a clickable curve display (the
Equalizer + Curve pane) and also lets you store and recall EQ presets.
Below we describe how to set up EQ in the Channel Set-
tings window, but the parameters are the same in the
Mixer and Inspector (apart from the presets and reset func
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tion, which are not available in the Mixer).
In “EQs” mode, the top value slider controls the gain,
the middle controls frequency and the lower sets the
filter type and the Q parameter for each EQ band.
In “EQs Curve” mode, EQ settings are shown as a
curve. Parameters are set by clicking on the value
and adjusting with the fader that appears.