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Control Room (Cubase only)
VST Connections – Studio tab
The Studio tab of the VST Connections window is where
you configure the inputs and outputs for the Control Room
Mixer. You can also enable or disable the Control Room
and open the Control Room Mixer. The channel width of
the Control Room channel is shown in the Configuration
field on the top right of the tab. For more information about
the VST Connections window, see the chapter
“VST Con-
nections” on page 25.
The Studio tab of the VST Connections window showing several Con-
trol Room channels
Ö By default, one stereo Monitor channel is created after
installing Cubase.
About the Control Room channels
There are different types of channels that you can create,
each defining either an input or output of the Control
Room Mixer. As more channels are created, the Control
Room Mixer expands to display controls for each channel.
Of all Control Room channels only Monitor channels can
share hardware inputs or outputs with another bus or chan
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nel, as defined in the VST Connections window (see “Add-
ing input and output busses” on page 28). As you create
connections for each Monitor channel, those device ports
that have already been used for other busses or channels
are shown in red on the Device Port pop-up menu. If you
select a port marked in red, the previous connection of this
port is lost.
Ö In order to avoid confusion due to suddenly missing
port connections on other tabs, you may want to set all the
outputs to “Not Assigned” while the Control Room is be
-
ing set up.
Monitors
Each Monitor channel is a set of outputs that are con-
nected to monitor speakers in the Control Room. Up to
four Monitor channels can be created for the different sets
of speakers in a studio. Monitor channels can be config
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ured for a mono, stereo or up to 6.0 surround speaker
configuration.
The Control Room Mixer allows you to switch speakers
easily. Each set of Monitors can have its own custom
downmix settings, input gain and input phase adjust
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ments.
Phones
The Phones channel is used by the engineer in the control
room for checking cue mixes and as another option for lis
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tening to the mix or external inputs on a pair of headphones.
Furthermore, the Phones channel can be used for preview-
ing, see “Control Room preferences” on page 182. It is not
intended for cue mixes that performers use while recording.
Studios
Studio channels are intended for sending cue mixes to
performers in the studio during recording. They have talk-
back and click functions and can monitor the main mix, ex-
ternal inputs or a dedicated cue mix. Up to four Studios
can be created allowing four discrete cue mixes for per-
formers.
For example, if you have two available headphone amplifi-
ers for performers to use, create two Studio channels, one
for each headphone mix.
External inputs
External inputs are used for monitoring external devices
such as CD players, multi-channel recorders or any other
audio source. Up to six external inputs can be created with
various configurations from mono up to 6.0 surround.
Ö If you select external inputs as input source of an audio
channel, you can record them. In this case, you will not
need to assign the device ports to the input channel (see
“Routing” on page 164).
Click here to open the Con-
trol Room Mixer.
The width of the
Control Room channel
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The Phones channel is stereo only.
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Studio channels can either be mono or stereo.