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Control Room (Cubase only)
36. Downmix Preset Selection
With these buttons you can select the downmix preset for the current
Monitor. Automatic configuration of the downmix settings follows a logi
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cal path. For example, if you have defined one set of 5.1 monitors and an-
other set of stereo monitors, Cubase will create a 5.1 to stereo downmix
preset and another downmix to mono.
37. Downmix labels
This area displays the names of the four downmix presets. You can click
on a name to change it. A “?” appears when there is no preset defined
for that downmix.
38. Monitor selection
With these buttons you can select the current Monitor set. Each Monitor
has its own settings including downmix preset, solo enables, inserts, in
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put gain and input phase. These settings are automatically recalled when
a Monitor is selected.
39. Monitor labels
This area displays up to four Monitors. The names are entered in the VST
Connections window when you define a Monitor channel.
Configuring the Control Room Mixer
In order to display more controls in the Control Room
Mixer, the small arrows in the lower left and right corners
can be clicked to open or close the extended speaker
controls on the right (“Show Right Strip”) and the External
Input and Talkback controls on the left (“Show Left Strip”).
The arrow in the upper right corner of the Control Room
Mixer (“Show Extended View”) extends the Mixer vertically
to display meters and inserts. A second arrow appears
above the inserts and meter display. Extending the Mixer
using this arrow (“Show Routing View”) exposes the Input
Gain and Input Phase controls, the channel configuration
and the name of each channel. Each panel can be closed
by clicking the corresponding down arrow.
The different Control Room Mixer panels are handled in
the same way as the Project Mixer panels, see “Configur-
ing the Mixer” on page 148.
Control Room inserts and meters
In the extended view of the Control Room Mixer the me-
ters are visible. They function the same way as the ones in
the Project Mixer.
When you click the Show Meters/Inserts button to the right
of the meters display, the view changes to show inserts in-
stead of meters. Alternatively, these can also be displayed
by deactivating the Show Meters option on the Window
submenu of the Control Room Mixer context menu.
Each Control Room channel has a set of inserts configured
as six pre-fader and two post-fader inserts. External input
channels only have the six pre-fader inserts and Monitor
channels have eight inserts (post Control Room fader).
If you do not wish to see full sized meters but still want
some indication of signal activity, activate the “Signal
Presence Indicators” option in the Preferences dialog
(VST–Control Room page). They will be displayed next to
the input selection buttons and indicate signal presence
for all inputs.
Control Room Mixer channels with active Signal Presence indicators
Inserts for external inputs
Each external input has its own set of six inserts. By click-
ing the button next to the name of an external input on the
left of the Mixer window, the inserts associated with that
channel are displayed in the extended view.
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You can also use the Window submenu of the Con-
trol Room Mixer context menu to show/hide the dif-
ferent panels, just as in the Project Mixer.