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Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- About this manual
- Setting up your system
- VST Connections
- The Project window
- Working with projects
- Creating new projects
- Opening projects
- Closing projects
- Saving projects
- The Archive and Backup functions
- Startup Options
- The Project Setup dialog
- Zoom and view options
- Audio handling
- Auditioning audio parts and events
- Scrubbing audio
- Editing parts and events
- Range editing
- Region operations
- The Edit History dialog
- The Preferences dialog
- Working with tracks
- Playback and the Transport panel
- Recording
- Quantizing MIDI and audio
- Fades and crossfades
- The arranger track (Cubase Elements only)
- Using markers
- The Mixer
- Audio effects
- VST instruments and instrument tracks
- Automation
- Audio processing and functions
- The Sample Editor
- The Audio Part Editor
- The Pool
- The MediaBay
- Working with track presets
- Remote controlling Cubase
- MIDI realtime parameters
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI processing
- The MIDI editors
- Introduction
- Opening a MIDI editor
- The Key Editor – Overview
- Key Editor operations
- The Drum Editor – Overview
- Drum Editor operations
- Working with drum maps
- Using drum name lists
- Working with SysEx messages
- Recording SysEx parameter changes
- Editing SysEx messages
- The Score Editor – Overview
- Score Editor operations
- Editing tempo and signature
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire (not in Cubase LE)
- File handling
- Customizing
- Key commands
- Index
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The Mixer
Audio-specific procedures
This section describes the options and basic procedures regarding audio channels in the Mixer. The following graphic
shows different types of audio-related channels (from left to right): an audio track, a group channel, an instrument track,
an FX channel, and a VST instrument channel (not in Cubase LE):
All audio-related channel types have the same channel
strip layout, with the following exceptions:
• Only audio and instrument track channels have Monitor and
Record Enable buttons.
• Instrument track and VST instrument channels have an addi-
tional button for opening the instrument’s control panel.
About the Insert/EQ/Send indicators and
bypass buttons
The three buttons in each audio channel strip have the fol-
lowing functionality:
• If an insert or send effect, or an EQ module is activated
for a channel, the corresponding button is lit.
The effect indicator buttons are blue, and the EQ indicator buttons are
green.
• If you click any of these buttons when lit, the corre-
sponding EQ or effects section is bypassed.
Bypass is indicated by the color yellow. Clicking the button again deac-
tivates bypass.
Setting pan in the Mixer
For each audio-related channel with at least a stereo out-
put configuration you will find a miniature pan control at
the top of the channel strip.
Panning channels with a stereo output configuration
The pan control at the top of stereo audio channel strips is
used to position a channel in the stereo spectrum.
The stereo pan control
The following applies when using the pan control:
• To make fine pan adjustments, hold down [Shift] when
you move the pan control.
• To select the (default) center pan position, hold down
[Ctrl]/[Command] and click on the pan control.
• To view the pan settings in a separate window, where
you can change the settings using sliders, double-click on
the pan control.
Channel
automation
controls
Monitor and
Record Enable
buttons
Opens the control panel for the
VST instrument
Level meter
Level fader
Edit button (opens
the Channel Settings
window)
Insert/EQ/Send indicators and bypass
buttons (see below)
Channel name
Pan control