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The Mixer
About the “Stereo Pan Law” setting
In the Project Setup dialog you will find a pop-up menu
named “Stereo Pan Law”, which allows you to select one
of several pan modes. These modes are required for
power compensation. Without power compensation, the
power of the sum of the left and right side is higher
(louder) if a channel is panned center than if it is panned
left or right.
To remedy this, the Stereo Pan Law setting allows you to
attenuate signals panned center, by -6, -4.5 or -3
dB (de-
fault). Selecting the 0 dB option effectively turns off con-
stant-power panning. Experiment with the modes to see
which fits best in a given situation. You can also select
“Equal Power” on this pop-up menu, which means that the
power of the signal will remain the same regardless of the
pan setting.
Using Channel Settings
For each audio channel strip in the Mixer and in the In-
spector and track list for each audio track, there is an Edit
button (“e”).
Clicking this opens the VST Audio Channel Settings win-
dow. By default, this window contains:
• A section with eight insert effect slots for Cubase Elements
and 4 slots for Cubase AI and Cubase LE (see
“Audio effects”
on page 131).
• Four EQ modules and an associated EQ curve display (see
“Making EQ settings” on page 123).
• A section with eight sends slots for Cubase Elements and four
slots for Cubase AI and Cubase LE (see “Audio effects” on
page 131).
• A duplicate of the Mixer channel strip.
You can customize the Channel Settings window, by
showing/hiding the different panels and/or by changing
their order:
• To specify which panels are shown or hidden, right-click in the
Channel Settings window, and activate/deactivate the corre
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sponding options on the Customize View submenu of the
context menu.
• To change the order of the panels, select “Setup…” on the
Customize View pop-up menu and use the “Move up” and
“Move Down” buttons.
Ö For further information, see the chapter “Customizing”
on page 335.
Every channel has its own Channel Settings window (al-
though you can view each in the same window if you like –
see below).
The Channel Settings window in its default configuration
is used for the following operations:
• Apply equalization, see “Making EQ settings” on page 123.
• Apply send effects, see “Audio effects” on page 131.
• Apply insert effects, see “Audio effects” on page 131.
• Copy channel settings and apply them to another channel, see
“Copying settings between audio channels” on page 125.
Changing channels in the Channel Settings window
You can view any channel’s settings from a single window.
If the “Sync Project and Mixer Selection” option is acti-
vated in the Preferences dialog (Editing–Project & Mixer
page), this can be done “automatically”:
• Open the Channel Settings window for a track and po-
sition it so that you can see both the Project window and
the Channel Settings window.
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
-
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.
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All channel settings are applied to both sides of a
stereo channel.
Click the Edit button to open the Channel Settings
window.