Couple basic questions

[Andrew07]

I've been going through Cubase and my manual for quite a few hours and I'm pretty burnt out. I have a couple really basic questions here and if somebody could answer them without busting my balls too much I'd appreciate it

In the Mixer is there a way to add the volume option(don't know what to call it)to the Send window? Right now in the Edit page the Send window has a bar that I can drog horizontally AND there is an option to add a numerical volume number, while the Mixer window just has the bar.

The bus/sends are a little different than I'm used to so it's messing me up a bit. Let's say I want to send all the drums to a drum bus, but not to the master fader(the drum buss will then go to the master fader).
I need to:
Go to Project--->Add track--->FX Channel
So this would be my internal buss, opposed to sending it to an outboard buss conected to a piece of hardware...? But then on the audio tracks I want to send I can't make it's Output go to FX Channel 1(but I CAN with the sends).

I'm trying to import a stereo audio track into Cubase. When I save the files and name them in Pro Tools it goes to two files:Left and Right. Now I select those two files to import into Cubase and select "Import onto one track"(instead of a track per file) but it comes in as a Mono track.

[Dartley]

Andrew in answer to your second question, why don't you create a Group track as opposed to a FX track? Then you would need to assign the outputs of each track to is appropriate bus. You can then control the entire drum kit with one fader and of course EQ the entire drum group or apply dynamic processing or effects to the Group bus.

eric

[Andrew07]

One down, thanks man

[brandondrury]

In the Mixer is there a way to add the volume option(don't know what to call it)to the Send window? Right now in the Edit page the Send window has a bar that I can drog horizontally AND there is an option to add a numerical volume number, while the Mixer window just has the bar.

Do you mean volume automation? I'm not entirely sure what you mean here.

I'm not exactly sure that the "edit page" is either.

Maybe I do. I think you are asking how to set the level of aux sends with the mixer. To my knowledge, this can not be found on the mixer itself. Anytime an aux needs to be adjusted, I hit the E button on that channel and move the send level up or down.
There may be a better way of doing this one, but I'm not aware of it. Knowing Cubase, there is probably an option somewhere.

Dartley Andrew in answer to your second question, why don't you create a Group track as opposed to a FX track? Then you would need to assign the outputs of each track to is appropriate bus. You can then control the entire drum kit with one fader and of course EQ the entire drum group or apply dynamic processing or effects to the Group bus.

He's right. To set the output of each channel, you can find it on the top of each channel strip in the mixer.

Be careful if you switch your stereo outputs (using F4) to something else. Cubase has a way of reseting all the busses to "nothing".

I'm trying to import a stereo audio track into Cubase. When I save the files and name them in Pro Tools it goes to two files:Left and Right. Now I select those two files to import into Cubase and select "Import onto one track"(instead of a track per file) but it comes in as a Mono track.

I've never dealt with this one as all my stereo tracks are "interleaved". I'd make sure that you have already created a stereo audio track before importing. If you have it set to "mono track" Cubase will smash the stereo information down to mono (I think) or possibly just play back one side. (More than likely the two signals are combined).

Brandon

[Andrew07]

More questions...

I don't know why but Pro Tools doesn't support stereo interleaved files in their sessions, so I had to manually bounce each stereo overhead track to a stereo interleaved file.

I know how to change the track background colors, but I haven't read if you can change the waveform colors...can you?

Couple mixer questions. In the Edit page I can click on a track and drag it to a different position(ie. move the snare track to before the kick instead of after), but it won't let me drag tracks in the mixer window.

Still haven't found an answer to the send volume question. Basically on the Edit page under the Sends tab it will let me manually enter a numeric value for the volume, while on the Mixer page it only lets me draw the volume bar left or right

I see that you can process fx plug-ins to tracks, but you can't when you insert a regular plug-in. So I can insert a Delay or Flanger plug-in to a track, adjust its parameters and then print it to the track. But if I insert a Waves compressor I cant...why is this?

[brandondrury]

I haven't read if you can change the waveform colors...can you?

Changing Colors In Cubase SX3

I'm not sure of your terminology. What is the "edit page"? When I work in Cubase SX3 I have the tracks / waveforms page in my left computer monitor and the mixer window in my right computer monitor. If I double click on a track, it'll open the wave editor. Other than that, I don't really use many other pages. Help me understand how you are defining your pages and this should go fairly quickly.

Brandon

[brandondrury]

Still haven't found an answer to the send volume question. Basically on the Edit page under the Sends tab it will let me manually enter a numeric value for the volume, while on the Mixer page it only lets me draw the volume bar left or right

I just use the volume bar. Sometimes it drags too fast for me, but if I hold down either shift or control (I can't remember which) while I drag, it will go much slower for precise control.

I'm not sure of what the problem is in this particular case. I didn't even know you could type in the number...not that I would ever do that anyway.

Brandon

[Andrew07]

Thanks for the quick replies dude.

The edit page is the default window. You can see all of the tracks and their individual waveforms

The Mix or Mixer window(F3) is with all of the faders running side by side horizontally.

Editing the sends on the Mixer page isn't a super huge deal, but since almost EVERYTHING in Cubase is customizable I was just wondering.

[Andrew07]

Thanks for the quick replies dude.

The edit page is the default window. You can see all of the tracks and their individual waveforms

The Mix or Mixer window(F3) is with all of the faders running side by side horizontally.

Editing the sends on the Mixer page isn't a super huge deal, but since almost EVERYTHING in Cubase is customizable I was just wondering. I'm used to Pro Tools where the send starts out at -infinity and you have to bring it up to 0.0

[brandondrury]

Couple mixer questions. In the Edit page I can click on a track and drag it to a different position(ie. move the snare track to before the kick instead of after), but it won't let me drag tracks in the mixer window.

Uhh. Unless I've customized my mixer without knowing it, the mixer is just a mixer. There is no track. So when I press F3, the screen I get has the functionality of a Neve, SSL, Mackie, whatever but has nothing to do with time. If there is a method for this, I wouldn't know how to implement it. For the way I work, I do all the timing stuff on the default page anyway.

Still haven't found an answer to the send volume question. Basically on the Edit page under the Sends tab it will let me manually enter a numeric value for the volume, while on the Mixer page it only lets me draw the volume bar left or right

Oh okay. I get it. You mean the left hand column. I see. To my knowledge, there is no way to edit the volume number of the sends if you click on the "e". I'm still learning Cubase SX3 though too.

Brandon