Cubase Control Room Mixer Is Disabled

In the example below we are aiming to provide the following functionality using the inputs outputs on a liquid saffire 56.

Cubase control room mixer is disabled.

If the control room is disabled the volume of the main mix bus will be shown in the transport panel. Enable the option use system timestamp for windows midi which you find beneath the listed ports. In our example we have called it additional bus. The active green levels determine what the performer hears when the control room cue vst connect channel is set to cues blue button.

Control room seems to be an often overlooked and very powerful feature in cubase that has been around for a long time but seems misunderstood. The control room mixer can be accessed in cubase by going to devices control room mixer. Mixer output stereo synth set configuration to stereo and count to 1. In the upper right portion of the panel there is a box that says control room with a power button alongside click this power button.

To open the control room in a separate window select devices control room mixer. If the control room is not available the audio will be routed through the default audio output. If this option is activated the transport panel will display the control room volume if the control room is enabled. Under bus name you can rename your input bus.

Switch to the control room tab of the audio connections panel. See the cues row in the middle of the mixer use the racks item at the top of the mix console window to activate its visibility if it doesn t show. Cubase se sl sx 3 1 and nuendo 3 1 or later. You can view the control room mixer by select it from the devices menu.

Allow the engineer to switch between two pairs of speakers also be able to listen back on headphones. Microphones set configuration to mono and count to 2. In the device setup window click on midi midi port setup. To open the control room mixer you have the following options.

If you need mono connections going into cubase e g. Remember that if the if the control room is disabled the control room mixer will not be available. Installed midi ports should now be listed in the right part of the window. Notice that cubase has created a new control room monitor channel called monitor 1.

To open the control room section in the mixconsole window click show hide right zone. If you need stereo connections going into cubase e g. In cubase nuendo select devices setup from the devices menu.