MixConsole Left Zone in Cubase 12

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MixConsole Left Zone in Cubase 12

hello everybody andrew blake from the digitalaudiomanual.com today we're going to begin looking at the mix console in cubase 12. but before we start i want to remind you that there's a link below to the free content navigation guide which is an easy to navigate webpage with links to all the content on this channel and besides that in the near future i'm going to begin adding tips and other bits of information that will only be available there you know things like simple steps that will get you started and up and running quick things that are in the videos but are written down in simple steps that serve as quick reminders when you need information down the road if you're working with programs like wavelab or cubase plug-ins or the cable guys shaperbox 2 and many many other projects that are in the works then i know you're going to find just like i have that this is an invaluable study aid and the other thing i want to make sure you understand is that this is not a simple pdf this is a 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lower zone and if you look up in your project window in the upper area you have different zones you can activate turn on and off and there's a button here that turns the lower zone on when you turn the lower zone on you have various tabs to various things things we've talked about actually in other videos but one of those tabs brings us to the mix console and that gives you access to pretty much most of the features there's some things you can't really do here but most of the features of the mix console are in this area one of the other areas is its own dedicated mix console window which you can access again many ways but one way is to go up to where in the menus here where it says studio and it lists all the different mixed consoles and currently in cubase you actually have four of them available now so i'm gonna hit this very first one that says mix console and there it is now typically i have a two monitor system and i always keep this on its own separate monitor as much as the bottom lower zone offers most of all the features that you need for the mixed console i've just always been comfortable and have gotten used to this own dedicated mix console window so you know again you're going to find your way to work and what's comfortable for you but you want to know what options are available and each one of these that you bring up can be assigned different things that you want to look at so you can always have that mix console for that thing like i have one here that shows my groups i have another one that shows my effects and with the latest one i change it various back and forth but right now it's showing all the things with the regular mix console so you have you know a ton of customization options when it comes to these mixes all right so our first set of options let's go ahead and look in the project window mix console and get familiar with some of those things you have this left area over here they call it the page selector but basically it just has a bunch of on off buttons like for example this first one turns on and off your toolbar up on top the next button down here make sure that you can see the faders or you can hit the next button and it switches just to the insert effects or you can hit the bottom button and it changes just to the sends when you open up the full tilt mixer window if you look up on the right in the upper right there's a little like gear area and it stands for the setup window layout and again if you're new to this stuff this is something you'll definitely want to explore there's a lot of great options on how the mixer looks let me give you a basic tour here so first up it shows the channel overview so if i've got something playing and i hit channel overview up on the top normally you can't see anything but if i hit this channel overview it basically gives you a small picture of the whole mixer the other thing is it shows this meter bridge and this is kind of cool if you're looking for you know a more visual picture of the faders you have this equalizer curve it expands into a bigger curve and then you can draw it or change your eq if you want you have an option to show pictures you can click that guy and then you click on an area that shows pictures to select from a list of different pictures you know things like a keyboard or a guitar might help you identify a track easier there's an option below that for a notepad every track can have its own specific little notepad so if you want to make notes this last one shows channel latency if you've got some plugins that are slowing things down or you want to see what the latency is of anything you can actually see that all right so let's look a little closer at what happens when we activate this left zone over here i'm gonna go up in the right of the window hit the little left zone button and over here this pane area opens up now you can expand this a little bit at least on mine you can there's other options that usually are hidden depending on where you drag your screen so let's just in fact let's just open that up and look at everything for now the first thing that that's available is you can turn tracks on and off in terms of their visibility so these like little check marks if i turn these check marks by clicking on them on or off i can hide certain tracks and i can select multiple tracks by holding hit a track hold shift and then i can hit that check mark and wipe them all out at one time do the same thing i can hit a check mark and bring them all back in so some great visibility options in terms of you know bringing things into view and out of you the actual attracts are listed here and there's little triangles by the ones that are kind of in folders which you can click on and open those up as you move along going right you'll actually see a small picture of the colors associated there's like a different icons depending on whether it's a group or a midi track or an audio track and then you actually have a listing of the number of where the track resides in the list then moving above this area where you have all these options and you go to the right up here you have a tiny little button that changes the synchronization on the visibility meaning that if you click that you have the option to sync your mix and your project then as you move down to the bottom of this stuff you have the option to go from channel to zones you have these three dots and this is what allows you to have an area over on the left of your mixer and an area over on the right of your mixer and then the bulk of your channel is kind of in the middle of your mixer whatever you have in the middle you know moves around what's on the right or the left stays stationary then moving up to the top where it says visibility we move over one we got one that says history if you move a fader um you know up or down whatever you do it'll show you and you can click anywhere in this list to recall or change back anything you've done and then the last thing we'll talk about today going back up to the history tab move over one you got one that says snapshots and snapshots allow you to basically do exactly that let's say you've made a few changes on various faders and you can go up to this little camera at the very top of everything and you click on that and that will take a snapshot and you can take up to 10 of these snapshots and you can also click on this area below and then make a note about any particular snapshot the only thing you have to be aware of with the snapshots is if you make insert automation of any kind if i have a channel like this and i bring out the reverb on an insert and i actually automate some of the parameters on this insert itself when i make these snapshots it will void out anything i do on the insert effect all right there you go the mixer in cubase if you haven't done it already start customizing it to your liking you know check out some of the zone options the visibility options the different uh metering options also experiment with snapshots that's an option that gives you a lot of choice in terms of you know like i said various mixing scenarios if you haven't grabbed your navigation guide you should grab that before you go links to all the content on the channel ever growing and free to use it's as useful to me as it is to you i can tell you that it's a great tool glad when you guys are here and we'll see you on the next video