Cubase and Me
Jan. 15th, 2024 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperSo I'm continuing the inventory of tracks for Crosstime Bus. This involves opening up and looking at a lot of very old Cubase projects that I haven't touched in years. This means that they were recorded in a much earlier version of Cubase than the Cubase 13 that I am currently using.
Stupidity abounds.
First, I have completely rebuilt the studio a few times in the intervening years. None of the old routing is worth a darn, but that's a matter of a few mouse clicks to correct. I also need to delete a number of empty tracks that were possibly useful in the old setup, but which are not at all useful now. And it would be good if I actually labeled all of the tracks with what is actually recorded on them, for the sake of my sanity, if nothing else.
All that done, I can get sound out of the speakers, which we count as a victory and also as something that helps greatly as I label these old tracks. But over on the right hand side of my main Cubase display is a giant meter that should be showing me the output levels.
It does *nothing*. It doesn't even *twitch*. What the heck? I *know* I've seen that work before.
A brief Internet search follows and is of absolutely no help, save that someone suggests that I look at the VST Connections window. There *is* no VST Connections window in Cubase 13, of course. There *is* a window labeled Audio Connections that comes up on the same accelerator key as the obsolete VST Connections window, which is a window that I am familiar with, because that's where I go to fix all of the routing errors that exist because of the multiple studio rebuilds since the last time that I opened this project.
When I right-click on the Stereo Out bus, I get a context menu and an option is checked there that says "Set Stereo Out as Main Mix". Well, yes, that's what I want. I see that it is checked. I cannot *uncheck* it. And nothing goes to the meter for the Main Mix.
*grumble*
Let me create a new stereo bus, Test. Now, I go to it, right-click and I can click the option to "Set Test as Main Mix". Ok. That worked. Let's go back to Stereo Out, which is no longer checked, and select the option there. And let's hit the Play button.
Why, look! The signal is now going to the main meter.
I guess I can go delete that Test bus now.
The things you learn...
Stupidity abounds.
First, I have completely rebuilt the studio a few times in the intervening years. None of the old routing is worth a darn, but that's a matter of a few mouse clicks to correct. I also need to delete a number of empty tracks that were possibly useful in the old setup, but which are not at all useful now. And it would be good if I actually labeled all of the tracks with what is actually recorded on them, for the sake of my sanity, if nothing else.
All that done, I can get sound out of the speakers, which we count as a victory and also as something that helps greatly as I label these old tracks. But over on the right hand side of my main Cubase display is a giant meter that should be showing me the output levels.
It does *nothing*. It doesn't even *twitch*. What the heck? I *know* I've seen that work before.
A brief Internet search follows and is of absolutely no help, save that someone suggests that I look at the VST Connections window. There *is* no VST Connections window in Cubase 13, of course. There *is* a window labeled Audio Connections that comes up on the same accelerator key as the obsolete VST Connections window, which is a window that I am familiar with, because that's where I go to fix all of the routing errors that exist because of the multiple studio rebuilds since the last time that I opened this project.
When I right-click on the Stereo Out bus, I get a context menu and an option is checked there that says "Set Stereo Out as Main Mix". Well, yes, that's what I want. I see that it is checked. I cannot *uncheck* it. And nothing goes to the meter for the Main Mix.
*grumble*
Let me create a new stereo bus, Test. Now, I go to it, right-click and I can click the option to "Set Test as Main Mix". Ok. That worked. Let's go back to Stereo Out, which is no longer checked, and select the option there. And let's hit the Play button.
Why, look! The signal is now going to the main meter.
I guess I can go delete that Test bus now.
The things you learn...