5 CUBASE ROUTING TIPS
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- 5 CUBASE ROUTING TIPS (2018)
These Cubase Tips can be very useful during the mixing. Note that most of these tips are available on the Pro version only.
Enjoy!
TIPS:
1. DETERMINE THE SIGNAL ROUTING OF TRACK 0:33
2. WORKING WITH "POST" AND "PRE" FADER SENDS 5:25
3. PAN YOUR SENDS 16:22
4. HOW TO RECORD YOUR FX ON A SEPARATE TRACK 10:35
5. WORKING WITH SEVERAL OUTPUTS 11:56
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Man, these tutorials are great!!! So clearly explained and straight to the point. Thank you so much!
Brilliant! I just HAD to subscribe after seeing this video! I've been using Cubase since the VST days, and keeping up with the massive number of awesome features is a constant learning process. Thanks for giving us much-appreciated brevity AND detail. Your hard work and preparation really shows!
13:37 - Thank you! Saved me tonnes of time searching in the manual.
Happy to help and save you time :-)
thanks for the refresh! Sometimes when i have complicated routing configurations i forget about these shortcuts . Great video
Thanks for watching
Wow! Answered so many of my questions! Thanks so much!
You're welcome!
Thanks Chris, Excellent Tips. Keep em coming Dude, We got your back!
Thanks my friend! :-)
Your a star Chris. Thanks. And now we've got cubase 10 too. Look forward to more cheers.
Thanks, man!
Que gran tutorial! Estaba buscando esto y nadie lo explica en las redes tan claro. Eso si ,tuve que aprender ingles para chaparlo.GRACIAS!
Thank's for this great tip video! Chris your the best!!
You're welcome!
Very nice - I knew everything but I never clicked on the output chain - super useful for balancing FX.
There you go brother :-)
Hi Chris, i am new to Cubase and your videos are very clear and helpful. Thank you for that!
You're very welcome! Thanks :-)
Awesome learn so much. Presented so well. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Great video Chris, allways good tips.
Thank you, my friend!
Excellent tuto Chris : very clear.
Thanks Fabien!
best work..love it...
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you, finally new tips, super Chris!
Happy to help!
Thanks man! Great tips.
Happy to help!
Extremely useful, thank you very much !
You're Welcome!
Thank you for a new Cubase video, Chris. So as I understand, the result would be the same using send or direct output to a NY Compression bus (or FX track). I can’t imagine now a practical difference, aside that with send you can better control the send level, independent of the original channel level.
Yep, you're right!
Dear Chris,
I've learned so much about my Cubase and I am with You since I upgraded version 5 to 8, today I am at 10 - and I found pretty much all the answers to whatever I have looked.
one thing though - and You can answer with YES or No - is - (on it pretty much depends if I will start saving for new interface like this one) - I have Alesis 16 MultiMix USB interface - with 26 inputs, but only 2outputs (which is actually 1stereo output. and, although on my phisical board, I have 1 main stereo out, 1 control room out, one phones pout (with its own volume controls) and even one 3&4 output - my Cubase always sees only I strep ALESIS USB output possibility.
trouble starts when I try to run my Cubase 10Pro Control Room... although I have 2 pairs of monitors (one from Main stereo out, the other from Control room), and then this Phones output, whenever I try to add anything more than first monitor in Control room, everything else (CONNECTING MONITOR 2 OR HEADPHONES) disconnects that firs monitor... ergo - I always get only that 1 stereo Alesis Left a Right output... DOEAS IT HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT -or is there a work around it or DO I HAVE TO SIMPLY BUY INTERFACE WITH 4 REAL OUTPUTS (and how to know which one will be 4 real outputs?
massive Thanx in advance, I know this is the long one but it is my first, so hope You'll forgive me! Big hello from Europe with hope to find You in good health!
cheers,
Vanja
I appreciate it, thanks for sharing.
You're welcome!
Great tips! Thanks Chris!
You're welcome!
I found this information very useful, thanks.
You're welcome!
You are amazing better then the knowledge I love your explanations
Thanks my friend!
💕💕fantastic 💕💕 mes respects pour ce que vous offrez comme infos.
Another pan trick for some more stereo Imaging: Route the left effect send of a doubled instrument (i.e. a doubled accoustic guitar) straight to the right side of the effect and the right effect send of the doubled guitar straight to the left of that same effect. You could also create an individual effect channel for each side of the doubled Instrumentl ( 1 for the doubled guitar left side and one for the right side) and route the 2 effect channels itself straight right and left and feed it from the oposite audio channel of the doubled Instrument (left guitar feeds the effect channel that is panned to the right and right guitar sends to the left effect) BUT using the sends panning is a little easier...
instaBlaster.
Dude! Very helpful, thanks!
Glad it helped!
Awesome video
Thanks!
Very useful!
Glad it was helpful!
Brilliant, you have helped me understand a few tips here which I will put into practice. I have a question for you though. I have cubase 7.5 pro, for PC and I am using a motu lite audio interface. It does have an outboard behringer mixer attached to it so live instruments can be recorded into cubase via the motu. That's pretty standard configuration but, let's say I want to use perhaps Steinbergs Padshop for example. It is a soft synth. Is it possible, to route Padshop out of the cubase, through the audio interface and then take it through the behringer mixer where I can then add outboard stomp box effects to it, and then back into cubase in real time on perhaps a new channel that will record the new altered/wet signal. For example, I have a dub chamber that I might want to take the soft instruments through, giving a more analog feel as well as opening up 'other' possibilities. Is it doable, and how is it done. I am still learning this great suite which I thoroughly enjoy. Best wishes.
I have two guitars recorded dry, 1 panned hard left and 1 panned hard right. I created a group track for them to add and try different guitar VST (Jason Richardson Toneforge, NeuralDSp Plini. etc). But how do I keep my panned options once routed to my new bus track?
Also I love all your videos they help and inspire so much!
Great!
I almost knew all dis, but itz cool 2 keep in mind.
Whoooa this is amazing!
Thanks Chris, can this format or techniques be use with any version of cubase 10.Ai /Sx/ Le?
Great tips! :)
Thanks
Those tips are great, thank you Chris. And I wonder how to send a few tracks to a group channel, and then send those same tracks to another group channel. In other words how can I send the same few tracks to two different group channels ?
Chris, thank you for this superb video. Unhappily I am using the Artist version and it does not have all the features you showed.
Yes, some of the features are not available in the Artist version
very good video, thank you
You're welcome!
Great tips, Chris! How would you batch export a group channel that has send FX? Sometimes I get asked for stems with FX and I have to do each one individually as a stereo export instead of using the batch export function because the Group channels don't export with the sends. Thanks!
I do love your Cubase videos and because I'm still on Pro 9.5 I found this video very handy.
Thanks so much!
Question about several outputs: What is the actual purpose of the TEST output? (Sorry, if it's a stupid question & I missed your explanation of why)
Happy you love the videos :-) The TEST output was just for this tutorial nothing much... just to show you that you can add several outputs
Nathan, just an example of an application for this TEST output. If you have two sets of monitors and you don't want to bother setting up the Control Room, you can use Direct Routing Outputs (DROs) to route the signal from a master stereo group to several stereo outputs and connect those to several monitors. They have to be the same kind of bus though because the first DRO Slot dictates the width of the whole set of slots. So if your first one is routed to a stereo output bus, then the other 7 will also be stereo. Good luck!
Brilliant. Another way of recording fx tracks is to solo the dry channel so the dry and wet channels are soloed. Then set the dry source to no output so now just the wet channel is heard...then render
Yes, that is also a good option :-)
Its Amazing to see what you can do with cubase🙌👍. Thanks Chris!! You’re a good teacher!
I wonder How you create the MASTER track?🧐 i don’t have that option on pro9
The master Track is created by default...Look in your VST Connections...OUTPUTS...you will see your main output... remove this and you will remove your Master Track... You have that option in C9 :-)
@@mixdownonline Does this apply in C11? I don't ever recall a "master track", only stereo out. In this video you have both, and I don't understand the difference. :(
Hi Chris. I'm using Cubase Artist 9.5 and the effect panning option is available for me🙂
Thanks for info my friend!
Thank you
You're welcome
Pre post Fade excellent... routing excellent
Nice Chris!...tutorial excellent info.. do you have a cubase video program offered?
Hey Ronnie, I don't but working one at the moment... Should be released beginning on december
Hi Chris. I'm enjoying your tutorials although I'm a newbie in Cubase. I'm wondering if it would be possible in Cubase LE 9.5 to route any signal from the computer into a channel that has the EQ set on. My speakers are nice but I'm missing a bit of highs from around 14k up. My sound card isn't equipped with an Equalizer and the Equalizer in Cubase sounds the best among few pieces of software I've tried. Thank you in advance for your Reply
Hello Chris, I know it`s Old video but I`m running Cubase Pro 11 and I see a Direct Routing (Summing) can You elaborate on that Option ?
please tell me is there any simple way to select couple of tracks and send them to bus aux??
Hi Chris. Here's a question that maybe you've done a video on, or maybe can make one for. Why do you have a track called mixbuss, seperate from the master buss? Besides allowing for more plugins than on 1 channel alone, what is the reasoning behind this workflow? Its Its something that ive considered, but dont know enough about the pros and cons. Thanks buddy. Stay safe. Thanks for all the great videos and info
Follow this link, I have a free course on my mix template where I explain that concept mixdown.online/en/get-in-the-zone
Very helpful Chris as usual! Stop me if i'm saying a silly thing but is the direct routing thing working only post fader?
Not silly at all...Yes the Direct out works in Post fader cause it's an Output :-)
Could use more clarification about setting up Inputs & Outputs.... what MUST be connected to a "Physical Interface", what can be treated as "Virtual" to route exclusively within the DAW, etc.
Thank you chris
Very welcome
@@mixdownonline sir iwanna know how to master on cubase10 pro with daw plugins not vst
Wonderful! But you do not explain how you made that second master stereo output that you call «Test» in the first place. So, how did you get that one?
Best regards
KSL
Chris, can't remember if you've already talked about that, but,
What's your current computer setup ?
Are you running on the new I9 intel cpus ?
Is it a single socket/cpu motherboard, or a 'workstation', with 2 cpus ? Which windows version ?
Are you running several Uad cards ?
Are you using other computer's power in slave mode via Vienna Ensemble pro ? Maybe something you might consider in the future ?
How many tracks are you able to run at once with your current configuration, (eg, 100 read 20 write..), and how much resources and cpu % is cubase showing ? Is the asio guard at min, normal or high ?
How many vst intruments can you run, before having to freeze channels? (sure, some vsti need more cpu...)
Do you have the intention of upgrading/ replacing your current computer, by 2019...2020...
I ask this, because you have a great audio interface, but you also need a great, stable, powerful rig, with the good settings, drivers, etc, so cubase can run flawlessly. Many users may wonder what setup you have...
Thanks :)
I don't think I covered my computer specs in details... I'm overdue for a new computer actually, mine is 6 years old but still works pretty well and stable like crazy... I will make some vids on the new computer I will get soon. You probably have a faster computer than mine ...LOL I do work with UAD, one PCIe Quad and on Firewire Quad as well...I also have an Octo Satellite (Thunderbolt) that I use on my laptop
@@mixdownonline cool. It will be interesting to see what you're gonna get. But no matter what you buy, you should absolutely grab a motherboard with at least 2 M.2 slots... the best would be 3 slots. Several times faster than the fastest Ssd drive, a M.2 drive will give you around 3.2 GigaBYTES READ and 2-2.5 GigaBYTES WRITE.
A 512Gb drive is a bit/quite expensive, coupled with a nice I7 8700k, or a faster I9 (unless you go Xeon, though, xeon might have more cores, but will run at lower clock speeds, whereas an I7/I9, might have less cores, but will have higher clocks... and Steinberg says Cubase prefers faster clock speeds over many many cores), and some nice Ram, your windows might boot in just 4 or 5 seconds...
The day i upgrade my computer (still have a super stable I7 3770k, from, i think, december 2012..or 13..can't remember exactly ), this setup will be mandatory, and should be perfect for at least 3-4 years:
- M.2 512Gb for Windows 8 or 10 + some other apps, google, photo editors, etc
- M.2 512Gb drive for Cubase working dir
- M.2 512Gb drive for Halion 6, Groove agent 4 and other kontakt libraries
- Ssd 1Tb for less important samples, documents, other files, backup synchronized with Cubase working dir... not as fast as the M.2,but still much faster than classic hard drives
-1 or 2 cheap western digital 'RED', 4 Tb each, for other backups, videos, etc
And also 64gb of memory, so i can make a 'ramdrive' of 8-12Gb, and use it as a temporary ultra fastharddrive.
With those M.2 drives,
Windows can work on its own drive, can access the drive, read/write stuff, even scan it, without it interfering with the cubase drive.
Cubase and other apps can have their own drive.
Having halion and other kontakt libraries on a separate drive will let cubase work much faster, and load stuff and libraries much faster.
With a M.2 512Gb drive, you can read 1000's tracks and record 1000's others, and probably the drive won't even use 10% of its throughput. The best thing is, you can load huge projects with tons of 48/24 or even 96k files, in just a few seconds, and if your projects have dozens of instances of kontakt and other libraries, the entire project will still open in just 2-3 seconds, BECAUSE all those libraries are on a 3rd M.2 drive.
I guess you already know it, BUT, don't pick a computer if you don't have AT LEAST 2 M.2 SLOTS.
In about 2 years, you might be able to replace your cpu, by a much better one. You might replace your memory sticks, and go with 128Gb, instead of 64... BUT, if you don't have those precious M.2 slots, you'll be screwed. ..no way to add them later...
Oh, man, such a long comment, Sorry :(
Not sure if you can help.
I have my guitar going into focusrite 2i2 to my computer via USB. I've opened up an audio track been able to get cubase to record my guitar. Problem is when ever I attach an fx track I cant get any sound from the fx that I applied. Like it's not picking up input. Any idea how to fix it? I've tried on both reaper and cubase and can't make it work. Doing this on MAC
Very informative as usual, I discoverer or rediscovered may hidden buttons again, thanks Chris. Maybe silly question, but why do you route your mono guitars into a mono group mix, I always have that in stereo, I supposed was more logical.
Good question...Because I don't want to spread those 2 solo parts apart, want to keep it MONO to start with... and this technique works best with MONO tracks anyways. If you try the same with stereo tracks, it will send the right or left side of that STEREO track to the effect instead of the cumulative of both. Hope that makes sense.
perfect sense, thanks for your reply
I have an urgent problem! My send reverb is stereo but in its routing to the stereo out, it switches to mono. How can I change that? Thanks for your help❣
how can i route my master ? ill have an tapemachine and want to route my master with all plugins on to the tape . and other channel to my analog peakmeter. do you have any idea?
Merci !
Bienvenu
Hi Chris, Can you please help to figure out How do I route Audio from different channels to do a Multi-Channel Spectrum Analysis using the free plugin SPAN (because it allows us to scale and Zoom in on the Spectrum)
I use SPAN in a very simple way so I couldn't tell. I like to keep things simple ;-)
nice vid... question with the chain of all the tracks showing where it is flowing to, does the FX channel show up or is there a way to get the FX channel to show in the chain? I hope this makes sense
Not sure I follow you 🤔
Hey Chris, It would be useful Information for all If you can explain why the solo 1 and solo 2 tracks in your Mix Console Has the fader control on those tracks not visible and how to make the fader visible again and what causes this to happen. Thanks, Mate!
I think you're talking about the PAN control... That's because those 2 tracks are routed in a MONO GROUP Channel :-)
thanks a lot great video, i would like to know if it possible to get two panning knobs on a stereo group channel ? and if so how can i achieve it ?
In Cubase, you have the choice between a Balnced Panner (Default) of a Combined Panner. Click on the right side of the panner to get to the Combined Panner
@@mixdownonline thanks that was helpful! is there any episode about drums triggering using (stereo audio + midi / solo safe) I've been searching on youtube and there is nothing about it
Ok, color me confused. Have I been doing things wrong all this time? What is Stereo Out versus Master Out??? I should be using both?
Thanks for the info. I tried the recording of effects you showed us. It works great! But for some reason I am unable to get a extra output bus to put out the stereo mix audio. I have outputs 5 and 6 designated as the output bus and i clicked on direct summing but so far its not working. I have Nuendo 7. Thsnks!
I don't have Nuendo 7 with me, not sure I'll be able to help :-(
@@mixdownonline im sure it has all the same routing assignments as Cubass in this vid. Im just missing what you are describing when you said click on summing and click on "something". I was able to record effects on a separate track by following your info. But creating a another output buss that has the same output as the main bus i cant get. I will go back to your vid and play it over until I find where i went wrong. Thanks for all your tips. You are a awesome asset to all us needing fast info for cubase and nuendo.:)
Nice
Thanks!
Very good, informative video, basically over last few months I`ve learned a lot from your channel, thanks. But have one question regarding recording your FX on separate track/printing FX for example delay track like in this video (TIP 4). What are the benefits of recording your FX on separate track? Do you always have to do that, or you can leave just FX track on its own and mix like that? When do you need that? I appreciate your answer, thanks.
Hey Lucas, I talked about this because someone asked me the question. On my end, I never record my FX in a mix situation unless I really need to for creative purposes. thanks for watching!
Thank you for answering my question, appreciate it. To be honest, I never printed FX either, that`s why I was wondering in what situations it might be useful. Cheers, Lucas
Maybe it would be useful to print FX if you have run out of CPU processing power so there's glitching in the playback, but you still have more mixing to do.
hi, what I have to do to make my 2 sets of audio monitors have sound simultaneously? I have an apollo 8p with 2 yamaha hs5 and 2 jbl 308
Like having them play your mix at the same time?
Bonjour de Paris. Si on pouvait avoir le même tutoriel en Français ce serait top!!!
Please!🙏
Chris, when I try to route my mono tracks to a group channel, I lose the pan control on the mono audio track it becomes empty, I am using Cubase 10 Pro, Any suggestions?
In case anyone else wants to know, it is because your group tracks are in mono. Make sure your group tracks are in stereo.
Be good to find one from start to finish
hello Cris, do you know any way to know the tuning of an audio file inside cubase, any plugin?
If it's a monophonic signal, you can check with VariAudio in Cubase Pro
Can u make a video on side chains
I just did earlier this week :-) ua-cam.com/video/bDqs820kVPU/v-deo.html
QUESTION.... great vid BTW but with the panning of the sends.... why wouldnt you just pan the FX channel? I know there must be a reason to just pan the send into the fx track right?
Good question.... That can work as well if you have only 1 track using the FX channel. But if you have several tracks using the same FX channel, you don't necessarily want to pan that FX for all those channels. This is where panning from the audio channel itself is handy
@@mixdownonline cool.... that makes sense.... awesome!! keep doing what your doing bro!!!
Hey Chris you show at 12:41 min that ST OUT channel, how to create that extra channel in cubase?
Go in your Audio Connections window (F4) and create an Extra Output Bus, that will create another Main Output in your Cubase Session
@@mixdownonline thanks for the answer, i notice this, i have set all outputs in the control room to switch from my monitors and stereo to mono etc, if i go to F4 OUTPUT and pick this for the output channel i dont have my output channel in the control room, how to route it ? (i have a RME fireface 400)
Adding a second Output like this is not linked to the Control Room, The Control Room is a Monitoring Tool, adding a second output is for Routing purposes, like sending your mix to an external device on top of your Monitors or re-amping a track by sending a signal to a guitar amp etc...
How do you route fx channels to anything other than Stereo Out? Pro feature only? In artist I cannot select anything other than stereo out for all fx channels. Thus I cannot use a dedicated mixbus because then I'd loose all fx channels :(( so if its not a setting then I guess I have to use Stereo out as my mixbus which is problematic
That's unfortunate...I don't have Artist with me but Steinberg will re-activate my license for Artist so I can check stuff like this for you guys.
You can use Artist with your PRO license -: no problem. Just download and install it. GOOD TIPPS with the Direct Routing !!! Thanks !!!!
there is no need to download and install anything. Pro and Artist is identical software. Its just a matter of loading which license. When I bought artist i also got a Pro trial license for 30 days. Launching Cubase from the desktop just asked me which version I wanted to start.
I have installed cubase LE AI it has only 4 inserts to add plugins, how can i get many inserts
You will need to upgrade to Element to get more than 4 insert slots...Here's a Cubase Version comparison chart new.steinberg.net/cubase/compare-editions/
Hi Chris what diference between Cubase 9.5 and Cubase 10? Thanks
I won't be able to answer you in a couple of lines. just check this page new.steinberg.net/cubase/features/ all the new features are listed
@@mixdownonline Thanks!
Does routing use much CPU usage?
Nop!
Sir give me caubase 5 full version
🤔I would love to but I don't own Steinberg ;-)
This is very convoluted. I though Direct routing would mean I could send any signal to any track, group etc etc. This is still an area Steinberg need to work on a fair bit. What I basically saw you doing here was displaying the same tracks different ways.Bascailly I can do everything you did there from the normal mixers view...I really dont get this direct routing at all.
You mean direct Outputs?
C'est vraiment dommage que les français sont laissé de côté… :-/
C'est pas question de laisser qui que ce soit de coté, produire du contenu vidéo demande beaucoup de temps. J'avais une version de cette chaîne en français ya 2 ans, mais j'ai dû arrêter malheureusement par manque de temps. Je fait ça gratuitement donc je suis limité avec ma business et la famille. J'ai dû aller vers le coté ou j'avais beaucoup de demande...
Par contre j'ai vraiment le désir de produire du contenu en français sur une nouvelle chaîne. Mais avant, je dois me concentrer à monitiser cette chaîne avec des cours "Premium" que je vais vendre bientôt. Ce qui va m'aider à travailler sur une autre chaîne par la suite. Merci de ton interêt.
Very, very useful! Thank You!
You're welcome Peter!