cubase & channels

[Emeric]

If you go to tools, master, you will see a whole other set of options. I never send anything (except the stereo monitor feed) back out of my 8io8op card, but you should be able to do it there.

I think you have to first, subgroup what your doing to the subgrouped busses, and then, in the tool>master - select what output you want that particuliar bus to go to on your soundcard.. Hard to explain - check that section out and I'm sure you'll get it quickly.



[This message has been edited by Emeric (edited 07-30-2000).]

 

[joshzero]

I am using Cubase 3.7 with a Gadgetlabs 8/24 sound card. I just switched from using Cakewalk. In Cakewalk I can send several tracks of simultaneous audio to one single output on the sound card. But in Cubase it seems that you can not do this. If I choose the same channel for 2 tracks only one track plays where the two tracks overlap. This is not good because I am essentially limited by my sound card's outputs. I have eight outputs on my soundcard but I will need to have more than eight simultaneous tracks sounding at the same time.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding something since I am new to Cubase and fairly new to recording on my PC. Can anyone shed some light? Thanks.

 

[JimH]

A Cubase "channel" is not an output on your sound card. A channel refers to a channel of the Cubase mixer. You can have up to 96 channels, but if two tracks are set to the same channel, one will override the other is they both have sound at the same place. Normally you set each track to a different channel and then mix them in the mixer.

From the main menu, select Audio/Monitor to open up the mixer. Now if you had set one of your tracks in the arrange window to channel 2, you can now control the volume of that track with the channel 2 fader in the mixer. At the bottom of the mixer channel is a button that lets you specify where this track gets sent, either one of the subgroups or the master fader. In the simplest case, set it to master. Note you can send any or all the channels to the master so they get mixed.

Then open up the master fader window by selecting Audio/Master from the main menu. At the bottom of the master fader column is a button (under the mono button) where you can select the soundcard output that this master mix gets sent to.

Actually, it's like a real mixer.

In Cubase version 5, they've cleaned up the mixer situation a bit. Instead of having different windows, the channels, subgroups, and master are all in one window.

Jim