CUBASE SX tutorial BEGINNERS 2

CUBASE SX tutorial Series One – Volume Two danDont.com The Mixer in Cubase SX. A Short introduction The mixer in Cubase SX is a very big and powerful part of the program that is heavily used in every day work: this is where you colour your sound, set up levels, pan, add effects, manipulate the original sound source and do countless other things – and it’s also a very large one to get into so in this a short introduction we will go through the basic functions in the mixer, a walk-through to the channel strip, setting up simple fx channels and using sends. A brief look under the hood. If you would be looking at the face of a regular analogue hardware mixer, you’d find there’s a lot in common comparing to Cubase. However when mixing is done in a software you will find there’s a lot more options on offer and some things are not always visible on-screen like they would normally show in a hardware mixer. This is simply a question of space and usability: you can’t possibly cram a 48 track mixer to a small screen and expect it to be usable! But the modularity will show its true powerful nature once you learn how to get around the software… What’s on the mix then? Looking at the main screen in Cubase, you can access the main mixer in the Devices->Mixer menu or simply by pressing F3. You should have some tracks created in the main project view before you can get into mixing – logically you should have something to mix! The Mixer window ...