In the mix console, under the “pre” section, I see that the color of the pre-gain slider background has changed. In Cubase 13, the color would go to orange if there was an adjustment to pre-gain, making it really easy to see:
But now in Cubase 15 (or, did this happen in the recent update?), the color has changed to a light gray, which is harder for these old eyes to see:
I use these pre-gains on every project I do, and it’s a little harder now to quickly see which tracks I’ve lowered the input gain on. Is there a setting for this that I’m not aware of, or has this been changed completely in the update and this is just how it is now? I liked the orange color better!
Hi @Chimpazilla ,
IMO this doesn’t look the way it should look like in Cubase 15.
Just tested it:
as soon as I touch the PRE Gain slider on an active channel, it turns to “reddish”, and is no longer grey.
Like this:
Annotation:
my blue-ish GUI color is due to a profile import from Cubase 15, and in v.15 this specific color can’t be achieved by using the new (and sadly very restricted) GUI coloring system.
And while the Mixer’s PRE Section does have some settings in Preferences, the PRE Gain Slider itself seems to remain independent of any manual settings, once it has been touched and moved. Right now, I have no idea what might’ve happened to your slider color.
Preferences → User Interface → MixConsole Section Colors
Also, I always use full throttle track colors, but this also seems to have no effect on the color of the PRE Gain slider.
Cheers,
Markus
I do like your blue theme! But yeah your pre-gain slider is orange. Did you install the update (15.0.20)? I don’t remember this behavior in regular 15. I think they changed this in the update (not sure though).
I have looked at and tried all the color settings but nothing has shifted it. I am hoping there is some obvious setting that I am missing. I’ll happily admit being a moron if anyone can show me where to set this back to orange! (unless it got changed in the update)
Hi again @Chimpazilla ,
yes, it’s the updated version 15.0.20.
If you want to, you can try and import my exported user profile, de-personalize it and perhaps keep a preferred color (if it shows on your side, at all) by creating your own profile copy. And please copy your Cubase user profile first in order to save it. Also, you can use v.14 or - if you don’t have it installed anymore - re-install it in its own program folder besides the new version, and do all preferred changes in the older version. The license is downwards compatible, way back to Cubase 12.
By using a user profile it’s easy to make the GUI color in v.14, export the *.srf file and transfer it to v.15, where you import it. Although I can’t predict how much of my specific coloring will show up in your Cubase 15 install.
CP14_Blue-ish_GUI.zip (925.5 KB)
Sadly, I still don’t have the slightest clue as to how your Cubase came up with that grey PRE Gain slider…
Best,
Markus
I appreciate you Markus, and I may try your file. I never bought 14, so I jumped right from 13 to 15, very recently. I don’t really want to roll back from 15.0.20 because the folder groups are extremely useful to me and no other version has them, but the update came with some weird color changes and a couple of bugs too, so…. hhhmmm. Thank you for replying to me!
My pre-gain also is blue-greyish, not orange.
Sorry to hear it, but also glad it’s not just me. I hope a mod will hop in here and make this make sense.
Orange for me on 15.0.20.
Could it be a setting in preferences somewhere…?
That makes me hopeful, but I wonder what went wrong for me. I had not changed any color settings prior to updating. But even messing with them now does not change it back. I can’t find a setting specifically for that slider, or the overall Pre section. I’m hoping there is a color setting for the Pre section, and someone will tell me where it is. This is in the manual, under “view options for Pre”:
How do you even make the high and low cuts be red? All of my Pre section is gray. Anyone know?
It´s all in the preferences, in Nuendo at least:
Check that you’re not referencing an out of date manual - that looks like maybe C12 to me, it’s been a while since the 12 / slope font was the same size as the frequency font.
I have to say looking at them side by side I quite like this old one!
Anyway - I can’t get the HC / LC to be non-grey in C15. I don’t think I’ve tweaked anything other than track colours as far as I can remember so I should be pretty close to default settings.
Thanks @wolfger for the steer, my Gain settings on that screen are 17 / 46 / 47… hope that works for you!
Manual says it’s for 15!
I also don’t really change color settings, and should be basically at default. My HC and LC are grey and my pre-gain is grey when not at zero, where that slider used to go orange after I moved it at all. I’ve looked at and fiddled with every color setting under preferences, to no avail.
I probably need to just move on with my life, and this track. All these issues have set me back a full week, they are small but frustrating.
Just follow @wolfger 's advice. Worked for me.
When changing the colors in the preferences as shown above and the parameters moved the sliders should take on the colores you set:
Ah, thanks, I hadn’t realized I needed to click to turn on the HC and LC (clearly I don’t use those!) but my pre-gain still won’t change color:
(deleting my little video as it is no longer useful)
Also thank you so much for continuing to try to help me, I really appreciate it!
Edit: ok I had not followed your EXACT color suggestions, THAT WORKED. THANK YOU. I admit being a moron! I am so happy now, thanks!
Hi @wolfger ,
thanks, good find. As far as I’m concerned, I did thoroughly explore the same color config parameters (within Preferences) yesterday, but couldn’t change the Mixer’s orange-red PRE Gain fader color in any way (Cubase Pro 15.0.20), “my” color still looks “as expected”, which of course doesn’t bother me.
So, from my (humble) perspective this issue still seems unresolved. What bothers me is that others seem to randomly have that “grey fader phenomenon”, and I can’t seem to find a way to reproduce that. The whole intransparent coloring system IMO has some problematic aspects to it, although track colors (by using the good old configurable color palettes) thenselves can be configured reliably and transparently, which greatly helps my various workflows.
Cheers,
Markus
My pre gain colors is also grey on the negative parameters! Seems that it’s a bug, right? So, will this be fixed?
The solution is given in this thread already. No bug, no need for fixing.
You mean, that it always was the same color? BTW in this way will be nice to have orange color on negative value and another color for the positive.
Anyway, thank you for the reply
The solution is marked as the solution. I don’t understand what other type of information you need.
I added an arrow to it…
