Yep I’m thinking the same which is a shame. You can’t show the meter/control room and the visible faders are linked to visibility of the tracks in the project window. Plus I can’t see a way of hiding the hardware in/out channels. All in all it’s a good idea but they should have just docked the current mixer rather than come up with a whole new one. Don’t Steinberg ask for feedback and opinions from regular users before they implement stuff ?
totally agree. I am extremely disappointed with cubase 9. I upgraded mostly for the improvements in the work flow and interface, especially the docked window system, and I am very quickly realizing that as they are they offer no improvement AT ALL. I really cannot believe how shortsighted so many things are.
The idea as good, but they really need to re-think a few obvious things in the docked system. Like being able to have control room, inserts/sends and faders all visible AT THE SAME TIME, and having options to dock different things in the right zone (like the control mixer/control room)
Control room deserves it’s own tab I would agree, but EVERYTHING in the lower window, at the same time, in the same tab would no longer be a lower window, but a full screen hence the tabs it’s designed with roughly 1/3 of the screen estate in mind, if you want everything, you can just f3 and still have your docked controlroom / meter in there?
Studio One and Logic manage perfectly well having all mixer functionality in their implementations of the ‘Lower Zone’.
All Cubase needed was the mixer in the Lower Zone to have options for the user to display which features they wanted, rather have three separate windows within a window. Which is a complete workflow killer.
On top of that, having no access to routing without opening the main MixConsole is baffling.
You have access to routing in the inspector?
It’s a deliberate design choice not to do a full mixer with a scrollbar in the lower panel. Very logical.
If you don’t like it, go S1?
Keyboard shortcuts are good, more mouse scrolling bad…