I want to copy my C11 to C12. No, it doesnt appear after install. No, the search on the forum shows nothing substantial in the top search terms (see above)
Just frustrating…and all it needs it a reference table
You can just open the User Settings Folder and see it in plain English.
If you’re on Windows (it’s not in your your profile)
%AppData%\Roaming\Steinberg\Cubase 12_64\Presets
There is this as well…
Thanks Steve
Issue is I searched using look in file for a keyword and didnt find it.
I use a lot of different software…the help menu might be nice and clean but everytime you want the manual you have to needlessly drill online…I would like to suggest a well refined layout something like this with local and online references under separate sub menus.
That’s not what you were talking about in your OP.
But they did do what you asked for, and I posted it above for you.
I have already read that
do a search for ‘control’
I had read that elsewhere on the forum…I didnt see it mention anything about control room hence me posting another thread
I added the help thing because it would really…help hehe
Well, you have the info now, 20 minutes after posting the question.
It’s really not a fair comparison to make with Archicad, a hi end $2400 per year package. Certainly if Steinberg had a price like that there would be much more resources to refine the documentation.
Also, you did a one-time, one-word search, according to your posts. There is an extensive knowledgebase with info going back years, it’s worth a little work to find the the thing you need. I also do think your search prowess is not as limited as one might infer from the OP.
lol…after 40 mins of fishing 
Dont get me wrong…I have been on Cubase since v1 atari I love it despite any misgiving that sometimes happen. I still think its the best package…its more that its missing a great opportunity to do a simple thing like make good use of the help menu which, because of reference to other expensive packaging
I appreciate the great support here.
A lot of the old stuff actually didnt have answers on it (that I had read)
Thats my point…a lot of disparate info that is hard to get across versus a couple of heirachical shortcuts arranged in the help menu…Id even be willing to help my brothers in Hamburg. Das kann ich machen
I hear you. I would be willing to stipulate that Steinberg does depend on 3rd parties: the user forum, manual authors, youtube gurus etc. in addition to their own publications.
For my part, I wouldn’t want a long menu with many entries right inside in the program.
For sure
It wouldnt be verbose like Archicad which is a huge program (plus all the compliance related stuff) compared to C12 (although I code libraries for them)
BUT
Would be nice with just 3 subs
I find the opening panel is verbose and I usually find Im looking for stuff, learning as Im proceeding through a project/new version…just my 2c
I can’t disagree. I have found that searching the pdf saved on my machine can be very rapid, and good for single word searches, since I can F3 through them real fast.
But, yes, that gets tedious. Me, I gotta keep everything in my head – not just with Cubase, but in general!
yep absolutely
Actually to be truly creative it has to be more than our head…it must be muscle memory eg like playing guitar…thats always my intent anyway
The right brain is so important and ironically for mix…it must be like life drawing, the first strokes are everything…thats why I spent so much time looking for ‘the workflow’ which ended up being that midi keypad…its is another world, forget raven and all the rest of the hardware…and operationally balanced too
You got it.
Yeah, Raven. Ew. Fun tech, extra work! Lotta money.
I don’t even use a control surface anymore. Between my decades-old assigned keystrokes, and my Kensinton Expert Trackball, I have it mostly contained.
I also have a setup where I use a few CMCs, not for daw control, but for sending CCs and doing commands through Bome midi translator.
Raven/touch is fatiguing.
Yep I hear you… I was using a keyboard but its the synergy of the keypad with the MCU…
eg using the qualifier on the KP extends the MCU and the MCU is gesture based
eg Double click and hold down VPOT2, will open only the GUI of IFX 2 on selected channel…while holding down, will scroll the pages; upon release the 8 vpots are now the assigned remote page etc
So you literally drill directly to where you want to go using gestures…am working with OEM guys at the moment to turn into an actual unit: I no longer use the keyboard and the keypad alone manages a couple of hundred shortcuts in logical groups of processes across the gamut of C12 operations
rough proto atm but I have posted it in other topics…Im just excited about it after so long…not as a brag.
Because I really want cubase to be an instrument not just a tool…with a tiny footprint
wow. cool!
Sorry to bring this up again…but generally stuff still drops off/corrupts and this time its just the control room IO. I just went file by file in the most of the prefs there…
Then I went to the link https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/115000245510-Preferences-of-Cubase-and-Nuendo
But I cannot see where to find as I should be able to just revert the version back on gdrive as its doing backups
This dialog says its audio connections but the presets I had made are now missing (for control room)
and I restored the previous from the cited “logical” location provided.
Control Room presets have their own file: ControlRoomPresets.pxml
This is the location for Cubase 14 on Windows:
%appdata%/steinberg/Cubase 14_64/Presets
Yeah i was trying to replace it but it overwrites it on open…thought there might be something else
Cheers
Interesting. There were several people reporting that they lose their control room settings at times.
Maybe when launched Cubase fails to notice that there is a valid ControlRoomPresets.pxml file in the proper location and then just copies its factory file there, effectively replacing the user created one.
Of course, the question would be: why does that happen.
Anyway, as soon as a you created a good CR setup, quit Cubase. Go to that location and create a copy of that file.
Yeah well that is the issue.
My prefs folder is backed up on Gdrive after all the dramas I have had and just so over the unreliabilty
So that means every write cubase does, there is a new version, I just go back to the last know time, save that version out and overwrite the current corrupt/default but it only looses the control room connections but now, even if I replace the file, it overwrites on startup with a new one.
I have removed all the plugins in control room monitors that I previously used eg linear phase xovers etc for the different output monitors and subs etc and hacked a different way but seems like the wheels are just continously falling off which is why Im learning Reaper atm…it is so solid but learning it to do the things I did in Cubase is an absolute pain…and so many newbs throwing in solutions of which they have absolutely no idea of. A couple of great users but they just dont use it in the same way eg surround sends etc which took a couple of days with help to get to work…anyway I digress but this is the reason Im leaving…eventually, hopefully. Im also not doing anymore upgrading from 12 until there is actually new stuff that I would actually use…I really hate fiddling and just prefer solid, reliable workflow.
eg all the hype over the vocal strip plug…seriously BS…its about getting a great take with a good singer and a good front end. The less you do the better and if it take more than a bit of eq/comp to get it to sound great…then you have lost me. I literally use 3 plugs and no pitch correction (unless its a brilliant performance with 1 or 2 distractions)…instead of trying to polish a poo. Else just go and get an AI voice and create more soul less music that sounds the same as everything else. I’m not much into retro psychedelic but the last client shows how, even the most basic 8 track with intent is a breath of fresh air with all its humanity and far from perfect…that is actually what is human. Anyway enough of the rant…hope you are having a great day
Cheers Johnny
That’s a bummer. If I remember correctly you experienced all sorts of unusal erratic behaviour and I think you have already tried to start with preferences disabled or renaming the preference folders all together down to 2 or 3 versions below to avoid that corrupt preferences were handed up to the latest version. If you have done all that I would seriously consider a fresh install. Given that you are willing to give Cubase another chance. It seems like your system was seriously corrupted at some point. Just my 2 cents on that one.
