I have bought a second pair of monitors for mixing. It now seems a perfect time to use Control Room so that I can switch monitors easily and control the level of each independently etc. As the manual states:
“The Control Room Mixer will allow you to switch speakers easily. Each set of Monitors can have its own custom downmix settings, input gain and input phase adjustments.” Yahay!
So I configured CR as per the manual, setting up two monitor channels in VST connections to my two stereo interface outputs. But when I open the Control Room Mixer there is only ONE fader that fades both sets of monitors and a couple of buttons called Monitr1 and Monitr2 that don’t seem to do anything. I was expecting to see a stereo fader and independent controls for each monitor.
Re-read the chapter, searched the forums, messing with it for hours, now totally confused.
Then there’ s something wrong with your setup these buttons switch between the different monitors when set up correctly (In Cubase and your audio card)
Selecting A or B does switch monitor outputs…my bad. But I can only see one fader which controls both speakers, whichever is selected. I have to manually re-adjust the level each time I switch speakers to match loudnesses. Surely this can’t be as good as it gets? I want dual independent faders to attenuate each speaker individually. Is that not possible?
Okay - I figured out how I can attenuate my monitors independently. In the extended view of the control room mixer there is a dial type fader (see the screen capture where I have arbitrarily set it to -40). The channel strip you see belongs to the currently selected monitor, as you flip between monitors A and B… etc. Match the levels, set it and forget it. Hurrah!
This is such a common functional requirement of monitor switching that it blows my mind that it not made more explicit in the Cubase 5 manual on uses of the control room mixer!
Okay, on with more important things. Hope this may be of use to someone else!
