Cubase 11.5 come out, come out, wherever you are😉

[Tim_Dillon]

@cubic13

Indeed, I don’t, but I still have three external synths and made a favorite for each one, usable with my current audio/MIDI inteface :

Works perfectly (I know this because I already tested them after having to reinstall my interface driver a while ago). Now, I understand that if you change the latter, you’ll face a problem which is rather easily solvable : making an added new set of favorites for the given interface.

Where is the actual problem ? Sure, I don’t have 27 audio devices and 7 different interfaces to cope with. But who has ? What proportion among all of us users, here ? A poll would be interesting on the subject. Beside this, I have seen the ‘Why, why, why…’ thread : at a point in it, @shanabit asked this rather sensible question :

@shanabit

Did you try the Favorites Tab in the Studio Connections window? That seems to work

Answer from the next poster…

@ca-booter

Yes, that works, bit still is some mousework/time .

When you switch to another interface you loose all connections. Being saved as Favorites you can recall them.
But first you have to delete all the busses, then recall them from Favorites.
At least the connections are correct after that.
But it could be made a lot easier, faster and less mousework .

Indeed, there is ‘mousework’ to do first to configure our setup : horrible… After seeing this kind of statement, I have thought that it was unnecessary to chime in…

You suggest that a preset should be created for every project? The AD/DA inputs/outputs cannot be shared or temporarily borrowed. Different projects might have different setups, so this becomes a nuisance quickly. Why should connections be broken, if none of the external FX are being used in the project, and why can’t they be borrowed or temporarily re-routed, if an external FX becomes inserted? It’s not really sensical. Imagine you are recording drums to 14 channels, and then you want to use outboard on 8 of those channels, and then you want to record drums on a new track with 15 channels, and then you want to use all 16 of your channels for outboard to mix the two tracks, and then in 3 hours you have a new client coming in to record on all 16 channels different instruments, and then you want to to use 8 of those channels for external FX while you track overdubs on the other 8, and then the band wants to record another track before they leave, and then you want to mix all three tracks using all 16 on outboard, and then you want to zero the studio for tomorrow morning, but then you decide to wake up early and make some changes to the previous client project before a new project starts that day.

Comparing to your external instruments in your bedroom studio is sort of a false equivalency.