Cubase 13 - "Fixed number of slots" missed (Inspector and Channel tab)

[Fabio_B]

Hello, this option will be back in 13.0.30 for both the MixConsole and left channel zone.

[mlib]

The people have spoken!

[Pawel_Szymczyk]

Hello Fabio.
Thank you. This is very good news. Great work!

[Cyanne]

@Pawel_Szymczyk

Another thing is that I think that 16 plugin slots are too many. If only 8 were left, there would be no problems today with lack of space

There’s 16 rather than 8 plugin slots because that was a popular user request a few years back.

That was also when this condensed view was added.

[djmagi]

@djmagi

Hi Martin,
Displaying of fixed number of slots (e.g. 6 pre + 2 post) has the following advantage:
I created a routine of putting EQ VST on 2nd slot and Volume gain utility on 6th slot etc.
It should not be hard to implement following options to Cubase Preferences:
a) have choice of showing only used plus one empty (as in C13) and showing fixed number (C12)
b) have default number of VST slots (6+ 2 for me as I am used to it from Cubase Elements)

a) is fixed - great.
b) Fixed number of slots - we are still waiting right?

[cinematree]

Wow - can’t believe they just got rid of that option. First thing I’d do in any template is to make sure Fixed number of slots was enables. I like to have it all visible from the beginning and then fill it in as I go. Reaper always annoyed me for this reason. Strange to take away the option.

[alexis]

@henrique_staino

I don’t understand the need of developers to “fix” things that weren’t broken, breaking more stuff up in the process, while real bugs and half-implemented features stay unresolved.

Exactly.

Steinberg’s programming and releases over the years make it seem that unfortunately it’s like a cultural addiction or compulsion for them to break things that no one complained needing fixing in the first place. Thus the bug list gets longer, completely avoidably.

So frustrating - why, why, why??

And, in the few instances they backtrack and reintroduce the original feature, it’s sometimes 1984’d as a brilliant new innovation. #eyeroll

All this wasting dev time that could have been spent moving Cubase forward.

It really does seem like it’s baked into the Steinberg dev culture, unfortunately. Not gonna change, ever, is my feeling.

[CliffBuckmaster]

Hi Fabio,
Has this option been added back in? I can’t seem to find it.

[Tweswend]

Yes it has. Just right click on insert tab and you will find an option there

[Fabio_B]

It’s indeed back in, as Twenswend wrote - the option is available via right-click in the whole Insert area (also slots and insert slots panel), though the menu is reduced when right-clicking directly on the slots.
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