The lower zone was always very useful but Steinberg has destroyed this functionality when using 3840 x 1080 Displays.
There is no longer the option of reducing the lower zone mixer to its smallest level. The lower zone split now appears fixed at halfway or greater than halfway on my 3840 x 1080 screen. This leaves little real estate for working on tracks.
Also, to quickly switch from faders to inserts or sends, these buttons have been removed. These functions are now only available if i expand the lower zone to include them in the mixer section above the faders, not instead of the faders, and therefore reducing the tracks real estate even more.
This is a backward step in my opinion, as i now have to constantly switch from full mixer display to full tracks display like in the old days, the reasons for the introduction of upper and lower zones’ useful customisable functionality has been lost.
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