Looks like they can’t actually be routed to anything besides Stereo Out.
I’ve just discovered this and am very disappointed.
I’d like to process the FX signal, as well as processing the signals from the original channels - with the same process. e.g. a shuffler or a compressor that processes both the orig. signals and the reverb coming off the FX channel. Easy, just group them all together, right? Wrong. Cubase won’t let you route the FX channel output to a group. The FX channel HAS to go to Stereo Out, and that means I can’t process everything together.
I’m rockin’ Cubase Elements 7- which I like for its light weight.
Surely this is the sort of thing which should work on all versions, though? Anybody want to walk me through the steps? I’ve been trying to route through the mixer and inspector.
Create new, empty project
Create FX ch
Create group ch
Go to the top of the mixer, where the output routing is located, and click. If you see your soundcard outputs and do not see Group1, then Elements does not support this feature.
Grouping FX channels is new function in Cubase 7. Before that (Cubase 6.5) I’v can’t group FX. But I’v can rout my FX channels to another FX channel and then proceed that channel like a group. Maybe this will work with Cubase 7 Elements and Artist ?
I’m guessing you need to go into Preferences>VST, and deselect “Connect Sends automatically for each newly created Channel”.
(This won’t help for channels that are already created, but, since the problem you are encountering is probably because you have already created a Group channel, which has automatically routed to an FX channel, you can at least remove that connection, then you should be free to connect the FX channel to the Group )