Having a bit of a conundrum that hope someone can help with.
Essentially have a set of instrument tracks (i.e string section) and have 2 extra multi out channels for individual mic signals. So Vi1 has close, tree and room and likewise for each other track.
In the arrange window I see only the single track as I want (mic signals controlled by QC’s)
In the mixer however, I want to swap between wanting to see the single track, when writing, and then the mic signals, when mixing.
Is there a command I can set up in PLE to help achieve this? scratching my head as output channels are part instrument track, part automation, part group, and respond very intermittently to PLE commands. Especially since these tracks appear in the mixer only.
There are a few different approaches to achieve what you’re looking for. Unfortunately the PLE cannot interact with the Mix Console directly, only the elements in the Project Window.
Here are some general ideas.
The perhaps most straight forward approach is to set up some Channel Visibility Configurations. They are quite easy and quick to set up. The drawback of Visibility Configurations (both Track and Channel) is that any added Tracks/Channels will automatically be included in all configurations. If you’re working with a well thought out template and never add additional tracks, it will not be an issue.
From your screenshot it appears you have color coded your Tracks and additional audio return channels. This could be quite useful for creating a PLE that selects all Tracks of a specific color. This can be used in a Macro together with the Channel Visibility Agent “Hide Selected Channels”.
Note that the audio return channels has to be visible in the Project Window first. Commands can be added to the start of the macro to ensure this.
A similar approach to the above one would be to filter tracks to select by keywords in their name instead of track color. Going by your screen shots, it could be tracks that contain either “Close” or “Room” in their name.
Visibility configs would indeed be the simplest and my preferred method, but as you said, every time I add a track I would need to update every single config. Not really sure why they have this behaviour… sort of defeats the point if you ask me
Need to wrap my head around your other suggestions but i’ll report back!
Adding a track to your project will mess up every vis config no matter what you do. So I would just go with the vis config method. BTW, there isn’t really much to be gained by hiding the mic channels IMO. After all, if you’re in the MixConsole, the chances are you’re mixing not writing.
But, if you want to use a PLE to SELECT the channels in the MixConsole, which is very handy if you have MetaGrid Pro or another control surface and want to control parameters of plugins based on the selected track through the MIDI Remote, that is where making them visible in the Project View is necessary. What I have set up for a 70 channels of a VE Pro template coming into Cubase is this:
I have all my output channels from VEP in a folder called ‘VEP’. Then, my macro to view the MixConsole looks like this:
Show VEP Folder (PLE)
Open Folder (PLE)
MixConsole 2 (KC)
And then returning to the Project View, it’s basically the same but in reverse.
