How can I show Instrument Ouput channels in Project Window?

[Trailerman]

Hi

I’m trying to make output channels for multi-output VSTi’s visible in the Project Window. At the moment I can see them in the mixer, but not the Project Window, which means a) I can’t draw automation on them and b) I can’t use the Project Logical Editor on them.

Does anyone know how to show them in the Project Window? The manual is silent on this.

Many thanks

Jules

[BriHar]

Look in the New Features PDF. Look for Activate Outputs.

[Trailerman]

Hi - thanks for your response. Can you just clarify which document you’re referring to? I didn’t get a new features pdf with 7.5.2, is there a specific pdf I should be looking for?

Thanks again.

Jules

[Trailerman]

Sorry - I think I’ve found the document you refer to. Unfortunately there’s no mention of how to get the instrument outputs to appear in the Project Window.

Can anybody tell me how they edit automation etc. on Instrument Output channels for Instrument Tracks?

Many thanks

Jules

[Grim]

If you add rack instruments instead of track instruments you automatically get a new automation lane for each output you activate in the track list…not sure how or if it works at all with track instruments.

EDIT: Just had a quick play…if you have instrument track with multi outs activated just expand the instrument track in the track list and it shows automation for each output.

[steve]

@Trailerman

Sorry - I think I’ve found the document you refer to. Unfortunately there’s no mention of how to get the instrument outputs to appear in the Project Window.

Can anybody tell me how they edit automation etc. on Instrument Output channels for Instrument Tracks?

Many thanks

Jules

This?

[More_Cowbell]

Only way is to activate outputs. That or using routing through mixer. Sorry.

[lukasbrooklyn]

@More Cowbell

Only way is to activate outputs. That or using routing through mixer. Sorry.

i think the OP just didn’t expect them to appear where automation usually is (the button is even incorrectly labelled ‘show automation’. cubase manages to get ever more cryptic and convoluted).

[droutloaf]

I hope you don’t intend on saving the mixer channel(s) settings for an instrument track…that’s broken again.

[Trailerman]

@SteveInChicago

@Trailerman

Sorry - I think I’ve found the document you refer to. Unfortunately there’s no mention of how to get the instrument outputs to appear in the Project Window.

Can anybody tell me how they edit automation etc. on Instrument Output channels for Instrument Tracks?

Many thanks

Jules

This?


Steve to the rescue yet again. I’m running out of different ways to say thanks!

It’s strange how moving from one DAW to another makes you feel like a complete imbecile, because nothing’s where you expect it to be. Until I understand the architecture of Cubase this kind of thing will keep happening.

In Logic, audio instrument outpus are totally seperate mixer objects, so you don’t even need the instrument to have the output (not that you’d ever want to do that). As a result you start to think of them as independent mixer channels (“Environment Objects” in Logic-speak) and expect them to appear as such in various windows. In Cubase they’re effectively extensions of the instrument itself, which in many ways makes more sense, so it follows that automation should be a sub-set of the main instrument. Just hadn’t ocurred to me.

Many thanks again. Simple stuff that isn’t in the manual incidentally (that I’ve found), and which is absolutely central to how I work.

Jules

[steve]

Yeah, Cubase has its own gestalt so to speak, once you understand it it’s not hard to figure some of these things out. Don’t worry about thanks- down the line you will likely being answering questions too, paying it forward…

[greggybud]

@Trailerman

Steve to the rescue yet again.

Yeah, I hope he stays around here. He is full of gems in a forum with lots of noise.

[steve]

@greggybud

He is full of gems

That sounds painful. (thanks)