With Cubase Pro 13.0.30 on Intel mac running Ventura 13.6.7, it looks like the (very small) icon next to the insert section is the only one that changes color from blue to yellow when bypass is enabled. … and the inserts turn grey when bypassed. For other sections like the preamp, the right click menu can indicate if bypass is active or not (apart from no color change of the icon). But for the strip section, neither the icon color or the right click menu indicates the bypass status. The bypass buttons in the toolbar (for only some sections) toggle bypass on/off - but there is no yellow/blue color indication there either. It would be nice if there was a consistent color and right click menu convention to make bypass status visible at a glance.
Hi,
You have to enable any Strip module, or Send, Pre, EQ first. Then the Bypass indicator works as you expect (blue/yellow).
OK, thanks for the quick reply and correction. I guess I’m thinking more like hardware bypass where even if no setting/effect is dialed in, then you just bypass that signal path anyway. I brought it up because for just straight playback of audio files w/o adding any DSP processing, I’m getting reports the output of the mixer sounds different if everything possible is bypassed (w/o any effects dialed in to bypass).
Hi,
Do you have files to compare, please?
Sorry for the delay in replying. I could send you a compressed archive with a cubase folder/project to demonstrate what folks are reporting. But I can’t post the audio to the public. Maybe you could message me or vice-versa with an upload/download link.
I’ve attached a screenshot to show that while the channel settings indicate “yellow” bypass status with no entries/plugins added, the mixer icons don’t reflect that status. My preference would be for the mixer icons to follow the channel strip bypass and turn yellow as well. Also bypass for the channel is not saved in the channel settings across saving/opening a project.
Hi,
It does, but only if there is any Insert in use, or Send enabled, EQ set, etc.
Our A/B comparisons show playback of high resolution audio tracks, e.g., 24bit depth at 96k or 192k, have improved fidelity when every section of the Cubase mixer has been (manually) bypassed. This is with no plugins or DSP dialed into the mixer. We manually activate the yellow bypass icons in the channel strip and then manually bypass any other sections like the preamp on the mixer channel.
We don’t really use Cubase plugins or the Cubase mixer channel strip. We start off with nothing other than the minimal bus setup to route the stereo output to the audio interface and then add 3rd party plugins. So we would like to start mixing from a template showing YELLOW bypass icons across the board for everything in the Cubase mixer.
Nothing added in a section of the mixer should not preclude enabling bypass; the user should be able to override that initial state by clicking bypass and turn the WHITE color of the insert section icon on the mixer channel to YELLOW (along with the same indicator in channel settings). That allows having a bypass indication everywhere for those who prefer to work that way. It does not make sense that with no DSP set in the mixer some sections already allow you to bypass while others do not.
It’s frustrating that after setting manual bypasses, Cubase won’t restore some yellow bypass indicators in channel settings after closing and re-opening the project. I presume it would not be hard to remedy saving this state and provide the option to engage bypass with or w/o plugins added.
