Surely someone will load 100 plugins in, run out memory and then complain and whine that Cubase doesnāt work properly.
Overall itās a bad Idea all around.
If you quickly want to double (or more!!) the INSERTS available
Use sends or routing to Group Channels instead.
Send from one track with all INSERT slots loaded to a group channel that is NOT routed to Master Buss.
Or load its INSERT slots with plugins and tweak then disconnect routing to MASTER BUSS.
Set your recording input on another track to record IN FROM the group channel.
Load that trackās insert rack with another set of Plugins.
Arm your new track and record.
Repeat with additional Group channels and tracks until satisfied.
Example Flow is:
Track 1 ā Grp Ch#1 ā Track 2 ā Grp Ch#2 ā Track 3 (and on and on)
Thatās a quick fix to āunlimited insertsā in the signal path.
(still a bad idea but I have used that a similar path for Sound Design work)
To satisfy my personal curiousity what exactly are you doing that you need more than the Ch.Strip and stock Insert slots?
Iāve been mixing for nearly two decades and (other than for sound design work) Iāve never filled all the slots on a mix channelā¦
and Iāve mixed several thousand songs over the years, with Cubase as my primary DAW.
fretthefret, look up the āunlimited insertsā topic in the C7 forum. Many reasonable examples why more than 8 (in fact only 6 pre faderā¦) inserts come in handy!
Sound design, exactly that. Often use two instances of MSED to get stereo EQs and compressors into M/S mode, add some fake tapes, multiple stages of compression and a whole palette of other flavours. Itās easy to exceed the 6 pre fader slots. Yes, itās easy too, to route that channel to a group etc. but here and now in 2014 I see no reason for such limitations in a 100% software environment. We have scrollable inserts racks and everything, so even the mixer layout canāt be an insurmountable obstacle.
The channel strip FX are pretty good actually but might not help when Iām longing for whatever else. Cubase has the flexibility to have them pre or post the inserts (great) but if Iād like to have one of them between other plugins, their plugin counterparts eat up a slot as well.
For usual mixing work Iām pretty fine with my 8 slots.
Itās all about preferred workflows I guess, thatās absolutely fine. More inserts would just enable the user to flow in even one more direction. No problem if you decide not to, but nice if we could decide to do exactly that
No. I do get it.
(I would probably even use the feature on some tracks for extreme design work)
I could see maybe doubling the inserts capacity to 12 or 14 pre-fader
but the āUNLIMITED INSERTSā request just sound ridiculous.
Weāre probably best to give the scenario and argument to Steinberg to double the amount of inserts rather than request āUnlimitedā.
The best solution though would be āas much as you needā. Look at track lanes - thereās always another one created automatically with each take. The same way another insert slot could appear out of the blue once the last is filled up.
Everything in Cubase has got āfloatingā since 7 (hover over knobs, scrolling racks and such), it would just follow its own styleā¦