Would it be possible to have the possibility to disable the main output of a multi-out instrument (provided that at least one output is enabled) ?
It’s a very minor inconvenience obviously but it would help removing potentially unnecessary tracks when using instruments with fixed output routings. I’ve been demoing Studio Pro yesterday and noticed it allows you to do just that (see example below using Cherry Audio CR-78 in Studio Pro, the CR-78 output being the main output in Cubase that I can’t (but wish I could) disable).
Edit : I’m new to the forum (and to Cubase in general) and wasn’t aware of the voting system. No one will obviously vote for this as it’s hardly a feature but “would you kindly reconsider this design choice”-request isn’t available as a tag so I’m leaving it nonetheless in case someone at Steinberg sees this and agrees with me.
Hi, @remlop, first of all, congratuations on your first post!
No, unfortunately Cubase does not allow this. There is a long-standing issue with the connection between the name of the Instrument track and the Main output, which is for some reason not getting resolved by Steinberg. And the deactivation of the Main output does not work as well. I usually have this problem with Groove Agent and just got used to ignoring the main output.
Thank you for your answer. I’ve tried but it really doesn’t seem to work for me. I did manage to disable the main output of an instrument rack (albeit with inconsistent results depending on which menu I try to do that from, see screenshots below), but not that of an instrument track (where neither menu allowed me to).
This works though I haven’t disabled it before taking the screenshot (again, for racks only), accessed by right-clicking on the rack :
Reported to Steinberg. Thank you.