Hi,
How can I make the channel strip compressor reduction bar visible in the Lower section Mixer ? I have seen this on videos but don’t know how they made it.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re looking for but it seems that the compressor can be pulled up on a temporary basis by clicking the ‘e’.
Click away, and it goes away. But the gain reduction is displayed while it’s open.
Hi thanks for your answer.
I know this feature but looked for a way to see the compression bar in the mixer direclty(the lower zone mixer) when the chanel strip is closed
Can you please share a video showing this so that we can understand better?
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What is that?
BTW, the Cubase version would be nice, this area of interest changed over time.
Thanks for your responses.
I am using the very latest version of Cubase 14 Pro 14.0.10.
I have no video for this. I saw this on one of Dom Sigalas Videos and was trying to replicate this feature.
What I mean is the gain reduction bar, which can be shown directly beside of the faders in the lower zone mixer.
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Are you sure you’ve seen it in Cubase? The user manual doesn’t mention such an option, I think.
I’m 100% Studio One has this, but I was always unsure about how useful it is in practice because you might have other plugins in the chain - incl. 3rd party ones that don’t support the feature - so the displayed gain reduction level might not be correct anyway.
Cubase does not have this feature. It’s been requested before.
The way I believe it works, in Pro Tools at least, is that the gain reduction meter is showing the difference between pre and post inserts. So the feature is baked into the DAW.
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I reviewed the video and found that you can see the gain reduction bar in the VU meters of the F3 Mixer and not the lower zone mixer. I got it wrong. Sorry for that. If you want to check it out on YouTube: Dom Sigalas “Master Channel Strip in Cubase” @ 14:40 Minutes
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Indeed! No wonder I never noticed it - it’s so faint (in comparison to S1)! Thanks!!! 
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An actual link would help - pasting this into YouTube Search doesn’t work. YMMV!
Happy if it served somehow 
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Is it this kind of thing you want/mean.?
As in Dom’s video (from 14:43) this USED to be there in C13 and earlier, Meter Bridge only. But I note that SB decided to remove this now, in C14… Perhaps because, surprise, it wasn’t very useful there - better would be in the actual channel meters alongside the fader. Better, better… would be for 3rd party (or other SB plugs) too; not just the Channel Strip components.
Other requests for this exist back from 2016/7… And, Presonus have provided the work (extension) to achieve this capability free of charge. Just needs SB to implement it.
Err… Wow… thanks John. Ok, what comp, where…? Um…? I’m so embarrassed if this is just me (again.!). I had tried this several times with the different ‘Strip’ comps before posting - had no luck… Was fine in C13… must be doing something wrong… help.? Is there another setting somewhere.?
All I did was enable the Meter Bridge up top and had at it… annoying…
To my knowledge the gain reduction meter in the Meter Bridge only works with the Cubase Channel Strip Compressor. It doesn’t work with any compressor used as an insert.
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Yes, am aware - thanks. And is exactly what I was trying; nothing on the inserts, only Strip comps… sadly, I see no GR meters here on C14.0.10 (in Meter Bridge).
Only @John_Purser seems to have the answers (for me anyway.! ;-))
