Please give us an option to store the Q link setting in the project. I can’t say the amount of times I’m working on something and it’s not engaged!
Please???
What is the actual workflow you’re trying to improve?
I’m genuinely curious because I can’t really think of a practical use case for storing the Q-Link state within a project.
Cubase already provides several ways to edit multiple tracks while keeping those relationships as part of the project, such as DCA groups, audio subgroups, or folder tracks.
To me, Q-Link feels more like a temporary editing tool than a persistent project setting.
So what would be the benefit of saving its state with the project?
I mean, imagine reopening a project years later, not realizing that 50 channels are still Q-Linked, moving a single fader, and accidentally changing your entire mix.
That doesn’t sound particularly useful to me. 
I have Q-link on all the time.
I would just like the OPTION to save it with the project - I would even not mind saving it globally with the program, it’s just the way I work.
There is also no way to remotely control that Q link reliably.
Obviously, your usage is different…
I would also like them to fix a bunch of things that are still broken with Q link…
Your particularly example about opening a project 50 years later would mean I would have to have all those channels selected.
I automatically check when more than one channel is selected to see if Q link is on, there’s no way that I would move a fader if I see 50 different channel selected, that is my particular workflow and it’s a lot faster than turning on Q Link doing the operation then turning off Q Link…
First of all thank you for the detailed explanation. That gives a much clearer picture of the actual workflow you´re trying to achieve than simply saying “Please make feature X work that way”.
Well, you can activate Q-Link in the UI and then synchronize all “touched parameters” of the “selected channels”.
Or use the default shortcut: [Shift] + [Alt/Opt].
However, I assume you mean remote control via MIDI Remote, a control surface, or something similar?
You’re right, it is.
I’ve always used Q-Link the way it’s described in the manual: as a temporary channel-linking mode for quickly editing multiple selected channels together. The link only exists while Q-Link is active, once it’s turned off, the channels are no longer linked.
If I needed a persistent relationship between channels that should remain part of the project, I’d personally use other tools such as DCAs, Groups, or Folder Tracks, since that’s what these tools do and I associate them with.
That said, every user has a different workflow, so I can understand why a global option might be useful for some people.
Personally, however, I wouldn’t expect Q-Link to take on a much broader role because it seems to have been designed for a different purpose.
If those are actual bugs, it might be worth writing a proper bug report describing the specific issues and the workflow behind them. That would probably make it much easier for the developers to understand what needs to be improved.
You’re right - that example was probably a bit exaggerated.
Not gonna lie, it actually happened to me a few times when I forgot to deactivate Q-Link after making a quick adjustment and then continued working on other parts of the mix.
However, I guess everyone works a little differently.
I believe one of the problems with adjusting selected tracks unknowingly was the fact that there was a bug for a while that would not deselect channels in closed or hidden folders.
So two different workflows
Turn on queue link, select tracks, make parameter change, deselect Q link..
Or -
Leave Q link on permanently and now workflow is:
Select tracks, make changes.
Because I assume that Q link is always engaged, I have two operations that I don’t need to do in every parameter change.
So much faster for me…
Hope that makes sense…