Ok, I’ve searched and searched, this must be simple but I can’t figure it out…
I have a UR824 interface. Standalone, I can use dspMixFx and set up four Mixes using all 24 available analog and digital inputs. All good.
In Cubase, I obviously can’t use dspMixFx. I can’t for the life of me work out how to access and adjust the UR824 Mix 1-4 from within Cubase… and it’s kind of important because only Mixes can be assigned to the headphone outs.
The only thing I can think of is to go into dspMixFx right before I open Cubase and mute everything on Mixes 1-4 except the DAW channel, otherwise each mix is ‘everything on’. Then open Cubase and use Mix 1-4 as direct DAW outputs.
Am I missing something, or does Cubase really not give you any access to the interface’s DSP mixer, except being able to assign the mixes to line/digital/headphone outs? I know about the hardware rack in the mix console, but I mean the basic Mix balance, mute status etc.
Thanks for any insight, to help keep me sane!
Hi @Huckleberry.
Are you using the Control Room to make connections?
It’s been years since I set my UR824 up but I followed this:. I’m on Windows 10 with Cubase 11.5:
Yes, I’m using the Control Room. It’s like Cubase isn’t taking control of the UR824 properly.
In case this helps anyone else struggling, I think I’ve found a workaround. If I go into dspMixFx before opening Cubase and recall presets that mute everything except the DAW channel on Mix 1-4, quit it, then open Cubase, monitoring and direct monitoring works as expected for Mix 1 at least.
I have not looked at setting up cue mixes with Mix 2-4 yet but will explore that next.
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I just wanted to add for info, I’m on an Intel Mac - Windows may well work differently.
To confirm, you need to set up and save a preset in dspMixFx which mutes everything for all four mixes except the DAW channel.
On my system at least, the UR824 does not recall the last preset automatically on powerup - it defaults to every input being monitored (on my system this is 24 ins using both ADAT sources), which gets noisy!
So, you need to open dspMixFx before opening Cubase. That loads the last preset into the UR824. Then close dspMixFx and open Cubase. Cubase will then control the UR824 properly; direct monitoring etc. works as expected.
It’s annoying when you forget to do it and have to quit out of what you’re doing in Cubase to cycle dspMixFx - Cubase really should do this, or appropriately set channel monitoring when it takes over the UR824, but this workaround does work.
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