I don’t understand what purpose is served by the audio connections button on the hub. Anything you select will be immediately overridden a moment later when you load a template or recent project.
The user manual description doesn’t match what I’m seeing in the hub, so there’s no mention of this function in the manual. I must be missing something?
I guess the reason must be that we should have a way to listen to project previews.
It looks like it does have something to do with previews. If you look in the user manual, that shows an audio driver and an audio interface output channel stereo pair.
That would make a little more sense, but opening audio connections instead makes no sense. There’s no way in the audio connections to specify where you want the output to go.
I didn’t understand what I was supposed to do with the Audio Connections either.
The main thing that confused me is that I’m asked to choose Hardware Outputs (e.g. 1-2, 3-4 etc) when in Audio Connections I’m actually building maps of connections (for example “Nearfields” connected to hardware outputs 1 and 5).
If the dropdown asked me to choose from those instead (“Nearfields”, “Phones Channel”, “Musician’s Mix” etc etc) I would find it easier to understand.
In the end, I just chose the 7,8 pair that corresponds to my phones. (I had to reset the position of the project preview cursor first though, but that’s another story😆)
I wonder if the way it is shown in the user manual is the way it was supposed to be implemented, but what we got in the 15.0.5 release is a mistake?
they way it was “sold” in the promo videos is that you can quickly pick your current soundcard. So it will be a feature for people working on different systems/soundcards
You have the audio connections confused with the audio driver selection. This thread is about the audio connections, not the audio driver. Although it’s probably silly to have the audio driver selection there when the Studio Setup dialog is just a few pixels away.
It’s
(a) for the previews and
(b) for newcomers to Cubase, so that they don’t have to find the Studio Setup → Audio System area and Studio → Audio Connections dialog
It should have an effect on when you create a new, empty project.
No…you must be thinking of something else. Maybe you’re thinking of the audio driver selection?
But I haven’t checked with an empty selection. It would be really confusing if it’s only there for that purpose.
Thanks, I amended my previous post.
That would be silly to have it there, but only be meaningful for “Create Empty”, but serve no purpose for opening a recent or creating from a template.
It’s not a big deal. I only mention since it seems like it’s there by mistake. The way it is in the user manual makes more sense.
Haha, you’re right in that there is a difference. Looks like a case of a last minute change by the devs and nobody told the manual department.
Well, Steinberg moves in mysterious ways. Makes you wonder whether the aim of the software is to provide a DAW or maybe to provide a mystery game.