Although (curiously) the Control Room doesn't allow you to select different output busses, you can monitor artist cue mixes, and can route your references to one of those. Second, Cubase's master-bus metering continues to tell you what's happening in your mix while you listen to your references - so if you want to match the loudness of the reference to that of your mix (as you should) you'll need a separate loudness meter on your reference track, which is a bit of an inconvenience. First, Cubase gives you a rather meagre ration of Cue Mixes - you have a maximum of four in your project - which could be problematic if you need them for another purpose. It's pretty slick, but there are a couple of down sides. If you go to Edit / Key Commands and search for Cue 1 On/Off, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to this action. With your mix playing, hit C1 to toggle between monitoring your reference track and your mix project. In the Control Room section of the mixer, next to the main Mix button, you'll see a button marked C1 (for Cue Mix 1). Enable the Reference send and set it to unity gain. Strangely, there's no option to display the Cue Mixes in the Track Inspector, so to send your reference track to your Cue Mix you'll need to open the track's Channel Settings window (you'll find Cue Sends in a tab adjacent to the regular sends) or the MixConsole (if Cue Sends aren't there make them visible via the Racks drop-down). 'Reference'), and leave it routed to no output.Īgain, you'll need a track in your project to host your reference tracks. Select Add Cue, create a stereo Cue Mix with a meaningful name (eg. Go to Studio/Audio Connections, make sure the Control Room is activated, and in the Control Room tab hit Add Channel. Right On CueĬubase Pro's Control Room offers an alternative. If that's important to you, you could use a Group track as your master bus, and route that and your reference track to the default stereo output (on which you put no processing). This bypasses the processing but now your references aren't reflected on the master-bus loudness metering. One is to create a second stereo output in the Studio/Audio Connections window and route your reference track to that. But if you use master-bus processing, as many of us do, you don't want to apply this processing to your references. If you don't use master bus processing, this can work well: keep the reference track muted, and when you solo it, it will play and all the other tracks will be muted. Simple A/B'ingĬubase's Pro's Cue Sends can be used to monitor your reference tracks via the Control Room without the signal flowing through your project's master stereo bus - but while this side-steps any bus processing, it also skips the loudness metering, and it uses up one of only four available Cue Sends.An obvious approach is to put references on a track in your mix project and align the clips with the relevant parts of the arrangement. Several plug-in options exist, including Mastering The Mix's Reference, Melda's MCompare, and ADPTR's Metric AB, but you may be able to do what you want using Cubase alone. When Sample Magic announced that they'd soon stop supporting their Magic AB plug-in, some of you asked me to recommend other mix-referencing tools. Cubase offers various options for comparing your mixes with reference tracks.
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