For example, you can use standard pre-fade channel sends to create cue mixes that can be routed to the performers in the live room, but Cubase doesn’t provide a convenient means to adjust such a cue mix’s master send level or, you can hook-up a talkback mic to one of your audio interface’s inputs, create a track in Cubase to handle the signal, and switch that track on and off as required, but this is nothing like as convenient as using the talkback system on a mixing console. It’s possible to create such a setup using Cubase’s standard mixer and the capabilities of your audio interface, but things can get quite clumsy when doing this. In a traditional studio (for want of a better term) there are normally two working areas: the studio itself, or live room, where the performers do their thing, and the control room, where the engineers and producers do theirs.Ī significant slice of most studio mixing consoles is given over to managing the various signals that need to be thrown around in a setup of this kind: multiple monitor feeds in the control room, cue mixes in the live room, talkback mics, auxiliary input signals and so on.