User manual

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Customizing
Appearance
Appearance–Work Area
The work areas in Cubase are those places where the actual data are displayed such
as the Project window event display. In these areas, there are items such as vertical
and horizontal grid lines that can be altered in intensity by the controls found on this
page.
MixConsole Fader Colors
This page lets you define the colors for the level faders of the available channel types
in the MixConsole.
Metering–Appearance
Cubase allows for precise color assignment of level meter values. On the Metering–
Appearance page you can specify colors for quick identification of what levels are
being reached.
You can adjust the colors for the Channel Meter or the Master Meter. For the Master
Meter you can only make changes for the Digital Scale scaling mode. Changes take
effect when you click Apply or OK.
To adjust the levels and colors, activate the Channel Meter or Master Meter option
and proceed as follows:
• To specify the level for a color change, double-click a handle to the right of the
meter scale and enter the level (dB) value.
Note that for dB values less than zero, you must add a minus sign before the
entered number.
You can also click a handle and drag it to a specific level. Press [Shift] for more
accurate positioning. Alternatively, you can nudge with the Arrow Up/Down keys.
Press [Shift] for faster positioning.
• To assign a color, click the upper or lower part of a handle so that a black frame is
shown, and use the hue and saturation controls on the right. The box below the
controls shows a preview of the selected color.
Selecting the same color for the upper and lower part of the handle results in a
meter that changes its colors gradually, while separate colors indicate level
changes even more precisely.