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Working with the new features
5. Activate the “Use CoreAudio Channel Names” option.
6. When you now open the VST Connections window to
set up the busses in your system, you will find that the port
names in the Device Port column correspond to the
names that are used by the CoreAudio driver.
Ö If you want to use the project later on with an earlier
version of Cubase Essential, you will have to re-assign the
port connections in the VST Connections window.
Port selection and activation
On the settings page for your audio card (opened via the
Devices menu, see above), you can now specify which in-
put and which output port should be active. This allows
you e.g. to use the Microphone input instead of the Line
input or even to deactivate the audio card input or output
completely, if required.
Ö This function is only available for Built-In Audio, stan-
dard USB audio devices and a certain number of other au-
dio cards (e.g. Pinnacle CineWave).
Making settings for the hardware
When you click the “Open Config App” button on the set-
tings page for your audio device in the Device Setup dia-
log, the Control Panel for your audio device will be opened
(if applicable). Here, you can make various settings relat-
ing to your audio hardware. The available settings depend
on the installed hardware, so please refer to the documen-
tation that came with the audio hardware for information.
Remote Devices
On the Device Setup dialog, on the page for your remote
device, some (or all) of the following new functions may be
available (depending on your remote device):
Key Commands for MediaBay
options
Several commands relating to the MediaBay can now be
performed using keyboard shortcuts. These are set up in
the Key Commands dialog (opened via the File menu).
New key commands are available for the following actions:
you can step through presets, open the Presets browser,
and use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate in the
MediaBay windows. Furthermore, you can reset the search
criteria or revert to the MediaBay as it was when you
launched the program.
Ö Note that this makes it possible to remote control
several of the MediaBay functions.
Option Description
Reset This allows you to revert to the factory default settings for
the remote device.
Bank If your remote device contains several banks, you can se-
lect the bank you want to use on this pop-up menu.
The bank you select here will be the one used by default
when Cubase Essential is launched.
Smart Switch
Delay
Some of the Cubase Essential functions (e.g. Solo and
Mute) support the so called “smart switch” behavior: In
addition to regular activation/deactivation of a function by
clicking a button, you can also activate the function for as
long as the button is pressed. Upon releasing the mouse
button, the function is deactivated.
This pop-up menu allows you to specify how long a but-
ton must be pressed before it goes into “smart switch”
mode. When “Off” is selected, the “smart switch” func-
tion is deactivated in Cubase Essential.