cparmerlee
JClosed
The standard equalizer in the channel strip gives visual feedback. Just select an audio track and click on "Equalizers" in the inspector to get e small visual presentation. To get a bigger presentation, click on the "e" in the inspector and the channel settings window opens. There you can select the "Equalizer" tab to bring up a more detailed view.
Wow, that's a long way to go to get the window to open. I was working on the equalizer in the mix window. I would have expected some way to open the big window from there. This stuff feels like you need a "secret handshake" for so many things that ought to be simple. Last night, I enabled the Control Room, which was easy. There was a big button in the middle of the Control Room display. Later I was afraid this had created to redundant pathing so I wanted to simple disable the control room. I literally searched for over an hour, including going through many articles in the Cubase documentation before i finally figured out you have to press F4 to set another window to pop up -- which doesn't match any of the documentation I saw. On the pop-up window, there is a button to turn off the Control Room.
It seems really twisted to me that such a button would not actually be on the Control Room panel itself.
In the end, the CR was not my problem anyway. That ended up being a different issue outside of Cubase.
Well - you can simply assign a key to the channel settings. You do that by going to the file menu and choose "key Commands", search for "Channel Settings", and assign a key. I personally have "`" assigned for that. And now, when I have a track selected, I simply press "`" to open the channel settings. I can scroll up and down tracks using the arrow keys, and the channel settings window changes to that channel. Very handy to compare settings or signals.
Oh - and when you have clicked once on "Equalizers" in the inspector, it stays open when you switch between channels, so you only have to do one click.
And yes - when you start dabbling with a new program, you have to find your way in it and have to learn some new things. Next time you know you have to press "F4" for the Audio connections (and "F2" for the floating transport window, "F3" for the mixer, "F5" for the media bay, "F6 for the automation panel, "F7" for Direct offline processing, "F8" for the video player, "F9" and "F10" for switching up/down between edit modes, like you also can do with keys 1-0, "F11" is VST instruments and finally "F12" is the performance meter").
Every DAW has some new things to learn and does some things different. In Cubase you can assign key commands very easy, and for more complex things you can design your own macro's.