Can someone help me understand these buttons on my interface please?

[alexis]

Hello!

It's the Steinberg UR28M.

I'm referring to the buttons labeled "Mix A", "Mix B", and "Mix C" buttons shown on page 7 of the ops manual, and described therein: https://download.steinberg.net/download ... ual_en.pdf

What I'm confused about is which mixes can comprise A, B, and C. Cubase itself (like any DAW) can only have one output at a time, is that correct? So, really I wouldn't need Mix B and Mix C just to listen to a Cubase mix (right?).

Thank you for any help!

[Drew Stephenson]

The mix buttons relate to the correlating three mix options in the Steinberg DSP mixer - see page 15. This, I am assuming - I haven't read the manual in detail, will let you set up alternative mixes for monitoring. So yes, cubase will just send one mix, but then you can add 'more me' to a specific mix for a vocalist doing overdubs, or more kick into the bass player's mix etc.

[Wonks]

But why would Alexis want more Drew Stephenson in his mix?

[Wonks]

Cubase can be set up to have more than one set of outputs. For a start, the headphone output in the Control Room, where you could have say Sonarworks set up for your headphones so that it doesn't appear on the main outputs. And you can have other outputs for sending to outboard hardware. So you can certainly set up outputs from aux sends if you have the hardware outputs.

I'm assuming that Cubase integrates well with the interface and maybe you get some extra options. The manual doesn't make anything clear to me about that.