5 Reasons To ALWAYS Use Control Room in Cubase Pro

[@danangelow8594]

I've used cubase for years... And this channel has opened my eyes to features I'd never even thought of. Cheers mate!

[@LisAddisonMusic]

Me too!

[@johnhurd3257]

wow!! it's a little intimidating at first but we will get over it quick! thanks for sharing the good news!!!

[@griffinenoch8030]

i guess Im asking the wrong place but does any of you know of a tool to get back into an Instagram account?? I stupidly forgot my login password. I love any help you can offer me

[@bradleynelson7877]

@Griffin Enoch instablaster :)

[@Am6-9]

It took me several years of using cubase before turning on the control room, but now it’s never being turned off again. I love how I can easily switch between different speakers and headphone, each with different correction plugins.

[@mikelovesguitars402]

The more I watch videos like this the more I realize that even though I've been using Cubase for YEARS, I've barely scratched the surface on what it's actually capable of... This is awesome.

[@Chavacano]

Every Cubase user loves you Sir, including me. Thank you. 💚 If those who dont and you are not Subscribed to this man's channel.... Shame on you!!

[@DomSigalas]

Thank you my friend!

[@cehape2719]

pathetic

[@liljefelt]

@@cehape2719 wtf?

[@cehape2719]

@@liljefelt pathetic

[@dulistanheman]

Phatetique No. 2 Beethoven is way better 😂😂😂

[@InspelaRecords]

Thanks Dom! I was one of those users - exactly as you described - "Turn it off... TURN IT OFF!!!" This video really opened my eyes, especially as I'm using multiple sets of monitors now and I can't thank you enough. Absolutely brilliant!

[@legacysupplies3132]

You are a Cubase beast sir. I'm going from Cubase 5 🤣 to Cubase 11 Pro 🎉 next week and I've been looking for videos to get me up to speed. I don't need to look any further.

[@andyv3el]

The part where he talks about people being afraid of Control Room and being like... turn it off... turn it off... TURN IT OFF, had me laughing because I totally did exactly that at first. I just didn't see any point in using it, but now I use it for everything I do. Great video.

[@Am6-9]

I didn’t know about the “cue sends - use current mix levels” command. Brilliant, thank you, I definitely need to get into using cue sends more...

[@TheSlushpump]

I am a retired musician /teacher and at this stage only plan to use cubase to prepare backing tracks to record my trombone over. After watching this video I've found out how valuable control room even to me a small time user. You explain all things in a way that I can understand with the skill of a master teacher. Thank you Dom.

[@els1f]

Control Room is honestly one of the best things about cubase. Dedicated plugins for each output, mono and Dim switch at the stroke of a key. It's one of the handful of things that keeps me in cubase

[@antoinemontmory]

Small things makes Great things ! Thanks Cubase, thanks Dom, thanks Popey ! This Popey T-Shirt is the best one for your videos, you should have it all the time ! Hehe !

[@hazmatproduction4562]

For years I never used it. The way it was initially marketed made it seem it’s only really useful for large scale studios to route audio to different recording rooms. But it’s so much more. A great referencing tool, the listen feature is useful, especially for things like soloing send FX without the sent audio. Mono mix checking with 1 button, switching outputs with 1 button. Also it’s nice that you can add inserts to it. I have my master chain on the stereo out bus, and all my analysis tools like SPAN, smexoscope, ozillosmegascope, metric A/B & mixed in key studio edition in the control room insert slots and activate them when needed. Highly underrated feature

[@robg.2172]

Been using Cubase for 20+ years - your videos allow me to learn about the new features and updates - so I can easily add them into my workflow - I used Control Room - however - your video really opened my eyes to the extent of the Control Room features - thanks!

[@poolservice3395]

Dom is the best. I started using Cubase in 2003 and he knows the product better than anyone ive found on youtube.

[@MemorialSound]

Thank you so much. I'm coming back to Cubase since Cubase 5, and I love all the changes. I'm learning a lot with your advices. Thanks, love from Mexico

[@hussyprojects1609]

Control Room, wow what a feature. Thanks to Control room I now connect all my external Compressors and effects straight into one of my 16 analog inputs and outputs of my Motu interface directly and send straight to them from control room. This way I don’t have to patch. Great video, you’ve made some changes in my studio. I can see some people still haven’t jumped on bird with Cubase because there’s a few thumbs down. Don’t hate peoples, the video is great and cubase is the route to take. I started with Cubase SL years ago and tried many other production daws and always found my way back to cubase. Thanks for the video, you got my sub

[@jamesrossmusic6013]

I got here from one of the Cubase clubs on Facebook... Damn... You are good!!!!!!! You deliver so much of a positive enthusiasm vibe!!! Not only did I learn a lot from this video but it was totally an enjoyable and entertaining experience.... Thank You So Much Dom!!!!

[@CinderellaVasia]

I love your excitement in the way you present your videos! Simply love it! Well done, Dom! 😃

[@MichaelSmith-on1ig]

Finally someone who understands Cubase and knows its values! There are so many people out there who hate Cubase for its sometimes janky controls and behavior.

[@cyborg9555]

Man where have you been all my life. I’ve learned more in this video than I have the entire 7 years I’ve been using Cubase.

[@PeterBatah]

The more that I hear you speak about all the awesome features that are available in Cubase Pro, the more I think about ditching my digital console. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

[@kdcyp]

Great video Dom! For those who think they won’t bother with cues because they only record solo, consider the advantage when you’ve already spent hours settings your mix levels, then you want to record an extra track but with a different mix to play along to eg louder drums and base, the cues to headphones is a great solution. Even when you’re the other side of the room for better acoustics and you use IC pro app remotely on your iPad, because that app has the 4 ‘cue mixes’ in settings and is fantastic.

[@nelsonmoloi3767]

Hi thank you very much. I have started using control room. And just trying to understand it more

[@moderndayblue]

Good evening Dom. I met you at Gearfest today. My name is Ishmael and I’m a multi instrumentalist composer etc. I had to leave your MasterClass early because of the attention span of my little one. Just passing through to say hi, it was a pleasure meeting you.

[@tom_hengst]

What a compelling speech for Control Room! Hahaha! Ok, you have convinced me!

[@PurpleMusicProductions]

Many thanks for this video because I wasn't sure about the purposes of control room as I am still learning. I absolutely love your enthusiasm and I live for the BOOM references.

[@vocalkalos]

Your videos are amazing and easy to understand even for a frenchy like me ! I love particulary your Lacrimosa, and I have bought Iconica and Eatwest Choir after this video !

[@alejandrososa2310]

After seeing this masterclass, I can't imagine mixing without the control room! the L function is wonderful! Do it press that button CR right now!!! I've been using CUBASE for two weeks, amazing how the work flows! I have decided to definitely change my DAW. Thanks for your videos Mister DOM!

[@herbertvollmayer8732]

Thanks Don, this video gives me a chance to work with Control Room because until now I didn't understand how it works.👍🙂

[@jonathanmarin7024]

Wow I never knew control room was this amazing! The metronome quick volume adjustment is 🤌🏽

[@softmusic_uk]

Love it! Since today control room is ON! My first cubase was no.4 many many years ago...2001/2002. no yt, no books to learn how to use the cubase. Now with your channel life is simpler and I can enjoy making music using all what the cubase offer. Thx!

[@jsprods91]

When you come from Pro tools, Control room is a game changer. I love it!!! Cheers

[@Ch1mereucheya]

I just turned on Control Room this morning permanently, after trying for months to figure out its relevance. Cubase was my first DAW. But I guess I got tempted by the hype around Pro Tools being the Industry Standard, and also after enrolling in a Berklee course on Mixing, I found they use PT to teach. So I subscribed to PT at the student price. I took a month's crash course to get going on PT before my mixing classes started. Everything went well. I learnt a lot of skills on PT given that classes were taught on it, but I also began to realize the strengths of Cubase. It's a pain in the **** to A/B a reference in PT. I began to see the many strengths of Cubase that I took for granted. The Q-link for example frees your left hand (whereas PT you would have to use both hands to assign common operations on multiple tracks; Both hands also to open and close the mix window-Cubase is just F3; The list is so so many) I used a spreadsheet and populated all the workflow comparisons, strengths and weaknesses after many months of using both Cubase and PT side by side. It was a painstaking operation. The differences and workflow time savings blew me away. I've ditched PTs and been full-time on Cubase. I still open it for past projects, but I can't imagine sacrificing the time-saving of Cubase for PT. The Control Room alone trumps other DAWs and PT in particular. I don't regret using PT cos it made my courses at Berklee easy to relate with and not trying to figure out the equivalent uses in Cubase as the course went on. Everything fell into place after the course, and opened my understanding about the strengths of Cubase. End of Story.

[@EddyLemaire]

I have just purchased Cubase 12 pro and discovered the control room in your video. I just said whaoo! The biggest tip to work quickly and clearly pro. By the way, I was using an old Cubase Sx and there is so many new functions to discover and practice. Thank you so much Dom, you’re a great teacher. 😎👍👍👍

[@cbrngrz6966]

I wish I knew about the Monitoring Inserts in the Control Room 10 years ago, holy crap that's what I've been looking for. I always used it on my master channel and had to constantly re-open my plugins whenever I would "close all" (which I use often, bound to ctrl+w). But I hated that it would close my meters as well. Been learning so much from your vids Dom, thanks much!

[@kenrojas10]

This is the best Cubase video I ever seen!!

[@FlatTire]

My favourite Cubase feature!

[@macdaddybender]

Great Dom. I'd used Control Room on my last track for the the A-B comparison but now I realise it can do so much more. I'm definitely going to keep it enabled. Thanks as always for these incredible tips

[@hjortur]

Thanks for a great video Dom. I've been using Cubase since 1989, when it came out. When the Control Room came out, I used it... but only for the Click level. I am a "one man in the studio doing all the stuff" so I don't need all the stuff I could use the Control Room for. I turned the Control Room off many years ago now. I am a super user of Cubase with over 100 album releases made entirely in Cubase. I can give many reasons why I don't use the Control Room, but the main reason is that Control Room is a extra step that I dont need to take. I am not saying what other users should do, I would not dream of doing that. Enjoy Cubase. A small comment from a happy melody maker.

[@DaleRobertSzyms]

I just did a recording session for my band, we only get together about twice a year, and I had a lot of the issues you mentioned about each member having their own headphone mix that would’ve been solved if using Cubase instead of Logic, would have saved myself a lot of headaches. I just upgraded my Cubase to the "Pro" version, I hope Steinberg pays you a salary for all the great information you provide and in an entertaining and easy to understand manner (and if they do they should give you a raise)!!!

[@frommusiciantoartist]

Bro! I have always been confused about the benefit of control room.. No longer! Thanks so much for explaining this

[@Larry30102]

This is frickin great video. Many thanks! I have been a long time cubase user (decades), and have NEVER used control room. This is a revelation!

[@safenafe1]

Control was a must for me for many years. Thanks for a great channel

[@rod_stone_cold_love]

Great Video! I underestimated this tool for years. Thanks a lot :)

[@_production5920]

You are a wonderful person. Please explain to us the inputs for a compressor in Qubis, the mono and stereo inputs and outputs to connect to a compressor or any other hardware.

[@Al69BfR]

Reason Number 6: Talkback to your artist on his headphones. I set up a keyboard shortcut on < to easily activate/deactivate my talkback microphone, because the headphone are running through an output on my interface, but my desktop monitor controller only gets the sound of the main output from Control Room, so I can‘t use the built headphone outputs and the built in talkback microphone.

[@dolofson]

Never! Never forgot calibration on. Nope. *cough* Thank you very much for this to-the-point introduction! I was aware of the CR, but never got around to set it up. This pushed me over the edge, and now I have speakers and two pairs of headphones running with their respective calibrations at all times, and some nice analyzers and stuff on the master, all without interfering with projects and export. Brilliant feature!

[@nota76]

You are the best tutor for me! Please dont leave us with cub 13 cub 14....😃 Thank you Dom!

[@no-xb7eu]

I was one of those who was afraid of Control Room, lol. Thought it was for people who use Cubase for live performances! Thanks man, you opened my eyes.

[@jidbangaz5705]

Great info. I been wondering how this worked. Will be using for now on

[@christerpalmkvist2965]

Thank you so much ! I have been working with Cubase since the very beginning. Your channel is a great gift to both new beginners as well to ex- professional musicians like me. Thanks again. it helps me a lot. Chris From Sweden

[@rainer866]

Amazing! I knew the CR is there but had no idea what to do with it. Thanks for your explanations and enthusiasm.

[@kimbo834]

Cool, didn’t try yet. Now I will! Thanks!

[@Björn_Stahlsaiter]

Love to watch your enthusiasm in this video. Thank you for holding up this amazing content. I've used Cubase for years and i always learn something new by watching your videos. Thank you! God bless you.

[@colineastwood1357]

Excellent commentary Dom - thanks!

[@guidokamper8005]

The control room is great. Especially the "Listen" function, when it comes to reverb-channels or other effects. My initial idea was to put a "super vision" on the insert effects to analyse the selected tracks. Unfortunately the inserts come after changing the volume or adding the metronome to the control room. It is still possible to use it without modifying the volume inside control room and of course switching off the metronome (you would anyway do it, when analysing a sound :-) ). But it would be great to define the effects as real pre-inserts.

[@realraven2000]

i love control room but i only use cue when tracking. i can A/B easily by sending reference tracks directly to stereo out while sending my groups to a mastering group. honestly don't know why we would need Cue for a/b comparisons? gainstaging cues can be tricky when you have many tracks and groups. i usually switch on cue only on the mix stem channels ( e.g.guits / keys / drums / vocals) and the recorded channel for monitoring.

[@The_Stoic_Trader]

it's a MUST, from now!

[@billrutherfordmusic]

Great video! Can't believe I've been using Cubase this long without knowing about these features!

[@sidneythirston9044]

DOM!!! THANK YOU I FINALLY SET IT UP I WAS SCARED AT FIRST BUT WHAT I CAN DO NOW IS SWEET!!!

[@AllenLind]

GREAT VIDEO! Just discovered your channel! Im an experienced engineer but recently moved to cubase and your videos take me right to places I need to know more of! THANKS!!!!

[@valleyken]

I started using control room today. I have set up A/B referencing from the other video tutorial. Then I realized it's not what I needed right now, but it's very cool to have that when I need it some time. Now to learn about the other things that control room can do for me.

[@philipaaberg160]

Super helpful stuff from a super-talented dude!

[@jasonjotty7478]

Very very informative, never thought control room could do so much!! Thanks🙏🙏

[@IniresMirrors]

I had a UAD Arrow, which had enough outputs that Control Room became useful to me, based on my knowledge of it then. Then I built an expensive PC, because a similar Mac upgrade would have been $12K more expensive, and had to downgrade to a UR22C so my wife wouldn’t be too upset about my getting a compatible interface on top of the PC. Now that I have an Audient id44, I’ve been getting back into CR’s features. This just opened my eyes to how useful it will be going forward. Thanks, as always, for the incredibly helpful content!

[@gustafkey1608]

agree...I'm using that with sonarworks reference

[@xinnor2790]

Just turned it on. I was afraid and didn’t know what it could do. I can only route it to the headphones or the mix but with my headphone mixer I can do a lot more. At least I can set up a head mix without messing around with muting channel etc. NICE job teaching me about a tool I have but was afraid to use.

[@hubunamu]

Excellent information. Thanks a lot!

[@AcousticAce2]

I just got a Focusrite X2P setup in a recording booth and the Dante network routing took a couple hours to figure out, but Cubase control room made setting it up much easier than it would have been otherwise. It's definitely an awesome tool.

[@rachidbendadande9750]

Dom, U Rock Boddy, I Just Learned what Cue Mixes Are really all About, And I'm in Love with them.

[@MrAchris10]

You da man! I do reference but I did not think of using the control room for that. I was the 3rd party plug-in & switch hardware guy. SMH. I have been using Cubase for over a decade.

[@dinosirius]

Haven't used it in years, started using it thanks to Dom, happy ever since ! Great to see I learned some more about it today. Again Dom you're the best !

[@MorisoniProductions]

This is such an enjoyable video! I've gone back to it to check up on some items and can't help smiling with you Dom!

[@C-qnz]

Came here to check whether I can add Sonarworks Reference to the Monitoring FXs in CR (without worrying about the bounce process) and learned so much more, eg. using reference tracks more effectively etc. Thanks a lot.

[@DJAN-4U]

i have learn so many things sir :) thank you so much for amazing cubase tutorials :) Love from Nepal

[@DomSigalas]

Happy to hear that @DJ AN :)

[@nondelusional]

My first daw purchase was cubase 5 retail version which came with the e-licenser in 2010, as my migration from a Roland FANTOM X8 which I had used for 3yesrs as my Exclusive workstation for production. The main reason I purchased Cubase is because of the control room option. I looked at logic, and protools and saw that they did not have that option and that made me realize how much more advanced a DAW Cubase is.

[@sebastianmoggia4800]

Omg!!!... I've been missing a lot 🤦. Thanks for explaining control room function 🙏

[@macronencer]

Oh wow, you just taught me so much! I actually do have control room enabled but I was using less than half the features you showed here. Thank you for making me take more notice. I never knew Listen Dim existed - that's so useful!

[@antoinebunel]

Super helpful Dom, THANKS ! Helps so much on my production work !

[@chaosbrain4018]

Damn, that l thing got me..so many times I struggled to just listen to my reverb..I promise I will work with it

[@joestone3030]

So much Passion! Thank you for your Inspiration.

[@petero9955]

People are not using control room because turning it on causes issues by default (like not hearing sounds from media bay if headphones are selected) I don't know why Cubase didn't think to make default routing to mediabay so we can hear the sounds. Instead, we have to spend time figuring out why we can't hear anything from mediabay when using CR.

[@DaniWhiteESP]

thanks Dom! This is a must!

[@boogie2266]

Like many other people I was scared at first and didn't think it was useful for me in my homestudio environment: But then I finally looked into it and now I love. It just took some time to find out how it works but now I regret not using it earlier. It's like...I could have done it without CR but it's so much easier

[@pboelenful]

Excellent tutorial. First thing I'm gonna do on my next Cubase session is set up control room.

[@fernandomendes-edicaodeaud2421]

Great, great, great! It will be ON forever! I will help the "control room" to live. Huge advantage! Thanks.

[@KerwinYoungComposer]

Thanks Dom, I didn't know about the A/B referencing capabilities through CR. You also gave me an idea with the CR inserts.

[@Alon21Ashkenazi]

Amazing ! Turning it back on now! Can't believe I found your channel just now after the release of cubase 11.

[@randalnielson6857]

Agree with every comment here. The difference between Cubase and other DAWs is not features - it’s DOM. I just don’t have time for a software that doesn’t also have a time savior and skill guru. Dom, if C12 added any details or functionality to Control Room that would benefit from another tutorial, please do an updated video on Control Room! thanks much

[@willischirwa3992]

And I have became a huge fan of your channel during the last week and this week. So much valuable information explained in a easy to understand manner. Really good.

[@flaviionescu4523]

Great video man! I never knew what CR can do!! Definitely I will give it more interest! I love your work Dom!! Thanks for your passion!

[@pipihatadelstitel]

dom sigalas , you`re the best ! massive information per miute and not boring at all ! of cource i use cr now . another reason to stay with steinberg and buy the updates .

[@yadinmichaeli12]

Hello Dom,please dont stop makong those very very epic videos thank you! :)

[@infinitystratos5292]

Great Explanation, I've never knew what Control Room is for? And after this video you have opened my eyes, i definitely give it a shoot and try Control Room now. And nice that some people like you do great Cubase tutorials :) Thanks for your hard work to share this knowledge with us. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 😊😊😊😊

[@tronlady1]

Only 96k subscribers 😱. These are some of the most entertaining and informative videos I’ve ever watched on youtube ❤

[@philipriddle8987]

In previous studios I have had Cue sends but now my studio is very small and I see no need for them....Love your videos....

[@DiMiS08]

Your video revealed to me why I could n't hear the metronome anymore :D Thank you so much for that

[@yams900]

Started to use Control Room after watching this inspirational video ! It's the way to go, actually the only way :) Lost the metronome sound, but you covered that as well in the video.

[@ivanvenot]

Big Dom thank you very much for this video honestly I did not use the control room and fantastic the fact of controlling the metronome and very convenient to lower the general volume without the red wheel and not having to turn down from the sound card and fantastic today I discovered the control room of the my CUBASE thank you again Dom 5 star tutorial

[@lucsolomusic]

Thanks for this Dom, I started using it more when tracking other people but I never used it's full capabilities.

[@Rachellsea]

Thanks so much, I'm gonna use it now :)!