Cubase volume low

Elektron Gear Digitakt
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Hey,
so I’ve seen this mentioned but no solution and a mention of enough headroom.
still - something seems TOO LOW…

Using DT with OB in Cubase and the volume is extremely low
I’m talkin -24db tops…

More specifically:
Main comes out nice.
Separate channels come out -24db

I’m attaching the mixer jpeg - because I’m sure I’m doing something wrong…

DT Cubase
DT Cubase1091×800 45.6 KB

I’m missing something and would appreciate your pointers.

Thanks

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Maybe that’s the solution, maybe not, but I’m posting for the benefit of others -
Turned both “track level” and “Volume” to 127 on the DT

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Here are some pointers about the Cubase mixer and channel gain:

The cubase mixer has a PRE rack section that you can use. It contains a gain slider to raise or lower the channel volume in the beginning in the mixer signal chain. Very very useful.

This means that you can gain your individual overbridge channels with like +12db (or more) and it also gives you the opportunity to lower crazy-loud plugin instruments to get a better starting point for mixing.

In Cubase 11 Pro you enable to view the PRE (Filters/Gain/Phase) from the top of the main mixer.
cubase-racks

When it’s enabled PRE shows up below the ROUTING like this:
cubase-gains

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It’s the same on every DAW, Overbridge make separate track at very low volume.
I use preamp plugin to raise it up.

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Hey and thanks you so much for this detailed reply!
Helped immensely.
:+1:

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Is there any official documentation from Elektron regarding this, I know there is some really good threads that clear up the low volume confusion regarding headroom needed inside the Digitakt for over drive, bit crush and resonant sweeps. I feel many people (myself included) spend an unnecessary amount of time “troubleshooting” and “stressing” over this.

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it really makes sense - if you have eight channels coming into your DAW at -12db, you are already way over 0db on your master out.
In fact eight tracks at -24db is still peaking at -6db on the master, which is not a bad peak to deliver a file for mastering…

Any louder and it would be set up for distortion.

“in the box” has just got everyone (self included) into bad habits cos it’s all floating point and 0db isn’t a problem.

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This is a good article imho

Gain Staging In Your DAW Software
https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/gain-staging-your-daw-software

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