MW12 Owner’s Manual
12
Quick Guide
English
2Use the [Stereo Switch] buttons in the
Inspector to select stereo or monaural
operation for the track: ( ) for stereo
operation and ( ) for monaural.
For the example select the stereo mode.
You will normally use a monaural track when recording
vocals or guitar, and a stereo track when recording
synthesizers with stereo outputs, for example. You
might want to use a stereo track to record a guitar
processed through a preamplifier or amp simulator
with stereo outputs.
3Select [Mixer] from the [Devices] menu to
open the mixer window.
Click the arrow in the upper left corner of the mixer
window and select [Wide] to increase the width of the
mixer’s channel strips. Leave the mixer window open
until you have finished recording for easy access.
4Make sure that the [Record Enable] button
() on the left side of the channel strip is
on.
If the [Record Enable] button is off ( ), click it to turn
it on. The input signal level will be displayed on the
channel strip level meter while the [Record Enable]
button is on.
5Play the instrument to be recorded and,
while watching the mixer window level
meter, adjust the MW12 GAIN control and
channel fader so that the meter never
goes above 0.0 dB.
n•The MW12 ST master fader does not affect the
output level sent to the computer.
•The Cubase LE channel strip fader only affects the
playback output level from Cubase LE.
The maximum level encountered is displayed
numerically in the peak level display at the top of the
channel strip.
6Specify the point at which you want to
start recording via the ruler at the top of
the project window.
Click the black area of the ruler to move the project
cursor (the vertical black line) to that position.
7Open the [Transport] menu and turn [Start
Record at Left Locator] off.

Recording and Playback

1Click the Transport panel [Record] button
to begin recording.
When recording is started the project cursor will begin
moving to the right and a box that displays the
recording results will be created.
Transport panel
2Play the part.
3When you have finished recording the
track, click the Transport panel [Stop]
button.
Channel strip
[Record Enable]
button
Peak level display
Rewind
Forward Stop
Record
Play
Recording results