Thanks Dirk!

Thank you David! More videos coming in the next weeks - finally found a bit of time between other projects.

Great stuff! Looking forward to your new videos in the next weeks!

Thanks! A good way to do this (in Cubase / Nuendo) is to select all the SideChain channels, right click to Link Selected Channels and make sure Inserts is active. Now if you tweak one limiter, for example to add gain, all other limiters will do the same.

@@mihkelzilmer Game changer! Thanks so much!

Thank you! I also never use anything on the mix bus, and instead think of the stem busses as multiple mix busses, and any final processing will happen there. Nor do I hard limit, quite the opposite - modest levels and ample headroom on all stems, the limiters are more like a failsafe to catch the loudest peaks and bring them down a db or two.

Sure, what I do is create a second SideChain channel, set the ouput of SideChain 1 to SideChain 2 (and disable the output of SideChain 2). Now you have 2 identical Sidechains, and access to 16 sends.

@@mihkelzilmer I tried doing this with 13 stems, but I end up with peaking in my full mix. This works great with 8 or less for me, though. Am I missing a step?

@@Smashbuttons Can't say without seeing your routing setup, but I am using this with 10-12 stems and no issues..

Hi, I have not tested it myself, but according to this forum thread the new export features do not have the same functionality, that is they can not hear the entire mix while bouncing through master bus FX. vi-control.net/community/threads/cubase-11-master-bus-stems.100966/ So yes, the side-chain structure is still needed if you want this function.

Hi Thomas, I use 1 (sometimes 2) reverbs per stem, so 10-20 reverbs total, inserted on FX busses. Dry signal is sent from tracks to these FX busses and then routed back into the stem. So the stem is where dry+wet signals combine, limiting happens afterwards. I never want them separated for delivery, but if you are having to deliver reverb separately, then it's a whole other story...

as Mihkel says - reverb per group or stem.

​@@mihkelzilmerThat. Or If you use a "one reverb/tail for everything" setup or simply wanna seperate the reverb from your orchestral stems (which makes sense in trailer music sometimes), you could do it this way: - Create two groups: "Reverb" and "STEM Reverb". Route the Output(!) of all Reverb FX groups you use to the "Reverb" group. On the Reverb Group, send the signal to the Sidechain Mix Limiter aswell and route the output(!) to the "STEM Reverb" group.