Hi,

Depends how you want to do things really - and depends on your soundcard. If your souncard offers more than two analogue outputs, you can have these outputs going into different channels on your mixing desk, and that’s where it gets interesting.

This means you can use your desk eq, which even if it's a cheapy one will probably give you better results than using cubase's eqs. You can also set up effects units from your desk, and send signals to them - have the effects return come back on it's own channel, eq that, send that to a different effects unit etc etc to create some monster sounds.

So yeh, the structure of the track is done in your sequencer - but you can use your desk creatively as mentioned in the brief example above. Perhaps send a sound from cubase out to an effects unit, sample it back in and then apply the cubase fx to it? There are literally loads of possibilities…just have fun and mess around.