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VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses
Depending on which tab you have selected, Inputs or Out-
puts, the window lists the current input or output busses,
with the following columns:
Adding a bus
1. Click the Inputs or Outputs tab depending on which
you want to add.
2. Click the Add Bus button.
A dialog appears.
3. Select the desired (channel) configuration.
The pop-up menu contains Mono and Stereo options as well as several
surround formats (Cubase only). To select another surround format, use
the “More…” submenu.
• Alternatively you can right-click in the VST Connections
window and add a bus in the desired format directly from
the context menu that appears.
The new bus appears with the ports visible.
4. Click in the Device Port column to select an input/out-
put port for a channel in the bus.
The pop-up menu that appears lists the ports with the names you have as-
signed in the Device Setup dialog. Repeat this for all channels in the bus.
Adding a child bus (Cubase only)
A surround bus is essentially a set of mono channels – 6
channels in the case of 5.1 format. If you have a mono
track in the project, you can route it to a separate speaker
channel in the bus (or route it to the whole surround bus
and use the surround panner to position it in the surround
image). But what if you have a stereo track that you simply
want to route to a stereo channel pair within the bus (Left
and Right or Left Surround and Right Surround for exam-
ple)? For this you need to create a child bus.
1. Select the surround bus in the list and right-click on it.
A pop-up menu appears.
2. Select a channel configuration from the “Add Child
Bus” submenu.
As you can see, you can create stereo child busses (routed to various
speaker channel pairs in the surround bus) or other surround bus formats
(with fewer channels than the “parent bus”).
The child bus you created will be available for direct rout-
ing in the mixer. It’s a part of the parent surround bus,
which means there will be no separate channel strip for it.
Although child busses are probably most useful in output
busses, you can also create child busses within a sur-
round input bus – for example if you want to record a ste-
reo channel pair (e.g. front left-right) in the surround bus
to a separate stereo track.
Column Description
Bus Name Lists the busses. You can select busses and rename
them by clicking on them in this column.
Speakers Indicates the speaker configuration (mono, stereo, sur-
round formats) of each bus.
Audio Device This shows the currently selected ASIO driver.
Device Port When you have “opened” a bus (by clicking its + button in
the Bus Name column) this column shows which physical
input/output on your audio hardware is used by the bus.
Click You can route the click to a specific output bus, regard-
less of the actual Control Room output, or indeed when
the Control Room is disabled.