New Features in Cubase 4.5

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Working with the new features
VST Sound
With version 4.5, Steinberg introduced VST Sound, a new
version of the SoundFrame media management system that
is directly integrated into VST3. VST Sound allows direct
integration into the MediaBay to third party manufacturers
of plug-ins and instruments, and encompasses all formats
and file types previously supported by SoundFrame such as
audio, loops, VSTi presets, video, MIDI files and track pre-
sets. VST Sound has now replaced SoundFrame, which
was part of previous versions of Steinberg applications.
Plug and Play support for ASIO
devices
The Steinberg MR816 hardware series supports Plug and
Play in Cubase. These devices can be plugged in and
switched on while the application is running. Cubase will
automatically use the driver of the MR816 series and will
re-map the VST connections accordingly.
• Please note that Steinberg cannot guarantee that this
will work with other hardware. If you are unsure of whether
your device supports plug and play, please consult its
documentation.
Automatically generated VST
Connection presets
In the VST Connections window (opened from the Devices
menu), on the Inputs and Outputs tabs, you will find a Pre-
sets menu. A number of standard bus configurations are
provided by default, and you can also save your own cus-
tomized setups as presets.
In this version of Cubase, a new type of preset has been
added to complement the standard presets as known from
the previous program version: On each startup, Cubase
will analyze the physical inputs and outputs provided by
your audio hardware, and will automatically create presets
tailored to your specific hardware configuration.
These hardware-dependent presets can have the follow-
ing configurations:
• one stereo bus
• various combinations of stereo and mono busses
• a number of mono busses
• Cubase only: one 5.1 bus (if you have 6 or more inputs)
• Cubase only: various combinations of 5.1 and stereo busses
(if you have 6 or more inputs)
• Cubase only: various combinations of 5.1 and mono busses
(if you have 6 or more inputs)
The Presets menu on the Outputs tab of the VST Connections window,
with the standard presets (top) and the automatically generated presets
(bottom).
The automatically generated presets make it easy to install
and use an audio hardware device very quickly, as it is no
longer necessary to manually specify the bus-port assign-
ments for the current device in the VST Connections win-
dow every time before you can start working. This is very
handy, especially if you have a number of different devices
you want to use or if you are working in different studios.
!
If a device that does not support Plug and Play is
connected/disconnected when the computer is run-
ning, it might get damaged.