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VST Connections
Mac OS X only: Port selection and activation
On the settings page for your audio card (opened via the
Device Setup dialog, see above), you can specify which
input and output ports are active. This allows you to use
the Microphone input instead of the Line input or even to
deactivate the audio card input or output completely, if re
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quired.
Ö This function is only available for Built-In Audio, stan-
dard USB audio devices and a certain number of other
audio cards.
Adding input and output busses
Depending on whether you have selected the Inputs or
the Outputs tab in the VST Connections window, the cor-
responding busses are listed, with the following informa-
tion:
To add an input or output bus, proceed as follows:
1. Open the Inputs or Outputs tab depending on the type
of bus that you want to add.
2. Click the Add Bus button.
A dialog opens.
3. Select a (channel) configuration.
The Configuration pop-up menu contains a Mono and a Stereo option as
well as several surround formats (Cubase only). Additional surround for
-
mats are listed on 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.
The new bus appears with the ports visible.
4. For each of the speaker channels in the bus, click in
the Device Port column to select a port on your audio
hardware.
The pop-up menu that opens lists the ports with the names you have as-
signed in the Device Setup dialog.
Setting the Main Mix bus (the default output
bus)
The Main Mix is the output bus that each new audio, group
or FX channel is automatically routed to.
Any of the output busses in the VST Connections window
can be the default output bus. By right-clicking on the
name of an output bus, you can set it as the Main Mix bus.
Setting the default output bus.
Column Description
Bus Name Lists the busses. You can select and rename busses by
clicking on them in this column.
Speakers Indicates the speaker configuration (mono, stereo, sur-
round formats (Cubase only)) of each bus.
Audio Device This shows the currently selected ASIO driver.
Device Port If a bus entry is expanded to show all speaker channels,
this column shows which physical inputs/outputs on your
audio hardware are used by the bus. If the bus entry is
collapsed, only the first port used by this bus is visible
here.
Click (Outputs
tab only)
You can route the click to a specific output bus, regard-
less of the actual Control Room output, or even when the
Control Room is disabled.
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The Main Mix is indicated by an orange colored
speaker icon next to its name.