User manual

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VST Connections
Adding child busses (Cubase only)
A surround bus is essentially a set of mono channels –
6 channels in the case of the 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 parent sur
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round bus and use the SurroundPanner 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 example)? For this you need to create a
child bus.
Proceed as follows:
1. In the Bus Name column, select the surround bus and
right-click on it to open the context menu.
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 that you created will be available for routing
in the Mixer. It is a part of the parent surround bus, which
means that it has no separate channel strip.
Although child busses are probably most useful in output
busses, you can also create child busses within a sur
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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.
Presets
On the Inputs and Outputs tabs you will find a Presets
menu. Here you can find three different types of presets:
• A number of standard bus configurations.
• Automatically created presets tailored to your specific
hardware configuration.
On startup, Cubase analyzes the physical inputs and outputs provided
by your audio hardware and creates a number of hardware-dependent
presets with the following possible 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).
• Your own user presets that you can save by clicking the
Store button (“+” symbol). You can then select the stored
configuration directly from the Presets pop-up menu at
any time. To remove a stored preset, select it and click the
Delete button (“-” symbol).
Setting up group and FX channels
The Group/FX tab in the VST Connections window shows
all group channels and FX channels in your project. You
can create new group or FX channels by clicking the cor
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responding Add button. This is the same as creating
group channel tracks or FX channel tracks in the Project
window (see
“Using group channels” on page 165 and
the chapter “Audio effects” on page 187).
However, the VST Connections window also allows you
to create child busses for group and FX channels (Cu-
base only). This is useful if you have group or FX channels
in surround format and want to route stereo channels to
specific channel pairs in these.
Creating a child bus for a group or FX channel in surround
format is similar to creating a child bus for input and out
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put busses, see “Adding child busses (Cubase only)” on
page 29.