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VST Connections
About monitoring
The VST Connections window allows you to set up the
busses used for monitoring, activate/deactivate the Con-
trol Room and open the Control Room Mixer. For details
about using the Control Room and setting up the Studio
tab in the VST Connections window, see the chapter
“Control Room (Cubase only)” on page 172.
When the Control Room is disabled on the Studio tab of
the VST Connections window, the Main Mix bus is used
for monitoring. In this case you can adjust the monitoring
level in the regular Project Mixer, see the chapter
“The
Mixer” on page 145.
Ö In Cubase Artist, the Main Mix bus is always used for
monitoring.
External instruments/effects
(Cubase only)
Cubase supports the integration of external effect devices
and external instruments, e. g. hardware synthesizers, into
the sequencer signal flow.
You can use the External Instruments tab and the External
FX tab in the VST Connections window to define the
necessary send and return ports and access the instru
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ments/effects through the VST Instruments window.
Requirements
• To use external effects, you need audio hardware with
multiple inputs and outputs. To use external instruments, a
MIDI interface must be connected to your computer.
An external effect will require at least one input and one output (or input/
output pairs for stereo effects) in addition to the input/output ports you
use for recording and monitoring.
• As always, audio hardware with low-latency drivers is a
good thing to have.
Cubase will compensate for the input/output latency and ensure that the
audio processed through external effects is not shifted in time.
Connecting the external effect/instrument
To set up an external effect or instrument, proceed as
follows:
1. Connect an unused output pair on your audio hard-
ware to the input pair on your external hardware device.
In this example, we assume that the hardware device has stereo inputs
and outputs.
2. Connect an unused input pair on your audio hardware
to the output pair on your hardware device.
Once the external device is connected to the audio hard-
ware of your computer, you have to set up the input/out-
put busses in Cubase.
Setting up external effects
To set up an external effect in the VST Connections win-
dow, proceed as follows:
1. Open the External FX tab and click the “Add External
FX” button.
A dialog opens.
2. Enter a name for the external effect and specify the
send and return configurations.
Depending on the type of effect, you can specify mono, stereo or sur-
round configurations.
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External instruments and effects are indicated by an
“x” icon in the list next to their names in the respec-
tive pop-up menus.
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Please note that it is possible to select input/output
ports for external effects/instruments that are already
used (i.
e. that have been selected as inputs/outputs
in the VST Connections window). If you select a
used port for an external effect/instrument, the exist
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ing port assignment will be broken. Note that you will
not get a warning message!