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VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses
Ö If you open a project created on another computer and
the port names do not match (or the port configuration is
not the same), the Missing Ports dialog will appear.
This allows you to manually re-route ports used in the project to ports
available in your system.
Mac OS X only: Retrieving channel names
For some audio cards, you can automatically retrieve the
ASIO channel names for the ports of your audio hardware:
1. Open the Device Setup dialog via the Devices menu.
2. On the VST Audio System page, select your audio
card on the “ASIO driver” pop up menu.
3. In the Devices list to the left, select your audio card.
The available settings are displayed.
4. In the settings section to the right, click the Control
Panel button.
This opens the control panel for your audio hardware.
5. Activate the “Use CoreAudio Channel Names” option.
6. When you now open the VST Connections window to
set up the busses in your system, you will find that the port
names in the Device Port column correspond to the names
that are used by the CoreAudio driver.
Ö If you want to use the project later on with an earlier
version of Cubase AI, you will have to re-assign the port
connections in the VST Connections window (see below).
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 which output port should be active. This allows
you, for example, to use the Microphone input instead of
the Line input or even to deactivate the audio card input or
output completely, if required.
Ö This function is only available for Built-In Audio, stan-
dard USB audio devices and a certain number of other au-
dio cards (e.g. Pinnacle CineWave).
The VST Connections window
You add and set up busses in the VST Connections win-
dow, opened from the Devices menu.
This window contains the Inputs and Output tabs for view-
ing input busses and output busses.
Depending on which tab you have selected, 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.
You can add stereo and mono busses.
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) 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 phys-
ical inputs/outputs on your audio hardware are used by
the bus.
Click You can route the click to a specific output bus.