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VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses
• 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. Click in the Device Port column to select an input/out-
put port for a channel in the bus.
The pop-up menu that appears lists the ports with the names you have as-
signed in the Device Setup dialog. Repeat this for all channels in the bus.
Setting the Main Mix bus (the default output bus)
The Main Mix is the output bus that each new channel in
the mixer will be assigned to when it is created.
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 this bus as the Main
Mix bus.
Setting the default output bus in the VST Connections window.
When creating new audio, group or FX channels in the
mixer, they will automatically be routed to the default bus.
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 each startup, Cubase AI will analyze the physical inputs and outputs
provided by your audio hardware and create 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
• You can also save your own setups as presets.
To store the current configuration as a preset, click the Store “+” button
and enter a name for the preset. You can then select the stored configu-
ration directly from the Presets pop-up menu at any time. To remove a
stored preset, select it and click the “-” button.
Other bus operations
• To change the port assignment for a bus, you proceed
as when you added it: Make sure the channels are visible
(by clicking the “+” button next to the bus, or by clicking
the “+ All” button at the top of the window) and click in the
Device Port column to select ports.
• To remove a bus you do not need, select it in the list,
right-click and select “Remove Bus” from the pop-up
menu, or press [Backspace].
Using the busses
This section describes briefly how to use the input and out-
put busses you have created. For details refer to the chap-
ters “Recording” on page 48 and “The mixer” on page 69.
Routing
When you play back an audio track (or any other audio-re-
lated channel in the mixer), you route it to an output bus. In
the same way, when you record on an audio track you se-
lect from which input bus the audio should be sent.
• You can select input and output busses in the Inspec-
tor, using the Input and Output Routing pop-up menus.
Ö For audio-related channel types other than audio track
channels (i.e. VST Instrument channels, Group channels
and FX channels), only the Output Routing pop-up menu
is available.
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The default bus is indicated by an orange colored
speaker icon next to its name in the VST Connec-
tions window.