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Setting up your system
Steinberg cannot guarantee that this will work with other
hardware. If you are unsure of whether your device sup-
ports plug and play, please consult its documentation.
Selecting a driver and making audio settings
in Cubase
The first thing you need to do is select the correct driver in
Cubase to make sure that the program can communicate
with the audio hardware:
1. Launch Cubase and select Device Setup from the
Devices menu.
2. In the Devices list to the left, click on “VST Audio
System”.
The VST Audio System page is shown.
3. On the ASIO Driver menu, select your audio hardware
driver.
There may be several options here that all refer to the same audio hard-
ware. When you have selected a driver, it is added to the Devices list.
4. Select the driver in the Devices list to open the driver
settings for your audio hardware.
5. Bring up the control panel for the audio hardware and
adjust the settings as recommended by the audio hard
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ware manufacturer.
• Under Windows, you open the control panel by clicking
the Control Panel button.
The control panel that opens when you click this button is provided by the
audio hardware manufacturer – not Cubase (unless you use DirectX, see
below). Hence it will be different for each audio card brand and model.
The control panels for the ASIO DirectX driver and the Generic Low La-
tency ASIO Driver (Windows only) are exceptions, in that they are provided
by Steinberg and described in the dialog help, opened by clicking the Help
button in the dialog. See also the notes on DirectX below.
• Under Mac OS X, the control panel for your audio hard-
ware is opened by clicking the “Open Config App” button
on the settings page for your audio device in the Device
Setup dialog.
Note that this button is available only for some hardware products. If
“Open Config App” is not available in your setup, refer to the documen
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tation that came with your audio hardware for information on where to
make hardware settings.
6. If you plan to use several audio applications simultane-
ously, you may want to activate the “Release Driver when
Application is in Background” option on the VST Audio
System page. This will allow another application to play
back via your audio hardware even though Cubase is
running.
The application that is currently active (i. e. the “top window” on the desk-
top) gets access to the audio hardware. Make sure that any other audio
application accessing the audio hardware is also set to release the ASIO
(or Mac OS X) driver so Cubase can use it when it becomes the active
application again.
7. If your audio hardware receives clock signals from an
external sample clock source, you may want to activate
the “Externally Clocked” option on the page for the driver.
This is described in detail in the section “If your hardware setup is based
on an external clock source” on page 14.
!
If a device that does not support Plug and Play is
connected/disconnected while the computer is run-
ning, it may get damaged.
!
Under Windows, we strongly recommend that you ac-
cess your hardware via an ASIO driver written specifi-
cally for the hardware. If no ASIO driver is installed,
we recommend that you check with your audio hard
-
ware manufacturer if they have an ASIO driver avail-
able, for example, for download via the Internet. You
can use the Generic Low Latency ASIO driver if no
specific ASIO driver is available.