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Setting up your system
2. To hide a port, click in the “Visible” column for the port
(deselecting the checkbox).
Ports that are not visible cannot be selected in the VST Connections
window where you set up your input and output busses – see the chap
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ter “VST Connections” on page 21.
3. To rename a port, click on its name in the “Show as”
column and type in a new name.
• It is a good idea to give your ports names that are re-
lated to the channel configuration (rather than to the ac-
tual hardware model)!
4. Click OK to close the Device Setup dialog and apply
your changes.
About monitoring
In Cubase, monitoring means listening to the input signal
while preparing to record or while recording. There are
three ways to monitor:
External monitoring
External monitoring (listening to the input signal before it
goes into Cubase) requires an external mixer for mixing
the audio playback with the input signal. This can be a
classic mixing desk or a mixer application for your audio
hardware, if this has a mode in which the input audio is
sent back out again (usually called “Thru”, “Direct Thru” or
similar).
Via Cubase
In this case, the audio passes from the input into Cubase,
possibly through Cubase effects and EQ and then back to
the output. You control monitoring via settings in Cubase.
This allows you to control the monitoring level from Cu-
base and add effects to the monitored signal only.
ASIO Direct Monitoring
If your audio hardware is ASIO 2.0 compatible, it may sup-
port ASIO Direct Monitoring (this feature may also be
available for audio hardware with Mac OS X drivers). In
this mode, the actual monitoring is done in the audio hard
-
ware, by sending the input signal back out again. How-
ever, monitoring is controlled from Cubase. This means
that the audio hardware’s direct monitoring feature can be
turned on or off automatically by Cubase.
Monitoring is described in detail in the chapter “Record-
ing” on page 74. However, when setting up, there is one
thing to note:
• If you want to use the external monitoring via your audio
hardware, make sure that the corresponding functions are
activated in the card’s mixer application.
Ö If you are using RME Audio Hammerfall DSP audio
hardware, make sure that the pan law is set to -3
dB in the
card’s preferences.
Setting up MIDI
This section describes how to connect and set up MIDI
equipment. If you have no MIDI equipment, you can skip
this section. Note that this is only an example – you might
need or want to hook things up differently!
!
If you attempt to hide a port that is already used by a
bus you will be asked whether this is really what you
want – note that this will disable the port!
!
Make sure that all equipment is turned off before
making any connections!