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VST Connections
To assign names to the inputs and outputs of your audio
hardware, proceed as follows:
1. Open the Device Setup dialog from the Devices menu.
2. On the VST Audio System page, make sure that the
correct driver for your audio hardware is selected.
If this is the case, your audio card is listed in the Devices list on the left of
the Device Setup window.
3. In the Devices list, select your audio card.
The available input and output ports on your audio hardware are listed on
the right.
4. To rename a port, click on its name in the Show As
column and enter a new name.
• If needed, you can also disable ports by deactivating
them in the Visible column.
Disabled ports are not shown in the VST Connections window. If you at-
tempt to disable a port that is used by a bus, you will be asked whether this
is really what you want – note that this will remove the port from the bus!
5. Click OK to close the Device Setup dialog.
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: 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 output ports are active. This allows you 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
audio cards.
Adding input and output busses
Depending on whether you have selected the Inputs or the
Outputs tab in the VST Connections window, the corre-
sponding busses are listed, with the following information:
To add an input or output bus, proceed as follows:
1. Open the Inputs or Outputs tab depending on the type
of bus that you want to add.
2. Click the Add Bus button.
A dialog opens.
3. Select a (channel) configuration.
You can add stereo and mono 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. For each of the speaker channels in the bus, click in
the Device Port column to select a port on your audio
hardware.
The pop-up menu that opens lists the ports with the names you have as-
signed in the Device Setup dialog.
Column Description
Bus Name Lists the busses. You can select and rename busses 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 If a bus entry is expanded to show all speaker channels,
this column shows which physical inputs/outputs on your
audio hardware are used by the bus. If the bus entry is col
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lapsed, only the first port used by this bus is visible here.
Click (Outputs
tab only)
You can route the click to a specific output bus.