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Setting up your system
When the ASIO DirectX Full Duplex driver is selected in
the Device Setup dialog, you can open the ASIO Control
Panel and adjust the following settings (for more details,
click the Help button in the control panel):
• Direct Sound Output and Input Ports
In the list to the left in the window, all available Direct Sound output and
input ports are listed. In many cases, there will be only one port in each
list. To activate or deactivate a port in the list, click the checkbox in the
left column. If the checkbox is ticked, the port is activated.
• You can edit the Buffer Size and Offset settings in this
list if necessary, by double-clicking on the value and typ-
ing in a new value.
In most cases, the default settings will work fine. Audio buffers are used
when audio data is transferred between Cubase AI and the audio card.
While larger buffers ensure that playback will occur without glitches, the
latency (the time between the moment Cubase AI sends out the data and
when it actually reaches the output) will be higher.
• Offset
If a constant offset is audible during playback of Audio and MIDI record-
ings, you can adjust the output or input latency time using this value.
Setting up the input and output ports
Once you have selected the driver and made the settings
as described above, you need to specify which inputs and
outputs should be used and name these:
1. In the Device Setup dialog, select your driver in the De-
vices list on the left to display the Driver settings for your
audio hardware.
All input and output ports on the audio hardware are listed.
2. To hide a port, click in the “Visible” column for the port
(deselecting the checkbox).
Ports that aren’t visible cannot be selected in the VST Connections win-
dow where you set up your input and output busses – see “Setting up
the VST Connections” on page 24 and the chapter “VST Connections:
setting up input and output busses” in the Operation Manual.
3. To rename a port, click on its name in the “Show as”
column and type in a new name.
Ö 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 AI, monitoring means listening to the input sig-
nal 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 AI) requires an external mixer for mixing
the audio playback with the input signal. This can be a clas-
sic mixing desk or a mixer application for your audio hard-
ware, if this has a mode in which the input audio is sent
back out again (usually called “Thru”, “Direct Thru” or simi-
lar).
Via Cubase AI
In this case, the audio passes from the input into Cubase
AI, possibly through Cubase AI effects and EQ and then
back to the output. You control monitoring via settings in
Cubase AI.
This allows you to control the monitoring level from Cu-
base AI 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 avail-
able for audio hardware with Mac OS X drivers). In this
mode, the actual monitoring is done in the audio hardware,
!
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!