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Tutorial 1: Recording Audio
5. Depending on your audio hardware, your outputs
should be setup now. You can however select the outputs
of your choice from the “Device Port” pop-up menu.
Normally you’ll want to choose “Out 1” and “Out 2” or “Left 1” and “Right
2” as these are the main stereo outputs of your audio card. More sophisti-
cated setups may require you to choose different outputs and even add
more busses.
Adding Inputs
Now let’s open the “Inputs” tab and set up the inputs we
are going to use for recording into Cubase AI.
1. Do the same as mentioned above for the outputs.
Right-click and select “Remove Bus”.
2. Click the “Add Bus” button. Choose “Stereo” for con-
figuration and “1” for count and click “OK”.
This has now added a new stereo bus (Left and Right) allowing us to
have audio from our audio card’s input route to Cubase AI for recording.
• Having a stereo input is useful for recording audio with
two channels. An example of this is recording a keyboard
with a left and right audio channel. If we wanted to record
in mono or with one channel we can make separate bus-
ses. Let’s do this now.
1. Click the “Add Bus” button. Choose “Mono” for con-
figuration and “2” for count and click “OK”.
This has now added a two new mono busses allowing us to have audio
from our audio card’s input route to Cubase AI for recording.
2. Next click in the “Device Port” column to select the au-
dio inputs of your audio card for the stereo and mono in-
puts.
In our case we have the MI4 interface so we are selecting “MI4 Channel
A” and “MI4 Channel B” for our inputs.
That’s it! You should now be ready to record audio in Cu-
base AI and then play it back.
Level settings and recording
For this section, we are going to record a bass guitar in
mono from the input “Mono In”. Make sure you have your
audio card set up and you have read through the section
“Setting up the VST Connections” on page 24.
Adding a mono track
1. Now let’s add an audio track to record to. Open the
Project menu and choose “Audio” from the “Add Track”
submenu.
2. Choose “Mono” for Configuration and “1” for Count.
Click “OK”.
This adds a mono audio track to our Project window.
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Load the project called “Recording” found in the
“Tutorial 1” folder.