8.0
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Setting Up Your System
- VST Connections
- Project Window
- Project Handling
- Tracks
- Track Handling
- Adding Tracks
- Removing Tracks
- Moving Tracks in the Track List
- Renaming Tracks
- Coloring Tracks
- Showing Track Pictures
- Setting the Track Height
- Selecting Tracks
- Duplicating Tracks
- Disabling Audio Tracks (Cubase Elements only)
- Organizing Tracks in Folder Tracks
- Handling Overlapping Audio
- How Events are Displayed on Folder Tracks
- Modifying Event Display on Folder Tracks
- Track Presets
- Parts and Events
- Range Editing
- Playback and Transport
- Virtual Keyboard
- Recording
- Quantizing MIDI and Audio
- Fades and crossfades
- Arranger Track (Cubase Elements only)
- Markers
- MixConsole
- Audio Effects
- Audio processing and functions
- Sample Editor
- Audio Part Editor
- Pool
- MediaBay
- Working With the MediaBay
- Setting Up the MediaBay
- Define Locations Section
- Scanning Your Content
- Updating the MediaBay
- Locations Section
- Results Section
- Previewer Section
- Filters Section
- Sound Browser and Mini Browser
- MediaBay Preferences
- MediaBay Key Commands
- Working with MediaBay-Related Windows
- Working With Volume Databases
- Automation
- VST Instruments
- Installing and Managing Plug-ins
- Remote controlling Cubase
- MIDI realtime parameters
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI Processing
- MIDI Editors
- Chord Functions
- Chord Pads
- Editing tempo and signature
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire (not in Cubase LE)
- Key Commands
- File handling
- Customizing
- Optimizing
- Preferences
- Index
Synchronization
Activating VST System Link
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RESULT
As the computers are made active, you should see the Sending and Receiving
indicators flashing on each active computer, and the name of each computer should
appear in the list at the bottom of the pane. Each computer is assigned a random
number – do not worry about this, it is just so the network knows internally which
one is which.
• You can double-click on the name in bold (which is the name of the computer
you are currently working on) and set it to whatever other name you wish.
This name will appear in the VST System Link window of every computer on
the network.
NOTE
If you do not see the name of each computer appearing once you have made it
active, you need to check your settings. Go through the procedure above again and
make sure that all ASIO cards are listening to the digital clock signals correctly, and
that each computer has the correct inputs and outputs assigned to the VST System
Link network.
RELATED LINKS
Timecode Preferences on page 569
Putting the network online
After each computer’s name you will see whether it is online or not. When a
computer is online, it will receive transport and timecode signals, and its sequencer
application can be started and stopped by remote control. If it is off-line, it can only
be started from its own keyboard – it is effectively an independent machine,
although it is still on the network.
NOTE
Note that any computer can control any and all of the others – VST System Link is
a peer-to-peer network and there is no absolute “master” computer.
To put all computers online, proceed as follows:
PROCEDURE
1. For all computers, activate the Online checkbox on the VST System Link
page.
2. Start playback on one computer to check that the system is working – all
computers should start almost instantly and play perfectly in time, with
sample-accurate precision.
• The Offset Samples setting allows you to adjust whether one machine will play
slightly ahead or behind the rest.
This is normally not needed, but occasionally with some hardware you may find
that the lock is a few samples out. For now, leave it set to 0 – it will most likely
be what you want.