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Synchronization
Activating VST System Link
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3. If you now open the Input or Output Routing pop-up menu, you will find the
specified System Link ports added to the list of MIDI inputs or outputs.
This allows you to route MIDI tracks to VST instruments running on another computer,
as described in the application examples.
RELATED LINKS
Using one computer for VST instruments (not in Cubase LE) on page 583
The “Use Selected ASIO Ports for Data only” setting
If you are sending huge amounts of MIDI data at once, there is a small possibility
that you might run out of bandwidth on your VST System Link network. This will
manifest itself by notes “choking” or timing becoming erratic.
If this happens, you can devote more bandwidth to MIDI by activating the “Use
Selected ASIO Ports for Data only” option on the VST System Link page of the
Device Setup dialog. When this is activated, the VST System Link information will
be sent on the entire channel instead of just one bit, more than enough for all the
MIDI you could ever hope to use. The downside is that you can no longer use this
ASIO channel for audio transfer (do not connect it to a speaker!), thus leaving you
with only 7 audio channels in our ADAT cable example. Depending on how you
work, this might be a reasonable compromise.
Hearing the network audio
If you are using an external mixing desk, hearing your audio really is not an issue –
just plug the outputs of each computer into the desired channels on the external
mixing desk, start playback on one of the computers, and you are good to go.
However, many people prefer to mix internally inside the computer and just use a
desk for monitoring (or maybe not use any external mixer at all). In this case you will
need to select one computer to be your “main mix computer” and send the audio
from your other computers into this.