9.5
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Setting Up Your System
- Audio Connections
- Project Window
- Project Handling
- Tracks
- Track Handling
- Adding Tracks
- Exporting MIDI Tracks as Standard MIDI File
- Removing Tracks
- Moving Tracks in the Track List
- Renaming Tracks
- Coloring Tracks
- Showing Track Pictures
- Setting the Track Height
- Selecting Tracks
- Duplicating Tracks
- Disabling 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
- Events
- Parts
- Editing Techniques for Parts and Events
- Range Editing
- Playback and Transport
- On-Screen Keyboard
- Recording
- Importing Audio and MIDI Files
- Quantizing MIDI and Audio
- Fades and Crossfades
- Arranger Track (Cubase Elements only)
- Markers
- MixConsole
- MixConsole in Lower Zone
- MixConsole Window
- Audio Effects
- Direct Offline Processing
- Time Stretch Algorithms
- Audio Functions
- Sample Editor
- Hitpoints
- Tempo Matching Audio
- Audio Part Editor
- Controlling Sample Playback with Sampler Tracks (Cubase Elements only)
- Pool
- Pool Window
- Working with the Pool
- Renaming Clips or Regions in the Pool
- Duplicating Clips in the Pool
- Inserting Clips into a Project
- Deleting Clips from the Pool
- Locating Events and Clips
- Searching for Audio Files
- About Missing Files
- Auditioning Clips in the Pool
- Opening Clips in the Sample Editor
- Importing Media
- Exporting Regions as Audio Files
- Changing the Pool Record Folder
- Organizing Clips and Folders
- Applying Processing to Clips in the Pool
- Minimizing Files
- Converting Files
- Conforming Files
- Extracting Audio from Video File
- MediaBay
- Automation
- VST Instruments
- Adding VST Instruments (not in Cubase LE)
- Creating Instrument Tracks
- VST Instruments in the Right Zone (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instruments Window (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instruments Toolbar (not in Cubase LE)
- VST Instrument Controls (not in Cubase LE)
- Presets for Instruments
- Playing Back VST Instruments
- Latency
- Import and Export Options
- VST Quick Controls (not in Cubase LE)
- Installing and Managing Plug-Ins
- Remote Controlling Cubase
- MIDI Realtime Parameters
- Using MIDI devices
- MIDI Functions
- Transpose Setup
- Merging MIDI Events into a New Part
- Dissolve Part
- Repeating MIDI Events of Independent Track Loops
- Extending MIDI Notes
- Fixing MIDI Note Lengths
- Fixing MIDI Note Velocities
- Rendering Sustain Pedal Data to Note Lengths
- Deleting Overlaps
- Editing Velocity
- Deleting Double Notes
- Deleting Controller Data
- Deleting Continuous Controller Data
- Restricting Polyphonic Voices
- Thinning Out Controller Data
- Extracting MIDI Automation
- Reversing the Playback Order of MIDI Events
- Inverting the Order of Selected MIDI Events
- MIDI Editors
- Common MIDI Editor Functions
- Key Editor
- Key Editor Operations
- Inserting Note Events with the Object Selection Tool
- Drawing Note Events with the Draw Tool
- Modifying Note Values while Inserting Notes
- Drawing Note Events with the Line Tool
- Moving and Transposing Note Events
- Resizing Note Events
- Using the Trim Tool
- Splitting Note Events
- Gluing Note Events
- Changing the Pitch of Chords (Cubase Elements only)
- Changing the Voicing of Chords (Cubase Elements only)
- Chord Editing Section (Cubase Elements only)
- Inserting Chords (Cubase Elements only)
- Applying Chord Events to Note Events
- Drum Map Handling
- Editing Note Events via MIDI Input
- Step Input
- Using the Controller Display
- Selecting Controllers within the Note Range
- Score Editor
- Score Editor Operations
- Drum Editor
- Drum Editor Operations
- Drum Maps
- Chord Functions
- Chord Pads
- Editing Tempo and Time Signature
- Export Audio Mixdown
- Synchronization
- Video
- ReWire (not in Cubase LE)
- Key Commands
- Adding Key Commands
- Searching for Key Commands
- Removing Key Commands
- Saving Key Commands Presets
- Loading Key Command Presets
- Importing Key Command Settings
- Resetting Key Commands
- The Default Key Commands
- Audio Category
- Automation Category
- Chords Category
- Devices (Studio) Category
- Direct Offline Processing Category
- Edit Category
- Editors Category
- File Category
- Media Category
- MIDI Category
- Navigate Category
- Nudge Category
- Project Category
- Quantize Category
- Set Insert Length Category
- Tool Category
- Transport Category
- Window Zones Category
- Windows Category
- Zoom Category
- Setting Up Tool Modifier Keys
- Customizing
- Optimizing
- Preferences
- Index
Synchronization
Activating VST System Link
In Cubase, click the Monitor button in the track list or Inspector.
8. Start playback on computer 1.
It will now send the MIDI information on the track to the VST instrument loaded on
computer 2.
RESULT
Even with a slow computer you should be able to stack a whole bunch of extra VST instruments
this way, expanding your sound palette considerably. Do not forget that VST System Link MIDI is
also sample-accurate, and thus has much tighter timing than any hardware MIDI interface ever
invented!
Creating a virtual effect rack
The effect sends for an audio channel in Cubase can either be routed to an FX channel track or to
any activated group or output bus. This allows you to use a separate computer as a “virtual effect
rack”.
PROCEDURE
1. On computer 2 (the machine you will use as effect rack), add a new stereo audio track.
You cannot use an FX channel track in this case, since the track must have an audio input.
2. Add the desired effect as an insert effect for the track.
Let’s say you add a high-quality reverb plug-in.
3. In the Inspector, select one of the VST System Link busses as input for the audio track.
You want to use a separate VST System Link bus, which will only be used for this purpose.
4. Route the channel to the desired output bus.
If you are using computer 1 as your main mixing computer, this would be one of the VST
System Link output busses, connected to computer 1.
5. Activate monitoring for the track.
6. Go back to computer 1 and select a track to which you want to add some reverb.
7. Bring up the effect sends for the track in the Inspector or the MixConsole.
8. Open the Send Routing pop-up menu for one of the sends and select the VST System Link
bus assigned to the reverb in step 3.
9. Use the Send slider to adjust the amount of effect as usual.
RESULT
The signal will be sent to the track on computer 2 and processed through its insert effect,
without using any processor power on computer 1.
You can repeat the steps above to add more effects to the “virtual effect rack”. The number of
effects available this way is only limited by the number of ports used in the VST System Link
connection (and of course by the performance of computer 2, but given that it will not have to
handle any recording or playback, you should be able to use quite a lot of effects).
Getting extra audio tracks
All computers on a VST System Link network are locked with sample-accuracy. Therefore, if you
find that the hard drive on one computer is not fast enough to run as many audio tracks as you
need, you can record new tracks on one of the other computers instead. This would create a
“virtual RAID system”, with several disks all operating together. All tracks will remain locked
together just as tightly as if they were all running on the same machine. This means that you
effectively have an unlimited track count! Need another 100 tracks? Just add another computer.
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