User manual

Preface

Welcome to VST Connect! We are very proud to present this exciting

new version of VST Connect, which features an all new user interface

and mixer, signiﬁcantly simpliﬁed setup for the engineer, and many more

new features and improvements.

VST Connect has been used by skilled and professional producers all

over the world to record artists from all over the world conveniently and

with highest audio quality standards using the affordable PRO version.

And hobbyists and serious amateurs have recorded friends and col-

leagues with the SE version coming for free with the latest Cubase and

Nuendo versions.

With VST Connect an engineer can connect to a remote artist and cre-

ate a situation, which is entirely similar to recording somebody next door,

including video to see each other through the virtual Control Room win-

dow. The artist does not have to do anything but perform, just like in

a professional studio. All that is required on his or her end is a decent

microphone, headphones, and audio interface. The artist doesn’t need

any DAW, but simply downloads and installs the freely available "VST

Connect Performer" application from the Steinberg website, available for

Apple OSX, Windows, and iOS (iPad). Once installed, it is sufﬁcient to

start this application and connect to the studio; everything else, even

including setup of the audio and video devices and connections, can

be remote-controlled by the connected studio engineer. This allows for

artists and talents to concentrate on their job and use this new technol-

ogy even when they are not technically skilled.

With this third iteration of VST Connect also comes an incredibly sim-

pliﬁed setup procedure for the studio engineer. From Cubase 8 and

Nuendo 7 on, there is a menu allowing to incorporate the entire setup

for VST Connect in one single step, either from an empty project, or an

already elaborated production. It also utilizes the built-in Cue Mix and

Control Room features of Cubase / Nuendo in exactly the same way as

they are being used in the room-to-room studio! Using the PRO ver-

sion, high resolution ("HD") and glitch-free audio ﬁles recorded on the

Performer end can be transferred after the job. So now, the recording

situation is entirely transparent, whether the artist is located next room,

or on the other side of our precious planet.

We have been working on connecting musicians and talents over the