Specifications

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About Audio Cards
Which cards will work?
Cubase VST works with any audio card that meets the following requirements:
• 16 bit audio recording and playback capability.
• Windows Multimedia compatible, or...
• DirectX compatible (playback only, see page 379), or...
• Comes with an ASIO driver.
Sample rates
Cubase VST can record and play back at the sample rates your card supports. The
choice of sample rate is made in the System dialog as described on page 362.
Most audio cards support 11, 22 and 44.1kHz. Many cards do not support 48kHz
and some don’t support 32kHz.
Audio Quality
The audio quality you get from your recordings (the amount of distortion, the
amount of background noise etc.) is solely dependant on your audio card and your
other audio equipment, not on Cubase VST.
Number of Audio Channels
The number of audio channels you can get in Cubase VST does not depend on the
audio card at all but is related to a number of computer performance factors. More
on this later in this chapter.
Stereo/Mono
All 16-bit audio cards can record and play back in stereo or mono. In Cubase VST
you can decide before each recording which it should be, stereo or mono, from the
Inspector.