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Introduction
The bus system in Cubase VST allows you to take full advantage of audio cards
with multiple inputs and outputs, by providing a complete routing system, very
similar to that on a fully-fledged mixing console with a busing system. For this to
be useful, you need an audio card with several inputs and/or outputs. The audio
card also needs to be supported by VST, i.e. it must either be compatible with the
ASIO Multimedia or DirectX drivers included with VST, or come with an ASIO
Driver specifically written for the card.
What you can do with the Bus system
Here’s what you can achieve with the busing system (all of this will be described in
detail in this chapter):
• Map physical audio inputs on your card to inputs in VST, and name each
inputs.
This is convenient when you integrate your VST system with other recording
equipment.
• Record from any input on any audio channel.
This is done by selecting a VST Input for a channel, prior to recording.
• Route output audio channels or Groups to one of the stereo Buses, in any
combination.
The number of stereo Buses depends on the number of physical output pairs
on your audio card. Any channel in the Monitor window (and any individual
Group channel) can be routed to any Bus.
• Map the Buses to physical Outputs on your audio card, and name the
Buses.
This allows you to use VST as a true bus mixer, for example when using the
program in conjunction with a digital tape deck such as a and ADAT, Tascam
DA-88 or similar.
• Route effect sends to any of the buses, so that they now can be used for
external effects as well as the internal VST effects.
In fact, theoretically, all sends on all channels can be routed to different des-
tinations, which means VST provides 128 individual effect sends, all switcha-
ble between pre- and post operation.
• Do all of this at the same time, so that you for example use a Send to add
an external effect and record the result back on any audio channel.
An example of this is described on page 205.
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