Steinberg Cubase 6 Manual

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5.On the Transport panel, activate the Sync button.
This routes transport commands to the hard disk recorder via MIDI and 
sets Cubase as the timecode slave.
6.On the hard disk recorder, enable MMC and MTC.
Follow the instructions on how to set up the unit to receive MMC com-
mands and transmit MTC.
7.In Cubase, click the Play button.
The hard disk recorder should start playback and send MTC to Cubase. 
Once Cubase syncs to MTC, the status on the Transport panel should 
read “Lock”...

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•If a card has more than one set of inputs and outputs, 
choose whichever one that suits you – for simplicity usu
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ally the first set is best.
Synchronization
Before you proceed, you need to make sure that the clock 
signals on your ASIO cards are synchronized correctly. 
This is essential when cabling any kind of digital audio 
system, not just VST System Link.
The clock mode or sync mode is set up in the ASIO con-
trol panel of the audio hardware. Proceed as follows:
1.From the...

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Setting up your software
Now it is time to set up your programs. The procedures 
below describe how to set things up in Cubase. If you are 
using another program on the other computer, please re
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fer to its documentation.
Setting the sample rate
The projects in both programs must be set to use the 
same sample rate. Select “Project Setup…” from the Proj
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ect menu and make sure that the sample rate is the same 
in both systems.
Streaming digital audio between applications
1.Create...

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23-bit audio (the least significant bit of this last channel will 
be used for networking). In practice this makes no discern
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ible difference to the audio quality, since you will still have 
around 138
 dB headroom on this channel.
To set things up, open the VST System Link panel:
1.From the Devices menu, open the Device Setup dialog.
2.In the Devices list to the left, select the “VST System 
Link” entry.
The VST System Link settings are shown to the right of the Devices list.
3.Use...

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Scrubbing via VST System Link
You can scrub on one computer and have the video and 
audio on another computer scrub along. However, the 
playback on the linked systems may not be perfectly in 
sync while scrubbing and there are some further restric
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tions you should bear in mind when scrubbing via VST 
System Link:
•Use the jog/shuttle control on the Transport panel or a 
remote controller for scrubbing.
Scrubbing with the Scrub tool does not work over a VST System Link 
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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 com
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puter 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 
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Once you have done this, the transmission of all the trans-
port, sync, and MIDI information to the whole network is 
handled pretty much automatically. However, where you 
may run into confusion in a large network is in the trans
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mission of audio signals back to a central mix computer.
If you have lots of hardware inputs and outputs on your 
ASIO cards, you do not have to send audio via the chain at 
all, but can transmit it directly to the master mix computer 
via one or more of...

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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.
The signal will be sent to the track on computer 2 and pro-
cessed through its insert effect, without using any proces-
sor 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...

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Introduction
Cubase supports the integration of video files in your proj-
ect. You can play back video files in various formats and via 
different output devices from within Cubase, edit your mu
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sic to the video, extract the audio material from a video file, 
and replace the audio later with different audio material.
Before you start
When working on a project involving a video file, you first 
need to set up your system according to your equipment 
and your demands. The following sections...