Steinberg Cubase Essential 4 Operation Manual

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3.Route the FX channel track to another VST System 
Link bus (Bus 3).
4.Route the VST instrument channel to yet another bus 
(Bus 4).
5.Go back to computer 1 and check the corresponding 
four VST System Link input busses.
If you start playback on computer 2, the audio should “appear” on the in-
put busses on computer 1. However, to mix these audio sources you 
need actual mixer channels:
6.Add four new stereo audio tracks on computer 1 and 
route these to the output bus you use for...

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Application examples
Using one computer for VST instruments
In this example, one computer will be used as main record 
and playback machine, and another computer as a virtual 
synth rack.
1.Record a MIDI track into computer 1.
2.Once you have finished recording, route the MIDI out-
put of that track to System Link MIDI port 1.
3.Now go to computer 2, open up the VST Instrument 
rack and assign an instrument to the first slot in the rack.
4.Route the VST Instrument channel to the...

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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 isn’t 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 to-
gether. All tracks will remain locked together just as tightly 
as if they were all running on the same machine. This...

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Video
Background
Cubase Essential plays back video films in a number of 
formats. 
Under Windows, video playback can be done using one 
of three playback engines: Video for Windows, Direct-
Show or QuickTime 7.1. This ensures compatibility with 
as wide a range of video files as possible. The following 
file formats are supported: AVI, QuickTime and MPEG.
Under Mac OS X, QuickTime is always used as playback 
engine. QuickTime supports the following video file for-
mats: AVI, MPEG, QuickTime and DV....

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Operations
About the QuickTime video playback engine
In Cubase Essential for Windows, you select a playback 
engine in the Device Setup–Video Player page:
Make sure to read the section “Before you start” on 
page 295.
Generally, you can expect most Windows hardware to 
work with DirectShow.
On a Windows system, the DirectShow and Video for Windows players 
are provided by the operating system, so you don’t have to install any ad-
ditional software.
Under Windows, QuickTime 7.1 must be installed...

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lower resolution, i. e. the pictures are not as clean as when 
they are calculated. When the processes that rely heavily 
on the computer CPU are finished, the frames will be au-
tomatically recalculated, i.e. the program automatically 
switches between real-time calculation of the pictures and 
using the cache file.
The generated thumbnail cache file will be stored in the 
same folder as the video file and will get the name of the 
file with the suffix “.videocache”.
Generating thumbnail cache...

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To view the video on the computer screen (as opposed to 
on an external monitor, see below), proceed as follows:
If you’re running Mac OS X, open the Device Setup dia-
log from the Devices menu, click “Video Player” in the list 
and make sure “Onscreen Window” is selected in the 
Video Output section of the dialog. 
Under Windows, either pull down the Devices menu 
and select Video, or use a key command – by default [F8], 
or double-click the video clip.
A video window appears. In Stop mode,...

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Introduction
ReWire and ReWire2 are special protocols for streaming 
audio between two computer applications. Developed by 
Propellerhead Software and Steinberg, ReWire provides 
the following possibilities and features:
Real-time streaming of up to 64 separate audio chan-
nels (256 with ReWire2), at full bandwidth, from the “syn-
thesizer application” into the “mixer application”.
In this case, the “mixer application” is of course Cubase Essential. An ex-
ample of a “synthesizer application”...