Steinberg Cubase LE Operation Manual

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The “Active ASIO Ports for Data only” setting
If you are sending huge amounts of MIDI data at once, there is a small 
possibility that you might run out of bandwidth on your VST System 
Link network. This will manifest itself by notes “choking” or timing be-
coming erratic. 
If this happens, you can devote more bandwidth to MIDI by selecting 
Active ASIO Ports for Data only in the VST System Link Setup panel. 
When this is active, the VST System Link information will be...

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3.Assign the output of the reverb to another bus (e.g. Bus 3).
This is done using the output routing pop-up menu in the VST Send Effects window.
4.Assign the VST instrument stereo channel to yet another bus (e.g. 
Bus 4).
5.Go back to Computer 1 and add four new stereo audio tracks.
These should be routed to the bus you use for listening, e.g. to the analog stereo out-
puts.
6.Use the Input pop-up menus in the Mixer to select the four VST Sys-
tem Link buses (one for...

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Setting up a larger network
This is not much more difficult than a two computer network. The main 
thing to remember is that VST System Link is a daisy chain system. In 
other words, the output of Computer 1 goes to the input of Computer 
2, the output of Computer 2 goes to the input of Computer 3, and so 
on around the chain. The output of the last computer in the chain must 
always go back into the input of Computer 1, to complete the ring.
Once youve done this, the...

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Application examples
Using one computer for VST instruments
In this example, you are using one computer as your main record and 
playback machine, and want to use another computer as a virtual 
synth rack. 
1.Record a MIDI track into Computer 1. 
2.Once you have finished recording, route the MIDI output 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.Create a...

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Creating a virtual effect rack
The effect sends for an audio channel in Cubase LE can either be 
routed to an effect (in the VST Send Effects rack) or to any activated 
Group or Output bus. This allows you to use a separate computer as 
a “virtual effect rack”, by setting things up in the following way:
1.Go to Computer 2 (the machine you will use as effect rack) and add a 
new stereo audio track.
2.Add the desired effect as an insert effect for the track.
Let’s say you...

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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 could 
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...

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Video 

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Background
Video support in Cubase LE
Cubase LE for Windows can play back video films using one of three 
different playback engines: DirectShow, QuickTime and Video for Win-
dows. This ensures compatibility with as wide a range of video hard-
ware as possible. Cubase LE for Mac OS X plays back video using 
Quicktime.
Generally there are two ways to play back video:
• Without any special hardware at all, using the computer CPU.
In this case, the “codec” is in software. While this...

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Operations
About the video playback engine
In Cubase LE for Windows, you select a playback engine in the Device 
Setup dialog, under the “Setup” tab for the Video Player device:
What playback engine to select depends largely on which type of 
video system you are using, as well as on the file format and codec of 
the video files you want to work with. Below is a brief guide to which 
formats you may be able to use with the different playback engines. 
However, this also depends on...

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Importing a video file
Video files are imported just as audio files, see page 68.
•By using the File menu (Import Videofile).
•By using drag and drop.
•By importing to the Pool first and then dragging to the Project window 
(see the Pool chapter for details).
Note:
• To be able to play back the video, you must add a video track (by using the 
Add Track submenu on the Project menu or Quick menu). You can only have 
one video track in each project.
• All video files on the track...