Steinberg V-Stack Operation Manual

 
Operation Manual  

 
Operation Manual by Ludvig Carlson, Anders Nordmark, Roger Wiklander
The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not rep-
resent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The soft-
ware described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be
copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part
of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded,
for any purpose,...

 
Table of contents 

 
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4 Table of Contents 
7 
Introduction 
8Welcome!
9About the program and the 
manual
11 
Installation and
requirements for  
Windows 
12About this chapter
12Requirements
16Hardware installation
18Installing V-ST  
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Installation and 
requirements for  
Mac OS X 
22About this chapter
22Requirements
25Hardware installation
26Installing V-ST  
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27 
Setting up your  
system 
28About this chapter
29Setting up audio
(stand-alone)
33Setting up MIDI 
(stand-alone)
35Setting up VST...

 
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File handling 
142File Operations 
145 
Menu reference 
146About this chapter
146V-ST  
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(Mac OS X only)
146File menu
147Edit menu
148Devices menu
149Help menu 
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Index 

 
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Introduction 

 
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Welcome!
 
Thank you for purchasing V-ST 
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! 
Since Steinberg introduced the VST 2.0 plug-in format a few years back, 
there’s been a rapid development of VST Instruments – software synthe-
sizers and other sound sources played and controlled from within a host 
application. There is now a huge number of VST Instruments available, 
ranging from simple synthesizers and drum machines to exact software 
replicas of vintage synths and extremely advanced sound modules...

 
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About the program and the manual
 
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 comes for two different operating systems or “platforms”; 
Windows and Mac OS X. This manual describes all features in the 
program, for both platforms. While all features are available for both 
platforms, items and naming may differ slightly – whenever this is the 
case it is clearly mentioned in the manual text. In other words: 
• If nothing else is said, all descriptions and procedures in the documenta-
tion are valid...

 
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