Steinberg V-Stack Operation Manual
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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, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. All product and company names are ™ or ® trademarks of their respective owners. Windows 2000 and Windows XP are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. © Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, 2004. All rights reserved .
V-ST ACK 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 ACK 21 Installation and requirements for Mac OS X 22About this chapter 22Requirements 25Hardware installation 26Installing V-ST ACK 27 Setting up your system 28About this chapter 29Setting up audio (stand-alone) 33Setting up MIDI (stand-alone) 35Setting up VST System Link 41Activating VST System Link 43Setting up MIDI for VST System Link 45Optimizing audio performance 49 Guided tour 50The main windows in V-ST ACK 57 VST Instruments 58Introduction 58Installing VST Instruments 60Activating and using VST Instruments 67 The Mixer 68About this chapter 68About the signal flow 69A word about window handling 70Mixer overview 76Mixer View options 82Basic mixing procedures 85Making EQ settings 89Routing 93Utility functions 101 Audio effects 102Background 103Installing effect plug-ins 105Using effects 118The Plug-in Information window 123 Remote controlling the Mixer 124Background 124Operations 127Remote control device specifics
V-ST ACK Table of Contents 5 141 File handling 142File Operations 145 Menu reference 146About this chapter 146V-ST ACK menu (Mac OS X only) 146File menu 147Edit menu 148Devices menu 149Help menu 151 Index
V-ST ACK 1 – 8 Introduction Welcome! Thank you for purchasing V-ST ACK ! 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 with no equivalent in hardware. VST Instruments can often be more flexible than hardware synthesiz- ers, allowing for total recall and full automation of all parameters, patch- ing and mixing in the digital domain, graphic interfaces and solutions that wouldn’t be possible in hardware, etc. However, any computer can only play so many VST Instruments at a time – and typically, the more advanced a VST Instrument is, the more processing power it requires. Enter Steinberg’s VST System Link! This revolutionary system makes it possible to have several computers working together as one large system, with no other requirements than ASIO compatible audio inter- faces with digital audio connections. Computers connected via VST System Link will freely exchange audio and MIDI data, all in perfect sync, creating a digital audio network system. This provides an excellent solution to the problem of CPU-hungry VST Instruments: let one computer play audio and MIDI tracks and dedi- cate another computer to running VST Instruments only, taking full ad- vantage of all available processor power! V-ST ACK is the perfect application for this: a stand-alone VST Instru- ment host, supporting up to 16 VST Instruments with full mixing capa- bilities and VST effect support. The VST Instruments are controlled via MIDI over VST System Link or from a regular MIDI interface (e.g. for live use) and the audio can be freely routed to any outputs on your au- dio interface. Since there is no editing, event handling, etc. all pro- cessing power can be focused on VST Instruments and effects! We hope you will enjoy working with V-ST ACK ! Your Steinberg team.
V-ST ACK Introduction 1 – 9 About the program and the manual V-ST ACK 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 both under Windows and Mac OS X. The screenshots are taken from the Windows version. Key command conventions Some key commands in V-ST ACK use modifier keys, some of which are different depending on the operating system. For example, the de- fault key command for Copy is [Ctrl]-[C] under Windows and [Com- mand]-[C] under Mac OS X. When key commands with modifier keys are described in this manual, they are shown with the Windows modifier key first, in the following form: [Win modifier key]/[Mac modifier key]-[key] For example, [Ctrl]/[Command]-[C] means “press [Ctrl] under Win- dows or [Command] under Mac OS X, then press [C]”.