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VST Connections
Setting up busses
Adding input and output busses
Depending on whether you have selected the Inputs or the Outputs tab in the VST
Connections window, the corresponding busses are listed, with the following
information:
To add an input or output bus, proceed as follows:
1. Open the Inputs or Outputs tab depending on the type of bus that you want to
add.
2. Click the Add Bus button.
A dialog opens.
3. Select a (channel) configuration.
The Configuration pop-up menu contains a Mono and a Stereo option as well as
several surround formats (Cubase only). Additional surround formats are listed on
the “More…” submenu.
4. Enter a name for the bus.
If you do not specify a name, the bus is named according to the channel
configuration.
5. Click the Add Bus button.
The new bus appears with the ports visible.
6. For each of the speaker channels in the bus, click in the Device Port column to
select a port on your audio hardware.
The pop-up menu that opens lists the ports with the names you have assigned in
the Device Setup dialog.
Column Description
Bus Name Lists the busses. You can select and rename busses by clicking
on them in this column.
Speakers Indicates the speaker configuration (mono, stereo, surround
formats (Cubase only)) of each bus.
Audio Device This shows the currently selected ASIO driver.
Device Port If a bus entry is expanded to show all speaker channels, this
column shows which physical inputs/outputs on your audio
hardware are used by the bus. If the bus entry is collapsed, only
the first port used by this bus is visible here.
Click (Outputs tab only) You can route the click to a specific output bus, regardless of
the actual Control Room output, or even when the Control
Room is disabled.