Hours of searching but no answer for my Cubase/ Fast track pro input issue

[Chili]

I feel like the prodigal son. After doing reading and speaking with tech support I realized that the "stereo mix" as shown...This was responsible for allowing me to record general output before i had an external soundcard. Example: Listening to a solo'd MIDI track (triggering a VST) I would simply click new audio track and click record. Ex2: Listening to an audio track, open new audio track and click record (done to record audio with effects to cut CPU use as you know).

This means: I was able to record whatever I heard. That is what I want to be able to do again.

It makes sense why I cannot record now as my inputs have nothing plugged in.
How can I route my output... to my input that is my dilemma.

And just to answer you, I am recording vsts (synth, sampler, etc) or audio loops.

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Okay, that helps. The stereo mix in this case is from your internal sound card. It goes through the mixer in Windows which you can see when you open the Properties page. So, I believe you were using ASIO4ALL with your internal soundcard and it was folding the output back into the input because of the Windows Mixer and you could record it. *I'm guessing that's what happened* The external interface does not go through the Windows Mixer and it doesn't get folded back to the input.

However, I don't think that's the normal way to do things. If you are using VSTi's, you don't need to 'record' it. If you have a midi track triggering a VSTi, then that's all you need. You do have the option of Freezing the track and that will render it to an audio track. This allows you to free up the VSTi (and CPU resources for other uses). If, for some reason, your DAW doesn't allow you to Freeze a track, then you can solo it and export it to an audio mixdown and import it back into your DAW.

To answer your question, I don't think you want to route your output back to your input. If you're using a VSTi in your DAW (Cubase) then it's already there. You don't need to record it.

Does this help???

 

[mup1537]

yes Chili that helps alot....That is kind of the conclusion I came up with speaking to the tech support today but I wanted to believe my way was still possible...I have been fighting this I guess because that seems like a longer process...To mixdown files and import them...And how do I mixdown an audio track with effects on it? Same way I suppose. Yikes

 

[Chili]

yes Chili that helps alot....That is kind of the conclusion I came up with speaking to the tech support today but I wanted to believe my way was still possible...I have been fighting this I guess because that seems like a longer process...To mixdown files and import them...And how do I mixdown an audio track with effects on it? Same way I suppose. Yikes

Yeah, but check to see if your software has a Freeze option. It'll do what you what.

And the mixdown doesn't take very long... a minute or two.

Cool, have fun.

 

[altitude909]

thats what I figured the OP was doing, soft routing the out to a input.

There are a gang of reasons why this is not the way to go, the largest of which is you dont need to since the audio software already does this for you. Doing so will also introduce latency (doing it in software will be sample accurate)