using rackmount effects on cuabse
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Chris Tondreau
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That depends on what exactly you're trying to do. Cubase VST, on its own, has only inputs and outputs. Your hardware will have sends/returns/aux, etc. or not. The sends you see in Cubase will send the signal through a virtual chain for plug-ins - compression, reverb, and the like. These are purely software-based, though.
If you have something recorded in Cubase, and want to apply effects via your rack, there are easy ways to do it, though, and this also depends on what your setup is like and what you're trying to do. You could run from an output in Cubase (ideally via the aux bus, if your setup/soudcard allows it) through your effects rack, and from one of the outputs of the effects rack going back into Cubase. You would then enable another track, and record this as essentially "new" audio on a new track.
Alternately, if you mix down to another source, and your setup is more elaborate, you could do something like this.... Enable all 16 outputs from Cubase going into all 16 inputs of a mixer, and from there route various send/returns through your effects rack, and have the master bus from the 16-channel mixer going to a 2" tape machine.... I wish....
Chris
If you have something recorded in Cubase, and want to apply effects via your rack, there are easy ways to do it, though, and this also depends on what your setup is like and what you're trying to do. You could run from an output in Cubase (ideally via the aux bus, if your setup/soudcard allows it) through your effects rack, and from one of the outputs of the effects rack going back into Cubase. You would then enable another track, and record this as essentially "new" audio on a new track.
Alternately, if you mix down to another source, and your setup is more elaborate, you could do something like this.... Enable all 16 outputs from Cubase going into all 16 inputs of a mixer, and from there route various send/returns through your effects rack, and have the master bus from the 16-channel mixer going to a 2" tape machine.... I wish....
Chris