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VST Connections
Setting up busses
Setting the Main Mix bus (the default output bus)
The Main Mix is the output bus that each new audio, group or FX channel is
automatically routed to.
Any of the output busses in the VST Connections window can be the default output
bus. By right-clicking on the name of an output bus, you can set it as the Main Mix bus.
Adding child busses (Cubase only)
A surround bus is essentially a set of mono channels – 6 channels in the case of the
5.1 format. If you have a mono track in the project, you can route it to a separate
speaker channel in the bus (or route it to the parent surround bus and use the
SurroundPanner to position it in the surround image). But what if you have a stereo
track that you simply want to route to a stereo channel pair within the bus (Left and
Right or Left Surround and Right Surround, for example)? For this you need to create
a child bus.
Proceed as follows:
1. In the Bus Name column, select the surround bus and right-click on it to open the
context menu.
2. Select a channel configuration from the “Add Child Bus” submenu.
As you can see, you can create stereo child busses (routed to various speaker
channel pairs in the surround bus) or other surround bus formats (with fewer
channels than the “parent bus”).
The child bus that you created will be available for routing in the MixConsole. It is a
part of the parent surround bus, which means that it has no separate channel.
Although child busses are probably most useful in output busses, you can also create
child busses within a surround input bus – for example if you want to record a stereo
channel pair (e.
g. front left-right) in the surround bus to a separate stereo track.
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The Main Mix is indicated by an orange colored speaker icon next to its name.