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VST Connections

Editing operations

Freezing external effects/instruments

Just as when working with regular VST instruments and effects, you can also choose

to freeze external effects and instruments. The general procedure is described in

detail in the chapters

“Audio effects” on page 227 and “VST instruments and

instrument tracks” on page 252.

When freezing external instruments or effects, you can adjust the corresponding tail

value in the Freeze Channel Options dialog:

• Use the arrow buttons next to the Tail Size value field to set the desired Tail length,

e. the range after the part boundary is also to be included in the freeze. You can

also click directly in the value field and enter the desired value manually (the

maximum value being 60

s).

• When the Tail Size is set to 0 s (default), the freezing will only take into account the

data within the Part boundaries.

Editing operations

On the different tabs of the VST Connections window the corresponding busses or

channels are shown in a table containing a tree view with expandable entries. After

you have set up all the required busses for a project it might be necessary to edit the

names and/or change port assignments. Cubase provides a number of features to

make such tasks easier.

Expanding and collapsing entries

• Bus entries can be expanded or collapsed to show or hide the corresponding

speaker channels or sub-busses by clicking the “+” or “-” sign in front of the

corresponding list entry.

• To expand or collapse all entries on a tab at the same time, use the “+ All” button

or the “-

All” button (respectively) above the tree view.

Determining how many busses a device port is connected to

To give you an idea how many busses a given port is already connected to, the busses

are shown in square brackets on the Device Port pop-up menu, to the right of the port

name.

Up to three bus assignments can be displayed in this way. If more connections have

been made, this is indicated by a number at the far right.

Therefore, if you see the following:

Adat 1 [Stereo1] [Stereo2] [Stereo3] (+2)…

this means that the Adat 1 port is already assigned to three stereo busses plus two

additional busses.

Note that you have to perform Freeze in realtime. Otherwise external effects will not be

taken into account.