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Setting up VST System Link
Introduction
VST System Link is a network system for digital audio that allows you
to have several computers working together in one large system. Un-
like conventional networks it does not require Ethernet cards, hubs, or
CAT-5 cables; instead it uses the kind of digital audio hardware and
cables you probably already possess in your studio.
VST System Link has been designed to be simple to set up and oper-
ate, yet give enormous flexibility and performance gains in use. It is ca-
pable of linking computers in a “ring” network (the System Link signal
is passed from one machine to the next, and eventually returns to the
first machine). VST System Link can send its networking signal over
any type of digital audio cable, including S/PDIF, ADAT, TDIF, or AES,
as long as each computer in the system is equipped with a suitable
ASIO compatible audio interface.
In the case of V-STACK, VST System Link allows you to use the pro-
gram as a dedicated VST Instrument device, played and controlled
from another computer in the VST System Link network. You may lis-
ten to the audio signals from the VST Instruments in V-STACK directly
from the V-STACK computer, or you can route them to the application
on the other computer.