Routing tracks in Cubase to outboard compressor

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Hello!

How can i route a audio track from cubase(sx3) and into my outboard compressor and back into cubase, and only monitor the new processed signal?
My soundcard is a Focusrite Saffire...

sorry for n()()bing...

thank you

 

[006]

You need to go into your Device menu and then VST Connections. Add a Stereo Bus on the outputs, and set it as outputs 1/2 or 3/4, etc. whichever one you aren't using for monitors. When you do that, then go to the track that you want to send out to a compressor and set it's output to 1, 2, 3 or 4, or whatever you have made. Then you will find that suddenly you cannot hear that track anymore. Connect the output you have designated to the compressor input, and plug the compressor's output to an input on the Saffire. Make a track in Cubase with that input then set it's output to the same as all the other tracks, and when you hit play you should start hearing the audio again from that track, but now it's coming from the compressor.

I use a Saffire Pro and Cubase 4 myself, btw.

~006

 

[Let it burn...]

i read a piece once about how to set this up as an external FX in the device manager. You could use the comp like a vst effect in your mixer window like that

 

[006]

Ooooooooo now that sounds tasty. If you could find that again I'd really like to take a look at it!

~006

 

[Seizure.]

Its pretty simple, i do it all the time with my BBE and compressors.

 

[Let it burn...]

Ooooooooo now that sounds tasty. If you could find that again I'd really like to take a look at it!

~006

you can just assign them in the vst connections window (F4). Select your output and your input. should work like a charm. I believe the article was on the soundonsound website btw

here's a video of it in progress: http://www.steinbergusers.com/vids/XML_players/cubase/cubase_videos.html
click on External FX in the right hand column

 

[LSD-Studio]

don't know about SX, but it's really easy in Cubase4 as well..
in "vst-connections" go to "external FX", add a stereo-FX, name it compressor and assign the in/outputs of the device.

now that compressor (or EQ or Reverb...) appears in you normal FX-List like all the plugins. you can just choose them as an effect to be inserted like every other plugin now.

 

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You need to go into your Device menu and then VST Connections. Add a Stereo Bus on the outputs, and set it as outputs 1/2 or 3/4, etc. whichever one you aren't using for monitors. When you do that, then go to the track that you want to send out to a compressor and set it's output to 1, 2, 3 or 4, or whatever you have made. Then you will find that suddenly you cannot hear that track anymore. Connect the output you have designated to the compressor input, and plug the compressor's output to an input on the Saffire. Make a track in Cubase with that input then set it's output to the same as all the other tracks, and when you hit play you should start hearing the audio again from that track, but now it's coming from the compressor.

I use a Saffire Pro and Cubase 4 myself, btw.

~006

Thank you very much!
btw, Saffire rulz!

 

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Thank you guys for helping me out on this one!