Help file for Sound System DMX 6fire 24/96 (LT/Basic)
and Steinberg’s Cubase SX 1.x
first of all, we would like to mention that Steinberg offers a general tutorial about
Cubase on their website as well as FAQs and knowledge-database.
http://www.steinberg.net/en/?sid=0
Getting started
After the first time you start Cubase SX, you of course want to select the ASIO driver
for the card.
To do this, please open the Device Setup window (Devices/ Device Setup) and there,
under VST Multitrack, select “ASIO for DMX 6fire24/96” (the driver is called the same
for all DMX 6fire models).
The ASIO (Audio Streaming Input Output) driver has a special driver architecture
developed by Steinberg which allows a direct communication between audio
hardware and software and avoids the inconvenience of the Windows MME driver.
The advantage of the ASIO driver is the extreme low latency as well as the direct
support of multi I/O audiohardware. The actuall ASIO 2.0 specification also allows
multiclient application.
Now lets look at a typical case: The recording!
When the recording has to be done over the Line-in, this one has to be selected in
the DMX 6fire Control Panel (Mixer/Line-in/Front-Rear-Internal). This also applies for
the Mic/Phono and Coax/Optical options in the Mixer tab of the Control Panel.
Afterwards, the VST Inputs in Cubase must be set to receive an input.
For this you will need to open the VST Input window:
Here you can select, or in other words, activate the inputs you wish to use on the
card. As default is the CD input selected – therefore if the Line-in is needed as
source for the recording, activate this one by pressing the “active” button.
The Line-in (In 3/4) is now ready to be selected in the audio track of your choice as
recording source. This is explained in the next step…
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Open the VST Channel Mixer (Devices/Mixer)