INPUTs / OUTPUTs - Please UNconfuse me

… Another way to think of VSTis is just the same way you would about external synths… i think this is easier if you use the VSTi rack as opposed to instrument tracks, also more functionality from the rack… and then think of the VSTi track that it creates as a ‘normal’ audio input track, you also need to create a separate midi track if you use this method too so it’s pretty much exactly the same as using an external synth if you think about it.

This probably would’ve been easier for you to understand if Cubase had traditional busses. Let’s take a group track for example. Traditionally, you would take whatever tracks you wanted to group and assign their outputs to a buss. Then you would take any available track (or create an aux/group track in a DAW) and assign its input to the same bus. Makes sense, right?

However, in Cubase, you create the group track first and then you assign the outputs of the tracks directly to the group track, skipping the whole “bussing” process.

Although Cubase has several options of recording/converting an instrument track to audio, there’s not a straightforward and intuitive way to do it. All of the aforementioned methods work perfectly fine. It just seems like one of those things that you just need someone to show/tell you how to do it and then it makes sense.

Glad to hear that the video helped you.

Dave