VST to host ASIO input

Cubase
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I am hoping someone on here might have a better response for me than google…

I am simply looking for a vst that can read from an asio driver and send that audio in cubase as the vst audio output.

I am on windows and so have no aggregate device such as that on Mac.

I have tried asio4all in the past but it is quite buggy and has horrible latency (for me).

I am looking for something like this

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/vst_interfaced_asio_host_by_christian_budde

but it appears this is no longer available.

My specific use case right now is to record the USB audio from a roland tr-8. The tr-8 has the ability to assign specific sounds to a specific audio output, however there are not enough individual outs to capture every channel independently. The USB carries each channel on their own.

Here is where I expect to be told this could never be sample accurate and latency and all of the other things that wouldn’t be perfect… none of those matter.

Recording the analog inputs wouldnt be sample accurate and and would be missing half the channels. And if tr8 is being used by cubase as asio, then the output from project would be sent to tr8 to output and I would have to find some way to monitor that.

I need to be able to record the tr8 usb output while I am playing the project so I can … play along.

In theory I could attempt this with Reaper and reastream but I would prefer not to have Reaper open.

Was wondering if anybody has any other suggestions besides the link above that appears to no longer be available.

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Have a look at Blue Cat Audio’s tutorial on using a combination of PatchWork and Connector. Both are available in free trial versions.

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I’m using Coconut. Not the most intuitive to use… but works well.

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Thank you for the link. I actually bought Connector for something else a few years back and didn’t even think of it, so I decided to try this.

Setting up PatchWork was a royal pain. The TR8 has 11 instrument outs (mono) and a stereo pair for the normal mix output. Patchwork only allows 8 slots, so I had to set it up using 6 stereo pairs.

That was a new mess, splitting the mono into stereo. I tried Martin’s instructions from here ( [SOLVED] Split stereo channel into two mono channels/buses - #4 by Martin.Jirsak ) but that did not want to work in C15. Ended up getting it working Meldas MChannelMatrix.

But it appears to have solved my immediate problem, so thank you very much for the suggestion and the link to actually setting it up!

In a perfect world, there would be an alternate version of the Connector plugin that “got” its sound from an ASIO device on the system and would setup the VST outputs to the users desire (in this case I would setup 11 monos) and just fed that into Cubase like any other VST.

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