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If you wish, you can plug
your own headphones
into the AUDIO KONTROL 1’s
Headphone
Output Jack
. As you would expect, the
Headphone Output Selector Switch
next to it allows
you to switch between your own mix in the recording room, and what the singer
actually hears in his (her) headphones.
That’s the physical connections dealt with. Now we have to configure our
recording
software
accordingly.
6.1.2. Configuring the Recording Software
General Settings
We will assume here that you have already followed the instructions of the Setup
section and have your AUDIO KONTROL 1 working with your Cubase® LE/Cubase®/
Logic®/Sonar™/… software.
We will be using Steinberg’s Cubase® LE included in AUDIO KONTROL 1 software
bundle. For other recording-capable software, please refer to their operation manu-
als. The basic recording functions are generally quite similar in all of them.
We want to specify in the recording software that the main mix has to be sent to
AUDIO KONTROL 1’s outputs 3 and 4. To do so, we have to configure the virtual
busses in the recording software.
In Cubase® LE, open the
VST Connections
window in the
Devices
menu. There, you
can set up the input busses you need. Check that AUDIO KONTROL 1’s Inputs 1
and 2 are selected for the input bus you are using (you would actually only need
Input 1 if you are recording in mono).
Next, switch to the
Outputs
tab of the same window. Check that AUDIO KONTROL 1’s
Outputs 1, 2, 3 and 4 are selected for the output busses you are using.
Note:
If you wish, you can rename each bus so that you can quickly see in
Cubase® LE’s mixer where each track is going (e.g. “Control Room Left/
Right”, “Input Left/Right”, etc.).
