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Quick question for you guys. My last soundcard was an Emu1820m. When my desktop died and I switched strictly to my faster laptop, I ended up with an Ultralite, as I eventually plan to go with a Macbook Pro around the end of the year.

With the 1820m, I could create and ASIO send in it's Patchmix sotfware (aimilar to Cue Mix) and use this to route the audio of a VSTi hosted in Cubase SX3.1, directly back into an SX audio track.

Essentially, it let me record (in real-time) the output of VSTi's, and skip the MIDI side of things all together. I use a Virus Ti, thus I am able to record it digitally with messing with SPDIF.

Is there any way to do something similar with the Ultralite and Cuemix? I see an option "Cuemix input includes Computer Output". BUt even when checked, I don't see any additional input channels. Am I misinterpretting what this does?

if i remember correctly, one of the in/out pairs the motu should present are two "mix" pairs...
all you should have to do is send your master output to mix pair one, and then set your new record track to use mix 1 as input (but don't output that channel to mix 1!).

how you get it to show up, on a pc, i'm not sure of honestly...but i don't think you even need to open cuemix???

Ok, I can see that "Mix" option as an available input in SX now. I'm not sure I follow you on this part though:

"all you should have to do is send your master output to mix pair one, and then set your new record track to use mix 1 as input (but don't output that channel to mix 1!). "

That sounds like it would route the entire SX mixdown to this new channel, when all I want is one VSTi output. Any ideas or clarification? Thanks, sorry to be a newbie when it comes to MOTU stuff.

If worse comes to worse, I guess I'll route the VSTi audio to the SPDIF, loop that back into the SPDIF input on the Ultralite, and record that.

The SPDIF Loopback works fine, so I'll just stick to this. Thanks for your help!

tarekith i used to do that with my m-audio. the routing needs to be a little more flexible on the MOTU's. heres how to do it though.

on the cuemix console check file > cuemix includes computer output.
then solo the VSTI track and on the audio track you are recording on select the MOTU mix as your input not analog 1 2 etc... solo the audio track too. then record the VSTi. with better routing options you wouldnt have to solo anything.

or you could select bus output as analog 3 and 4 (Mix1>3&4) in cuemix then in SX select outputs 3 and 4 for the VSTI and record in mix inputs on the audio track in SX. then on the MOTU change mix1 back to main outs.

either way on the cuemix console check file > cuemix includes computer output.


the last way is probably better.