External Instruments and Effects

You can integrate external effect devices and external instruments, for example, hardware synthesizers, into the sequencer signal flow.

Requirements

To use external effects, you need the following:

  • Audio hardware with multiple inputs and outputs.

    You need at least one input and one output or input/output pairs for stereo effects, in addition to the input/output ports that you use for recording and monitoring.

  • A MIDI interface that is connected to your computer.

  • Audio hardware with low-latency drivers.

    Cubase compensates for the input/output latency and ensures that the audio that is processed through external effects is not shifted in time.