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Audio Connections
To play back and record in Cubase, you must set up input and output busses in the Audio Connections window. Here, you can also set up group and FX channels, external effects, external instruments, and the Control Room.
External Instruments and Effects
You can integrate external effect devices and external instruments, for example, hardware synthesizers, into the sequencer signal flow.
Setting up External Instruments
You must set up external instruments in Cubase before you can use them.
Sending MIDI Notes to External Instruments
You can send MIDI notes from a MIDI track to an external instrument.

Sending MIDI Notes to External Instruments

You can send MIDI notes from a MIDI track to an external instrument.

Prerequisite

Set up your external instruments in the Audio Connections window and add a MIDI track.

Procedure

In the Inspector, open the Output Routing pop-up menu for the corresponding MIDI track.
Select the MIDI device to which the external instrument is connected.

Result

The instrument plays any MIDI notes that it receives from the track and returns them to Cubase through the return channels that you have set up. Delay compensation is used.

The external instrument behaves like any other VST instrument in Cubase.