The aim of this exercise is to set up a basic 8 channel mixer for a Cubase project. This will work on the minimum 3DSP Luna card with DSP to spare. It will include routing to allow recording of live signals from you card's analog input, and routing to loop the entire mix back to Cubase for final mixdown.

  1. Create a new Scope project and add :
  • ASIO Source ( 8 channels),
  • STM 1632 Mixer, 
  • ASIO Destination ( 2 Stereo Channels ) 
  • Analog Source
  1. Connect the components as shown ===>

  1. Double click on the STM1632 mixer so that the full graphical view opens.
  2. Click into the small track name space under the channel 1 fader and type 'Bass' (or whatever name you want to give it ).
  3. Rename the other 7 channels appropriately as per example shown.

 

  1. Open Cubase and start a new project.
  2. Select 'Devices / Setup' from the main menu.
  3. From the left hand devices list, select 'VST Audio System.
  4. In the VST Audio System dropdown to the right, select 'ASIO SCOPE'.
  5. Select the 'OK' push button.

  1. In Cubase, select 'Devices / VST Connections'
  2. Select the 'Inputs' tab.  There should be already one input bus showing by default.
  3. Press the 'Add Bus' button and select 'stereo' to add a stereo input bus.
  4. Rename the first bus 'Luna In'
  5. Rename the second bus 'Mix In'

  1. In Cubase, select 'Devices / VST Connections'
  2. Select the 'Outputs' tab.  There should be already one output bus showing by default.
  3. Press the 'Add Bus' button and select 'stereo' to add a stereo output bus.  Repeat this step 7 times.
  4. Rename each output bus to correspond to the names that you gave to the STM Mixer channels.

Now, you're done !  You now have an 8 track project, easily expandable to 16 channels since the STM1632 has 8 more unused channels at this stage.  Now Cubase is ready to use as a sequencer mixed by Scope.  TIP: When setting up the final mixdown channel in Cubase ( with 'Mix In' as input ), set its output to NONE to avoid a feedback loop.

     
 

 
     
I have included here an XITE-1D project and a Cubase 5.2 project for 64 track recording and mixing.  Note that the XITE-1D has fewer inter DSP connections than the full XITE-1.  So this project will only allow for recording 32 tracks at once, although it can mix the full 64 tracks.

"Recording with Scope and Cubase really bought our music ALIVE !" - Face Off