Hello Elektronauts,
I have a stupid question 
I’ve just got my Heat MK2 and worked it inside Cubase 12 thus a USB connection.
But when I’m exporting the track it comes out with no effects by the unit.
do I need an audio analog PL connection to render/export my track with the extra distortion from your unit?
Many thanks
…u can run it via overbridge as a dedicated plugin OR u gotto go for the classic way and insert it in/out via ur audiointerface…
if u use the usb connection without any ob implementation it’s working as classcompliant audiointerface of it’s own…
dunno the actual status of ob meets cubase…
but if u wanna harvest heats unique analog charme, i’d say u connect it as classsic outboard fx via some additional ins and outs of ur interface and deal with ur cubase internal mixer routing options…
You need to render it in realtime, otherwise it won’t work (not sure if that is what it is called in Cubase, but in Bitwig you haev a choice between real time and offline rendering)
…and sure, there is no offline bouncing ever possible, no matter how u connect it, since at it’s core it a truu analog device…
but no matter how digital only u work, once ur done, one last render in realtime is always a good choice…
Okay thank you all
I’ll try the real-time and if it doesnt do the job I will go classic analog in out
I use to work with my tubes unit distortion and it can do a “realtime render” but with Heat MK2 cubase dont so that… strange maybe diffrent plugin type…
Cheers!
Real-time export should work in Cubase.
I tend to render any parts using the Heat to audio before I bounce a track, and then disable the original track. That way, if I want to make any minor mix changes after the fact I don’t have to do another real-time export. Ditto for any other tracks using outboard gear.