Is it possible to use the Rack as an external effects processor?

For example: With the mLan, send an audio signal to the rack and use its internal reverb, and then send it back out?

Just curious, as the Rack’s internal reverb would most likely sound different than the Insert reverb effect inside Cubase.

Is it possible to use the Rack as an external effects processor?

For example: With the mLan, send an audio signal to the rack and use its internal reverb, and then send it back out?

Well, yes, you can. But you would do so only because you feel the Reverb (REV-X) is a better reverb you are using elsewhere. Not just that it is different (lol).

Again at the deeper end of the routing pool, you can setup an audio track in your DAW to be routed to the internal Motif-Rack XS mixer via FW, where you can process the signal using the internal SYSTEM EFFECTS of the Motif-Rack XS.

You would setup a routing that allowed you to monitor this, get it like you like it, then mute the rest of the Tracks so that the signal you want to process is in isolation, return that audio back to your DAW (recording the results on a stereo track) through the main L/R outputs of the Motif-Rack XS - this will print a new version of the track through the Rack XS System effects.

While the answer is yes, the specifics depends on your software. But it is something I do all the time because I find the REV-X has quickly become my favorite reverb (especially for vocals).

As you realize the Motif-Rack XS is designed to process its own signals with its own effects, but you can with the mLAN/Firewire connection return signal from your DAW via the second pair of audio returns ("Motif-Rack XS FW L” / “Motif-Rack XS FW R")… it arrives in the Motif-Rack XS mixer on its own discreet mLAN channel of the mixer, here you can apply REVERB and CHORUS SEND amounts to that returning signal.

You have to then route it back (return it) to the DAW via the main Left & Right OUTPUTS (you are using SYSTEM EFFECTS, after all), this is why you want to isolate the signal when you are actually “printing” the track. Reverb returns are always a composite signal of everything being sent into the processor… so during the actual tracking you will mute all other signals… giving the track the reverb chamber all to itself.

Do you know if this can be done in Cubase Studio 5?  I suppose my question really is: do you need the External Instruments capability to do this (which is not available in Studio 5).

Thanks.

This can be done in any of the Cubase versions: 
Cubase AI, Cubase Essential, Cubase Studio, and Cubase