Anyone know how to use cubase?

[Catalyst77]

It's  only 6 years old!

I guess that's an eternity in software terms though.

[sgmypod]

*L* yeah been a while since I used that one..but was stable as I remember

[Johnny Mac]

Clips!  :D

[Catalyst77]

Clips!  :D

When i get my 5watt trainwreck from HTH i would certainly oblige!


At the moment i'm running pedals into the mixing desk and its sounds like grating a block of iron cheese  :?

[Johnny Mac]

Clips!  :D

When i get my 5watt trainwreck from HTH i would certainly oblige!


At the moment i'm running pedals into the mixing desk and its sounds like grating a block of iron cheese  :?

:lol:

Are you going to mike up your amp or use direct out?

To get you going download a backing track that you fancy and import it into a stereo track. Keep the levels under 0db. Then put your first track down with guitar pan it 30 left, copy and paste the same track and pan 3 right, get the mixer up and use a bit of auto compression on each track to control clipping. Then do the same in the master mixer, export to wav using a bit of dithering and bobs your uncle. Convert to mp3 bung it on your ipod and listen to it in the motor on the way to work!  :D

It may not be the best way of doing it i'm sure so anyone who can tweak that a bit.....

[sgmypod]

Clips!  :D

When i get my 5watt trainwreck from HTH i would certainly oblige!


At the moment i'm running pedals into the mixing desk and its sounds like grating a block of iron cheese  :?

mmmm sounds good

[Catalyst77]

Arggh!

Well ive solved the double tracking problem, but there's still a delay going on.

The means each time i try and layer a track, when i play it back its not in time  :(

Anyone know why this might be??

[_tom_]

Probably your latency settings. I had that same issue with reaper and it wasnt until I got a proper interface that they were fully solved. You can get it halfway there with the onboard sound but its never quite right, at least with my stuff.

[Catalyst77]

Probably your latency settings. I had that same issue with reaper and it wasnt until I got a proper interface that they were fully solved. You can get it halfway there with the onboard sound but its never quite right, at least with my stuff.

Ok

So what's an interface?

Is it some kind of exteranl sound card like an audigy soundblaster?

[_tom_]

Yeah, basically an external soundcard. If you want to use a mic then you'd be best off getting something like an Edirol UA-25EX (which is what I have). It has jack sockets as well so you can plug your guitar straight in and DI into Amplitube or some other software modelling if you wish. Obviously an amp is always going to be better but software modelling is so convenient and you can tweak for hours after recording (may be a good or bad thing depending on your mindset I guess!)

[Dmoney]

anyone got any free software that does the same things?

I have a pod UX1 and pod farm. I just want something i can multitrack with and maybe program some drums easily.

[Catalyst77]

Yeah, basically an external soundcard. If you want to use a mic then you'd be best off getting something like an Edirol UA-25EX (which is what I have). It has jack sockets as well so you can plug your guitar straight in and DI into Amplitube or some other software modelling if you wish. Obviously an amp is always going to be better but software modelling is so convenient and you can tweak for hours after recording (may be a good or bad thing depending on your mindset I guess!)

Ok cheers

At the moment i'm going in via a fostex mixing desk, which is connected to the comp via a usb cable.  I'm guessing this won't solve the problem!

[_tom_]

I dunno really, I've never used a usb desk and I'm not that experienced with recording anyway. You could try adjusting the latency settings in cubase, it'll be the buffer that you want to reduce I think?

anyone got any free software that does the same things?

I have a pod UX1 and pod farm. I just want something i can multitrack with and maybe program some drums easily.

Try www.reaper.fm, its technically free as the evaluation version is still the full one after the "30 day trial" runs out, as far as I'm aware its not illegal unless you're using it for commercial stuff?

[Dmoney]

so it doesnt look up after 30 days?
interesting! i may check it out! can it do basic drum programming too?
im gonna get on it

[_tom_]

Yeah mines still running fine. It just comes up with a nag screen every time you load it, asking you to get a license.

For drum programming I think you're going to need a vst instrument such as ezdrummer or one of the many free ones you can find on kvraudio.com and sites like that.