Longshot: Anyone here use Cubase?

[WC]

Just wondered if there are any musicians here among you. Surely there must be some here, despite this being a Digital graphics forum.

If anyone does use Cubase and has some experience with it, I'd really like to ask you a few questions about it.

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[dperceful]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Welshcat:
<B>Just wondered if there are any musicians here among you. Surely there must be some here, despite this being a Digital graphics forum.

If anyone does use Cubase and has some experience with it, I'd really like to ask you a few questions about it.
</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

we ought to team up, seems like we have common interests and frustrations. :-)

what you want to know?

Between me and some audio fanatics i work with we might be able to help you out.

don't expect a response tonight. i'm feeling a little under the weather so i'll be offline until tomorrow.

dperceful

[This message has been edited by dperceful (edited 07-17-2003).]

[Darth_zaiyen]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dperceful:
<B> we ought to team up, seems like we have common interests and frustrations. :-)
</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I don't know that Welshcat has ever collaberated with someone! It would be like, the sign of the apocalypse or something!

[swingerbone]

Well I played trombone for 7 years and guitar for about 5...

I have an electric as well as a 12-string electric-acoustic.

I'm also trying to change majors into audio production... where I could work on commercial audio like in commercials, TV and movies, or into music...

Welshcat, I did a little research and it seems Cubase might be equatable to something like Cakewalk... which I have used.
www.cubase.com (http://www.cubase.com) seems to have some forums that might be helpful for you if you can't turn up anything here.



[This message has been edited by swingerbone (edited 07-17-2003).]

[WC]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Darth_zaiyen:
I don't know that Welshcat has ever collaberated with someone! It would be like, the sign of the apocalypse or something!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Meoww you clown! I've worked with lots of musicians and singers before, so you'd better get started on learning that Skeeter Davis song! http://www.comics2film.com/UBB/smile.gif

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Dperceful:
<B>
we ought to team up, seems like we have common interests and frustrations. :-)

what you want to know?

Between me and some audio fanatics i work with we might be able to help you out.

don't expect a response tonight. i'm feeling a little under the weather so i'll be offline until tomorrow.

dperceful </B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Are you a musician too? That's cool if you are. What do you play? That'd be cool to team up - i'm always on the lookout for musicians and singers. What Cubase frustrations do you have?

I had a ton of questions last night, but I seem to have figured a few out, but I'm still stuck with lots of things with Cubase SX. Here's the current problem:

I know that MIDI files (eg transfered from a keyboard) can be quantized and any wrong notes can be corrected on the score editor in Cubase, but can the same be done for an AUDIO file (eg if a guitar or trumpet solo are recorded but have a few wrong notes or are slightly out of sync)? What I've read in the Cubase manual seems to suggest that only MIDI files can be quantized and note corrected, but surely professional musicians have their playing corrected as they can't be perfect?

Any ideas on this? Swingerbone, you might know about this. If you've used Cakewalk, then yes, Cubase is pretty similar - just a competitive product. And probably some questions I have relate to studio recording in general. So all help would be appreciated.

Hope you feel better soon, Dperceful.

Thanks
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[This message has been edited by Welshcat (edited 07-18-2003).]

[dperceful]

eek! i know you can do this in pro tools, but in cubase. hmmmmmm. let me put out some emails to some audio editing buddies of mine.

oh yeah, i'm not a musician, i just did 5 years of radio, i was a production manager and on-air talent. that's where my audio background comes from, producing commercials, putting together remixes, blah blah.

thanks, i'm feeling much better.

dperceful

[WC]

Pro Tools? That has that Beat Detective thing, right? Does it definitely quantize Audio tracks rather than Midi?

That's cool that you did that audio production. You're the kind of person I really need to help me with some of this sound engineering stuff. http://www.comics2film.com/UBB/smile.gif

BTW, the Cubase forums don't seem the most friendly places. They aren't very helpful unlike the people here who are generally very willing to help. They [Cubase] just tell me to go back and read the manual (which I've done and is several thousand pages long anyway), which is like someone here asking for help with Photoshop and being told to go back and read it themselves. The clowns! http://www.comics2film.com/UBB/frown.gif

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[dperceful]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Welshcat:
<B>Pro Tools? That has that Beat Detective thing, right? Does it definitely quantize Audio tracks rather than Midi?....
</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

you are correct. i'm fairly certain it does what you need, i haven't used it in a while but i'm pretty sure it'll do what you want.

a buddy of mine just upgraded to pro tools 6.1, he's out of pocket this weekend and he really is the one i would ask for sure (he uses if professionally everyday), so don't quote me, but from my experiences (those experiences were years ago) your good with pro tools for what you need.

also check out
http://www.wavedigital.com/systems/digi001/digi_001_software_features_pro_t.htm

hope it helps

dperceful

[This message has been edited by dperceful (edited 07-18-2003).]

[swingerbone]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dperceful:
<B>eek! i know you can do this in pro tools, but in cubase. hmmmmmm. let me put out some emails to some audio editing buddies of mine.

oh yeah, i'm not a musician, i just did 5 years of radio, i was a production manager and on-air talent. that's where my audio background comes from, producing commercials, putting together remixes, blah blah.

thanks, i'm feeling much better.

dperceful </B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sorry the forums didn't help you out... seemed like a good idea when I came upon it.

[WC]

Hey Dperceful

Since you have an audio background, maybe you could help me with an issue I'm having difficulty with. I'm trying to record vocals (using a microphone, of course) onto Cubase. The microphone is plugged into a Wami Rack (an audio/sound card thing) which is the only socket where my microphone can go into anyway. However, the problem is that although it does record vocals onto the audio track, I can't actually hear anything coming back through my headphones in order to determine the volume or how I'm singing, even with the microphone level or the volume fully turned up. My headphones are currently plugged into my Amp, which is the only way that I can actually hear the other instrumental tracks in order to sing, but nothing comes out of the headphones. If I plug the headphones into the Wami rack or into any other headphone socket on my PC, then I can't hear the instruments (or the microphone for that matter).

Is there a particular microphone set I should know about or do I need an extra piece of equipment like a Mixer? On an earlier ZOOM studio system I had, you could hear the microphones coming through, and even all the send effects that you applied to the vocals, but I can't seem to figure out if I'm doing something wrong here! How can I hear both instruments and vocals at the same time?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks



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[dperceful]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Welshcat:
<B>Hey Dperceful....
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i got the message. let me ask my audio engineering buddy to take a whack at this. he is familiar with all sort of wacky audio setups that i have never seen (including this one).

i'll ask him tomorrow.

dperceful

[dperceful]

hey welsh,

my audio guru dude says this,

"you need a mixer of some sort. plug the output of wami rack into the mixer which will play back recorded tracks. plug the mic into input of mixer. send output of mixer to wami rack. monitor with headphones at the mixer."

see if that works. if it does the consulting fee is $75 an hour. ;-)

dperceful

[WC]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dperceful:
<B>hey welsh,

my audio guru dude says this,

"you need a mixer of some sort. plug the output of wami rack into the mixer which will play back recorded tracks. plug the mic into input of mixer. send output of mixer to wami rack. monitor with headphones at the mixer."

see if that works. if it does the consulting fee is $75 an hour. ;-)

dperceful</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks! I'll look into it. BTW, is this guru a Wami Swami? http://www.comics2film.com/UBB/biggrin.gif

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[This message has been edited by Welshcat (edited 07-25-2003).]