bullet biting - cubase

[jprime]

Okay, I bit the bullet and picked up cubase sx3. Just went through the manual a bit last night for the first time...what a beast this program is.
Looking forward to making a track with it in 2010...lol...

Any cubase tips are appreciated. EZ!

Builtin timestreching and pitch shifting == teh shit!

[Code]

http://www.cubase.net/phpbb2/

[whatitdo]

use the tutorials on the dvd. They will get you started up pretty quick. You will need to get a sampler at some point, as it doesnt include one.

[P.A.R.T.Y]

Sweet dude! Cubase SX is a phenomenal program, but it will take time to master. ^ 'Watch the DVD.`^ <---What an idiot, if you bought the program you`re going to watch the DVD. I want to personally bitch slap all these twinkies and their usless advice.

Lets get down to the program. Here you have Cubase SX, the single most relied upon and trusted music software/production studio on the planet. Everyone uses it (there was that protools fad in early 2000)
The mixer is the best. You can expand and watch your track on large UV`s instead of the basic UV`s they offer standard, so expand and experiment. Also, the master bus has a send output. Mux offered us a great VST plug-in that works great as a send output on the Master stereo output on BUS1. The EQ is the shit, make sure to eliminate those pesky bass frequencies when your mixing your highs. VST`s--> So easy to add and tweak, you can automate them in the channel by clicking the add button. Softsynths can be tweaked the same way. OK, get to know your keyboard. G and H are your zoom in and zoom out. f2, f3, f4, etc.. extremely useful. Control S (save) Control Z (undo) Control shift Z (Redo) This is extremely important. The Pool, you can convert mono files to stereo and vice versa, drag and drop, drag and drop files betweem two projects, listen before you add things to the pool, etc.
OMG, there is so much stuff, you just need to read the manual and you will have it. MIDI- So easy to use, just hook it up, play, record, fix, playback, and record audio. That`s the way to write a track.

[sh4un]

cubase 4 will be out soon or is out

[jprime]

Originally Posted by P.A.R.T.Y

Sweet dude! Cubase SX is a phenomenal program, but it will take time to master. ^ 'Watch the DVD.`^ <---What an idiot, if you bought the program you`re going to watch the DVD. I want to personally bitch slap all these twinkies and their usless advice.

Lets get down to the program. Here you have Cubase SX, the single most relied upon and trusted music software/production studio on the planet. Everyone uses it (there was that protools fad in early 2000)
The mixer is the best. You can expand and watch your track on large UV`s instead of the basic UV`s they offer standard, so expand and experiment. Also, the master bus has a send output. Mux offered us a great VST plug-in that works great as a send output on the Master stereo output on BUS1. The EQ is the shit, make sure to eliminate those pesky bass frequencies when your mixing your highs. VST`s--> So easy to add and tweak, you can automate them in the channel by clicking the add button. Softsynths can be tweaked the same way. OK, get to know your keyboard. G and H are your zoom in and zoom out. f2, f3, f4, etc.. extremely useful. Control S (save) Control Z (undo) Control shift Z (Redo) This is extremely important. The Pool, you can convert mono files to stereo and vice versa, drag and drop, drag and drop files betweem two projects, listen before you add things to the pool, etc.
OMG, there is so much stuff, you just need to read the manual and you will have it. MIDI- So easy to use, just hook it up, play, record, fix, playback, and record audio. That`s the way to write a track.

I am going out of my skin. I am so busy with work and family that I have had little to no time to play with my new toy. I've told my wife that I am locking myself up this Saturday night and getting down with cubase.
I'm sure I'll be back with some more technical questions / cryptic manual translations shortly. I'm really excited to be moving away from Reason, despite my previous allegiance to it.

[whatitdo]

Originally Posted by P.A.R.T.Y

Sweet dude! Cubase SX is a phenomenal program, but it will take time to master. ^ 'Watch the DVD.`^ <---What an idiot, if you bought the program you`re going to watch the DVD. I want to personally bitch slap all these twinkies and their usless advice.

Easy, mate. You must know loads of people that refuse to read the manual/documents (ironically something YOU suggest at the end of your post) when they get a new product. I was simply saying the tutorials are useful.

[Goodfellow]

bit the bullit??? don't tell me you bought it haha shit. download it!

Originally Posted by sh4un

cubase 4 will be out soon or is out

october 9th i believe! Im stoked

[ill-esha]

I'm here when you have questions :) I've been using SX ever since version 1 came out, and I was on Nuendo before that (nearly the exact same program)

[NinjaBoy]

Originally Posted by Goodfellow

bit the bullit??? don't tell me you bought it haha shit. download it!

It's better to buy it if your using it for more then just screwing around.

[Goodfellow]

Originally Posted by NinjaBoy

It's better to buy it if your using it for more then just screwing around.

I use it for more than just "screwin around"

explain ?

[Royal_Phunk]

I love Cubase but their security is absolutely retarded on how much it actually effects the functionality of their program.

To get some of the facts
straight we're going to reveal some secrets about the copy
protection itself, and why we stated that it severely impacts
performance.


Info from Syncrosoft website:


"Syncrosoft's protection solution is different from
mainstream software copy protection methods. It is based on a
secure executer, the eLicenser, and the patented MCFACT
technology" "At runtime, the transformed program code does not
reveal its semantics. The eLicenser's crypto-services are called
from time to time by the transformed program code." The
transformed program code is represented as tables in the computers
memory. An adversary can not reverse-engineer or debug the tables,
because a reverse transformation from the tables to original
program code is not feasible. If the tables are manipulated, the
transformed program code will crash or produce invalid results."
Transformation is based on replacing ordinary machine code into
tables representing results from calculations


Example:

Adding 2 numbers Normal machine-code would look something like :

Add eax, ebx


This will take 1 CPU cycle to execute.



Now comes MCFACT :


1) Transform the first number into a table

2) Transform the second number into a table

3) Do allot of manipulation of these tables

4) More manipulation

5) Transform the Tables back to the numbers

6) Add the 2 numbers


This entire piece takes up hundreds of machine code lines and a
lot of loops inside this code...estimated CPU-cycles <insert
number greater than 1 here>

No performance loss? We don't think so..........

And this code runs all the time!!......The dongle in fact is only
called 1 out of 10 times inside these scripts.........

A good example is the protection build in the midi-part. This is
entirely wrapped in the script-crap. Try moving a note and swirl
it around.....you should notice a sluggishness in the movement.
In fact u will notice an improvement in version 3.1 prior to the
3.0 release. This is not due to improvements made by Steinberg
(the midi-engine is still the same) but improvements made by
Syncrosoft! (They optimized the script engine)!!!!!!!


To give the end user some peace of mind: the scripts aren't built
into the real-time audio-engine.....this is impossible because of
the performance loss u would have from the MCFACT.

bottom line the downloadable version works more smoothly if i used it and wanted to support steinberg id go buy it then download it and use that one.

[P.A.R.T.Y]

So your saying that the crack versions of Cubase SX are better than the original packaged versions at Tom Lee, because the dongle/security parameters work against the computers CPU?

I personally use the crack version of Cubase SX. I bought Cubase Audio for my Atari Falcon and had dongles, manuals, etc. Atari support was discontinued and I was unable to update the program. Since then, I have used a cracked version with few problems. One example of a problem occuring recently was when I discovered that the master Bus1 output had a 16 bit dithering plug-in attached without my knowledge.
In the end, I don`t feel guilty, because I supported Steinberg when I bought the Atari software in the 90`s.

It`s so interesting to see the evolution on Cubase. It always getting better and better. It`s essential to read the manuals; so many people think they can get it without any reading and give up because they find it`s too difficult. For sure it`s difficult,I just discovered a something new about it yesterday...

Holding the Alt key and touching the part/loop (right corner) in the track produces a pen, then you can drag pen over and past the part and copy the part/loop exactly to the end points as many times as you like. Excellent for sample based tracks.

[jprime]

You ever heard Bassnectar?

[Cosmonaut]

I am taking up a course on Cubase, also Reason, got Ableton coming up as well

[a10aleks]

I love Cubase! And Logic! And Ableton Live!

Originally Posted by a10aleks

I love Cubase! And Logic! And Ableton Live!

I think that is the first time I have ever heard anyone say that they love Logic and Cubase. PC or MAC ?

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