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Surora23 
Agressive Melodic Disorder
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OK............WELL i just installed cubase and i dont have a damned clue how to work it...it doesnt set up like other sequencers...i have to strat a new project but sends to me to a file directory...(this is like reading another language...) ALL THOSE CUBASE USERS>>> HELP ME!!!!!!!!!?!?!? lol.... preferably b-complex causei think hes pretty fluent...BUT im clueless...i have no idea what to do...CHEERS! 
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24-12-2004 18:11 |
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Surya
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Start new project (empty)
Save it where you want
Add new midi channel
Edit the VST stack and add the VST's you're gonna be using. Now you can select one of these VST's as your OUTPUT for that midi channel
Draw a bar on the midi channel
Double click it
Draw the notes you want.
If you want to use a midi controller, select that as input for the midi channel and record your shit...
Hope that helps!
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"In dnb you should make people jump not swim"
- Pieter Frenssen 2004
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24-12-2004 18:23 |
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Surora23
Agressive Melodic Disorder
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oh my days...thats jus the different language im trying to learn only translated into another...hahah it did help...a little...THANKS!
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24-12-2004 18:32 |
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Surora23
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since ive become extremely comfortable with fruityloops and the vst's i use in it...i could just do my music in fruity...and import to cuibase for a better master yeah?
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24-12-2004 18:36 |
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Surya
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Dunno, depends on the quality of the soundengine of FL, and I don't know if that is worth anything...
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"In dnb you should make people jump not swim"
- Pieter Frenssen 2004
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24-12-2004 18:54 |
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marisol
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FL has a proper audio engine, 32 bit if you want??????
If you want to master in FL just export the entire unmastered track then open up a new project and drop the track into the wav editor at the bottom of the playlist. Now go to audio options and set the monitoring to sinc depth 256 and master away. 
cubase might sound better but believe me its just a mental thing.
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24-12-2004 19:26 |
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djfreemc
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Yup I was a little surprised to the first time I tried out Cubase. I am used to working with FL, which is more like complete music production thing. And when I came to the conclusion that the only thing Cubase does is sequencing (actually quite logical since it is a sequencer) I was quite dissapointed. Especially since I expected this way expensive software to be able to do much more then the cheaper programs I had worked with. But it's good at what it does, U can be sure about that.
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24-12-2004 20:07 |
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Surora23
Agressive Melodic Disorder
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so then since that im 100% comfortable with fruity almost i might as well just stick with it then?
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24-12-2004 20:32 |
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peet
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dude it just needs time to get used to, i worked with it first in april this year, then i dropped it immediately cause i couldn't figure it out. then i played with it again in august, and then finally i made something pretty good in november with it.
you need to learn the shortcuts. thats f2 for controls. f3 for mixer. and f11 for vsts. then get yourself the usual pack of vsts (which is, z3ta+, vanguard, korg legacy, battery, kontakt, altho i havent been able to get the latter two function properly).
oh and it's all about midi. everything is constructed around that. well yeh doh theyve invented it allright. don't see it as a sequencer but as a midi app that you can connect stuff to. it's totally different from reason or fruity.
okay now i'll give you some instrunctions to figure out, so u can get at least sound from it.
make a midi track
press f11
choose a vsti in the popup
select your midi track
on the left set the midi out as the chosen vsti
now press your keyboard and you should hear sound from your vsti. anyway i just got off doing this in cubase, it's just an intro and not even that good, but the thing is, no samples were used. the vsts generate the sounds live.
http://peet.foundname.com/Peet - Snakebite.mp3
oh and the thing why you should continue trying it, cause the people that went as far as trying out cubase, prolly most of m fall off very fast. it's a fucking depressive challenge to get to work with cubase smoothly. it takes lots of time. i still feel like fuck in it. but hell i have to.
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This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by peet: 25-12-2004 02:58.
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25-12-2004 02:55 |
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Glim
Stuck In The Late Nineties
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yeah !!! i came to a brick wall when i first loaded up cubase and eventually dropped it.
its great to see i'm not totally stupid and that u guys have had the same thing happen.
i got cubase sx now and after reading all your comments i'm going to give it another shot as i really want to use my midi keyboard more in my productions.
just one thing though, i dont really know much about vsti's man, do the ones i need come with cubase or do i have to buy/download them from somewhere on the net???
pls help
thanks again
G
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25-12-2004 09:39 |
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djfreemc
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Getting to know cubase is something that will come in handy in a long term anyway, so if u have the chance, you better start getting to know it. A lot of sequencer programs (such as the reason sequencer) use more or less a similar system (if u are working with fruity, that is pretty much the exception to it). The input/output system takes some getting used to. Also If u ever get down to working in a studio it is most likely u will find cubase there.
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25-12-2004 11:16 |
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Dave_Akuma
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keep in mind that cubase is like trigonomotry (i'm not sure if i spelled that right...)...not exactly the easiest program to get your head around, but it is one of the most powerful ( i mean, when the reason heads talk about 'rewire', they're usually talking about rewiring into either cubase or logic (which are pretty much the same thing)...
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25-12-2004 11:20 |
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marisol
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i dont think there is anything cubase can do that FL cant do. As for audio quality Fl is right up there. the Fl synths are not worthy but who cares with all the synths out there. one thing is for certain if you use cubase youll get a nice bad attitude about you since it takes for fukin ever to get a track rollin just ask dave.
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25-12-2004 19:01 |
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peet
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yeh but there are some features that you got in cubase that aren't there or are not as good as in fl. for example the audio sequencing? with timestretching and all. i didn't think fl had that. the thing is it's just a clean midi centered sequencer without all the crap (annex luxury) attached to it. i mean can you connect your 19" rack to reason or fl? neh. not really.
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25-12-2004 19:58 |
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marisol
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| connect your 19" rack to reason or fl? |
with fl you can. you can even control outboard synths with it if you have a midi interface. cubase isnt special. its just old and lots of producer use it so automaticaly newbie producers think they need it to make good tracks. thats just not the case.
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25-12-2004 20:09 |
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Surora23
Agressive Melodic Disorder
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i agree with marisol...i mean ive only been producing for about 8 mnths now, and using fl for about 6 of those mnths...its absolutely insane what it is capable of...and im still learning on the lil tricks...cubase is great softare but for soemthing that is so expensive youd think itd be a little easier or seomthing....
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25-12-2004 20:55 |
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spudleyq
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after ten years of producing........i found that the best sequencer with the highest quality everything.......is good old DOS based T-basic......I mean you can not only sit there for hours on end just to program a 2 bit song......but you can add 6 bit graphics....costing you only a couple hours more!!!
listen folks.......we can argue about which midi sequencer is the best for years.......there's too many good ones out there to say which one is the best......especially since it's all personal opinion anyways.........it's like saying the color blue is better than the color green (which it isn't!!!!)........but yeah.......i've said it before.......and i'll say it again: "An artist is still an artist, even if he's painting with elephant dung!!"
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27-12-2004 13:42 |
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BlitzXone
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Hi all...i can see your confusion with cubase, but i assure you the learning curve is very fast!!
I learnt how to produce entirely on SX3 and reason 3.0.....No regrets,
After gettin real comfortable with cubase i tried out Fl at a mates request, I found that i could work a hell of a lot quicker with cubase as the sequencing part of the program is second to none.
You soon get to harness the pure genius of cubase, and Fl seems like entry level production software, the sheer amount of options and compatabilities of software, midi controller's/keyboards/synths is incredible.
I dont mean to start a fight between software users, but how many modern recording/produciton studio's have Fl?? its all cubase and protools.
Try and stick it out with cubase. you will laugh off ever using Fl in the 1st place
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02-03-2006 23:57 |
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Muad'Dib
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Mike Oldfield, one of the biggest rock/electronica musicians is using FL...
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03-03-2006 01:54 |
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equipped
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ive been usin cubase for a long time now,..great sequencer,..although fl looks just as good and allot of stuff required for dnb is in both,..shure for music in general cubase is better but for the mighty dnb, as long as you have a good sampler,.a soft synth or two and a good understanding of eq,..your pretty much good to go,...it all comes down to your musical ability,..your devotion and what you do with your software,..rarely how good it is imo...cheers..
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