Also, this is being picky, but if you're gonna give me an import dialog (and Cubase does) -make one of the options to import them to timestamp. I mean..."origin"...while we're at it...call it timestamp so everyone is clear. Logic is bad about that, too. Their whole implementing the day offset utterly confuses some people I send tracks to..."when I import your files, they disappear"...you know-cause they're a day later in the time line...
Also, to save export size...if I have a 15second guitar solo clip in the middle of the song...and I export the whole song...don't render silence for 4 minutes around it. Sure-make that an option, too, for legacy systems that don't respect time stamping, but even then, only to render from zero-rendering the silence AFTER the solo doesn't even make sense.
How about an import panel that's native to the OS and has things like favorite folder locations, preview imported sound with current track fx enabled, etc .
Option for one that prints NO Processing. WTF. There's ONE scenario I want to print mix processing to an individual track for use in some other unit/program...I can come up with ten off the top of my head where you want to export tracks "dry".
Also to improve that if I export a f'n mono channel, it should be mono, capice? Who cares what kind of mix bus I have it assigned to? How is that relative, again, except when the reason you're exporting is that aforementioned ONE scenario...collaboration where you want everything to sound as close as possible in the destination system.
It would be easily implemented in the existing export dialog.
As someone who does a TON of import/export...this is really not implemented well. By the same token--"bounce selection", and this kills me, doesn't create a timestamped Bwav file, even if that's my native format. Making me HAVE to go through the export audio mixdown dialog to get a quick edit back out. Have whatever it creates as "edits" be the native format...and those who know where it puts things could save a lot of export time, too.
for the time being, you can set up a keycommand to toggle-bypass inserts on all channels at once and use it prior to bouncing.
How about an import panel that's native to the OS and has things like favorite folder locations, preview imported sound with current track fx enabled, etc .
this is what mediabay does (most of this, anyway).
Also, this is being picky, but if you're gonna give me an import dialog (and Cubase does) -make one of the options to import them to timestamp. I mean..."origin"...while we're at it...call it timestamp so everyone is clear. Logic is bad about that, too. Their whole implementing the day offset utterly confuses some people I send tracks to..."when I import your files, they disappear"...you know-cause they're a day later in the time line...
Also, to save export size...if I have a 15second guitar solo clip in the middle of the song...and I export the whole song...don't render silence for 4 minutes around it. Sure-make that an option, too, for legacy systems that don't respect time stamping, but even then, only to render from zero-rendering the silence AFTER the solo doesn't even make sense.
Like others who've posted here, I wish they'd work on improving basic functionality and fix known bugs, rather than piling on bloatware most of us do not need, like 2nd rate soft synths and amp sims.
Im a long time cubase user and I find 6.5 almost perfect but Ok here is one thing im not sure im actually doing the right way
Lets say I want to do a vocal take and the singer wants a little reverb on her voice. Ok here we go
I use fireface so she is monitoring the clean signal through the Total mix zero latency.
Now I have to press direct in on the channel I record on
Turn the volume down so she wont her the signal from cubase with latency
press prefader on the send so I can send the verb
Ok ready to go
Now finish take now I have to do undo all these tweaks plus volume and send level to listen back.
I dont know if there is a an easier way but I find this a pain and very disruptive when you want to listen back quickly. Please enlighten me with an easier way if not cubase please make a verb button or something easier...
Im a long time cubase user and I find 6.5 almost perfect but Ok here is one thing im not sure im actually doing the right way
Lets say I want to do a vocal take and the singer wants a little reverb on her voice. Ok here we go
I use fireface so she is monitoring the clean signal through the Total mix zero latency.
Now I have to press direct in on the channel I record on
Turn the volume down so she wont her the signal from cubase with latency
press prefader on the send so I can send the verb
Ok ready to go
Now finish take now I have to do undo all these tweaks plus volume and send level to listen back.
I dont know if there is a an easier way but I find this a pain and very disruptive when you want to listen back quickly. Please enlighten me with an easier way if not cubase please make a verb button or something easier...
well you can monitor through cubase instead, but set the audio interface latency to as low as possible so it's not noticeable for the singer. other than that, some interfaces include built-in simple fx for this very purpose.
Im a long time cubase user and I find 6.5 almost perfect but Ok here is one thing im not sure im actually doing the right way
Lets say I want to do a vocal take and the singer wants a little reverb on her voice. Ok here we go
I use fireface so she is monitoring the clean signal through the Total mix zero latency.
Now I have to press direct in on the channel I record on
Turn the volume down so she wont her the signal from cubase with latency
press prefader on the send so I can send the verb
Ok ready to go
Now finish take now I have to do undo all these tweaks plus volume and send level to listen back.
I dont know if there is a an easier way but I find this a pain and very disruptive when you want to listen back quickly. Please enlighten me with an easier way if not cubase please make a verb button or something easier...
When recording overdubs like that I always set up one channel for monitoring
and record to other tracks. That way I can focus on the music instead of having to switch brain sides to do all the steps you described.
(I have a auto-talkback-trick as well involving a spare channel, the Cubase compressor with the sidechain enabled and the smtpe-plugin)
Great I will try setting another channel up for recording. Makes sense. My computer is rather old so monitoring through cubase is not possible as the latency is very high.
Thanks guys
this is the main reason I use Steinberg's own MR816 interfaces so i can have reverb (very good reverb at that too) with zero latency independent of the buffer sizes
NikBeat I use Fireface too. Just get a cheap used hardware reverb. Then send return with Fireface/totalmix. Works fine. You don't need a high quality reverb for the monitor mix during vocal recording. Just something to give a sense of space instead of the unnatural dry sound.
I want rock-solid MIDI timing when responding to MIDI input. I don't know about sx6, but sx5 is criminal. Useless.
Cubase has come a long way. I'm not sure what you mean by SX5 but if that's Cubase 5 I think you're exaggerating. It's nowhere near as sloppy as it used to be, and you can get tight results nowadays, but I agree that it never felt as snappy as Logic or Fruity Loops.
OMF has never been solid enough...nor universal enough. I would imagine any "bulk project transfer" format SHOULD...but, end of the day, timestamped WAV works from RADAR to DP to Logic to PT to my Akai hardware to anything...a few old hardware units and early software need the render from zero, but mostly, a timestamped WAV have been too standard for too long.
Plus--don't necessarily want the whole thing exported.
I'll have to look into the key command thing...so...there's a key command that bypasses ALL inserts in the project? I'm not sure how useful that alone would be--that save me a button on the channel...where I'm still going to have to set the trim back to zero...ch fader back to zero...the way they do the export based on buss assignment, pans back to default...Just saying-much easier to just have a checkbox on the export that says effectively that you want to export what's on the TRACK...not the CHANNEL...as they're wholly different things with different purposes.
Also...WTF is with the MPEX timestretch being the worst thing I've ever used? I don't do MUCH in the way of timestretching...but, this is something else that the Akai DPS24 handled utterly transparently, while Cubase sounds like a f'd up toy. Terrible. Again-not the hugest deal for me, since I almost never have call to stretch...but, c'mon...what a POS. Take the function OUT if it doesn't work, so that I know I need to go into another app (or back out to the Akai) to handle it. Don't put things there that don't work.
OMF has never been solid enough...nor universal enough. I would imagine any "bulk project transfer" format SHOULD...but, end of the day, timestamped WAV works from RADAR to DP to Logic to PT to my Akai hardware to anything...a few old hardware units and early software need the render from zero, but mostly, a timestamped WAV have been too standard for too long.
Plus--don't necessarily want the whole thing exported.
I'll have to look into the key command thing...so...there's a key command that bypasses ALL inserts in the project? I'm not sure how useful that alone would be--that save me a button on the channel...where I'm still going to have to set the trim back to zero...ch fader back to zero...the way they do the export based on buss assignment, pans back to default...Just saying-much easier to just have a checkbox on the export that says effectively that you want to export what's on the TRACK...not the CHANNEL...as they're wholly different things with different purposes.
I just use the range tool, select all the tracks from bar 1, and "bounce". "Bounce" happens pre-mixer, works like "consolidate" in PT.
Also...WTF is with the MPEX timestretch being the worst thing I've ever used? I don't do MUCH in the way of timestretching...but, this is something else that the Akai DPS24 handled utterly transparently, while Cubase sounds like a f'd up toy. Terrible. Again-not the hugest deal for me, since I almost never have call to stretch...but, c'mon...what a POS. Take the function OUT if it doesn't work, so that I know I need to go into another app (or back out to the Akai) to handle it. Don't put things there that don't work.
I'd like to be able to "delete all automation" in one click, for all tracks. Sometimes you just wanna clear the decks and start all over again, immediately.
Also...WTF is with the MPEX timestretch being the worst thing I've ever used? I don't do MUCH in the way of timestretching...but, this is something else that the Akai DPS24 handled utterly transparently, while Cubase sounds like a f'd up toy. Terrible. Again-not the hugest deal for me, since I almost never have call to stretch...but, c'mon...what a POS. Take the function OUT if it doesn't work, so that I know I need to go into another app (or back out to the Akai) to handle it. Don't put things there that don't work.
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