Cubase SX3; Help w/ Triggering One Track (room mic) with another (Snare drum mic)

[slowjett]

Hey guys Im trying to figure out how in SX3 I can trigger the room mic channel with the close snare mic?

The idea is to get a big shotgun sound from an over-compressed room mic when the snare drum is hit.

Can anyone help me with this? I've tried the sidechain tutorials but its not really working for me in that way. I just want to trigger a gate or something with another channel.

thanks!

[FeatheredSerpent]

Originally Posted by slowjett

I've tried the sidechain tutorials but its not really working for me in that way. I just want to trigger a gate or something with another channel.

thanks!

Well that's how it has to work unless you have an outboard comp with sidechain, or you want to update to Cubase 5.
It is a pain but you just have to get to grips with the methodology without letting your eyes glaze over. Read the tutorials (which are thorough), and concentrate on what you're doing and why.
That will help things fall into place quicker.
The most cioncise and easiest way is shown in this tutorial, it's easy to follow, even though the guy's english isn't perfect.

If you don't understand a step, go back and read through it again, and again until it sinks in.
That's how you learn

http://www.electrypnose.com/data/tut...ssion_v1.1.pdf

[slowjett]

Thank you for the reply! I am seriously considering getting CB5. Will it help my workflow? I have a little tracking left to do and about 14 songs to mix.

[FeatheredSerpent]

Sorry I just paid attention to the last bit of your sentence, tracking-wise I can't help you there, when I used it I didn't really do any recording apart from laying down some synth parts, no probs to report, no strange timing behaviour to rectify which I was used to having to deal with in sx1 and 2.

Mixing though, plenty of advantages, also for you as an sx3 user, there's features there that I now must have, epecially as I'm on sx2 and there are things that I've never had the luxury of using:

Arranger track. Oh my god. Saves soooooooo much ****ing time. How can anyone live without this, I know I can't now I've tried it.
Free routing. Priceless, no more arcane shifting/renaming of groups etc if you want to reconfigure. Routing limits taken off fx tracks. Delay compensated loops for hardware fx/synths, can be loaded into mixer channels (but only if you make midi device panels for them, drag but no biggie).
Control room function, super handy. And for what we're talking about I guess the sidechaining is a lot easier too, but to be honest I didn't try it as I don't sidechain that much and when I do I have a trusty berry composer pro for such duties.

But things like vari-audio (needed to re-record a bass track that someone sent me and could just click on the original track, have the part laid out against the piano roll in a second, so could obviously just play it back in much quicker than having to sit and work the parts out first.
No external software needed now for slicing loops and exporting groove as a midi file, just literally drag and drop using the groove agent One instrument.
The roomworks reverb I thought was fantastic (but then I would coming from the sx1 and 2 land of shitty cubase bundled reverb!).
But seriously, I thought it was great. I just bought the cut down version of Breverb and thought the cubase roomworks pooped all over it, as does the uad plate, good thing it was only 5 dollars.

What else, the new delays (mono delay ,luxury! ha ha!), ENVELOPE SHAPER! Holy crap, that thing is just mind blowingly good, and I've got the uad transient designer as well! Yeah, envelope shaper, very impressed.
Not sure if I ike the actual mixer graphics though, they look more 'techy' but also more difficult to focus on than sx2 was, which was more 'cartoony' but also easier to see everything.
It's customisable though, and it was so nice to be able to customise the faders, set your own colour scheme for different levels, very handy.

Quick controls! I've got a novation supernova II keyboard that is set to get a new lease of life. It took me a few seconds literally to assign all the faders and pots to quick control groups, which you can then save as presets and load into channels. Really cool as the supernova has sections laid out in such a way that some sets of knobs lend themsevels perfectly to eq bands for example, send levels, hardware knobs for plug-in comp settings etc, really killer feature especially if you have something like the supernova which has over 130 hard controls on, it's like being given 3 free fully spec'd hardware midi controllers.

Whatever you say or think about steinberg, they really did set a new standard for what we can expect to be bundled in a daw with c5, credit where dredit is due, I am probably going to have to hand over the money to upgrade, because the quality of the bundled utilities and the overall flexibility and power is just stunning.
There, I said it. And even though steinberg suck in many ways, at least Apple sucks just as bad, and cubase is a better product than logic, as of this release, so that for some bizarre reason makes me feel better about it lol!

I only had the chance to use C5 for a few days and I hate to say it but it's money.
(Sorry, been watching 'Swingers', ...again )

I say 'hate to say it' because I love to hate steinberg, as all self-respecting cubase users should.

I was very switched on to Presonus's Studio One until I saw their pricing policy for europe. We're paying an extra $150 why, exactly? Stupid especially as it was released exclusively stateside first.

[slowjett]

Very cool. Heck If you really want studio one you could send me the $$, or buy it and have it shipped to me then I could ship it to you if you want. But it sounds like your happy with cubase 5.