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| Re: Cubase . . . yawn [message #92264 is a reply to message #92262] |
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John [1]
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Registered: September 2005
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Their site says "Cubase LE is an OEM product only and can not be purchased
separately. For support requests please contact the respective OEM partner
who has bundled Cubase LE with your audio hardware."
If you're on XP or Vista make sure you have background services set to priority.
See my site for more info under xp setup (www.kfocus.com/cubase)
#Background Services
Processor scheduling should be set to background services and not Programs.
Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance Settings
> Advanced Tab > Background Services
Also, there is a support forum here for LE.
http://www.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=24
Cubase is not a flower to be picked but a mountain to be climbed. It's not
easy to get going for me at least. I was totally thrown by the first chapter
that was all about setting up the I/O. I was ready to make music and had
sit and read for a hours. Now I totally love it and am a huge cubase fan.
I rarely deal with workarounds and instead just make music. I had a reggae
band in Saturday for hours and not a glitch. To be fair my box has high
end hardware and a motherboard that is known to work but I didn't want to
have any pc issues so I bit the bullet.
I hope it helps.
John
Cubase 4.1, 2.6 e6700 core2 duo, intel D975xbx2kr MB, 4gb mushkin ram, XP
Pro, 24" westinghouse LCD
RME 9652, 3 Presonus Digimax FS, Rane HC6 headphone amp, 3ms latency
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| Re: Cubase . . . yawn [message #92269 is a reply to message #92262] |
Fri, 02 November 2007 10:48 |
emarenot
Messages: 345
Registered: June 2005
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I've also been helping a friend get going on Cubase LE. She's on a mac
running osx with one of those M audio fast track interfaces (2x2 usb).
Typically, when she encounters problems they can be fixed by checking her
settings in the device manager. I don't have the program on this computer
so I can't check my nomenclature, but I think you want "vst instruments."
Make sure the proper driver is selected. Her's offers two options (don't
know why): fastrack 1 and fastrack 2. She has to be sure "2" is selected.
Another common problem area is assigning inputs and outputs in the
"inspector." She'll often select the wrong input source. And... after
changing settings, she usually has to restart Cubase, and sometimes the
computer, to get it all to work again. Her setup is "kind of" stable, ok,
but not what you'd hope for. Another buddy of mine has been running Live on
osx. The "session" view -which is kind of Live's "signature" section, is
perhaps more oriented to dance type stuff, but the "arrange" view is pretty
much a multi-tracker with the ability to preview and easily import and use
loops. Its much more stable and easy to work with than LE -but its several
hundred. Another buddy is using Reaper. Saw it the other day. Its
shareware, with relatively low lic. fees if you buy in. He was getting very
reasonable track counts (8-10) with vsti's and fx on a P4 with no real
stability problems running win2000. He was very green on digital audio and
after working through the Reaper tutorials, he's really got a good grasp on
things. Audio is routed through his sound card using ASIO4all as the
driver. He's pretty happy with this setup. Nice sketch pad. He's
upgrading to the maudio 1010lt, which I own and have been very happy with.
I'm probably going to go for one of maudio's audiofile24/96. Four in, four
out, with midi and spdif. 99.00.
Bit of a ramble, hope it helps.
MR
"Sarah" <sarahjane@sarahtonin.com> wrote in message news:472b04ad$1@linux...
> A friend of mine (owner of the PARIS studio where we did Wayward,
actually),
> is trying to set up a little music "pre-production" station on his
personal
> computer upstairs. He's got a Focusrite "Saffire" audio/midi interface
and
> is using the Cubase LE that came with it. He's using a Roland JV1080 as
his
> multi-timbral sound source, and has a little midi controller (one or two
> octave thing) and an older weighted key digital piano as controllers.
>
> I was trying to help him get it all set up so he can start cranking out
the
> tunes, but kept bumping into technical difficulties. We solved some of
them
> by browsing the internet to get the incredibly cryptic and user-hateful
> Cubase LE set up better, but it still likes to just die in the middle of
> laying a part down has to be ended with the task manager.
>
> Any advice on this setup that might help him out? Is Cubase LE just a
POFS,
> or can it actually be made to work without getting a degree in software
> engineering? And what does the "LE" stand for? Low End? Lacking
> Efficiency? Likely Enragement?
>
> I've been using Cubase 5.0 for years now, but my limited expertise with
that
> didn't help me much today with his LE.
>
> Is there a better setup anyone would recommend to someone who just wants
to
> prototype his songs in the comfort of his living room?
>
> I'm really out of touch with the world of music gear and software these
> days, so I wasn't much help.
>
> Thanks in advance from me and one of my "executive producers." :)
>
> Sarah
>
>
>
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| Re: Cubase . . . yawn [message #92273 is a reply to message #92262] |
Fri, 02 November 2007 11:16 |
TCB
Messages: 1261
Registered: July 2007
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I was going answer, but whatever . . . yawn.
TCB
"Sarah" <sarahjane@sarahtonin.com> wrote:
>A friend of mine (owner of the PARIS studio where we did Wayward, actually),
>is trying to set up a little music "pre-production" station on his personal
>computer upstairs. He's got a Focusrite "Saffire" audio/midi interface
and
>is using the Cubase LE that came with it. He's using a Roland JV1080 as
his
>multi-timbral sound source, and has a little midi controller (one or two
>octave thing) and an older weighted key digital piano as controllers.
>
>I was trying to help him get it all set up so he can start cranking out
the
>tunes, but kept bumping into technical difficulties. We solved some of
them
>by browsing the internet to get the incredibly cryptic and user-hateful
>Cubase LE set up better, but it still likes to just die in the middle of
>laying a part down has to be ended with the task manager.
>
>Any advice on this setup that might help him out? Is Cubase LE just a POFS,
>or can it actually be made to work without getting a degree in software
>engineering? And what does the "LE" stand for? Low End? Lacking
>Efficiency? Likely Enragement?
>
>I've been using Cubase 5.0 for years now, but my limited expertise with
that
>didn't help me much today with his LE.
>
>Is there a better setup anyone would recommend to someone who just wants
to
>prototype his songs in the comfort of his living room?
>
>I'm really out of touch with the world of music gear and software these
>days, so I wasn't much help.
>
>Thanks in advance from me and one of my "executive producers." :)
>
>Sarah
>
>
>
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| Re: Cubase . . . yawn [message #92327 is a reply to message #92314] |
Sat, 03 November 2007 10:54 |
Rod Lincoln
Messages: 883
Registered: September 2005
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Yeah...and I've got some caramel apples left over from Halloween.
;-)
"James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>Hey Rod, you can get Cubase for Apple . . .yawn
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>"Rod Lincoln" <rlincoln@nospam.kc.rr.com> wrote:
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>>HA Finally a post that's not about apple!
>>Rod
>>"John" <no@no.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>You might be able to Reset Asio Devices in the Device Setup dialog under
>>the
>>>Windows menu instead of rebooting.
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