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Yes, I have been using Mercurial (hg) with Logic Pro for a while now and with great results. Also coming from a software development background I find the main benefit to be the comments for each changeset and the ability to go back and branch from an earlier version to try out alternate production or composition techniques.
As mentioned you will likely pay ...
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Do you have to record instruments/vocals/noises and then load them in,
or can the software create the sound itself virtually?
Yes to both. You can basically work either with a sampler (which contrain prerecorded samples of different instruments, in different pitches, spread out over the keyboard) or with synthesizers which more or less creates the ...
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Here are all the places I know of between pressing a key and hearing the sound where latency is likely to be introduced:
Your MIDI interface: This might be built into your keyboard or it might be another device with a female DIN jack on it. Some of these are less latent than others, but the variation is usually pretty small. However, a lot of these work ...
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Assuming that you have a modern processor and a decent amount of RAM, the weak link in the chain is likely to be your built-in sound chip, or the sound chip drivers, or a combination of both.
Again assuming that you're playing to a click, the reason that the MIDI appears to be late, is that the click is reaching your ears late, because of the excessive ...
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The metronome in Cubase can either be set up to send MIDI events, or to generate audio clicks.
You access the metronome settings from Tranport menu:
Go to the Transport menu
Select the "Metronome Setup..." entry
In the Metronome Setup dialog, check either MIDI Click or Audio Click. You might be able to select both although I've never done that myself.
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Latency is due to the audio driver for the audio card. Cubase uses ASIO-drivers (an invention by Steinberg themselves) which mean they are optimized for the sound card if the manufacturer of the sound card makes ASIO-drivers available.
For sound cards that doesn't support ASIO there are workarounds such as DirectX ASIO (built-in in Cubase IIRC) and Asio4All ...
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There are few dedicated options available in Cubase for that purpose (there might be more).
1. The Random Quantize setting
This setting affects the result of the quantizing. It allows you to set a “distance” in ticks (120ths of sixteenth notes). Events will be quantized to random positions within the specified “distance” from the quantize grid, thus ...
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Eugene's answer above is excellent, and outlines some key features in Cubase that you should find useful in this task.
I'd just like to add that you can adjust the velocity of the MIDI events also - this effectively changes the volume, but it is more akin to the force with which the note is struck (ie pressing a piano key softly would equate to low ...
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I don't know how to do this with Cubase specifically, but generically you can do this by using pre-fader track sends. What these do is send a percentage of the track's signal out to another track, usually called a return track. So you can have your main mix coming out your main outputs (just like you do already), but you can ALSO have a different mix going ...
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As decasteljau and Mark Heath said, 64-bit will likely perform better with huge sampled instruments, but you also need to like the software you are using.
If you only have a slight leaning toward Ableton, then it's probably better to go with the 64-bit version of Cubase. If you strongly prefer Ableton's interface over Cubase, you might prefer to limit your ...
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It's possible to do bi-directional audio and MIDI streams between programs with ReWire but it's not possible to do bi-directional audio streams with Reason.
Reason doesn't allow incoming, realtime audio streams. It's just something Propellerhead has never wanted Reason to be. Similar to how it doesn't support VST plugins.
I wish it was possible. I sure ...
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I'd take the aux channel route to do this myself.
Set up an aux channel with just your filter on it and have it take it's input from an aux buss. Lets say it's Aux Buss 1 as the input. Since there's no wet-dry blend on the filter VST there's no need to set it to 100% wet.
On the channel you want to filter for a short period of time, add a pre-fader send to ...
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In order to solve my problem, I renamed the VSTPlugins folder in my environment, in my case:
[System Driver] \ Program Files \ Steinberg \ Cubase 5 \ VSTPlugins
changes to
[System Driver] \ Program Files \ Steinberg \ Cubase 5 \ VSTPlugins2
Then I re-loaded my project and voila, it loaded! Now, it loaded, but there were errors, in my case:
The plug-in ...
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First, let make things clear.
64-bit plug-in modules (DLL) only work with 64 bits applications hosts.
32-bit plug-in modules (DLL) only work with 32 bits applications hosts.
64-bit plug-in modules (DLL) do not sound better than 32-bit plug-in modules. This has nothing to do with 64-bit audio processing.
The main difference between both is the ...
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There does seem to be an inherent problem related to mixing both a Midi controlled software synth and normal Audio through a USB device into Cubase to be recorded etc. From what I have experienced and gathered from stuff on the web, its a case of hitting a device one way system, you can't have it going both ways, so routing one will always take a longer path ...
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It's hard to provide an authoritative answer to troubleshooting questions like these (they're kind of open ended), but I'll try and describe how I imagine the situation should look, which hopefully will be enough information to diagnose the problem.
First off, it's critical to understand that MIDI and audio are not the same thing. MIDI is an instructional ...
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I'm not a FL Studio user, but I'd be surprised to find that there are no active forums full of FL Studio users.
That said, the other DAWs you suggest break down as follows:
ProTools is said to be great at audio and weak at MIDI. It seems to
be the go-to choice for full-serivce professional studios. As far as
I know, you can't run VSTs natively in ...
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Both approaches will work. In fact you can easily create music inside Cubase without importing or recording any sound. I.e. you can open a midi editor in Cubase and manually insert notes, modify their length/volume/pitch, and then route this midi track into an "instrument", that generates sound from midi. For example, Steinberg Synth HALion, which comes with ...
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the biggest portion of latency is almost always in the software synthesizer.
the lame ones (who don't use the minimum latency that the sound card says it can handle) have to be configured for the number of millisecs of audio they will buffer.
Or, if they're REALLY lame, you won't be able to change that buffer size and will have to just suffer with their ...
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Holding down ctrl while clicking the mouse on the specific note (or group of notes if you drag the mouse) will select as many midi notes as you require. Velocity is then shown and if all are the same value then reducing the velocity by say 20 will reduce the velocity on all the notes by 20.
Unfortunately if one of the notes you selected had a velocity of ...
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It sounds like your MMT-8 is sending a MIDI Play signal to the TR-909, which causes the 909 to start playing whatever pattern has been stored. But your MMT-8 is also playing its own pattern, so you end up with a cacophony.
I don't have an 909 myself, but according to page 37 of the manual, you can put the 909 into external instrument mode by pressing the ...
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What you are looking for is often called a Goniometer or Correlation meter. There are plenty of VST plugins that will display a goniometer view for stereo correlation analysis. Just use your favorite search engine, now that you know the proper terms.
This looks like what you are looking for. I don't have any experience with it myself, however.
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Regarding what you will be using your program for, FL Studio seems to be best suited.
FL Studio has tons of resources via their online forum -- http://forum.image-line.com/
Scott, Nucleon, and others are actually surprisingly very helpful and answer quickly.
Also to mention, you may be intersted in checking out my site http://www.Beatstruggles.com -- ...
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FL-Studio has become one of the BEST DAWS available now. It had humble beginnings, but has flourished in advancements over the years. On version 10 now, Image Line Software has created a powerful DAW for those that want to utilize both loops, synthesizers (VSTs), AND Live Recording. (and No, I do not work for Image Line or affiliated in any way.. - Though I ...
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Although I haven't done this with Cubase as I don't use it, what should work in general is to open with a trial version then save to some other format.
You could try using the Cubase Elements 6 trial version to open your old .cpr files and save as Standard MIDI Files .mid, which virtually anything can open.
P.S. The reason I say Cubase Elements 6 because ...
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I have never EVER heard of a ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver - but it sounds awesome.
This has got a small chance of working, but who knows right?
The ASIO4ALL Driver usually takes over your sound card, which means that when you run ASIO4ALL only IT can get to the hardware.
But this has created some problems with Windows 7 - I was unable to get any sound ...
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A 64 bit process can only load 64 bit DLLs, and a 32 bit process can only load 32 bit DLLs. So if you run your DAW as a 64 bit process, it can't load 32 bit VST's without using some kind of "bridge" (which a lot of the 64 bit DAWs come with as standard, including Cubase).
What does this mean in practice? If your DAW is 32 bit, then you are right in thinking ...
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This is actually not the solution for you but a way you might find the solution on your own:
Go and grab Process Monitor. This will monitor every action any process does on your system. Check what Cubase does during the mixer load up.
Here is also a blog post which may help you get started with Process Monitor: Mark Russinovich - The Case of the Slow ...
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