Recent content by justadrummer

Stats First. Cubase E4 Presonus Pirepods Alesis DM5 Drum Module with full drum set of triggers. I have the Dm5 midi out connected to the Firepod midi in I have an Instrument track with the input selected to firepod in. Monitor button is on as well as record enable. Vst instrument is stereo...

Had a laptop 1.4ghz 2g ram firewire firepods & ext hard drive with no problems Bought a pentium4 2ghz 2g ram tower with a firewire card and i have two guitar tracks and on bass line that is making my cpu usage peak out. But my VST performance level is minimal. I have checked everything i can...

I want to add to my studio setup, some type of keyboard, synth, midi controller. I run cubase essential and have halion. My only "midi" devices now are an Alesis DM5 and a MidiVerb The Dm5 is for my electronic drum kit for practice. I'd like to be able to add strings, wind instruments to my...

In the main screen for the audio tracks, I used to be able to adjust the verticle size of each track. Now, whenever i select a track, it expands vertically. which is fine. but when i select a new track, the previous one collapses to the original size and the new one expands. I would like to...

I've read and read about the importance of preamps. I came across a thread where a guy wanted to "match the quality of the preamps in his firepod" I use a firepod and was looking for Preamps to add to the mix would an additional preamp make that much of a difference? i know there...

Ok so how much is too much? I used to think gating every tom kick snare with compression, little verb. Not much done to the overheads. Guitar tracks.. i had about five tracks that each had a: compressor ampmodeling eq My vst performance skyrocketted and i started getting clicks and pops...

I just got a Esp and cannot get the "g" string to set right . It tunes sharp on the 12th fret but the adjustment is all the way back. the rest of the strings are on the money, neck is straight, action is good. Im confused!!!

I have a 70's blue Ludwig Vistalite drum set for sale. Matching blue snare and all the same "dated" hardware, even the throne which isn't very comfy. Asking $1500. I really don't want to ship the kit. Located in eastern North Carolina

I upgraded fro Cubase le to Essential 4 soley because i needed to record more than 8ch at a time. Two firepods in series, even shen i try to record my 7 channels for my drum kit, it will pause during the track for a milsec. playback is the same. i have 1.4ghz processor with 2g of ram. onboard...

After a while of using my computer, My audio playback starts to shutter a bit. Im using a 1.4 ghz laptop with 2g of ram, two firepods hooked up by firewire. Am I overloading my computer? How can i set things up to be more stable?

Im new to this site. So far I love it!!! Equipment is a dell computer 1.46ghz with 1.99ghz of ram, two presonus firepods and cubase le that came with the firepods. Questions: 1) is there any way to record more that 8 channels at a time. 2) should i use exteral effects on guitar or plugins. 3)...