having problems with cubase sx and terratec ews88mt

[carlpony351]

ok heres what i got.

cubase sx 1.0

basically what do i have to do to hook up the ews88mt in a way that i can hear what i just recorded?

the way i'm doing it is like this.

after i record drumtracks (i'm listening to myself through headphones of the mixer) i have to go into the device setup i have to switch from asio for ews88mt back to my original soundcard thatsi n the computer (soundblaster live) and i can hear the tracks recorded.

but that means i can't record along to an audio track as it plays in cubase using the ews88 because i don't know how to hook it up.

it has 8 outputs as well as ins but it only makes me listen to the 8 tracks i recorded and not other tracks that are in cubase.

please help.

[altitude909]

There is no need to EVER switch back to the standard soundcard. Just hook up your monitors to the terratac and make that pair the stereo output

[carlpony351]

thats the problem..............where do i hook them up???

[altitude909]

Any output pair

[carlpony351]

ok i have all the problems i had resolved but now there is another problem.

it has 8 inputs and i hook up a mic to the mixer and then to channel 1 on the breakout box, i record the guitar with that mic into cubase,when i duplicate the guitar track to have the same guitar riffs right and left it makes the right side sound thin and tinny qwhile on the left it sounds big and bassy witch was howi recorded it........why does it do this?

does it have to be that the inputs are paired in stereo??? if so does that mean i have to record the same guitar on input 2 also???
or does it mean i only have 8 channels in the program as i do on the breakout box and thats all i can work with?

[Halion]

Neither. What you are doing is pointless. Let me explain. When you record one channel (mono) like that, it is actually played back stereo, as in, it's already beeing played through both of your speakers. Since the left signal is exactly the same as the right signal however, it sounds as if the track is beeing played in the middle. When you are duplicating the track, and panning 1 left and 1 right, you are basicly doing nothing at all. However, you probably have one track slighly offset from the other, which causes phase problem (big can off wormies, stay away from phase stuff untill you know all the stuff that comes before it). The thin sound you hear is the phase problem. You can fix that by making both tracks play at exactly the same time (remove the offset). However, this will make is sound just like before you did anything.

What you are trying to do is understandable, because at first you'd think this should make stuff sound fatter, but it doesn't work that you. If you actually want a fat, stereo guitar sound, you have to record the track twice, and pan one left and one right. The small differences in the tracks will make it sound fatter, because you now actually have MORE sound, instead of the same sound twice.

You can use as many channels as the software allows (way more than 8). You just have to select one of the 8 outputs you want to use on every track. The Cubase I/O is probalby setup incorrectly, having more outputs than you actually have, and is therefor trying to send track 9 to output 9, but there is no output 9, so you don't hear anything. I myself only use 2 outputs, 1 left 1 right, which works fine, I route everything to them in the end.