Mixing down

[Phonic Orange]

Does anyone know if it is possible in Cubase 5, to mix down your song (including midi)to a stereo wav ready to burn onto
cd without it leaving the computer. At the moment , I'm mixing my finished song down to external Dat, then recording it back to the computer via Soundforge to give me my wav file. If I could just create the stereo wav straight from Cubase, it would make life alot easier! .Any ideas?

[Emeric]

Sure is, just go to audio/master fader and click on the 'export audio' button. You should run the song through a few times and get the meters hitting as close to 0 as possible before exporting. When you hit the export audio button it brings up another screen. Choose your settings, 16bit 44.1KHz, Stereo Interleaved. If you used automation or effects make sure those boxes are checkmarked.

After it exports, your left with a stereo wav file, ready to burn.


Just noticed your 'including midi' line. I don't do midi so I'm not sure on that one. I think you need to convert your midi files to wav's. And then export.

[lkmuller]

Howzit Phonic Orange,

I used to mix everything down from Cubase onto a mini disk, then record back with Cool Edit to create the wave file. Too many steps, and I could have done it all inside Cubase.

You may want to review this in the manual (online documentation), but this is how it happens. First of all, make sure the "out" of your sound module is routed to the "in" of your soundcard (or wherever your inputs are for recording - in my case it's a Roland UA100). Then arm a track to record in stereo (remember it has to be an odd numbered track - it will record in stereo only on 1&2, 3&4, etc.), then playback all your midi and other audio tracks as you record on that one stereo track.

Once that track is done, I usually open it up in Wavelab (but you could do that with Soundforge) and fatten the sound up with some plugins. There's your wavefile, ready to be dragged onto a CD.

You can listen to some of my stuff at http://leemuller.iuma.com . They're MP3s, and that takes some of the quality away, but you'll get the general idea.

Lee
http://leemuller.iuma.com

[Phonic Orange]

Cheers man,great idea!
Wonder if you can help me with my latest problem I've just posted?