can't record in Cubase 4.0

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fl studio said:
I bought it seperately from a guy called waffleness, and the colour is a rainbowy green, red, blue, orange with bits of brown, yellow oh and pink
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If you bought it seperately surely you have 2? Cubase 4 comes with one in the box

If you wanted a copy of cubase - Essential 4 is very good. You can pick it up quite cheap (about 70 quid in the UK, probably similar in the US). A lot of pirated versions of software dont work as they have been ruined. This may be your problem.
 
Waffelness and I have been having a similar conversation on practically the same issue that fl studio is having. In fact, I just tried to install the Lexicon Alpha interface on another computer, this time installing the latest version 2.5 for the Alpha. Still having the same audio problems. I can input and output all pretty much without problem until I click on record. The audio sounds horrible. But playback of the same audio backing track sound fine. I too am using a free version (Cubase LE 4) that came with the Lexicon Alpha. Anyone know what this audio problem is??
 
vannadad said:
Waffelness and I have been having a similar conversation on practically the same issue that fl studio is having. In fact, I just tried to install the Lexicon Alpha interface on another computer, this time installing the latest version 2.5 for the Alpha. Still having the same audio problems. I can input and output all pretty much without problem until I click on record. The audio sounds horrible. But playback of the same audio backing track sound fine. I too am using a free version (Cubase LE 4) that came with the Lexicon Alpha. Anyone know what this audio problem is??
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What are you recording and how do you have it set up?
 
Trying to record vocal to a karaoke backing track (mp3 format). I realize that Cubase converts it to .wav when it imports.
Setup is Headphones on the Lexi headphone "out" of course. Input is XLR mic XLR to XLR into the Lexicon. I have Windows configured to have the Lexicon Alpha as default input and output device in the sound configurations. I have Cubase also configured to have the input and output via the Lexicon Alpha.
Waduya think??:(
 
vannadad said:
Trying to record vocal to a karaoke backing track (mp3 format). I realize that Cubase converts it to .wav when it imports.
Setup is Headphones on the Lexi headphone "out" of course. Input is XLR mic XLR to XLR into the Lexicon. I have Windows configured to have the Lexicon Alpha as default input and output device in the sound configurations. I have Cubase also configured to have the input and output via the Lexicon Alpha.
Waduya think??:(
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When you added the track, did you tell it what input to record?
 
Farview said:
When you added the track, did you tell it what input to record?
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how do you do that?

I think that maybe my problem

i can hear myself in the monitor and when i record the sound that i make it is shown in the track as standard, but nothing is actually being played out.

peace
 
TyphoidHippo said:
I think he's not, too. I looked through his 7-post history and they're all very basic questions about using various (expensive) software packages.

To be fair, though - He never mentioned buying Cubase, though - that's why I kinda wanted him to be talking about a free version, I guess. I wasn't aware of only the 'real-deal Cubase' being called 4.0. Oops :o



As long as we're both around, and since this thread is otherwise useless - what do you think about the 4 family? Any notable changes worth looking into? SX3 has worked so well for me the last few years, I haven't felt compelled to really look, heh. It looks like the upgrade is pretty cheap, though....hmmmm
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I have found it has a lot of the Nuendo features.It works flawlessly for straight recording.I don't use much MIDI...
 
fl studio said:
how do you do that?

I think that maybe my problem

i can hear myself in the monitor and when i record the sound that i make it is shown in the track as standard, but nothing is actually being played out.

peace
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That procedure is in the quick start guide. There is no need for me to type a page worth of procedures when it is already written out somewhere else.
 
Farview... you said - "When you added the track, did you tell it what input to record?"
Hope ya don't see me as "dumb" here. Just trying to learn what I might be missing or doing wrong here. But, when I add the track, I don't get any prompt to tell it what input to record. It's just pretty strange that the sound plays out fine when is playback, suddenly changes to horrible audio playback once you push "Record". Then to go ahead and record to is anyway, the playback with the vocal added plays back normal again.
Oh and by the way all... not pirate here. The Cubase I am working with came with the Lexicon Alpha hardware.
Cheers!
 
Did you read the manual?

There is a thing on top of the mixer that allows you to select the input. It will automatically have to first input that is setup in VST connections.

It sounds like you have cubase set up to monitor as well as the lexicon. You are monitoring two sources at the same time, thus the horrible noise.
 
Thanks Farview. I'll check what you've mentioned. And yes, I've read the manual. I think I could write it now, I've looked at it so much.
I've gone into the Device Setup mulitiple times trying anything to stop this problem. In fact, just last night I installed ASIO4ALL thinking it was the driver, but the problem still remains even with this driver in place. The Alpha driver was resulting in a "this device is not working properly" due to a firmware reporting wrong resources or something like that.
I also tried different record programs (even the recorder that comes with Windows). Some I get the loud hiss, but the programs like Cubase and Audacity I get the horrible audio playback. Sort of sounds like a 192 bitrate during playback, but when you click "record" to record a vocal track to it, it sounds like the bitrate of the audio track drops to about 96 or lower.:(
 
There are two ways to hear yourself when you are recording.

1. through the interface. The interface sends the mic input back to your headphones/monitors.

2. Through Cubase. When you arm the track, is sends the input to the output so you can hear what you are recording.

It sounds like you have both working at the same time. You don't want that because there will be a slight timing difference that will cause phase cancelation. Look up monitoring in the cubase manual and find out how to shut it off. You will want to use the monitoring in the hardware.
 
Farview,

Thanks buddy. I'll give it a shot and report back on what the result was.
Cheer!
 
Ok... last night I tried what Farview said. Being new to these types of equipment and software, I realize that it will take some time to learn how it all comes together. My delima is that I understand that when utilizing the hardware (Lexicon) as the monitoring device instead of the Cubase software, I am to set the knob to "Direct". And when using the Cubase software, I am to set the Monitoring Mix knob to "Playback". Somewhere in the middle would be "mixing" as they say.
Now the software part... I open up the mixer in Cubase and I don't know what to change or move to "shut it off". And if I DO shut it off, will I still hear the backing track I've imported to sing to? And what is "arming" the track mean? Is it "armed" by default. Reading the manual, I don't find the word "arming". I rechecked my Windows settings as well as the settings in Cubase for which device is set for input and output. It is all listed as "USB Audio Device", because this is how the ASIO4ALL driver makes it show up. The driver that came with the Lexicon Alpha (ASIO Alpha) will not load for XP.
Currently, if I load a backing track into Cubase or Audacity... then click "play" just to even play the track, I hear nothing in my headphones. Even if the Lexi Mix Monitor knob is all the way to the "Playback" side. Mic input is heard just fine.
I'm going crazy!
 
OK, undo everything you did. That should get you back to where you can hear the backing track.

Arming a track is when you hit the button that tells it to record on that channel. Not to be confused with the record button that is next to the play button. I can't imagine that you can't find the term 'arm' in the manual. I suppose they might call it 'record enable'.

In order to turn off cubases monitoring, there is a little button with a picture of a speaker on it right next to the 'record enable' button. You probably have that lit up. Shut that off.
 
Farview... I have to tell you thanks for hanging with me. You're an oak. Thanks!
Yes... the term "Record Enable" is there. That, I understand. Clicking to make it red enables recording on the track. And now that you mentioned the little button with the speaker picture as the "turning on or off" the monitoring in Cubase, yes, I am familiar with that also. Just misunderstanding a little here. I have indeed turned it off and on trying to learn what all does what. And I did notice (when I WAS getting playback at least), that truning it off turned off the output of audio to my headphones.
I think what I am going to do from here is just uninstall EVERYTHING and start all over again.
I'll report back what results occur.
Thanks again Farview
 
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