cubase pisses me off

[legionserial]

Everyone: It seems to be the consensus that I'm just being a whiny punk.

Dude I don't think anyone thinks that We.re just trying to help. I can certainly understand your frustrations, I've had to do a lot of annoying crap like that in the past. I hate watching progress bars crawl up the screen, it the worst thing in the world lol....

The best thing you can do is find something else to keep you occupied....like get wasted or something hehe

Truth be told I spend an awful lot of time doing boring preperatory work in cubase - sorting out the tempo track, signature changes, and then the evil drum programming, when all I want to be doing is playing some guitar or doing some mixing. I guess it aint all fun (well it is in a way, from 'looking to the finished product' perspective), thats why I always have some kind of intoxicant close at had to alleviate the boredom on those long late nights of endless mouse clicking, velocity adjustments, progress bar watching etc etc.

hmm perhaps I shouldn't be advising people to get wasted, but in my experience it can help sometimes What I'm really trying to say is, when you are doing stuff like that you'll find it way less frustrating if you are doing something else to amuse yourself at the same time

PS - Just a thought, but when you mix down a track at a time, are you mixing down from the master out, while muting the tracks you dont want/soling the one you do? Or are you in the mixdown window selecting the specific track to output the mixdown from? You may find the latter quicker as it doesn't have to run a bunch of muted tracks through itself aswell. Especially if you are running 40 or so tracks. Otherwise you are technically doing a full mixdown of everything everytime, only with certain things muted.

However I should say that this is a mere guess and it may not make any difference. Worth a try tho

 

[altitude909]

the other way to do the export thing is just make all your audio tracks play end to end and then export one big long audio file, then chop it in PT

 

[warble]

Warble: What's Cubase's other export option? I scoured the help file and the web and couldn't figure out any other way to do this.

I was referring to OMF, but that could be an issue if the PT studio your stuff is getting mixed in doesn't have to ability to import the project - which I don't think PT has natively. But apparently OMF is buggy no matter what app you're using (can't verify this myself cause I don't have the need to do it), so I guess I'm done here.

 

[moelar2]

PS - Just a thought, but when you mix down a track at a time, are you mixing down from the master out, while muting the tracks you dont want/soling the one you do? Or are you in the mixdown window selecting the specific track to output the mixdown from? You may find the latter quicker as it doesn't have to run a bunch of muted tracks through itself aswell. Especially if you are running 40 or so tracks. Otherwise you are technically doing a full mixdown of everything everytime, only with certain things muted.

However I should say that this is a mere guess and it may not make any difference. Worth a try tho

Could you elaborate a little more on this process? As far as I knew, the only way to export was through the export function, which essentially, as you stated, is a muted mixdown.

 

[xstatic]

the other way to do the export thing is just make all your audio tracks play end to end and then export one big long audio file, then chop it in PT

This seems to me that it would take MUCH longer, as well as leave a lot of room for timing errors later. Not to mention you would be on the clock at the other studio paying for a lot of unnecessary editing.....

 

[xstatic]

Could you elaborate a little more on this process? As far as I knew, the only way to export was through the export function, which essentially, as you stated, is a muted mixdown.

In your export, select mono as your export, and then use the selected tracks option. This way it ignores the loading of all the other files, even though they are muted....

There is also an ootion under.... file>>>export>>>selected tracks

You may also want to check the manual for archive and conform files properties....

 

[choctaw]

Dance with the one you came with. Cubase or Pro Tools

My band just recorded an album on a friend's computer with Cubase. All fine and good except we're mixing somewhere else on Protools,

Christ I would think if you were going to the trouble of recording and using Cubase you would plan on doing the entire job with that software. Let the fellow who did the recording, also do your mixing. If you want to go with Pro Tools, then start with it. Then no trouble. But you are now stuck with changing horses in mid stream not a good thing.

 

[campersand]

Christ I would think if you were going to the trouble of recording and using Cubase you would plan on doing the entire job with that software. Let the fellow who did the recording, also do your mixing. If you want to go with Pro Tools, then start with it. Then no trouble. But you are now stuck with changing horses in mid stream not a good thing.

We did a lot of the tracking ourselves, along with the friend whose setup we used. None of us are experienced enough or have enough equipment to make a decent mix though. It's a pretty common thing, tracking at home and mixing in a studio.

 

[campersand]

In your export, select mono as your export, and then use the selected tracks option. This way it ignores the loading of all the other files, even though they are muted....

There is also an ootion under.... file>>>export>>>selected tracks

You may also want to check the manual for archive and conform files properties....

I swear I tried the selected tracks option and all it did was put all the files used in the selected tracks into a folder, not actually build a wav file from the edited track.