Cubasis VST??

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Hey!,

I just had a few questions...

1. "This is what I got from the Steinberg site:
Cubasis VST is hard-disk recording without expensive additional hardware, all you need is a standard Windows soundcard." Does that mean that I can just hook up the my hardware MIDI keyboard to the computer with Cubasis VST without having to get USB/MIDI ports and all that stuff(or is that what Cubasis comes with)?

2. I'm looking to get sounds from various software synths and hardware synths/sound modules and mix/record them together to make songs...would Cubasis do it for me?

3. Any suggestions, comments for me!?? Also, I know a big computer with tons of ram would be great, but would a cheap computer do just as good for me to run just the program on it with maybe one software synth?

And help would be greatly appreciated!,

Andrew! :)
 
You still need a way of getting your controller keyboard to output midi data to your soundcard. A cable that adapts the gameport on your soundcard will do the trick. This will not come with the software. Cheap though, $20.

Software synths are fairly machine intensive, depending on the software. Gigasampler is one of them. I could never get it to work right with Cubase VST, but it could have been a hardware thing.

Hardware synth's outputing data to the midi-in, to cubasis, should be no problem.
 
Hey!,

So getting sounds and external, hardware synth into the VST would work? What I want to do is use the exact sound that I make on my synth and put it into the computer to mix with other sounds that I record from that same hardware synth or a plug-in.

Andrew! :)

PS: I'm just trying to figure out which program would be best. I just want to record music!!!!!

PSS: What exactly is a plug-in and how does it work?
 
Oh, ok this is a bit different than. This will depend on the capability of your keyboard. I thought you just wanted to use cubasis as a sequencer. You could record the l/r outputs of your keyboard, 2 tracks at a time as wav files. This would plug in to the line in on your soundcard. The quality will be dependent on your soundcard. Maybe post this one in the Midi forum, lot of midi people around.

By plugin I guess your referring to DirectX/VST plug-ins. These are small add-on's such as reverb's, compressors, EQ's etc. that can be used with many different software programs. A Directx reverb plug-in for example, will work with Cubase, Cakewalk, Wavelab etc. These are things you can buy in addition to the main multitracking software.
 
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Hey!,

I was lookin' online and at the store and I found some software that sounds like just what I need(I'll have to do more research though). It's called Magix Music Studio Generation Deluxe 5. It's $99 and there's a smaller, cheaper version too. The Deluxe one has:

1. 2 CD-Roms
2. audio and midi studios
3. 1,800 one-shot samples and loops as piano, strings, drums, etc. for the wave player
4. 32 audio tracks
5. 1,000 Midi tracks
6. Editors: Matrix, event, drum and score editor, transform, sample editor for wave files
7. Format Support: GM, GS, XG, Midi file import and export
8. Wave Player: Integrated multi-sampler on wave basis
9. Lyric Mode to display song texts
10. Track mixer is adaptive, with DirectX-plug-in support and real-time effects, 2 effect busses(each with 3 FX slots)
11. Effects: chorus, stereo delay, flanger, reverb, reverse, cross fades, fuzz distortion
12. EQ: 3 per track, 1X sweep, 2 shelving(fixed freq.)
13. Video support: AVI
14. Audio tools: Audio energizer, groove machine, time machine
15. Midi track features: Transpose, velocity offset, loop, dynamics, gate time, delay for track objects, program, pan, volume
16. Recording tracks 32
17. File import: Wav, MP3, MSAudio, MPEG, audio-CD, AVI
18. File export: MPEG, MP3 via optional codec, MSAudio
19. Mixer: 32 channels
20. CD Factory: Burn direct-to-disc with the included CD-recording software-all major burner formats are supported.



I just typed all that!! Anyway, what do you think? For me, all I simply want to do is create a sound on a synthesizer and record it into the computer to be mixed with other sounds that I make and record. I know more is better but do you think it can do what I need?

Andrew! :)

PS: Also, is says it has 32 recording tracks. Does that include just Audio or Midi, or both combined together???
 
sounds like digital orchestrator plus on steroids.

I think you should check out http://www.fasoft.com

That software will do what you need, only better and way cheaper.

This all depends on your system spec's. What is your computer, what is your soundcard?
 
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