Exporting EZDrummer to Audio Track with Cubase 5 - The Sound turns out Weird

[Isivaa Sanaru]

Hey,

It's me again.

I'm not sure whether I should post all my new problems in one of my already existing threads or if I can start as many as I like since they all have different issues?

I really need some help with exporting MIDI drums into Audio Tracks.

I did this with my Cubase SX 3 for about 2 years and there was never a problem, then I get Cubase 5 and export my drums - The sound changes, it's like I suddenly recorded my drums with a ***** 3310. Sounds very very bad quality and just... horrible.

What I've done is pretty much this:
1) Set the Right and Left Locators
2) Solo MIDI Channel with EZDrummer on
3) File->Export->Audio Mixdown
4) File Name & Path
5) File Format: Wave File
6) (Insert iXML Chunk) Checked, no idea what this is but it was checked already so I left it
7) Sample Rate: 192000/48000/44100/8000kHz - I've tried them all, which one should I pick here? (I have a Edirol FA-66 24bit 192 kHz)
8) Bit Depth: 16/24/32 bit all tried out, should I go for 24 because my FA-66 says 24 bit?
9) Pool + Audi Track - Checked
10) Export

Including an image of my Export just to be sure!

 

[Seidy]

Um...
Do you want to put midi into you project or get it out?
Exporting means getting audio/midi files out of Cubase.

Sorry, I don't understand what you want to do.

 

[Chili]

So, your first question, about whether to keep one thread or many. Go ahead and start a new thread for different questions. If you are asking about different topics, then each should be its own thread. This way people can search or browse based on the title of the thread instead of buried deep in another unrelated thread.

Not sure how your drums tracks sound different. You probably need to explain or post a clip. There could be several things going on. The first obvious question is how are you listening to your drum tracks?? How are you able to compare between pre and post export??

I noticed you're trying to record a soundtrack, so I'm assuming this project will be used in video at some point. If that is the case, you should export to 24 bit and 48khz sampling. Not absolutely necessary as most video editors can handle most any sample rate, but eventually it will be converte to 48khz, so it might as well happen at mixdown.

 

[Isivaa Sanaru]

Hey,

Thanks for the replies - I eventually fixed the problem for now, it seems like Guitar Rig 5 was taking up ALOT ASIO Time Usage, so after I've added it as an effect to 4-5 Audio Channels the sound couldn't take it anymore. Any suggestions on how I can make the Time Usage less?

And thanks SO much for your tip Chili, I will export it as you suggested for sure!

 

[Chili]

so after I've added it as an effect to 4-5 Audio Channels the sound couldn't take it anymore. Any suggestions on how I can make the Time Usage less?

Yeah, running multiple instances of a vst like guitar rig can use up cpu resources quickly. One way to get passed this with a slower processor is to "print" or render your guitar tracks one track at a time. To do that, export that track to an audio file, by soloing that one track then Export>Mixdown. You have an option to add it to the Audio Pool and add it as a new track to your project, you should do this. Once it is back in your project as a new audio track, you can disable the VST from the original guitar track and Mute it.

Then do the same thing to the next guitar track until all 4 or 5 are new audio tracks.

The one caveat with this is you no longer can change your settings in Guitar Rig as you have "recorded" it as is. But that's okay, most people record an amp or modeler and it's basically the same thing.

 

[Isivaa Sanaru]

Thank you SO much for that!

You have no idea how much that helped me!

Thanks!