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Lempface
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So I've decided to try to do a hybrid of softsynths/guitars/vocals and make some sort of electronica song in the vein of dntel/styrofoam. Well thats all well and good, I've got a massive set of synths, synth design suites, plugins from compressors to noise reducers to sound maximizers, samples from A-Z and a brain full of ideas. BUT BUT BUT.
I can't figure out how to sequence them.
If I start it up in Cubase and track a midi either from tabit or draw it on the staff right in Cubase I can hear my synths and wow its cool and yadda yadda. However when I try to route a second track through another softsynth? I hear.. nothing. Nadda. The only thing I can do is bounce the first track to a new track and then set the second track up for the softsynth. This is a pretty big pain in the ass because on a 4 minute song it takes about 2 minutes to bounce that track.
MORE IMPORTANTLY I can't hear what my synths sound like combined so I can't get any semblence of what the mix is going to sound like until after I boun to track. So wait 2 minutes, take 2 minutes to change settings again and find out that it didn't fit at all. Repeat making minor adjustments? You're looking at 10-60 minutes just to see if you can get two tracks to mesh. And that is only going to get exponentially harder as I add more tracks.
So my question is:
Is there a program, or am I doing something wrong in the ones I already have (Cubase, Audition, Sonar 4, Protools), that will let me play back multiple softsynths (Even if they are at a 15-20 second buffer) so I can hear my mix before bouncing the track?
I can't figure out how to sequence them.
If I start it up in Cubase and track a midi either from tabit or draw it on the staff right in Cubase I can hear my synths and wow its cool and yadda yadda. However when I try to route a second track through another softsynth? I hear.. nothing. Nadda. The only thing I can do is bounce the first track to a new track and then set the second track up for the softsynth. This is a pretty big pain in the ass because on a 4 minute song it takes about 2 minutes to bounce that track.
MORE IMPORTANTLY I can't hear what my synths sound like combined so I can't get any semblence of what the mix is going to sound like until after I boun to track. So wait 2 minutes, take 2 minutes to change settings again and find out that it didn't fit at all. Repeat making minor adjustments? You're looking at 10-60 minutes just to see if you can get two tracks to mesh. And that is only going to get exponentially harder as I add more tracks.
So my question is:
Is there a program, or am I doing something wrong in the ones I already have (Cubase, Audition, Sonar 4, Protools), that will let me play back multiple softsynths (Even if they are at a 15-20 second buffer) so I can hear my mix before bouncing the track?
