Yamaha SPX1000 to Cubase SX

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Hi All,

This is my first time posting so please bear with me on this!

I just got a second hand Yamaha SPX1000 rack unit and want to hook it up to Cubase SX to add effects to guitar parts etc. How do I set this up so that I can send dry guitar parts into the SPX then back into Cubase? IS this how its done? Any help would be appreciated. I've been playing guitar for 15 years but when it comes to setting up computers I'm clueless so please keep it "basic"!

In case this is important, my soundcard is an M-Audio Delta 1010 with the rack mounted unit. Other gear in my setup from guitar to pc is as follows:
Guitar - Mesa Boogie Rectifier Recording Preamp (rack) - Samson preamp (rack) - M-Audio Delta 1010 (rack) - to Dell Optiplex (built for music production).

Any help is much appreciated!
 
Read the manual. Page 274. Unless you didn't get one with your pirated copy. :rolleyes: j/k
 
tourettes5139 said:
Read the manual. Page 274. Unless you didn't get one with your pirated copy. :rolleyes: j/k
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Sorry but in my users manual page 274 only mentions "Performing The Freeze". Anyone else know how to do this? Or can anyone that actually has the manual point me to the 'right' page?
 
It's Cubase SX2. The only reason I'm asking for help is the manual is so big and I have so little time to ever play music let alone learn all the jargon involved with the software (I have zero engineering background). That's what being married and having two kids will get you! I only want to get my gear set up so I can get the basics recorded then when I have enough tracks sone, get an engineer to mix andeverything and tidy up the midi etc.
 
You can do it in SX2, but it's a very hands on thing. SX3 actually added featured specifically for doing it where you could bring up an external processor just like a plugin. In SX2 you have to manually set up some routing in the mixer bus sections. I doubt it will be covered in the manual, though. Seems like if you were setting up an effects loop you had to create a subgroup that didn't go to the master LR and that went directly to one of your audio outs (which would go to your processor), then label a stereo input track as your return (whichever one you use to bring the effects back in), and to get the effects to your actual mixdown you would have to record that track to disk.

In SX3 you just tell it you want to add a processor, and it walks you through it (and you don't have to actually record the effects before you mix down). Does the same thing for synth inputs and that sort of thing, kind of like a real mixer would do. In SX2 you can more or less do the same thing, you just have to keep track of it a lot more... Hope this helps.
 
It can be done the same way in SX2 as in SX3, but SX3 adds the ability to delay compensate for outboard gear which is a gigantic headache saver. However, for time based effects such as reverb and delay, the latency may not be a really big issue so long as you find out what the latency actually is and counter that latency be reducing predecay values and delay times:)
 
xstatic said:
It can be done the same way in SX2 as in SX3, but SX3 adds the ability to delay compensate for outboard gear which is a gigantic headache saver. However, for time based effects such as reverb and delay, the latency may not be a really big issue so long as you find out what the latency actually is and counter that latency be reducing predecay values and delay times:)
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Does it let you add it to the "Plugin" list the same way in SX2? Seems like I had to jump a few small hoops in SX2 to do it (and there was no delay compensation - great addition in SX3), but I may have been making a mountain out of a molehill!
 
Nope. You just setup another output buss, and then an input channel for the return.
 
Superhuman said:
It's Cubase SX2. The only reason I'm asking for help is the manual is so big and I have so little time to ever play music let alone learn all the jargon involved with the software (I have zero engineering background). That's what being married and having two kids will get you! I only want to get my gear set up so I can get the basics recorded then when I have enough tracks sone, get an engineer to mix andeverything and tidy up the midi etc.
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Ah, my bad. I was looking at the PDF of SX3. I think these guys have it pretty well covered. :)
 
Thanks guys, I'll give that a go. Might be back to ask a few more questions if I can't get it working!
 
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