Atmosphere not working within cubase

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bewildered

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i got spectrasonics atmosphere, loaded it into my cubase VST folder. When i into VST instruments to load it, it gives me an error "cannot load .dat file, error 3".

The fucking .dat file is like 4 gigs if that makes any difference. i dont know, maybe cubase has a problem working functionally with other programs. im starting to realize how much of a buggy pos cubase is. I mean, i find out that cubase wont get the 'samplerate' right because i got an audigy card and for some reason my cards 48khz rate doesnt work with cubases 48khz rate, so im forced to load a new file up with the time as seconds instead of beats, and now when i go to load cubase up today, its still giving that stupidass samplerate error even though i havent done anything different to it.

so what the hell, did i just waste my time and money trying to get atmosphere to work with cubase or what?
 
#1: The problem you have is related to the plugin, not cubase. Make sure you have the .dat file installed correctly in the right place. Usually plugins will have some configure screen for that. if not, reinstall the plugin or call their tech support. I have never had problems with atmosphere

#2: Samplerate: you have a garbage sound card, the reason cubase does not like it is that the Audigy only supports certain samplerates which are then converted on the sound card. This is a non-standard, extremely poor solution which is completly unsuitable for DAW work and is well documented

Why would you dish out the money for cubase when you are running the worst possible soundcard for that application?
 
i didnt realize i picked a shitty card till i cubase started giving me shit with it. Its cubase has such fucking problems with it, they should write on the damn packaging "do not use with audigy". and isnt it suspicious that the only program audigy doesnt work with is cubase.

the only reason i got audigy is cause of the interface piece that allows me to plug midi and other things into my computer without buying a whole nother seperate component.

So how did you install atmosphere to where it works? the only options they give when installing is "where do you want to install the program file", and "where do you want to data file". i choose to have them all install within the cubase VST folder, but i dont see how this would create problems. Etiher it can open the .dat file or it cant.

ok, can someone tell me how this samplerate thing will effect how i create music in cubase? am i going to get the a point far down the road in making a song and find out that i cant go any further cause of some stupid samplerate conflict?
 
i think they're assuming that you're not going to use it with an audigy card, because really, there's no good reason to do so. that's why it's not written on the box.

you don't see "Do not stick cereal into your eyes" on boxes of cocoa puffs, do you? some things are just "understood".
 
Shiatzu: :D

For the atmosphere: reinstall it and let it install into the default location, that should fix it

For Cubase: You can run that card but expect latency issues since I dont think you can configure your buffers. Google or search the forums for more details

I would go out and get an Emo 0404, its 99$ and it has everything you need (SPDIF, MIDI, 1/4" i/o)
 
bewildered said:
i choose to have them all install within the cubase VST folder, but i dont see how this would create problems.
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That's the problem right there. the .dat file should never be in the VST Plugins folder. It's the audio data file. The plugin itself is a .dll file. That's the one that should be in the VST Plugins folder. Right now you're confusing the heck out of Cubase.
 
bewildered said:
i didnt realize i picked a shitty card till i cubase started giving me shit with it. Its cubase has such fucking problems with it, they should write on the damn packaging "do not use with audigy". and isnt it suspicious that the only program audigy doesnt work with is cubase.
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It isn't suspicious.....audigy DOES work with Cubase, it just doesn't work well, nor does it work well with any other audio program because it is a POS soundcard. And since we have cleared up that your problem lies in not letting your VST install itself where it wants to, you can see that Cubase has no fault in your misdirecting the download. What IS suspicious is why you would spend $600+ on a recording program without first researching what are suitable soundcards to work with a DAW. You don't buy a Ferrari and then put bicycle tires on it and then bitch about how it handles on the road. That is basically what you have done here.
 
i was under the impression that all computer equipment was made to a industry standard, and that the only real difference between cards were features. I mean this is how ALL other computer hardware works. Why audigy doesnt want to follow the industry standard is beyond me. Ive even been getting problem with the audigy drivers causing norton not to load. Perhaps its time to ditch this card and find a better one. I guess i can always get some cash back if i resell it on ebay.
 
Actually, Audigy does follow one of the industry standards, set by Microsoft. Unfortunately Microsoft's standard imposes performance penalties because the communication between an audio program and a soundcard is forced to go through Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) (Windows NT technology... there is a good reason why this layer exists, which I won't go into here)... This means that yet another software is involved in the mediation process that lives between the audio software, the soundcard drivers and finally the soundcard itself. Microsoft being Microsoft, hasn't really made this efficient. It's fine for WinAmp and such, but not good/fast enough for multitrack pro audio environments.

To go around the performance issues Steinberg has created the ASIO standard. This allows for direct communications between the audio hardware and software. This is an open standard that many PC sequencers/DAWs and pro and semi-pro audio cards adhere to and have drivers for. The SoundBlaster family of cards don't come with ASIO drivers, thus the performance penalty.
 
Help! Question About My MIDI To Audio Conversion

Hi! Can't seem to start a new thread so I thought I would go this route to get a response.

I use Cubase LE. For starters, is this edition not capable of doing a lot of things a more expensive (upgrade) version does? If so, what are the limitations?

Hey, can you help me with how Cubase converts midi tracks you record in a program to audio tracks? I don't see a command for this. When I try to combine midi tracks with audio tracks in the same project, it sounds OK on playback. But if I try to export the project as a wav file to put on CD, it either doesn't allow me to or if it does, the midi tracks don't sound like they do when I just call up my project as a saved Cubase file.

So where's the command to "covert" the midi tracks ot audio tracks so my whole project comes out as nothing but audiuo tracks? Then I can use the midwodn and export command to save it to my harddrive as a wav file, no problem. This is NEVER a problem if I am only working with just audio tracks in a project to begin with. Add midi tracks, then I can't seem to get it all to turun to a complete audio project.

By the way, I use my Yamaha PSR-290 external keyboard to record my midi tracks to through my computer using Cubase LE as my software program and I have it connected (via my midi cables) through my Tascam interface.

Should I avoid doing the midi cable connection and just send my keyboard output to my audio channel to get an audio track recording?

Mike Freze
 
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