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cubase users... what is your favorite feature?

Post by FSTZ1 » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:52 pm

I just started using instrument tracks

great feature IMHO

less mess, more organization for your project

use this thread to share tips & secrets

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Re: cubase users... what is your favorite feature?

Post by serox » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:55 pm

FSTZ wrote:I just started using instrument tracks

great feature IMHO

less mess, more organization for your project

use this thread to share tips & secrets

:D
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Post by FSTZ1 » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:13 pm

instead of pressing F11 and getting your usual VSTi window,

right click on the left pane, then create instrument track

you get an option to select a VSTi and then you can create Midi within that track

it's less scattered and more organized than having your Midi event and then the vsti on 2 diff tracks.

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Post by FSTZ1 » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:45 pm

doyli wrote:Though it is a little glitchy, I'm liking MediaBay, once you have tagged all your sounds and presets it makes life a whole lot easier finding the instrument/sound/midi groove you need.
Also feeling the new GrooveAgent One in Cubase 5 for drums nice and simple for knocking out beats and the drag'n'drop feature direct from the arranger is killer.

I'm starting to sound like a salesman the more I post in forums.

love Quick Controls also for midi controlling vst parameters.
haha,

me too

but f**k it, cubase is dope

going to check out GrooveAgent One tho

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Post by Littlefoot » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:11 pm

pre and post processing level changing is pretty frickin bad boy if you ask me!
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Post by martello » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:25 pm

Using instrument tracks all the time. But for Battery mainly midi tracks of course.

Favorite shortcut is key "3" to slice/cut samples very quickly. Still love the multiband compressor from SX3, which I add (slightly) always after limiter, works always and I never use the one bundled in Cubase 5.

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Post by paradigm_x » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:36 pm

offline processing history is very slick.

even months after you've processed a file, you can change or remove the processing. even remembers the settings you used if you want to do a minor touch. very slick. oh yes indeedy.

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Post by step correct » Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:32 pm

I like the audio editing in Cubase, that it sounds louder than any other DAW I've used...very obvious difference. Is this feature available on sx3? Screenshots?

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Post by cartoon_head » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:58 pm

Loving the Instrument tracks. Started out with 5 using MIDIs obliviuos, was a bloody good day when i discovered instrument tracks. The VariAudio plug in is really good in 5, aswell as the audio editing. Object selection Timestretch is pretty cool too. Oh and the Read and Write automation buttons are wicked.

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Post by deadly_habit » Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:43 pm

intuitive workflow, automation lanes and templates

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Post by FSTZ1 » Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:16 pm

awesome

learned 2 things already today

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Post by DZA » Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:29 pm

Havent got one yet still trying to figure it out :cry:
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Post by higgzbozon » Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:48 pm

I'm saving up for cubase 5. Working on sx3 at the moment. I have been using cubase for 8 years now and i just recently found out about CTRL+D
Duplicate... man i was like :o Why didn't i notice this before!!! :lol:

I also I like the whole workflow to ones you figure it out. I have to admit i'm in a struggle right now, deciding if i wanna buy sonar 8 or cubase 5 though..

Sonar 8 is a really nice daw to, my current pc isn't able to handle it :cry:
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Ones i saw cubase 5 im having a real hard time deciding!
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Post by paradigm_x » Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:40 am

HiggzBozon wrote:I'm saving up for cubase 5. Working on sx3 at the moment. I have been using cubase for 8 years now and i just recently found out about CTRL+D
Duplicate... man i was like :o Why didn't i notice this before!!! :lol:
that funny, i literally have just done the same, using cubase since vst5.1.... saw my mate doing it... how TF do you do that. Was like a ninja at select, dragcopy, select, dragcopy...

:lol:

cubase is basically just full of slick things you keep finding/learning.

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Post by the dub lemon » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:08 am

ooo...offline processing history, I didn't know about that, nice one. My version 5 update will be arriving later on today :D

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Post by paradigm_x » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:42 am

The Dub Lemon wrote:ooo...offline processing history, I didn't know about that, nice one. My version 5 update will be arriving later on today :D
Right click any audio clip, go to Audio or Advanced (cant remember, at work) and offline processing history. a list of all the processing (reverse, normalise etc, or vst plugins) youve applied is there, you can remove (permanently or temporarily), change (opens up at the settings you used, you can then change) or re-order. only doesnt work if you do a timestretch, THEN something else.

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Post by cartoon_head » Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:14 pm

HiggzBozon wrote:I'm saving up for cubase 5. Working on sx3 at the moment. I have been using cubase for 8 years now and i just recently found out about CTRL+D
Duplicate... man i was like :o Why didn't i notice this before!!! :lol:
Thank you!

Another ive just discovered today is the freeze instrument track feature. Excellent.

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Post by breakbait » Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:23 pm

I miss Cubase :cry:

My favourite features were being able to easily quantize regions which was great when programming drums in audio, and using the envelope to carve my drum sounds to exactly how I wanted them.

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Post by martello » Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:18 pm

HiggzBozon wrote:I'm saving up for cubase 5. Working on sx3 at the moment. I have been using cubase for 8 years now and i just recently found out about CTRL+D
Duplicate... man i was like :o Why didn't i notice this before!!! :lol:
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Try CTRL+K too, it is also duplicating, you just have to enter how many duplicates you want (Repeat command) :wink:

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