Moving from reason to cubase

[therook]

T-racks and izotope ozone are both very good mastering plugins. I know sub focus uses T-Racks.

[deadly_habit]

urs
you need an ilok and they are pricey, but so worth it
also abbey road plugins
god tier
if you're serious about your sound uad

[Dub_Fiend]

Kid, if you're upgrading to Cubase 5 then you don't have to worry about still using Redrum... When I had SX3, I used to rape Redrum because I couldn't find a simpler drum sampler but once I saw Groove Agent ONE then I just had to upgrade; it's got a tonne of pads (like, 16x8 compared to Redrum's 10) and 16 stereo outs you can easily route samples to... What moe could you want?

I upgraded from Reason to Cubase about 3 years ago now, and I just found that Cubase has a great way to automate plus the ability to use audio and external VSTs... And as someone else has said, the workflow is very similar so you won't have a problem in that respect


Dub Fiend

[dj_yeoku]

use FX channels (and send your audio to them) rather than inserts, better practice and helps save CPU, ctrl+p for pool to get your samples up (or mediabay [devices > mediabay]) - ermmmm, in terms of synths, Z3Ta+ is a handy one to have, the sine wave it comes with is just wankworthy, always use folders and arranger tracks, other than that just keep using it keeop watching tutorials, i know people that have been using cubase for over a decade and still say they only know about 60% of the program, so good luck!

[wayoftheworld]

thanks guys. on a final note, anyone got any must have VSTs?
ive not used them in awhile so unaware of any new belters.

camelcrusher is free, some of the freebies by TAL are really decent as well

[ninjadog]

The Ohm VST's are nice too.

On a related note I moved from Reason to Logic and it was like being set free from my aquarium into the open ocean. You won't regret switching

[GRAYSKALE]

I recently made the transition from Live 8 to Cubase 5 - man it was a good day - For some reason loading the same samples in Cubase just sound a shit load better! One tip I'd have is to save a template folder with all your samples loaded in to the pool - it gets fucking tedious loading up samples in to the pool! i'd also advise you to use a group channel track as your "master" - ie send everything to a group before the master - that way you can do global automation on the track (Don't think you can automate the master track - at least I haven't figured out how yet anyway!). Anyways enjoy making music that is gonna sound about 100 times better!

[Grumblex]

thanks guys. on a final note, anyone got any must have VSTs?
ive not used them in awhile so unaware of any new belters.

Pretty Much all the fx plugins in cubase are sick im not too keen on the reverbs myself tho id recomend getting ni massive and fm8 aswell as synths