It's not that hard. but to become proficient and get a good workflow, id say about 3 months.

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I use Ableton and I find Cubase to be much more complicated when it comes to doing things. I suppose if I got used to Cubase it would be easy but Ableton has a very easy to understand interface.

saying one program is easier than an another isn't really the way to look at it. all sequencers do the same thing. i think FL studio is hard. i am proficient with reason, cubase, and logic. but ive never used FL so its hard. if you know one program, its just a matter of figuring out how to do what you already know. all pro leval sequencers are pretty simple if you sit down and take your time.

I had a harder time with Fl than I did with cubase, not sure if it was just me not applying myself or what.

I bought the Cubase SX Power book and that totally helped me along with google and google videos.

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I had a much easy time with Cubase than Ableton, Cubase seems much more straight forward.. i didn't think ableton had a very easy to understand interface at all.. seemed like half the buttons were unlabeled. if you know pro tools/logic/sonar you almost already know cubase.

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i cant comprehend how someone could struggle with it. layout is blatant. i pretty much knew most of how it worked after 2 weeks. before i was using cakewalk on a pentium 133. id had a little experience of cubase on atari, but not much time at all.

if you understand sequencing, it will be quite quick to make a transition. if anything it is more obvious than reason and fl imo.

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The sequencer is piss easy to learn. I struggled with the routing in the beginning. In fact it took me about 2 days to actually get some sound out of it but then I had no experience with midi except for setting up a control surface in Reason. It's very different from Reason and FL in that respect where you launch the app and you're pretty much creating music already.

Thing is if you gonna be teaching it, you need to know each tool, 80% of which the average user will never use!!

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Just out of curiosity, what do you charge for your teaching lessons you advertise for on Craiglist? Do you do 1 hour blocks I take it?

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i found cubase impossible, fruity quit quirky and with reason i made tunes after a day of fidling. ableton was pretty easy too but it crashed so i stopped using it. might go back to it.

Some real interesting responses here. And I don't do one 1 hour blocks. I go as long as the customer is willing to go in a sitting and as much time I have availabe for them. (if thats what you meant by "blocks")
I do it at $20/hr and I get a lot of people asking for lessons with Cubase so I made the decision I'm just gonna learn it. I was taking a look at some basic tutorials on youtube and interface looks really straight forward so I might as well just take the Cubase plunge..


edit: And what the hell is up with no Cubase demos? Is their fraud prevention that bad that any idiot can steal & register it? I never heard of a DAW not offering demos before.. bs imo.

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I've tried the cubase demo several times, and each time I get nowhere. I can barely get a sound out of the thing. Cubase is not intuitive at all, whereas FL Studio is very, very intuitive. They say Cubase isn't so hard to learn if you have the video tutorials. If I had someone sitting beside me showing me how to get around in cubase, I'm sure it would make things a lot easier. I'd say you'd be spending twice the amount of time teaching people Cubase.