Tutorial for Gating(Trancegate) in Cubase SX using Midi Gate and Step Designer
Ok guys if your like me and you love that gating sound of pads, effects or whatever, then I have found a little gem inside Cubase Sx that you can use to do the trick. Some may know this, but for those who don't try it out..its sweet.
1.First Open Cubase, and open a new or existing project.
2.add a midi track and an audio track
3.in the audio track you just opened insert the midi gate effect(should be under-dynamics->midi gate)
4.Now in the midi channel you just opened set the output to midi gate.
5.Open the midi gate plugin(in the audio track) if it did not already, and set all the perameters to Zero and set "Note to release" to 5 and "hold Mode" to note off. (you can play around with the other perameters l8r)
6.Now in the midi track insert the step designer midi effect.
7.Now record a Pad or whatever sound you want in the audio track to be gated(don't worry if you don't hear gating yet)
8.Now set the steps in which you want the gating to take place in step designer in the midi track.
9.Press play and viola you have a gating effect or you can call it a
trancegate.(play around with the steps to get the effect you want).
Note: If you do not want to use the step designer to set notes to be gated then you can use a simple midi track that you just record notes that you play or an existing midi file, or you can play live.(if you don not understand how to use a midi track to gate instead of step designer let me know and I will add it to this tutorial).
Originally posted by Frase
Could someone tell me please what Gating means/does?
Thanks
It's like talking into a fan.
I imagine it as a river, only instead of water there's sound. Then there's this floodgate that spans the entire length - one side for low frequencies, the other side for high frequencies. A typical gating effect will have the floodgates open and close really quickly so the resulting sound gets split up into segments with "holes" or gaps in between the sound you'd hear.
Aug-27-2004 17:27
sonic_akb
tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Manaus, Brazil
quote:
Originally posted by Paragod
... or simply use my plugin:
Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
any plans of making an OSX version of this?
that would be great if you could!
Aug-28-2004 03:51
Frase
www.frase.org.uk
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Coventry, Warwickshire
quote:
Originally posted by Tranc3
It's like talking into a fan.
I imagine it as a river, only instead of water there's sound. Then there's this floodgate that spans the entire length - one side for low frequencies, the other side for high frequencies. A typical gating effect will have the floodgates open and close really quickly so the resulting sound gets split up into segments with "holes" or gaps in between the sound you'd hear.
