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Cubase personal issues and program use......
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| midaV |
For some reason I have tryed to use Cubase over and over again for like 4 months now. And I just keep going back to fruityloops. I love how cubase is so accurate and everything is clean and crisp which comes from it, but for some reason the step sequencer for fruity is a dream come true to me. The layout for some reason just lets me put out my ideas exactly how I want it.
The problem now is that I know I should stick with whatever i'm most comfortable with, but the fact is that I want to start getting hardware soon and fruity isnt to great for it, and I was wondering if any of you have made the transition from fruity to Cubase SX, and how you deal with percussion as to how you did it with FL.
Some people tell me to do it in FL and export it as a .wav into CUBASE but that's just a pain in the ass and you have to keep going back and forth just to change one thing, and export it all over. And the drummap to me is just horrid.
I would really like to use Cubase. I understand it's main concepts and how everything goes, but for some reason it doesnt stick to me like FL does. And in order to get hardware running smoothly and efficiently and just at a more professional rate, I would like to use Cubase. Any ideas?
Suggestions please! |
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| quote: | Originally posted by midaV
For some reason I have tryed to use Cubase over and over again for like 4 months now. And I just keep going back to fruityloops. I love how cubase is so accurate and everything is clean and crisp which comes from it, but for some reason the step sequencer for fruity is a dream come true to me. The layout for some reason just lets me put out my ideas exactly how I want it.
The problem now is that I know I should stick with whatever i'm most comfortable with, but the fact is that I want to start getting hardware soon and fruity isnt to great for it, and I was wondering if any of you have made the transition from fruity to Cubase SX, and how you deal with percussion as to how you did it with FL.
Some people tell me to do it in FL and export it as a .wav into CUBASE but that's just a pain in the ass and you have to keep going back and forth just to change one thing, and export it all over. And the drummap to me is just horrid.
I would really like to use Cubase. I understand it's main concepts and how everything goes, but for some reason it doesnt stick to me like FL does. And in order to get hardware running smoothly and efficiently and just at a more professional rate, I would like to use Cubase. Any ideas?
Suggestions please! |
You could rewire FL to cubase, that would go around the saving to wave hassle.
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| skytribe |
| Yeah. You can simply install FL as VST. |
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| Mossy |
| MidaV - you took the words right out of my mouth. Fruity is a doddle to use, and frankly anything that hampers my creative flow when making music (eg cubase SX) is not worth my time. I work productively in Fruity at the moment and thats what matters. I will worry about the hardware side of things later on, when im a bit richer and can afford a Virus, but for now Fruitys fine. |
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| Subtle |
| It is as easy as using FL Studio as a VSTi in Cubase, and I think it would be possible even to make a shortcut, so that you can press one button to open FL whenever u want to edit something. |
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| midaV |
If you open FL as a vsti isnt it limited to only one channel at a time?
Because I just tryed a 4 channel percussion pattern on the FL step sequencer and tryed to get the sound out of Cubase, but it only plays the one channel which is selected for the "midi track" which is linked to FL Vsti?
Would rewire be any different? |
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| Subtle |
| FL Studio does work with multiple outputs when used as a VST plugin in Cubase, I suppose that is what FL Studio (multi) stands for.. |
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| h.vox |
| quote: | Originally posted by midaV
For some reason I have tryed to use Cubase over and over again for like 4 months now. And I just keep going back to fruityloops. I love how cubase is so accurate and everything is clean and crisp which comes from it, but for some reason the step sequencer for fruity is a dream come true to me. The layout for some reason just lets me put out my ideas exactly how I want it.
The problem now is that I know I should stick with whatever i'm most comfortable with, but the fact is that I want to start getting hardware soon and fruity isnt to great for it, and I was wondering if any of you have made the transition from fruity to Cubase SX, and how you deal with percussion as to how you did it with FL.
Some people tell me to do it in FL and export it as a .wav into CUBASE but that's just a pain in the ass and you have to keep going back and forth just to change one thing, and export it all over. And the drummap to me is just horrid.
I would really like to use Cubase. I understand it's main concepts and how everything goes, but for some reason it doesnt stick to me like FL does. And in order to get hardware running smoothly and efficiently and just at a more professional rate, I would like to use Cubase. Any ideas?
Suggestions please! |
i switched from fruity 3.56 to cubase. at first i didn't know what to do with it until one day a friend sat by me and he showed me the way cubase works, and i haven't looked back since. ok, i reinstalled fruity a week ago but only to check some of my friend's arrangements in fruity, and to see that i have made a good decision :D
if you are so keen to use fruity's step sequencer, try some vst step sequencers like ERA; that might work for you.
and i would really suggest switching to sx - its arrangement window is a breeze to use, the arrangements simply flow out of you (ok, me :D) and its automation is top notch.
and if you do not want to switch - you can use fruity as vst instrument within cubase. just use multi-output version of fruity, assign the fruity channels accordingly, and work like that. in time, you will find out which way to go - use fruity alone, use cubase alone, use fruity as vsti, or go hybrid - some tracks in cubase, and some in fruity. |
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