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Is it just me orrr [SX3 Question]
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| daeus |
...Do you have to record each track you need in cubaseSX3 separatley in a whole different project then put them all together and export to audio because the computer staggers the sound otherwise? (Im talking about some VST instrument being played through some filters of their own and some drum/pecussion wav file tracks). Because I'm finding I cant actually listen to a tune im putting together when things get intensive on the CPU.
Ive tweaked my machine to the max thanks to (http://www.musicxp.net/tuning_tips.php) and have a cut down version of windows XP.
Its physically a P4 3.2 with 2GB RAM and Im using a generic "C-Media Wave" PCI Card - this could be the problem..I've been checking out the M Audio cards and the Juli's, would one of thes make that much difference? Or could it be bad drivers? I've tried the ASIO4ALL driver and some others...my latency is reading 21ms at the moment in Cubase, I know 4ms is about the best.
Ive nearly bounced all my tracks to audio and with a few effecrs on these and SX still stutters the sound. |
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| DigiNut |
Yes, you need a better sound card. The rest is probably fine.
See my old thread here. |
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| mysticalninja |
| guys, is there a faster way to bounce audio than export, delete original, import and replace? |
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| RivalMan |
| quote: | Originally posted by mysticalninja
guys, is there a faster way to bounce audio than export, delete original, import and replace? |
In Cubase? No, not really. Although you can check a box when you export, asking you if you want the exported track to go into the pool and the project. That will save you the import part of the procedure mentioned above. But that's the only thing it seems...
If your problem is CPU resources, I'm sure a new sound card (and a higher buffer setting) will help you a bit. You could try to "freeze" the instrument tracks too. You press F11 and the "freeze" button next to all you VST-instruments. In this state you can't alter any midi or synth settings on the tracks you've freezed, but you can modify your effects, work on other tracks etc. If you suddenly find that you wanna do something to a track that's been frozen, all you do is to push the freeze button again and the track will "unfreeze". The sole purpose of this function is to conserve CPU.
But, on another note, it really is a highly missing feature of Cubase that you don't have an "export all tracks seperately" button. This feature has been requested a lot on the Cubase forums and I'm sure that it'll come in version 4 (well, not really, with Steinberg you never know).
Sometimes I do all my scoring, arranging, sounds etc. in Cubase, but go to a pro studio to create the mixdowns. And - as most other pro studios - they use Logic rather than Cubase. In this case I have to export each track seperately. With 40+ tracks - that will take you the better part of a day :wtf:
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| mysticalninja |
| Damn. Wish there was a bounce hotkey to auto replace audio. |
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| daeus |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Yes, you need a better sound card. The rest is probably fine.
See my old thread here. |
Woh I've seen this post before a long time back :rolleyes: but kind of forgot about it and never read it to the end...but FXT sounds wicked, along with the other ways of using one effect applied to a group of tracks in cubase so save cpu.
wicked stuff! |
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| DigiNut |
Freezing can sometimes be faster than bouncing in SX 3, assuming it's a VST instrument you want to bounce. In SX2 it's much slower though. And of course you have to unfreeze it before you change anything, but if this is just to conserve CPU resources then that's not usually a problem.
The reason it's faster in SX 3 is that it disables everything else to minimize your CPU load before bouncing, which makes the process much faster. You can do the same thing in SX 2 manually before bouncing to speed it up.
Now if what you really meant is a lazier way as opposed to a faster way to bounce, then no, there really isn't. |
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| substorm |
| quote: | Originally posted by mysticalninja
guys, is there a faster way to bounce audio than export, delete original, import and replace? |
If get it right, you want to replace a audiofile without delete and then import the new during producton?
If so, yes in Live you can, i Cubase i dont know! |
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| daeus |
I've been adding loads of effects to midi tracks then bouncing them to audio since checking out the CPU freindly guide but loopings becoming a pain because I get a small crack noise between each one, not sure if this could be removed in sound forge but I dont think so?
Or maybe apply a reverb to the wav track with the loops in to make it merg better ( but this is slightly defeating the bounce-to-audio cpu saving method.)
Another option would be to just have one long wav file but I dont think thats very economic? |
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| DigiNut |
There's no need to loop the audio - loop the MIDI and bounce the entire thing to audio, once.
All I do is create an audio track directly underneath the MIDI track with the same routing, bounce the VST instrument to audio, then turn the instrument off. If I make changes I can bounce it again. If I only want to change a small part, it's not too hard to bounce just that part and use a crossfade to get rid of any clicks or pops. |
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