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Old 04-19-2007, 10:57 PM
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Default Re: Mixing Down MIDI In Cubase SX3 (SOS)

No prob!

I am trying to remember what I had to do back in the day. I am pretty sure what I did was to mute everything but say the kick drum, pan it hard left and take my left out and connect it to the right in. I'd make a pass recording the audio for the whole song, or if I looped I would just record the loop and duplicate it. Then I would do the same for the snare and so on. This was I can mix each track, compress, eq, the works. You could do it without panning if you wanted to do the whole kit in one pass. Just take the left out to the right in and mute the right out, do a pass and then swap.

There's a big problem when you do this however and that is the tracks will drift due to latency. The drums won't sync up anymore. The way around this is to put a click (1, 2, 3, 4) at the very beginning of the song or part(just pick a sound with a quick attack, like a stick or something). Then when you record each pass the clicks at the beginning will delayed the exact amount of your latency, so you can cut the silence right before the click and pull the track back and everything will line up perfect again.

I know it's a pain in the ass, but it might be the only way for you to do it if you are set on using those drums. I had to do that for like a year until I got LM-4 and now I use Battery. These programs will mixdown just like the A1 does. Let me know if you need anything!
Brian
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