Cuabe LE

[cloroxmartini]

Having a real hard time getting this thing to work. Click tracks show up. All lines seem to pick up only one mic. The firestudio works fine. all mics check on each channel, but once Cubase LE comes on line, nothing works right.

where can i find step by step instruction on how to get Cubase to record?

[Electriclight]

Originally Posted by cloroxmartini

The firestudio works fine. all mics check on each channel, but once Cubase LE comes on line, nothing works right.

where can i find step by step instruction on how to get Cubase to record?

Well, pages 10 through 14 of your Firestudio Manual ARE step by step. What specifically are you having problems with?

all mics check on each channel

My advice is to start recording with ONE mic on ONE mono track. Set up your input and output channels in the Cubase Devices Menu. Then create an audio track, arm the track for recording, and hit record on the transport bar. Let us know what happens.

[cloroxmartini]

thanks for the reply.

we did get one track that would record and playback. soon as that worked, we added other tracks and they do not record. we went back to just one track and tried to add one more track (at a time). couldn't get a second track to work.

the devices (from the device menu) were set up as instructed. the firestudio mixer works fine as a stand alone, but that doesn't get me recording.

Originally Posted by Electriclight

Well, pages 10 through 14 of your Firestudio Manual ARE step by step. What specifically are you having problems with?



My advice is to start recording with ONE mic on ONE mono track. Set up your input and output channels in the Cubase Devices Menu. Then create an audio track, arm the track for recording, and hit record on the transport bar. Let us know what happens.

[Electriclight]

So when you set up a second track you chose a different input? Each input channel should be seperate, so if you have one track working just try to change the channel selection for that track and see what happens. I don't think there is anything majorly wrong. It just a matter of setting up the different inputs to their own tracks.

[cloroxmartini]

that's what i thought i was doing in the cubase device manager menu tab for the (VSR?) inputs. i set up 8 mono inputs from the firestudio box. i guess i don't know how to set up the inputs through cubase. i figured since it took mic 1, it would naturally pick up mic 2, mic 3, etc., once the device manager set ups were done.

another point is that the Firestudio advanced selection for latency does not work. you click on the button and no window pops up - per what the cubase DVD says should happen.

Originally Posted by Electriclight

So when you set up a second track you chose a different input? Each input channel should be seperate, so if you have one track working just try to change the channel selection for that track and see what happens. I don't think there is anything majorly wrong. It just a matter of setting up the different inputs to their own tracks.

[Electriclight]

Sorry, I'm writing and thinking at the same time and this thing won't let me cut and paste so some of this may be disjointed. Try to follow me.

I'm home from work and looking at your manual again. Hopefully an actual FIrestudio owner will talk you through this. I know there are many on this site. You should probably open a new thread with FIRESTUDIO in the heading line.

Here's all I can think of...When you open the VST INPUTS screen you have to check the ACTIVE button for each channel you use. You have not changed anything in the Control Console, correct? And we are talking Cubase LE and not LE4 right?

Open several new audio tracks in a Cubase project. Open the mIxer and there will be a channel strip for each track. On the top of each channel strip there will be an INPUT ROUTING label. What does each one say? CLick on one . Does it give you any options? You should be able to select a different input for each track.

I think this last idea may be key. Good Luck, Dave

[cloroxmartini]

Cubase LE4, what came with the firestudio.

You should know that protools 7.4 and the M-audio project mix IO have been used successfully on this computer.

The firestudio is recognized by the firewire port on the pc.

the firestudio outputs to KRK VXT8's from firestudio in to firestudio out

it is not the firestudio hardware.

now that's aside.

there is no input channel on the mixer window.

the monitor select does not work. sound level is not registered in any window of cubase. not the mixer, not the bottom record strip. not the recording window. nothing.

this should not be that hard.

protools was not this hard.

the protools stuff is a friend's and i do not have the money for it, but at least it was user friendly and actually worked right out of the box without all this difficulty.

in protools, you opened a new project, hooked up the mic, opened the mixer window, and low and behold, the level meter picked up your signal. not so with this program and you can just record. cubase is very very frustrating because it just plain does not work.

oh, and as i sit here, i added a track, one more track, track number 2. mic is plugged into mic number 1. mixer level all of a sudden registers on audio track number 2 in Cubase, while the firestudio registers level in mic 1. so i add mono audio track 3, and it all goes silent again. no levels measured anywhere. now, as i write some 10 seconds later, signal in cubase registering in audio 3, while mic is still in mic 1. I mean, wtf? now i can click on audio mono 2 AND 3 cubase monitor buttons, and audio mono 2 and mono 3 are giving me mic 1 input. so now i add mono track 4, and it registers the signal. Still no signal from audio 1, which i think has mic 1 input from the firestudio. this is crazy!

so i plug my XLR into firestudio mic 2. all goes dead.

so, i go to device setup, and only mic 1 is active.

i go to VST connections and only mic 1 is activated as an input. So i add 5 more mono inputs.

nothing now. zip zero.

so now i switch the mic to mic 1 on the presonus, now audio 2 on cubase registers the signal.

now i switch on the cubase monitor for audio 2-6, and they all register the one signal from the firestudio mic 1 input.

please tell me what is wrong here, otherwise i'll dump this and go get a loan and buy protools.

Originally Posted by Electriclight

Sorry, I'm writing and thinking at the same time and this thing won't let me cut and paste so some of this may be disjointed. Try to follow me.

I'm home from work and looking at your manual again. Hopefully an actual FIrestudio owner will talk you through this. I know there are many on this site. You should probably open a new thread with FIRESTUDIO in the heading line.

Here's all I can think of...When you open the VST INPUTS screen you have to check the ACTIVE button for each channel you use. You have not changed anything in the Control Console, correct? And we are talking Cubase LE and not LE4 right?

Open several new audio tracks in a Cubase project. Open the mIxer and there will be a channel strip for each track. On the top of each channel strip there will be an INPUT ROUTING label. What does each one say? CLick on one . Does it give you any options? You should be able to select a different input for each track.

I think this last idea may be key. Good Luck, Dave

[cloroxmartini]

now i do a new project and again, not ONE thing happens. no signal at all into cubase.

[cloroxmartini]

i'm tired of this. if i have to spend more for a stable protools setup, so be it.

[Electriclight]

Cubase LE4, what came with the firestudio.

This is the first time you mentioned that it is LE4 a different beast than LE. Please let the next person who tries to help know what version you have installed.

You should know that protools 7.4 and the M-audio project mix IO have been used successfully on this computer.

The firestudio is recognized by the firewire port on the pc.

the firestudio outputs to KRK VXT8's from firestudio in to firestudio out

it is not the firestudio hardware.

now that's aside.

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Until you get any DAW to work on the Firestudio you can't really make this claim. The fact that it works in stand alone mode is nice. If you want to record something, it will have to learn to talk to software.

there is no input channel on the mixer window.

If you have opened ANY audio track there must be a corresponding track in the Cubase mixer. This tells me either you have not created a new track in Cubase or you don't know how to open the mixer.

in protools, you opened a new project, hooked up the mic, opened the mixer window, and low and behold, the level meter picked up your signal. not so with this program and you can just record. cubase is very very frustrating because it just plain does not work.

This is how Cubase works for many people who had the patience to get it going. Protools only works on certain types of software so there may be instant compatibility, I don't know. I've been working with three versions of Cubase for five years without complaint.

please tell me what is wrong here, otherwise i'll dump this and go get a loan and buy protools

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I am confident that your frustration really isn't directed at the person here who is trying to help you. But I have dowloaded the manual to your hardware and read a good portion of it. I've opened my version of Cubase LE and gone through all the screens only to find you are using LE4. Perhpas I'm the wrong person to assist you. Have you posted a new thread as I suggested?

I only hang around this site because the people here are friendly and occasionally somebody thanks me for helping. Good luck with your loan and your ProTools.