Mixing Down MIDI In Cubase SX3 (SOS)

[liquidair]

No don't worry about the device manager yet. I was fooling with that to see if I could route it there but I didn't see anything. Just out of curiousity, this summer, what are you getting for your studio...like how are you planning to have things set up and stuff? Again just curious.

[Anthony_Musician]

My guitar players dad is rebuilding their basement for our studio. Just gonna buy a comp and some basic equipment like keyboards and diaphram mics and so forth...

[Anthony_Musician]

I'm so nervous. I hope it is possible for my drum tracks to make it into the mix. I have no money right now to buy any other programs or whatever. The studio money is coming in after the summer ....there has to be a way...

[liquidair]

Is this buddy the other guy I was talking to on here a day or two ago? He said his dad was gonna build him a studio. Very cool man, this reminds me of the good old days when I started getting into studio stuff. It's alot of fun, and some stress, but mostly fun. Anywho, as far as I could tell, you can't get those drum sounds to route internally. I would try a software program, beside the drum sounds will be sooooooo much better. LM4 and Battery are good, plus there's the cool prgms coming out like BFD and DFH that are pretty good. Trust me on this, going that route will save you alot of work and get you better results.

[liquidair]

Oh and if you need gear advice on what to get let me know man. I can tell you easily what is going to help or hurt you, I sold this stuff for 3 years before getting burned out on sales. Just private message me or use this thread, or get the whole community's opinion by starting a new thread.

[Anthony_Musician]

Well thanks for all the help...im off to bed now...just 1 more question for I catch some zzz's...The Battery program..how much am I looking at..Canadian? and using the demo version...can I mix my drums down for free before my trail version is over

[liquidair]

Ok, it's around $225 cad, and yes you can mix down during the trial. You may want to look on ebay and see if you can't get an older version for really cheap and upgrade to the current when you have more money. Goodnight man, have a good night and a good day tommorrow.

[Anthony_Musician]

Thnx..can u just leave me a link whenever you get a chance for the demo...on any website or whatever..thanx again man..ur da best

Night

[liquidair]

Oh ya, that might help out, huh? http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=battery_us[/URL]

[brandondrury]

I wish I would have been in town (or near a computer) so I could have hopped on this one earlier. I don't think the method described is a realistic way of working. The solution is to use a drum synth

I'm not sure why you need to render all of your midi audio to wav tracks. The only reason I've ever do this would be to save computer power. I always leave my midi tracks as is and mix with the Cubase SX3 mixer. All the instruments are routed to the mixer exactly like the wav files are.

I'm not sure if I would use the Windows synth thingy at all. I've got a feeling that it could be causing you a lot of problems and forcing you to work in ridiculous ways simply because it's not designed for any "real" music use.

do you think it would make a difference if I connected a keyboard to play the MIDI?

No. It's no different (from a hardware standpoint to enter MIDI data with a mouse or with a midi controller).

I hope it is possible for my drum tracks to make it into the mix. I have no money right now to buy any other programs or whatever

There are tons of free synths out there that will function better than your Windows synth.

I would try a software program, beside the drum sounds will be sooooooo much better. LM4 and Battery are good, plus there's the cool prgms coming out like BFD and DFH that are pretty good.

I'd go as far as to say that DFH is 100% amazing and a revolution in the use of programming for music that requires natural sounding drums. Battery is more ideal for hip hop, techno, etc. There are certainly rock samples, but the control that DFH Superior gives is amazing for a person with an audio engineering background (like myself).

So, I think "pretty good" is a tragic understatement.

Brandon