Cubase

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I'm thinking of creating some tutorials on Cubase and was wondering how many people use it, has it but doesn't know WTF is going on or want's to get into recording / production and might want to try cubase as an option.

I'm busy creating some free dnb editable sample loops for a test basically, just too see how many people might be interested. I'm completely oblivious of the demand for the DAW and well explained tutorials on this and thought maybe to just ask.

I had a topic on a chill step creation and got a member replying with questions such as what is the workflow process etc… I was surprised at the demand for knowledge in this field. I thought many of the things is pretty straight forward but forgot about the years of exposure I have in the environment compared to others.

"Why with all the silly secrets in electronic music?" Was the question I heard from some clients. There are none! It was just the equipment/software that cost more than a house. Today people are able to afford VST, complete DAW and audio interfaces which means the music industry might need to re-look at how they handle artists in the future.

Youtube offers great examples but doesn't dig deep into the core of creation and composition. Most of the free online tutorial videos has a 15 year old trying to explain synthesis to 20 - 30 year olds and ends up just showing you which knob needs to be what value. This is not learning, it's copying. Then you get academy's that charges the amount of some of the equipment for their training.

The same approach needs to count for my business but we want to place it in the hands of the beginner as well as the experienced. Thus affordable video training, samples and VST's. Staying ahead in technology is part of our values and with recording and production environments making their way into everyones home, we need to invest in streamlining the understanding of the software and concepts.
 
DJ... could have helped you but he's no longer around.

Yup thanks to some injustice. But let's stay on topic please. ;)

I have tried out Cubase but not my thing, much prefer Ableton.

Same here, for production. For me Ableton is much cleaner and neater environment not to mention easily back editable if you want to adjust something you worked on in the beginning phase of your production. But because cubase has a terrible difficulty rating we want to clear out.

Prefer Samplitude.

Exactly my concern. Popularity (not functionality) ranges as such according to synthtopia:

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I like Cubase but I wish it was easiar to do tricks on it like it is on FL. For example automating on Cubase sucks (well it sucks because I haven't figured out an easy way to do it)
 
I detest Cubase, personally.

Cockos Reaper is the best DAW around, imho!

*edit*

For clarity, not because of its inherent features at this stage, but because of the pace at which it gets updated, it's reasonable cost, and most importantly, the interaction of the developers with the users.

Awesome stuff.
 
So the DAW's differ quite vastly around the community. To be honest I actually expected more FL studio reply's due to it's curvy automation.

Pooky... I agree but yet DAW's differ in ease of use but the functionality is practically the same for most of them.

Here's an example of myself learning ableton live a couple of years ago by going through a dub step tutorial made in cubase. For the record this is my own samples so the drums sounds very different but it proves you can cross learn.

Tut intro video from Sonic Academy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91WLqF4uB4A

My re-creation in Live:

[video=youtube;wA8IRxAnOuA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA8IRxAnOuA[/video]
 
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I'm sure i'm pretty much the only soul that still uses Acid Pro. Love it. But then again, i still do quick edits in Cool Edit even though i have Adobe Audition.
Reaper has a similar acid feel but never really checked it out.

And thanks to Acid it was easy for me to start working with Sony Vegas.
 
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