KVR Audio

leonpeeon · Post by **leonpeeon** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:54 am

hey people.
is there any way i can record into cubase thru a plugin ?
the problem is this...i want to record a guitar that's run direct into the soundcard and i dont wanna use the amp modeller as an insert...i wanna record the guitar processed.
i've tried a couple of plugin chainer/rack kinda things but didnt get it

is there any program that's a standalone and just lets me stick a plugin on it and record into cubase via rewire or something ?
thanks in advance...

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:58 am

leon, leon....
you may be in over your head.

leonpeeon · Post by **leonpeeon** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:00 am

in over my head ? why is that ?
i'm not asking for much,am i....?

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:04 am

sorry leon...
you don't want to record directly into your soundcard..you need at least some kind of preamp.
and to record in cubase, you just need to arm an audio track and press record.
or am I over my head, and really don't understand
what you're after.

leonpeeon · Post by **leonpeeon** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:10 am

ok,ideally of course i'd need to run my guitar thru a direct box,then into a preamp and then into the soundcard. but when the budget is tight....this has to do.
and when i record into cubase the signal is recorded dry. as in...what came out of my guitar,not processed.
what i want is to have the guitar recorded onto the hard-disk already processed,so i dont have to keep all those cpu-hogging-amp-modelling plugins when i've got 5 guitar channels going on...
i hope this explains what i'm after...

Manc Chris · Post by **Manc Chris** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:12 am

Just go and buy a Behringer Vamp2, then plug THAT into your soundcard. Arm audio track in Cubase, and away you go.

If you still haven't got the answer you seek from these replies, please give us more info.

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:16 am

try recording one track using whatever plugin as an insert; then render that track to audio and import it into cubase. then you're free to remove the cpu hog plugin.
that's all I can think of at the moment..it's still early.

leonpeeon · Post by **leonpeeon** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:23 am

well,that much i already knew but thanks anyway...

i was gonna say that cubase is retarded but then figured out that i think it's the same deal in pro-tools so...
i wish they'd let me do what i want !
have a shiny day !

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:46 pm

I can see where you're coming from with the problems recording dry. What version of Cubase are you on? I'm still on 5.1 for the moment, and what you had to do with that one was click the little white monitor button on any mixer channel (just above the actual meter) and that would route a recording through that particular channel. Which then means you can apply insert FX etc for processing....voila!

But Bluedad is also right in a better way - it makes more sense to record completely dry anyway. Then you have a template audio recording that you can go back to at any time if you decide later to change the processing.

Why oh why do so many people think they have to run audio hosts all live

. That surely is the key benefit of PC music - you can render to audio

You can erase that track at any time and use different processing on the original recording. Why not have several recordings of the original - all with different processing on them and you can interchange them at will. Stop running all of your FX live - use export for god's sake. You won't lose any audible quality until you bounced down multiple times. A damn good reason for recording dry is because if you decide later that you got your processing wrong, you will have to rerecord the whole take again - and especially if it's a played instrument, you can't guarantee you'll ever get the same feel twice.

Record dry.
Insert FX to suit
EXPORT!
Save on CPU....doh!

how do I record into cubase thru a plugin ?