KVR Audio

mrspecial · Post by **mrspecial** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:24 pm

two small qeustions:

so, ive been used to FL studio for a while, but ive been using it along with Cubase SX 2 for the past few months. there are two things i know how to do in FL but haven't figured out quite yet. i figured i could get a quicker response here, so here goes:

1. how can i do slides in cubase? as in from a certain note to another one. a slur, if you will.

2. say i slice a wav file, and it starts exactly 50ms (for example) before the bar. If i want to move it, or copy and paste it, but still keep its exact number of ms before the bar, how do i do this?

Thank you, and good night

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:10 pm

1 - pitch bend i think - you can use the line tools to draw notes in the midi editor as well

2 - use the nudge command - set the snap to a bar - and then use the nudge command (ctrl and right arrow)to move it - it should then move one bar at a time keeping it position

jdg · Post by **jdg** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:37 pm

also for number 2 i do this:

use the pencil tool to draw a blank audio part over your audio clip that is offset by 50ms. make sure snap is on and then your part should be snapped to whatever you are set to.
then use the glue tool to glue the two parts together and it makes them merge into a a clip that you can drag and copy around with the snap-to on.

haha.. i just re-read that.. makes little sense

so..:

your audio part

draw a part with the pencil with the 'snap' on

with the glue tool, merge them

now your part will always moved to grid and still be 50ms or whatever..

mrspecial · Post by **mrspecial** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:07 pm

jdg wrote: haha.. i just re-read that.. makes little sense

ouch, not in writing it didn't

thanks for the pics, i am so glad ive got that one down now

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 6:15 am

Hmmm....I really must go read the manual again at some stage...that's exactly how I'd do it too - glueing a blank part onto the one that starts before the bar. But I'm sure there's another way...there must be...I remember in VST5.1 there was a Q-point (or whatever it was called). You could edit the audio part, set the Q-point at exactly the start of the bar, then whenever you moved that part around, it took the Q-point as the item to place the part - i.e. the Q-point would be placed at the start of the bar wherever you moved it to if your snap was set to 1 bar. Which meant that your audio part still started 50mS before the bar.

But there's no Q-points in SX - I've never really delved into the way it records audio parts - I just automatically fit "events to part"...it's more logical to me personally. I like to work with parts and their arrangement rather than with audio clips directly, as it were.

I keep on seeing "magnetic cursors" etc. Is that some way of using the audio clip as your reference point instead of the part itself? I know that SX can do all kinds of fancy stuff, but I just work the way I work, and if I work a different way, then I don't get to learn about all the fancy stuff

ahja · Post by **ahja** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 6:23 am

mrspecial wrote:1. how can i do slides in cubase? as in from a certain note to another one. a slur, if you will.

Well.. Same with anything, you synth needs to be able to support it... Being legato, (mono)glide, etc.. Simply enable that and make sure your first midi note overlaps to the following note triggered.

kuniklo · Post by **kuniklo** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 6:27 am

mrspecial wrote: 2. say i slice a wav file, and it starts exactly 50ms (for example) before the bar. If i want to move it, or copy and paste it, but still keep its exact number of ms before the bar, how do i do this?

SX3 has a new relative snap feature that allows you to snap to a specific point within a clip instead of just the beginning. Makes this very easy. Not in SX2 unfortunately.

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:11 pm

Aha......this is something that they don't seem to proclaim from the rooftops, yet this is quite an important feature update methinks. SX3 suddenly has just a little bit more appeal to me now.

Slowly but surely SX is becoming more like VSTx and better for it.

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:45 pm

what is all that stuff about extra audio bits ?

use the nudge command - it will move the part one bar (or whatever you set it to) at time and it does not snap it to the grid - it just moves it - so it keeps it's relative position - this is in sx 2

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:39 am

I knew there would be another way of doing it. That makes enormous sense. So can you nudge, say, 48 bars if you want to, or do you have to nudge it one bar 48 times? Sorry, it's just that there are only so many functions you can learn in Cubase...I gave up trying to learn all of them years ago.

stag · Post by **stag** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:48 am

Range selection Tool ,select the range you need, then go to Audio/Bounce Selection.
Can´t be simpler tnan that unless you made a macro out of it .
i just do it all from the contextual menu.

mobettatech · Post by **mobettatech** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:46 pm

yeah I cant preview the samples in the open window when assigning samples to the pads in RMIV

is this a RMIV thing or a cubase thing
and will I run into this if I try another drum sampler

stag · Post by **stag** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:57 am

mobettatech wrote:yeah I cant preview the samples in the open window when assigning samples to the pads in RMIV

is this a RMIV thing or a cubase thing
and will I run into this if I try another drum sampler

Ifit´s an Explorer window SX gives the choice of preview manual or auto , if it´s not that´s something you or RMIV guys are over looking.
Btw i never tested RMIV.

mobettatech · Post by **mobettatech** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:05 pm

stag wrote:
mobettatech wrote:yeah I cant preview the samples in the open window when assigning samples to the pads in RMIV

is this a RMIV thing or a cubase thing
and will I run into this if I try another drum sampler
Ifit´s an Explorer window SX gives the choice of preview manual or auto , if it´s not that´s something you or RMIV guys are over looking.
Btw i never tested RMIV.

yeah I'm using OSX if that makes any difference

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:14 pm

kritikon wrote:I knew there would be another way of doing it. That makes enormous sense. So can you nudge, say, 48 bars if you want to, or do you have to nudge it one bar 48 times? Sorry, it's just that there are only so many functions you can learn in Cubase...I gave up trying to learn all of them years ago.

im afriad you'll have to do it 48 times

not very useful

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