cakewalk9, cubase !

[Guest tripped]

I am moving from it to more serious program ..... i tried cubase 5 and it's too complicated for me right now so i think i will try cakewalk 9. Plz tell me that options i wont be able to use in cakewalk and if they so critical and i should try cubase again ?

[Guest CrusadeR]

I thought Cubase was way to complicated..

but give him time.. u'll crack it up sooner or later. don't give up...

[Guest psychopat]

Don't know really how Cakewalk has changed (since version 6 !!!)

but .....

 

Things you will miss :

- vst effects

- vst instruments

 

- the ability to quantize MIDI events drawn by the mouse (while

you are editing them)

- the ability to select the exact Continous Controller

you want to change (on 7 bits). Cakewalk is based on the MIDI spec. that

let a musician set a 14bits value for any CC. if your synth only

use 7bits values on different CC, you will be unable to draw events values with the mouse (the editor scale is 0-16384, so

very hard to set a value of 10 for example)

 

- the "studio module", if well configured and with a very good

MIDI interface (a lot of ports), let all your MIDI gears

synchronize to your project : I never tried this because of

my poor MIDI interface but it sounds very cool because the major problem using hardware gears is to get back all sounds on all

external synths, on all parts (if multitimbral)!

 

- ASIO drivers for very low latency, if your soundcard is compatible

 

- a way to control your old MIDI synth from your

"Phatboy" or other MIDI tweaking box : When you edit a

"mixermap" you can link an input-MIDI-CC to a software

slider that will generate the correct information for

the synth. That way, I'm using the

MC-505 knobs to drive my old sysex-driven Super Jupiter and

I can record all the change live.

 

There are possibly other things you will miss in Cakewalk

(and vice-versa) but Cubase worth a try. You will have to

read the documentation because nothing is very intuitive in

Cubase. For example, when you launch Cubase you get

an empty project with audio and MIDI tracks. You try to edit

an empty MIDI track, just to check. No way to make it work

because you will have to create an empty "Part" to hold your

MIDI data. Put the left locator (with the left button of the

mouse) on bar-1, put the right locator (with the right button)

on bar-5 and hit CTRL+P. The 4 bars longs "Part" is created.

Double-click on it. You can edit MIDI events now on the piano

roll.

 

hope this helps !

 

Pat.