Recording V2 in Cubase

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Recording V2 in Cubase

hello everybody Andrew Blake from thedigitalaudiomanual.com today we move onto our second video as we continue todiscuss recording in Cubase but beforewe start I want to remind you thatthere's a link below to the free contentnavigation guide which is an easy tonavigate webpage with links to all thecontent on this channel and besides thatin the near future I'm going to beginadding tips and other bits ofinformation that will only be availablethere you know things like simple stepsthat will get you started and up andrunning quick things that are in thevideos but are written down in simplesteps that serve as quick reminders whenyou need information down the road ifyou're working with programs like wavelab or Cubase plugins or the cable guysshaper box and many many other projectsthat are in the works then I know you'regoing to find just like I have that thisis an invaluable study Aid and the otherthing I want to make sure you understandis that this is not a simple PDF this isa constantly 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start the recordingprocess[Music]and then I stop recording it will haverecorded that piece of audio for meif I go back to this drop down and Iswitch it to this option that saysre-record what's going to happen now isif I hit the record buttonand I started playing a songand I hit the record button again itzaps it out of there and just startsrecording againevery time I turn the recording off itstarted the cursor automatically goesback to wherever I initially set it upto go when you're doing this re-recordof course everything you do Gets Zappedout so you're right at square one everytime you start recording and there's noway to retrieve it the typical way likeif you hit undo or redo you can't goback to those recordings fortunately ifyou go to the pool all those recordingsare retained so if you ever want tobring one back you can just go there tofind it for me personally I leave it atthe option to punch in and out now thenext option we have is a start recordingat the project cursor so wherever I putmy cursor if I put it halfway throughhere and I start hitting recordforeignthat's where it starts from and when Ihit stop or unrecord it just keeps onrollingif I hit the record again it basicallyjust picks up right from that point itkeeps recordingthen this last option says startrecording at the left locator this onehas a couple of behaviors that go on ifI start recording I'm going to put mycursor right at the beginning here if Istart recording thisand I hit the record button the cursorkeeps on rolling and if I hit recordagainit just picks up recordingbut if I stop recording and I hit thespace bar to stop the recording theminute I hit record again itautomatically goes back to the leftlocatorall right so now let's talk about thismonitor button when you go to a trackeven if it's record enabled unless youturn the monitor button you can't reallyhear what's happening on the track interms of your performance for exampleright now you're hearing my microphoneand I'm talking and if you look at thismicrophone track there's a little buttonhere with a speaker on it and this isthe monitor button and if I play myguitaryou're hearing that through themicrophone but you're not actuallyhearing it through the guitar track nowif I go down to my guitar track and Ihit that monitor button now you can hearthe guitar coming through the track soif you want to hear whatever you'replaying you got to turn the monitorbutton on and there's a few differentpreferences related to this monitorbutton so let's look at these real quickif you go up to your edit and come downto your preferences and you scroll allthe way down to the bottom there's anoption that says VST click on that youlook over on the right you have thesevarious preferences but almost at thebottom of the list here you havesomething that says Auto monitoring andwhen you click on this you have fourdifferent options manual while recordenabled while record running and tapemachine style if it's on the manualoption then that means I have to turnthis on or off depending on when I wantto use it or not and if I have it offeven if I start recording like I'm goingto hit the record button hereand I'm going to record[Music]and you can see that it wrote on thewave of the guitar down here and itrecorded itbut even when I record it or play it orwhatever I do the only way this monitoris going to turn on is if I actuallypush the button if I go back to mypreferences and I change this monitoringto while record enabled then any trackthat I hit that I have record enabled italso turns the monitoring button on sothe pros and cons of this are you can'thear what's on a track if the monitorbutton is pressed so if you keep thisoption activated and I go back and Istart to play this againthen you can't actually hear the audiountil you come back over here and turnthe little speaker off and in fact youhave to turn the record monitor buttonoff as well because it'll just kick themonitor right back on again if we go toour next option that says while therecord is running then if I hit the playbuttonit will stay unmonitored until Iactually hit recordand the minute I turn record off themonitor button goes back off again andthen the last option on the list saystape machine style in many ways it kindof gives you the best of both worldsbecause what it does now is it stillturns on the monitoring button wheneverI select a track which allows me to hearwhat I'm playing I can hit record and itstill lets me hear what I'm playing butthe minute I hit the record button againit kicks the monitor off which allows meto hear the trackso again the best way is experiment withthose four options and decide which oneis best for youat some point you're going to want toget specific on what your recordingformat is for audio files and once thisstuff is set it's kind of the way theproject is going to go where you findthis is look up in the project menu godown to your option that says theproject setup and on my screen down heretowards the bottom left it says therecord file format and you have anoption for the sample rate and the bitdepth and the record file type this bitdepth and record file type you couldactually change them as you go along inthe project but really all three ofthese you kind of want to set this stuffup for example I have 48 000 for mysample rate I have my bit depth that's64-bit float and I have my record filetype as a wave type it could change thatto broadcast or any of these otheroptions and you would choose thosedepending on what your specific needsare and hit OK but once you kind ofstart going in your project with thosesettings you're not going to want tomess with them you're not going to tryto change your sample rate from 48 downto you know 44. that stuff would happenat the rendering process the best adviceI always give on that kind of stuff isset that stuff up as a template so allyour projects open up exactly the wayyou want and then you never really haveto mess with it so you have some fairlysophisticated options as far as whereyour audio is going to go into whatfolder when Cubase creates a project italways creates a folder called audio andby default everything you record goesinto that folder but again depending onhow sophisticated your project is andwhat your needs are you could at anytime take a track or groups of tracksfor example I could select these twotracks and I can right click on them andI can say set the record folder at thatpoint an Explorer window will open upand I can just pick what folder I wantto record those files toso if you have any kind of project wheremaybe you've got sound effects and otherdifferent kinds of things and you wantthem all into different folders you canassign these things before you evenstart and then as your project proceedsthose pieces of audio will go right intothose folders all right a few morethings just to talk about today beforewe wrap it all up and first in that listis kind of what happens when you enactthis monitor Button as you can see rightnow I have on this mic Channel down herethe monitor button is on and that's whyyou're able to hear my voice but theidea and the concept you want tounderstand is that there's kind of twoways to be monitored one is rightthrough Cubase and the other is what'scalled direct monitoring which isbasically just hearing it right throughyour sound card and that depends on yoursound card but let's talk about thefirst option being monitored throughCubase if you're being monitored throughCubase you are able to like basicallyset up a channel you could go to theinserts and you could start puttingreverbs and delays and all those kindsof things in here and you would actuallyhear those right as you're recording theproblem with that is with it's calledlatency and that is directly related tohow you have your sound card set up letme show you an example of that if I goup to my studio menu up here come downto my studio setup in my case I have abutton right here that says the controlpanel and if I hit that this gives meaccess to the drivers right on my soundcard and the most important is the thingthat says the buffer size right here andif I hit this drop down list mine is setat 512 samples and if I'm monitoringthrough Cubase the farther down I takethis 96 64 48 all the way down to 32basically especially if I'm listeningthrough headphones the quicker I'm goingto hear the sound from the actual soundthat I perform on the other hand if I goway up to these high sample rates likein this case 2048 samples click on thatit would almost be like listening to adelay I would talk and then the soundwould come a few seconds later verydifficult if you're trying to actuallysing or perform a live instrument so theadvantage of monitoring right throughCubase is you can add effects and do allkinds of things but it depends on thesample size and and the buffer and thelatency of your sound card and what kindof result you're going to get I'm goingto cancel this out here the other optionwhile we're still on the studio tabthere's a little button down here itsays direct monitoring and mine ischecked this is definitely specific towhatever sound card you have and notevery sound card offers this option butif your sound card does offer thisoption when you check this you'rebasically hearing it right through thesound card it's no longer going throughCubase anymore but actually thedisadvantage is you can't actually addinsert effects anymore you couldn't puta delay or Reverb on here and hear thisstuff you're going to hear it dry rightthrough your microphone going right intoyour sound card now again certain soundcards offer you some effects like I'musing Steinberg's ur-44 and that doesoffer me the ability to put a basicReverb and some EQ on my microphone butI can't add any delay or anything fancylike that I have to do that after I'verecorded the you know signal but withthe direct monitoring you don't have toworry about latency of any kind anymoreon your sound card it's just you'rehearing it right into your sound cardand this for a performer is really thebest option because you hear everythingjust as you're singing it or playing itor whatever you're doing there's no youknow delay to throw you off or makethings seem weird when you're recordingif you don't have the direct monitoringoption for your sound card thistypically is just grayed out and youcan't even access it so that's howyou'll know if you can even use it ifyou have it you'll definitely want tojust experiment so you can see how itsounds and if that's the way you want togo but typically the direct monitoringis the preferred way because you justcan really hear yourself as you'reperforming that's going to wrap it upfor today as always if you haven'tgrabbed your navigation guide be sure tograb that from the link below this videoit gives you a quick easy access to allthe videos on this channel in ordercategorized updated all the time weeklymany times a week and sometimes evenmany many times a week so we havecontinued to move a little bit furtherin the recording area in Cubase today wetook a look at some of the common recordmodes in the menu we the monitor buttonoptions we kind of just looked at thatdirect monitoring what that actuallyoffers you with your sound card talkedabout setting the record format and welooked at the different format You Knowsample rates then we looked at settingthe audio record folder so for those ofyou with more specific needs to you knoworganize your files you have that optionas we continue this journey throughrecording in Cubasegreat to have you guys here I'll see youon the next video