That was the second post after 2 days of ‘oglers’ only.
The old cubase forums were great. Not only did help come consistently, but the helpers were patient, so good I kept going back to some of the replies for reminders.
Old cubase forums were the bomb, got so much great help, from someone named ‘mat’ something and others. In these new forums constructive helpers seem more sparse. In the beginning I kept getting this better than thou attitude by a supposed helper.
It’s a simple problem. Audio tracks off beat with each other due to starting at slightly different times. But with cubase it’s not the first time I’ve struggled with ‘dumb’ problems, such as no audio, or meters moving but no audio, etc, I reckon the latest cubase is far better and more streamlined but no updates were made available for cubase studio users, i.e. we who actually paid $300 for our software, whereas LE owners got free updates to C6.
This is the reason I’m still using studio 5 (which is in my user name btw), as shelling out full price for a new version of the same software seems idiotic. That’d be like if microsoft didn’t provide updates to windows users, but only full priced options.
The dongle doesn’t help. Have paid $60+ for 2 replacements so far, plus shipping time during which cubase doesnt work.
The tracks in question have a snippet of audio sticking out before each track, colored white, seen when zoomed in. It’s why I gave up on using the playhead as reference point to align the other audio tracks to since I couldn’t tell the exact beginning of the audio wave due to this white muted part confusing the matter. Have heard about hit points but that seemed like a tedious method whenever I looked into it, except for snippets of audio. Had hoped that cubase would’ve been able to detect the start of an audio wave and enabled re positioning other tracks to it by a click, but heck, guess there’s a reason cubase took leaps forward after yamaha took over.