Export Quality and Drums Question

Cubasis
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Hi guys,

Am very interested to buy Cubasis especially after the release of the minisampler.

Just a few questions I’d like to ask if any of you were to be so kind to help answer.

1: I understand you can export each track in your project as individual wavs? Can this be set to 24bit 44.1 quality?

2: The new “16 Allen Morgan MiniSampler factory drum kits”, can you choose samples for each drum part (including your own), and can you render each part as it’s own track?

Thanks for any help and advice.

Cheers.
J

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1: I understand you can export each track in your project as individual wavs? Can this be set to 24bit 44.1 quality?

Yes you can, you just need to select these as your Audio settings in the project

2: The new “16 Allen Morgan MiniSampler factory drum kits”, can you choose samples for each drum part (including your own), and can you render each part as it’s own track?

Yes you can, simply create a track in Cubasis for each drum part, you can the use any sound for your drum, MiniSampler, Drum IAA App whatever you like. As each drum part has its own track, it will be output as a track for each part.

Hope this helps :smiley:

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Thanks Andy!

Steinberg you should also thank Andy as I am now about to buy Cubasis because of him!

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I want to do so now! Welcome epjl2000 to Cubasis and thanks to Andy for answering your questions! :sunglasses:

Thanks!
RG

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Only too glad to help

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Loving Cubasis so far, was exactly what I was hoping for and more.

Andy, have figured out how to set up my own drumkit in the sampler, however I can’t figure out how to route each sample out to it’s own track? As in C key with the bass drum to one track, C# with the sidestick on another track, D with the snare on another track, and so on. Is this possible?

Thanks again for your help my cubasis brother!

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Hi epjl2000

What you need to do is add a midi track for each drum sound and load MiniSampler into each track.

If you prefer to work with a single track while composing your beats, do this on a single track, then when you are ready to export

  • copy your drum track x number of times and load MiniSampler into each one,
    Delete the midi notes not needed for each track. E.G for your kick track delete all but the C1 notes.

This sounds like a lot of work but with the zoom and Select functions is actually very quick to do.
TIPS

  • Glue all parts on the track together before copying, then you can edit the whole track in one go rather than going into each individual part on the track.
    If you want to edit ALL tracks as one again, you can drag all of the parts onto a single track, Glue them, and hey presto you are back to where you started.

If you are inputting your midi from a controller you may be able to do the following, depending on your controller.

  • Create a MIDI track for each drum and load MiniSampler onto them.
    set the MIDI In Channel to a different one for each track.
    set the individual pads/Keys on your controller to send to the relevent MIDI channel.

Then when recording the midi notes get recorded onto the correct track. I do this using the Alesis Trigger IO to record onto separate tracks from my (modified) Rockband drumkit :sunglasses:

Thanks

Andy

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Thanks so much Andy for taking the time to write those instructions, very useful for me and anybody else with the same question. Totally understand now how to do it. Before your answer I was searching for some sort of routing option from within the mini sampler so that each key can be assigned it’s own track, maybe this can be developed later by the development team, but for now I can duplicate the tracks and delete the midi parts that aren’t needed for each track. Will give this a shot, wonder how cpu hungry this would be in a large project, with not just many drum tracks but also other instrument tracks.

Thanks again Andy!
Justin

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Hi Justin

The Steinberg supplied instruments seem to be pretty CPU friendly in my experience.

If it does prove to be a problem, you have 2 options
Freeze the drums tracks you are not ‘fiddling’ with
Only split the tracks when you are ready to export. As Exporting isn’t realtime it won’t matter if the CPU use is heavy.

Andy

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Nothing more fulfilling for a forum moderator to see users help out each other in such a nice way!

Thanks guys! :wink:

RG