explain that in more detail in reaper with addictive plz thax

create new tracks for each drum and set the i/o of each one to receive from the outs you set in addictive, so if snare is one, kick is two etc you set the receive on each audio track you want to print to. the track I/O would look like receive from addictive channel 1 etc

reaper's I/O isn't my favorite, if you've got the capacity use a different program to print the drums and just bring them in as audio files snapped to session start

[QUOTE=benfan;18216186]Where abouts you from mate?[/QUOTE]

from The Toon but living in Lincoln, turnip central

[QUOTE=Xomblies;18217268]create new tracks for each drum and set the i/o of each one to receive from the outs you set in addictive, so if snare is one, kick is two etc you set the receive on each audio track you want to print to. the track I/O would look like receive from addictive channel 1 etc

reaper's I/O isn't my favorite, if you've got the capacity use a different program to print the drums and just bring them in as audio files snapped to session start[/QUOTE]

Bro routing matrix

it's still not that robust, a good layout design would be if they made all the UI contained and not pop up a window for ever action, it gets a bit irksome and hinders the workflow unless there's some secret window tabbing hot key i'm not aware of

i/o disappears if you click off it too which can be annoying, but you can route everything with the routing matrix

you were totally right about that, you dont' even have to touch the I/O window and you can even have multiple tabs at the bottom if you dock the matrix to the "docker" and assign customized hot keys to get to each one. It wouldn't be a problem though if they just set up their plugin browser and i/o handling like all of the other DAW's with dropdown menus and got rid of that redundant volume fader on the left of the edit window... if you scroll up in the wrong location you can really fuck up a mix, i was getting really confused when one minute my guitars were way louder than i mixed them at, and then the next minute almost inaudible

You have volume adjust with mouse scroll enabled.. I turned that off so long ago. Reaper has so much customization it took me awhile to get it to where it was working well for me. This was when I first started using a DAW and recording too, so I almost punched my computer a couple times

[QUOTE=guitarbaz;18218010]from The Toon but living in Lincoln, turnip central[/QUOTE]

Haha nice one mate im a toon fan myself, your just up from me. Im north of Nottingham, about 40 minutes away from Lincoln. My bro used to go to uni there.

Also: Im finally getting to grips with SD2. I do all my panning in SD2 and then use multiouts into Cubase, and then export each out from SD into a new audio track. Got the info from here -

http://www.obedia.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/29/activating-and-exporting-multi-outs-in-superior-drummer-20/

What are your preference to plug ins for mixing? At the minute i only have the EQ's and what-not that came with Cubase.

[QUOTE=Kuffuffled;18219246]You have volume adjust with mouse scroll enabled.. I turned that off so long ago. Reaper has so much customization it took me awhile to get it to where it was working well for me. This was when I first started using a DAW and recording too, so I almost punched my computer a couple times[/QUOTE]

Agreed I've been investing time in actually learning how to customize it more and more. Their forum page has a lot of votes for a completely interchangeable UI for reaper 4. I'm hoping they do that so i can set up my work flow the way I've always wanted, and maybe find new ways to be efficient and even utilize features that i didn't before. It would be nice if they would update the feel of the plugin browser and keep plugin windows on top, which i think are also suggestions for 4

Midi editor still needs quite a bit of work, but it works alot better than it used to. It just doesn't remember view settings and always resets the look (piano layout / named notes / diamonds / midi notes with length whatever the f) I have a shit ton of recommends for them but haven't actually posted anything

i guess i don't mind just using bars so i love the midi layout.

you should make suggestions, they're still working on reap4, it could really help!

my suggest is for them to make it so you don't have to opne up each midi bar separately

[QUOTE=The Transporter;18219955]my suggest is for them to make it so you don't have to opne up each midi bar separately[/QUOTE]

wat

whenever you are edit midi its only shows the one bar you are working on. is there a way to change

What EQ inserts do you guys use? Im stuck with the standard Cubase EQ's. Iv exported my SD audio mixdown into Cubase and i wanna try out a few different inserts for my EQ'ing.

Electri-Q (posihfopit edition) by Aixcoustics/Christian Budde

[url]http://www.aixcoustic.com/index.php/Electri-Q-posihfopit/30/0/[/url]

You may have better luck with the original posihfopit:

[url]http://www.savioursofsoul.de/Christian/vst-plugins/eqs-filters/[/url]

While we're talking about Christian Budde, his NoName EQ is also a good neutral-sounding EQ, and it puts less emphasis on the visual aspect of things.

Those are my "fist-line" EQs, and the posihfopit series in particular is amongst the most powerful freeware EQs I've come across.

You can also get better skins for them here: [url]http://www.blackoutaudio.co.uk/forum/production/48610-sweet-skins-users-electri-q-posihfopit.html[/url]

Another solid graphic EQ is in the KarmaFX Free Pack: [url]http://karmafx.net/?id=1#a1[/url]

That one has some cool features that let you adjust the range of frequencies and the degree of gain.

An oldie-but-goody with Linear Phase is Slim Slow Slider's creatively named "Linear Phase Graphic EQ 2":

[url]http://www.geocities.jp/webmaster_of_sss/vst/index.html[/url]

I've used that one on two-track mixes when I don't want to be screwing with the phase and only need to make small adjustments.

Lastly, if you want something that really puts the focus on your ears, DDMF's IIEQ is pretty solid: [url]http://ddmf.eu/freeware.php[/url]

All of those are VST plugins for Windows, and they're all freely available from the devs.

Thanks alot man! Ill start looking through them now. What are the posihfopit EQ's like with regards to CPU load and the like? I dont know what system you are running but it something im approaching cautiously as im abit of a noob.

[quote=benfan;18231874]Thanks alot man! Ill start looking through them now. What are the posihfopit EQ's like with regards to CPU load and the like? I dont know what system you are running but it something im approaching cautiously as im abit of a noob.[/quote]

I've never done the full 32-band load-out on Electri-Q. Normally I'm using 8 bands (realistically it's closer to 5). It makes my CPU meter (in sonar) jump up 3-6% on a single core. That's working in Digital Economy mode. Analog mode tries to add certain characteristics and causes a little more CPU usage, but nothing that will stop the show for a single instance.

IIEQ might be implemented using a wrapper configuration (e.g., SynthEdit or Synthmaker). IIRC, it's less efficient than the others, but still not a big deal to run.

The others are are really inexpensive for the processor.

I'm working with a Core Duo 2 1.8GHz processor.

Generally speaking, EQ plugins won't be a problem unless they're doing some kind of convolution to emulate specific hardware or some other special processing (2nd order harmonics, etc.). All the ones I've given you are generally pretty neutral.

This is actually pretty true for most of the free plugins I've used (and I've used a lot).

Generally speaking you're only going to run into problems with a single plugin instance crippling your processor when you're working with emulation, sound replacement, synthesis, convolution, or 3-dimensional spatialization.

Sometimes you'll run into issues with very elaborate or robust reverb algorithms, but most are pretty computationally inexpensive for today's processors.

The other "normal" stuff (EQ, dynamics, distortion, delay, modulation) isn't generally a big deal, unless the plugin is coded poorly or you're emulating hardware characteristics. Even a lot of amp sims are fairly light on the processing.

Also, don't be too scared to try a VST plugin. Just try them one at a time. The beauty of the implementation is that you can add them as needed, so if they break something you can usually reboot and get rid of the most recent addition to solve things.

Ill be using keFir and ReCabinet when iv finished tweaking the drum tracks so i imagine i should save space for them then.

[quote=benfan;18231946]Ill be using keFir and ReCabinet when iv finished tweaking the drum tracks so i imagine i should save space for them then.

The Cubase EQ isnt too bad but i cant find any options for High/Low filters, so its just the curve and parametric EQs im using.[/quote]


Don't worry about it so much. If you get stuck, you can always freeze tracks to save on processing.

Here's one for you:

Recording some bass last night and there was some strange shit going on.

Got a MOTU 828 and it seemed to be juggling channels about, kept having to change the input channel on Cubase to actually get an input. That and it just stopped mid track at one point for no apparent reason. the mac was communicating with it just fine as itunes was playing through the monitors. managed to roll with it and get the recording done but i just couldn't get me head round why the input channels would suddenly change like that....???

Is it possible to work on Reason projects in Windows that were created on a Mac? Or are the file types different?

I have a couple on a flash drive but they're just files. There's also a trash folder and other mac junk on here. It was formatted to FAT before I put this stuff on it if that helps

[QUOTE=benfan;18231735]What EQ inserts do you guys use? Im stuck with the standard Cubase EQ's. Iv exported my SD audio mixdown into Cubase and i wanna try out a few different inserts for my EQ'ing.[/QUOTE]

api550b, it's EQ's greatest hits collection

Is it freeware or do i gotsta pay?

well, you don't HAVE to pay... if you know what i'm sayin

I formatted to FAT thanks for the help guys!

And the lolmacs weren't putting extensions on the filenames so I changed them

How do you guys EQ your snares?

Im currently trying to get rid of a horrible ringing sound thats hanging around in the mid frequencies of my snare top. Its a juggling game between eliminating that and keeping some mid range to give it abit of oomph. I have my snare bottom to EQ aswell (no idea how to go about it).

Any tips? Its for a fast metal song so i want a nice bright snare with some body to complement the kick drum.

Heres what iv set so far for my snare top -

EQ 1 - Boost 6.4Db @ 131Hz Q7
EQ 2 - Cut 20Db @ 362Hz Q12
EQ 3 - Cut 24Db @ 786Hz Q12
EQ 4 - Boost 5.6Db @ 6584Hz Q9

So im cutting quite abit of the mid range out although im using a narrow Q. Its the only way i can see to get rid of the nasty snare ring.

Giving EQ settings make no difference to us because it completely depends on the recorded signal.
I couldn't say oh yeah man you need to cut this much at this freq. It's all subjective.

I've worked with really problematic snares before, they're a pain. It's best to just attenuate the ring rather than kill it, otherwise it will sound unnatural. Have you tried the basic 'boost a notch to find the freq'?

[quote=benfan;18245874]So im cutting quite abit of the mid range out although im using a narrow Q. Its the only way i can see to get rid of the nasty snare ring.[/quote]


I agree that your best bet is to make sure the ringing is minimized at the source. You could also try gating (or multi-band gating with narrow bands around the ringing frequencies), but those aren't super-effective either.

If you're stuck and you really can't get rid of it to a degree you like, you may have to turn to the dark side of sample replacement.