corporate memo no. 000008
current status:
audio card: installed
audio card: configured (finally)
latency: way down (good)
software interoperability: confusing
i'm glad to finally have my card installed. it's the half-way point of the week and i'm half-way done figuring out my audio setup. i had to buy a couple of digital coaxial cables for the new sound card. oddly, i can't get the external cd writer to recognize the signal. that's fine though, cuz i won't be using it to burn cd's anyway, as long as i have a cdwriter on the computer anyway.
i'm so excited about the new card. thursday, my silent fan arrives. that should help get rid of the vacuum-sounding-computer-background noise, when i'm mic-ing (voice) samples. it's only 12db loud, which is as loud as a person breathing normally. i was going to go to a deathcab for cutie show, but i decided i wanted to work on the set up instead. i'm glad i did. there was nothing special about that show anyway. i'm not off to a good start as far as this "update everyday" thing goes. esp. since today i did nothing but try and figure out how to get sound from the new card to go to different software. it's just now, as i'm about to sleep that i'm really just giving up for the night.
this chair i got from office depot is great. i can veg out in front of the puter for hours at a time and not feel fatigued.
right now, my main problem is figuring out what the hell is wrong with my VST plug-in settings. curtis is right, nuendo is a much better multi-tracking program. however, it is steinberg's "mastering" utility, and not as inter-operable as cubase. in an ideal setting i should have two programs slaved to cubase, namely:
reason
reaktor
then of course are all of the VST instruments. reason routes via a propellerhead/steinberg utility called rewire. as far as i can tell, rewire is sort of like a virtual soundboard for all of reason's outputs-- either mixer[s] or individual instruments. then you can multitrack them discreetly or, as cubase allows, merge and route different parts however you want. i can get reaktor to open as a VST instrument through cubase, but i have yet to actually have it behave like an instrument that way. it's as though the midi signals don't ever pass on to the instrument/ensemble within the VST version. i can't imagine what it would be like trying to route audio from cubase, through reaktor as a sort of filter, and then return the result to it's own track. just like a normal send/return setup, only virtual. i was thinking about it today, and i should also have the ability to record midi-tracks and then transmit them to my qy70, or just have cubase control the qy70 and then have the audio feed from the qy to a line level (mixer) then out the the computer for tracking.
there's a lot for me to figure out, but i'm glad i'm doing it. i feel bad i don't have an update, but i shouldn't have said anything about update, until i can actually record what i'm doing. ya, it's great when you have things that make sound, but eventually you have to record. someone once told me that, and i see how true it is now.
my eyes are sore, the blood is speeding through my head, and my jaw is tense from so much thinking. i still have lfo's and filters on the brain from yesterday. filtering isn't that much of a concept really, but then i went onto the next section in which i added a sub-oscillator. ok, so i can make one, but i'm not completely sure how it does what it does. the book explains it-- i just have to sit down and chart it out. let's see... what's on tomorrow's agenda:
reaktor: lfo's sample and hold (sounds interesting)
cubase: try to achieve VST control
it shouldn't be that hard to get through the sample and hold section. the cubase thing though... i thought i could figure it out, but i'll have to read that damned manual afterall. pdf format and it's like 1500 pages! i don't know how, but i need to get through at least the main section, which is 600+ pages by saturday. it wouldn't be that bad if i were just reading straight through, but everytime a subject is coverred, i have to go to cubase and check to see if i have it configured or if the feature works correctly. lot's of hard work. ok, my eyes are so sore i'm losing my vision. g'nite.
xoxo
nik gaerlan
audio card: installed
audio card: configured (finally)
latency: way down (good)
software interoperability: confusing
i'm glad to finally have my card installed. it's the half-way point of the week and i'm half-way done figuring out my audio setup. i had to buy a couple of digital coaxial cables for the new sound card. oddly, i can't get the external cd writer to recognize the signal. that's fine though, cuz i won't be using it to burn cd's anyway, as long as i have a cdwriter on the computer anyway.
i'm so excited about the new card. thursday, my silent fan arrives. that should help get rid of the vacuum-sounding-computer-background noise, when i'm mic-ing (voice) samples. it's only 12db loud, which is as loud as a person breathing normally. i was going to go to a deathcab for cutie show, but i decided i wanted to work on the set up instead. i'm glad i did. there was nothing special about that show anyway. i'm not off to a good start as far as this "update everyday" thing goes. esp. since today i did nothing but try and figure out how to get sound from the new card to go to different software. it's just now, as i'm about to sleep that i'm really just giving up for the night.
this chair i got from office depot is great. i can veg out in front of the puter for hours at a time and not feel fatigued.
right now, my main problem is figuring out what the hell is wrong with my VST plug-in settings. curtis is right, nuendo is a much better multi-tracking program. however, it is steinberg's "mastering" utility, and not as inter-operable as cubase. in an ideal setting i should have two programs slaved to cubase, namely:
reason
reaktor
then of course are all of the VST instruments. reason routes via a propellerhead/steinberg utility called rewire. as far as i can tell, rewire is sort of like a virtual soundboard for all of reason's outputs-- either mixer[s] or individual instruments. then you can multitrack them discreetly or, as cubase allows, merge and route different parts however you want. i can get reaktor to open as a VST instrument through cubase, but i have yet to actually have it behave like an instrument that way. it's as though the midi signals don't ever pass on to the instrument/ensemble within the VST version. i can't imagine what it would be like trying to route audio from cubase, through reaktor as a sort of filter, and then return the result to it's own track. just like a normal send/return setup, only virtual. i was thinking about it today, and i should also have the ability to record midi-tracks and then transmit them to my qy70, or just have cubase control the qy70 and then have the audio feed from the qy to a line level (mixer) then out the the computer for tracking.
there's a lot for me to figure out, but i'm glad i'm doing it. i feel bad i don't have an update, but i shouldn't have said anything about update, until i can actually record what i'm doing. ya, it's great when you have things that make sound, but eventually you have to record. someone once told me that, and i see how true it is now.
my eyes are sore, the blood is speeding through my head, and my jaw is tense from so much thinking. i still have lfo's and filters on the brain from yesterday. filtering isn't that much of a concept really, but then i went onto the next section in which i added a sub-oscillator. ok, so i can make one, but i'm not completely sure how it does what it does. the book explains it-- i just have to sit down and chart it out. let's see... what's on tomorrow's agenda:
reaktor: lfo's sample and hold (sounds interesting)
cubase: try to achieve VST control
it shouldn't be that hard to get through the sample and hold section. the cubase thing though... i thought i could figure it out, but i'll have to read that damned manual afterall. pdf format and it's like 1500 pages! i don't know how, but i need to get through at least the main section, which is 600+ pages by saturday. it wouldn't be that bad if i were just reading straight through, but everytime a subject is coverred, i have to go to cubase and check to see if i have it configured or if the feature works correctly. lot's of hard work. ok, my eyes are so sore i'm losing my vision. g'nite.
xoxo
nik gaerlan