Cubase Question - Mixing Down

Darcy Hoover · March 27th, 2008, 02:14 PM

I'll start off with a warning that I AM A RECORDING BEGINNER!!!

Recording a bunch of tracks with a 4 track recorder, imported each of the .wav tracks into Cubase LE, did all sorts of things to them, mixed them, got it sounding like I wanted, saved it all. Two complete songs so far. Sounds not too bad when I try playing them with Cubase, but when I try to save the works as a complete .wav file, to burn to a CD, I end up with a really small file that I cannot play. Been through the help a couple of times, perhaps I'm missing something simple, but if anyone can familiar with Cubase could point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Darcy Hoover · March 27th, 2008, 04:12 PM

Nevermind, found my mistake. I didn't realize you had to set the locators to select what you want to mixdown. I had everything else but was just mixing down a very small sample of my song.

GhostofJohnToad · March 27th, 2008, 08:19 PM

When I started with cubase I did the same exact thing. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I was not doing. Well, welcome to the club! I'm sure there will be more. Routing can be kinda weird sometimes so be fore-warned.

pengipete · March 28th, 2008, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by GhostofJohnToad

When I started with cubase I did the same exact thing. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I was not doing. Well, welcome to the club! I'm sure there will be more. Routing can be kinda weird sometimes so be fore-warned.

Same here - DOH!

Cubase is one scarily BIG program and you often work out how to do something only to discover that there was a one-click way of doing it if you'd only known where to look.

I struggled because I'd used Bars & Pipes on the Amiga (great program for MIDI) up until about three years ago and it was a big leap to get used to such a different program. The best help I had to get started was a DVD trainer - three DVD's from beginners to advanced - very useful and the info sunk in quickly.

March 27th, 2008, 02:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
Darcy Hoover Tele-Meister Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 474	Cubase Question - Mixing Down I'll start off with a warning that I AM A RECORDING BEGINNER!!! Recording a bunch of tracks with a 4 track recorder, imported each of the .wav tracks into Cubase LE, did all sorts of things to them, mixed them, got it sounding like I wanted, saved it all. Two complete songs so far. Sounds not too bad when I try playing them with Cubase, but when I try to save the works as a complete .wav file, to burn to a CD, I end up with a really small file that I cannot play. Been through the help a couple of times, perhaps I'm missing something simple, but if anyone can familiar with Cubase could point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated! Thanks! __________________ http://www.soundclick.com/darcyhoover

March 27th, 2008, 04:12 PM	#2 (permalink)
Darcy Hoover Tele-Meister Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 474	Nevermind, found my mistake. I didn't realize you had to set the locators to select what you want to mixdown. I had everything else but was just mixing down a very small sample of my song. __________________ http://www.soundclick.com/darcyhoover

March 27th, 2008, 08:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
GhostofJohnToad Tele-Holic Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toledo, Ohio Age: 35 Posts: 735 7 Photos	When I started with cubase I did the same exact thing. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I was not doing. Well, welcome to the club! I'm sure there will be more. Routing can be kinda weird sometimes so be fore-warned.