Old Musician/Engineer needs HELP

[Hippie]

I am in Portland, Oregon. Here is the deal, I am kind of from the old school......plug it in and play. I bought the GPO because right now the project I am producing, mixing, mastering and playing on is a rock symphony......kind of.

What I need is someone in the Portland area to come SHOW me how to get this working ( I have read everything and it might as well be written in Chinese, I just don't understand it). I have played the GPO in stand alone with some of the songs and it sounds GREAT, just what I want BUT.....I CAN'T GET IT TO WORK in Cubase LE.


HELP.....I'm running out of patience and beer.

If anyone can come help me out my family would be very happy. Send me a PM and I will send you my phone number.:cool:



PS I'll buy the beer.

[Hippie]

Thanks to buckshead here I have everything working..except I haven't figured out how to turn the midi track into a wave file.....so if any of you here can help me with that little problem I almost, kind of, sort of.....will shut up and leave you all alone...............maybe, but don't hold your breath.


:D

[buckshead]

Hi its me again. Create an audio track, set the locators to start and end, move cursor to start, press red record button, wait til the end, press stop.
Mixing and mastering, inserts and sends just like a hardware mixer. Not sure exactly what LE has, there are various different versions. Theres automation of recording and many options, start simple and work up, Oh and you can play the strat along if you wish. (is that a strat? hmm its hard to see)

[Hippie]

Thanks again. I'll try that and see what happens.

That is my youngest son ( Little Bubba) with the Tele, he picked it out. We have a P Bass, Strat, Tele and a Yamaha So8.....My wife told me she would kill me if I brought a drum set home.

[Hippie]

Hi its me again. Create an audio track, set the locators to start and end, move cursor to start, press red record button, wait til the end, press stop.
Mixing and mastering, inserts and sends just like a hardware mixer. Not sure exactly what LE has, there are various different versions. Theres automation of recording and many options, start simple and work up, Oh and you can play the strat along if you wish. (is that a strat? hmm its hard to see)


Okay........I tried that....NO WORKIE...BUT......since I'm old school I brought up my main recording studio and set it to 'record what it hears'. It's kind of a pain in the rear end but it works. All I have to do is write down the timing mark I want it to come in on and the match it up on the mixing board after I get the midi track recorded to a wave. I'm going to need more beer for this CD.

I know there is an easier way and I will find it some day but I can finish these two songs now and that is what I need to do...........



.....before I go ~|. LOLOLOL


:D

[HongKongCV]

Hippie, try this. I regularly convert MIDI files (with GPO voices) to wav files. Set the left and right locators as described earlier, then go to the File menu and choose "Audio Mixdown". This will prompt you for file name, audio file format, and so forth.

I do this all the time in Cubase SX3.

[Hippie]

I'll give it a try. Thanks

[Hippie]

UPDATE for anyone that has nothing better to do than read this.

I still have some small problems getting things (GPO & Cubase) to work the way I think they should BUT....I have come up with some of the most unique Mickey Mouse ways to get around them I even surprised myself. ~|


Hey, don't laugh, they work. :D

[holderofthehorns]

And that is all that counts. You win!
Er... I mean "Attaboy!"

It's all about the music.

[buckshead]

Cubase is so versatile that there are a dozen ways to do anything, you have to find the way that suits you, then learn the others slowly. There are still things I've not tried and I' ve had 4.0 and 4.1 since it came out

[Hippie]

I use 2 computers to record GPO as a wave file. I put the track I want to record to on one computer and then open K2/GPO on the other along with MAGIX and set my sound card to record what you hear. Hit play & record at the same time and do it.

After I am finished I time the track up and put it on my mixing board, do the FX I want and then move to the next track.

I single track all of my recordings. If I want 2 or more instruments to play the same notes at the same time I do it in Cubase as a midi and change the instruments


This is more than likely all bassackwards but it works and I can do it in my sleep now.

I use Magix & Sound Forge 8 for all my mixing and mastering.....Cubase is for midi only.


Okay...before you all start laughin and rolling on the floor, yes I am old and I drink while I work.:cool: