Introduction and questions

[cmpsr2000]

Hello all,

I've been a forum troller for about a year and a half now and decided I should probably post and at least say hi, so hi [:D]

This is probably the worst place to post this, as there are so many consumat professionals here, and I am just an aspiring newb. However, I figure I can't get any better if I don't get help right? I ahve been a composer for many years, all of which I have spent WRITING music on the computer. However, the tools are good enough now that I am trying to focus on PRDUCING on my computer, somthing I have never done before. So here's my situation, I have owned the Opus 1 library for gigastudio since release, and have loved it thus far, though I would just about kill for a pro edition. I have only 2 PCs to do my work on, no Macs that are fast enough, or money for a new mac (Read: student) I run finale, midioverLAN, realVNC and (just recently) cubase SL on my main PC. I run everything midi-wise to the other PC, which is a dedicated gigarig with a delta-1010 in it, that runs the signal back to my main PC for recording. However I don't have a professional sound card in my main PC, so i am limited to a single stereo input currently (this is about to change) so the only way to do a propper mix of a piece is to record each track individually, which takes more time than I have, so none of my recent music is mixed AT ALL. everything that I have is dirrect from gigastudio, which sounds OK but not professionall. I mentioned, this is chaning. I am getting a couple of lightpipe sound cards to connect the two PCs together, so I'll have a digital connection that I can then mix off of, which should solve one problem. I would like to, by the end of the summer, have a proffesional sounding mixed CD to use as a promotional tool. This is where you come in. I need to know if I'm on the right track. I have read many threads of people saying how they do what they do, but my question is, what is the best way for ME to accomplish this with the tools I have, spending little to NO more money?

Also, I'm having trouble getting the patches to sound as realistic as everyone else, but this is probably due to the lack of postpro.

My website is at http://www.cmpsr2000.com">http://www.cmpsr2000.com everything that is there was made at least in part with opus1.

Thanks,
Rob S.

[Dietz]

Hi Rob,

I'm in a hurry today, so i just say "Welcome!" I'll come back to your questions later. I'm sure our forum members will take care for you, in the meantime. :-]

All the best,

/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library

[mike harper]

try this :
move your delta 1010 to you main CPU and get the adat option for it.
(around $120ish) now you can go adat in from your giga. look at the frontier pci wavecenter.
i have this configuration and it works good . so now you can have spidf, adat and anaolog in on your main CPU . and the adta out on your giga !hope this helps

[cmpsr2000]

@mike harper said:

try this :
move your delta 1010 to you main CPU and get the adat option for it.
(around $120ish) now you can go adat in from your giga. look at the frontier pci wavecenter.
i have this configuration and it works good . so now you can have spidf, adat and anaolog in on your main CPU . and the adta out on your giga !hope this helps

oh, thats a great Idea, thanks! I was already toying with the notion of moving the delta-1010 anyway, so this would work better.

[cmpsr2000]

well, what I ended up doing is grabbing 2 RME lightpipe cards, moving the delta 1010 to the composition PC, and running spdif out of the RME into the delta1010 for monitoring. It works very well so far, most of the newer stuff on my site was made with this setup. I still haven't made the transition from audition to cubase/nuendo yet tho, so everything still sounds a bit electronic for my taste. Of course, the issue I'm running into there is that cubase can only use one audio device at a time for record/playback, whereas audition can use them all simultaneously. Upside: I can actually record and produce things that use all my synths + giga. Downside: I can't mix anything on the giga side post-pro, everything is recordied in through one channel on spdif in, so I get one waveform for all 64 channels of giga >.<

I think the solution to this is upgrading to Nuendo, but I haven't had a chance to check and see if it fixes that nasty "one sound device only" issue or not.

Of course what I'd *love* would be a free 10k so I could upgrade to a mac ;.;

[Dietz]

Nuendo and Cubase still support only one ASIO-device at a time, but several of the better hardware-manufacturers supply drivers for their devices allowing access to multiple cards, originating from multiple applications simultaneously (RME HDSP comes to mind).

BTW - as long as you don't need the advanced features of Nuendo, you get the same sound and most of its possibilities from Cubase SX, too, for less money.

HTH,

/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library

[cmpsr2000]

if thats the case then it looks like I'm stuck with audition until I get some new hardware. [:'(]

[DG]

@cmpsr2000 said:

However I don't have a professional sound card in my main PC, so i am limited to a single stereo input currently (this is about to change) so the only way to do a propper mix of a piece is to record each track individually, which takes more time than I have, so none of my recent music is mixed AT ALL. everything that I have is dirrect from gigastudio, which sounds OK but not professionall.

Thanks,
Rob S.

If you use GigaTeleport from www.fx-max.com, you will not be limited to 1 input.

DG

[cmpsr2000]

thats veeery interesting, if I'm reading this correctly It looks like I could dump the optical cards for giga-teleport, then switch out the main asio device in cubase for the delta1010. That would create an environment where I could record everything in one pass in cubase. DLing and trying out the free version.

still, that leaves me with $500 in equipment thats been paid for already [:'(]