Best method for recording a band - a track at a time!

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:37 pm

bent wrote:

I'd like to read that forum!
"How to get 48 tracks out of a US122", should be an entertaining read.

My gut tells me he was referring to the number of tracks you can record simultaneously in Cubase LE, regardless of inputs. Neutral

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:56 pm

EDIT: Oops, missed page two before replying again.

But yeah, the manual <i>should</i> walk you right through the setup, right?

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:07 pm

Mark,

Possibly, but then Cubase LE only does 8 simultaneous at a time, is that right?

If it is, then the dude on the unnamed forum is doubly incorrect.
If I'm wrong, welll... He's still wrong.

Laughing

I'll look it up and get back to ya.

...OK, near as I can tell from browsing the Cubase forums (I don't own Cubase, so this is all hearsay):
LE V1.0.7 does 8 Simultaneous tracks.
LE V1.0.8 does 4 Simultaneous tracks.
LE4 does 16 mono or 8 stereo simultaneous.

Still no mention of any version of LE doing 48 tracks simultaneous.

Are there any Cubase users here that can verify or correct this?

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:52 pm

Bent... I can't verify that either, I've never really used Cubase besides twice in my life. The first time I couldn't record any audio (similar to Rimshot's issue, except that Cool Edit at that time was recording perfectly) so I ditched it, and vowed never to touch it again.

7 years after that I decided to give it another shot. I decided to bounce out a session, and after bouncing out 4:23 of nothing but silence, I made my final decision to leave it alone and haven't touched it since.

Just thought I would share an anecdote. Very Happy

EDIT: It seems you're right. It's limited to 8 simultaneous inputs. That guy seems to be full of you know what... Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:35 pm

Thanks for all the info people!

I think in retrospect (a habit of mine Shocked

) the guy may have been kidding - as Cubase claims that it 'supports' 48 tracks.. and he said he maxed it out at 49!

Must be for those Terry Bozio setups!

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:39 pm

Somewhere on here I posted the actual total tracks Vegas 5.0 supports.
TheBear might remember it. I think I got it to 999 and then it started numbering them with something like 'A001', 'A002'.

Laughing

No really, I held down Ctrl+Q (add track) for a minute or so...

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:54 pm

Rimshot wrote:

Thanks for all the info people!

I think in retrospect (a habit of mine Shocked

) the guy may have been kidding - as Cubase claims that it 'supports' 48 tracks.. and he said he maxed it out at 49!

Must be for those Terry Bozio setups!

You can record up to 48 audio tracks but NOT simultaneously. Eight tracks at a time.

Vegas supports unlimited audio doesn't it. Limited of course by your computer but otherwise.....

I like Cubase and have been using it since version 3? I don't remember. Since you had to install it using two floppies on the old Atari Falcons. No hard drives back then and midi only. I temporarily left the platform when they started to support 1 gig external hard drives. Wow! That's a whole 10 minutes of 24 track audio at 16 bit 44.1k!

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:39 am

I feel as though this is the obvious way but it hasn't been explicitly said yet, or if it has I missed it, so @Rimshot, a quick and dirty way to layer things in is to do the "everyone play together standing around the mic with the drummer hidden behind something so that he's not blasting everyone out but you can still hear him " trick. Then you go back and have it on headphones and add your bass/drums/guitars/etc. and lock in your bed track before adding your vocals. Or whatever order you want it in. I don't think this has been mentioned yet and if it has, apologies to all. Good luck!

Nathan

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