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Long Past Dead 9 February 2011

It sounds like a strange thing to do but I would like to record existing tracks from older files on to new tracks using updated software and VST amp simulators. I like the old existing tracks and do not want to record them from scratch. I have tried to add the amp simulator VST in Cubase 5 to an existing guitar track but it does not change the track at all. Am I missing something here because I have added and deleted other VST to a track and can notice the difference. Is it possible to use an existing track as the recording input and route it thru effects and sends to a new track using VST amp simulators. I have Cubase 3SX and Cubase 5.1 And am about to try Reaper.

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RemyRAD Thu, 02/10/2011 - 00:08

You need to get a better handle on your software you don't know it well enough. That's the only problem. If you don't like the GUI or the way it functions, that's something else again. If you're mixing doesn't sound right and you think it's the software, it's not.

What you might have to do to import your files into another program may require you to render out each track, from start to finish to create a single .wav file. This is a long and monotonous way to do it. In certain situations, you are left no choice but to do this. For example, trying to transfer something from Pro tools into Digital Performer. They are very similar but you cannot directly import projects. Which is what I think you're asking? That is why you might be required to render out each individual track before you try to import it into another program. If they are chopped up, you've made specific changes or additions or manipulations and want to retain that, you'll have to render out each track as a separate audio file.

You know it never can be easy
Mx. Remy Ann David

Long Past Dead Thu, 02/10/2011 - 14:21

I will try to explain the best I can. I have old projects created in Cubase 3sx. The projects are fine and I do not want to record them all over. I opened the projects and save them in Cubase 5 and that is no problem Then because i have a new interface I can convert them to 24 bit, 48000 that too is no problem and done. Now I wanted to improve the guitar tracks by using the amp simulator in Cubase 5. Now if I record a new track with the amp simulator VST I can get a different sound, modify the tone, etc just by adjusting the amp simulator VST. BUT . . . If I add the amp simulator to my EXISTING guitar track it has NO affect on the tone, etc. That is why I need to SIMULATE recording these existing tracks and have the program behave as if it were a NEW recording. Then I can adjust the tone, etc as I described above. I know it can be easily done in Reaper but I am finding Reaper to be quite intimidating and feel it may take toooooooooo long to learn it. I have already mixed down each individual track for each song and will try importing them into tracks with the amp simulator already in the effects. I am awaiting a new 64 bit quad core computer and will try this after I get it set up.

RemyRAD Thu, 02/10/2011 - 16:41

Here's another suggestion.

All right, if the amp simulator is designed for real-time input and you are trying to apply it to a track, that may not work. Since you have a multitrack interface with your multitrack software, you could play the guitar track out. You'd then loop it back to the/an input, assigning it to the amp simulator, then printing it to a separate track, in real time play through. Of course, careful attention has to be paid to routing to make this work otherwise, you become the feedback King. And while it's good to be the king you don't want to be the king of that. Then you'd have what you want and you can import it into anything in your production.

More than one way back
Mx. Remy Ann David

thatjeffguy Fri, 02/11/2011 - 12:44

This was with imported projects from SX3. It may have been importing them into C4, not C5. It's been quite a while and I don't clearly recall.

I remember that the tracks in question came into the new project lacking the "Mono" or "Stereo" label that normally appears in the track (not the segment). I think they also lacked a panner. I could not perform ordinary functions on these gender-neutral tracks, but was able to drag the associated audio to a newly created track within the new project and have everything then behave normally.

Jeff

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