Hi

I just bought a new dell Studio XpS, i7, Vista 64 machine.
When i go into my computer C drive, i can see the following:

Program Files
Program Files (x86)

What is the purpose of having 2 program files?

Hello everybody. I have a problem and hope anybody can help me with this.

I Just bought the audiobox usb by PreSonus, 2 outputs.
I'm realy just starting to record music, and have some trouble geting started and configuring my softwear.
I also baught a mic ( atm410 ) vocal mic, and got Cubase le 4 with my audiobox.

OK, so I figured that since I have it on my computer I might as well make use of it. I accidentally deleted the 'license control center' that came with the program because I didn't know what it was. I thought it was spyware or something. Apparently I needed the info there because it contained the key to registering Cubase.

Hello all, complete newbie here. To start dabbling into recording, I just picked up a Tascam us-144 audio interface that came with Cubase LE 4. Setup right now is simply guitar -> interface-> laptop. Not even getting to Cubase's steep learning curve yet, I'm having a hell of a time just getting that much to work. Here's the issue:

I recently purchased 2 condenser mics and an sm57 to record my bands drumset with. The 3 mics work great, but I'm still looking for a mic to record the kick drum with. I put the two overheads (condensers) up and the 57 on the snare, and the kickdrum barely picks up. Along with that, i want to have multiple tracks recording each individual mic on cubase.

So I have had multiple Cubase crashing problems. I decided to just go on an reformat the brand new computer and start over with a clean slate. So I did.

I hate to sound like a newbie guys but I have lost the fade handles on the event I'm trying to manipulate (and all the other recorded events for that matter) but only in this one project. All other projects are as normal and I can fade in/out as I please with the lil drag handles.

Hi all, hopefully someone can help me.

I've been given the opportunity to purchase Cubase Essential 4, but I have previously been using SX3. I found a file compatibility chart that says that I cannot open SX3 files in Essential 4, but I also saw somewhere else that said it's possible to open the files, but I'd lose some data.

Can anyone clarify on this?

Thanks.

After my mix is complete, should I export to a stereo WAV file, and then load that back into Cubase or another program for mastering, or just add the master effects to my mix, and export the whole thing in one shot?
Are there advantages or disadvantages to either method?