Greetings all! Long ago and far away I got Cubase SX 1.0.6, installed it on my Powerbook, and made a bunch of projects. I was really pretty happy with that version of Cubase, but I got away from music and the projects sat unused for years Now I'm in a new "band" and so dusted off Cubase and began recording our rehearsals, live, on 2 tracks (through the laptop's stereo Sound In port). I wanted to record more live tracks, like 8, so I got an Alesis Multimix12 firewire (for a great price, used, but WITHOUT the bundled LE disk) and hooked it up. SX 1.0.6 is working fine with it, but it only lets me record 4 tracks at once. I'd like to get another version of Cubase that'll record 8 tracks. With my pauper's budget I can afford "LE 1.something" from eBay, or "Essential 5". I can't seem to find SX 1 in any comparison charts, nor do I see any downloadable upgrades for it. Would I lose (or gain) a lot going from SX 1.0.6 to LE 1 (using 1.0.10.110 upgrade) or Essential 5? (OR) Are there any free/cheap recording-only packages for MacOS X 10.4, like the good-looking but Windows-only Kristal (http://kreatives.org/kristal)? Thanks very much for any light you can shed on these matters! Prospero "Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high." -- W.R. Inge
Prospero Spooks a écrit : > I wanted to record more live tracks, like 8, so I got an Alesis > Multimix12 firewire (for a great price, used, but WITHOUT the bundled > LE disk) and hooked it up. SX 1.0.6 is working fine with it, but it > only lets me record 4 tracks at once. > - Hi, Prospero. I have the same version as yours. First, you might check that this restriction really exists. I don't not think it does. Please describe to us the manipulations and results that lead you to think that Cubase 1.0.6 could not record more than 4 tracks at once. Huey
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:30:19 +0100, Hueyduck <> wrote: >Prospero Spooks a écrit : >> I wanted to record more live tracks, like 8, so I got an Alesis >> Multimix12 firewire (for a great price, used, but WITHOUT the bundled >> LE disk) and hooked it up. SX 1.0.6 is working fine with it, but it >> only lets me record 4 tracks at once. >> >- >Hi, Prospero. >I have the same version as yours. > >First, you might check that this restriction really exists. >I don't not think it does. > >Please describe to us the manipulations and results that lead you to >think that Cubase 1.0.6 could not record more than 4 tracks at once. > > >Huey Maybe you have only 4 input channels set up. I don't know the exact geography of Cubase 1.0.6. But can you find the page where you set up input and output busses? CubaseFAQ page: http://www.laurencepayne.co.uk/CubaseFAQ.htm
Laurence Payne a écrit : > > Maybe you have only 4 input channels set up. I don't know the exact > geography of Cubase 1.0.6. But can you find the page where you set up > input and output busses? Peripherals/VST inputs You should see 3 columns: Left column is "port". You should have listed all the physical inputs of your audio card. Center column is an on/off button column only (active/not active) And right column is the corresponding names you gave to your physical inputs. By defaults, they are "input 1", "Input 2" and so on. Propsero, can you tell us what you see in your panel? If you have only 4 channels activated here, you cannot record more than 4 channels (since only 4 channels will be available in each new audio track setting). Activating more channels (if physically available, of course), should enable you to make what you want to do. Huey
In article <4b6417a3$0$23887$>, Hueyduck <> wrote: > Prospero Spooks a écrit : > > I wanted to record more live tracks, like 8, so I got an Alesis > > Multimix12 firewire (for a great price, used, but WITHOUT the bundled > > LE disk) and hooked it up. SX 1.0.6 is working fine with it, but it > > only lets me record 4 tracks at once. > > > - > Hi, Prospero. > I have the same version as yours. > > First, you might check that this restriction really exists. > I don't not think it does. > > Please describe to us the manipulations and results that lead you to > think that Cubase 1.0.6 could not record more than 4 tracks at once. > > > Huey Well thanks; what a revelation! I've set up a new project from scratch and do indeed have all 14 tracks recording simultaneously! Apparently like Chico Marx in Duck Soup "I didditt wrong" on my first attempt - I had Cubase seeing all the Multimix channels, and assigned them all to tracks, but when actually record-enabling the tracks, after I'd enabled 4, enabling a fifth would cause one of the first 4 to "go out". Cubase would only actually record-enable 4 at once. Somehow I was just ready to think this was a program limitiation, rather than my own incomptence I mean "unfamiliarity with the new setup". I followed a procedure like this: selected Devices / Device Setup / VST Multitrack and set ASIO Driver to my firewire mixer. Then I did Devices / VST Inputs and enabled all 7 pairs of inputs. Now when I create a project with 14 audio tracks and associate each track with one of the In's, I can record-enable all 14 at once. This is the same procedure I (thought I) followed before, so I guess I just screwed up somehow. Thanks so much for your responses, Huey and Laurence! If you have any further suggestions I'd be glad to hear them, but I (think I) have it (somewhat) together now. Prospero "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them." -- John von Neumann
