Hi everyone, When I bought cubase 5, I thought that Cubase would be, by now, able to import many open file formats like FLAC. Actually, it seems a bit odd to me to allow the importation of .ogg files but not .flac. Anyway: is there a chance I could find anywhere a homemade input plugin that would allow me to import FLAC files? (cubase SX and Cubase 5) Thanks for you input (hahaha :-> ) Huey
Hueyduck wrote: > When I bought cubase 5, I thought that Cubase would be, by now, able > to import many open file formats like FLAC. Haha... > Actually, it seems a bit odd to me to allow the importation of .ogg > files but not .flac. That makes me wonder a bit. Especially, since .ogg seems more than "dead" - I liked it, but it unfortunately never became really popular. > Anyway: is there a chance I could find anywhere a homemade input > plugin that would allow me to import FLAC files? > (cubase SX and Cubase 5) Haven´t run across something like that yet. On the other hand, I don´t have a problem with using "external" stand-alone decoder softwares. Then, I import the .wav files into Cubase. A plug-in would be more comfortable, but I don´t need to import mp3, ogg or flac into Cubase projects very often. The few times, I have to, I just decode them to .wav before importing them into Cubase. It´s one more step, but so seldomly... I can live with it. Phil
On Apr 16, 4:48 am, Hueyduck <> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > When I bought cubase 5, I thought that Cubase would be, by now, able to > import many open file formats like FLAC. > Actually, it seems a bit odd to me to allow the importation of .ogg > files but not .flac. > Anyway: is there a chance I could find anywhere a homemade input plugin > that would allow me to import FLAC files? > (cubase SX and Cubase 5) > > Thanks for you input (hahaha :-> ) > > Huey In my understanding, as a professional tool, Cubase can be a bit conservative about which formats it supports. A newer codex like Ogg FLAC is still a bit fluid and thus, such are seldom supported by commercial programs like Cubase, Nuendo, Cakewalk, or PT until they gain professional (user) acceptance (as did Ogg Vorbis). Your best bet will be to get a program like Direct show or Winamp that can read Flac and save to another lossless codex (preferably PCM Wav file) for import into Cubase. You may be able to work a cludge by reading your FLAC with DB poweramp plugin (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ dbpoweramp.htm) as an insert and redirecting the output to another audio track. Look around here for asometing appropriate: http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html Cheers, CS Compression is compression...best to leave things uncompressed (PCM Wav or AIFF) and work in that format.
Phil W a écrit : > Hueyduck wrote: > >> When I bought cubase 5, I thought that Cubase would be, by now, able >> to import many open file formats like FLAC. > > Haha... > >> Actually, it seems a bit odd to me to allow the importation of .ogg >> files but not .flac. > > That makes me wonder a bit. Especially, since .ogg seems more than "dead" - > I liked it, but it unfortunately never became really popular. - It is still very popular in my house ;-) The music I listen to is ogg encoded. Ogg is still used by many internet radio to send their streams. - > >> Anyway: is there a chance I could find anywhere a homemade input >> plugin that would allow me to import FLAC files? >> (cubase SX and Cubase 5) > > Haven´t run across something like that yet. On the other hand, I don´t have > a problem with using "external" stand-alone decoder softwares. Then, I > import the .wav files into Cubase. > A plug-in would be more comfortable, but I don´t need to import mp3, ogg or > flac into Cubase projects very often. The few times, I have to, I just > decode them to .wav before importing them into Cubase. It´s one more step, > but so seldomly... I can live with it. The reason I wanted a FLAC input plug in is that it totally makes sense to use FLAC compression for , for instance, folley libraries. But since Cubase can't read this format, itt's impossible to browse libraries encoded in such a way. Huey
Cyberserf a écrit : > On Apr 16, 4:48 am, Hueyduck <> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> When I bought cubase 5, I thought that Cubase would be, by now, able to >> import many open file formats like FLAC. >> Actually, it seems a bit odd to me to allow the importation of .ogg >> files but not .flac. >> Anyway: is there a chance I could find anywhere a homemade input plugin >> that would allow me to import FLAC files? >> (cubase SX and Cubase 5) >> >> Thanks for you input (hahaha :-> ) >> >> Huey > > In my understanding, as a professional tool, Cubase can be a bit > conservative about which formats it supports. A newer codex like Ogg > FLAC is still a bit fluid and thus, such are seldom supported by > commercial programs like Cubase, Nuendo, Cakewalk, or PT until they > gain professional (user) acceptance (as did Ogg Vorbis). - One could argue that reading lossless sound formats would be a priority since those formats allow to stock libraries. On the other hand, I always wondered about the . wma implementation. wtf? If it serves anyone, well, good for them. But FLAC is free f.r.e.e. and is useful. >Your best bet > will be to get a program like Direct show or Winamp that can read Flac > and save to another lossless codex (preferably PCM Wav file) for > import into Cubase. You may be able to work a cludge by reading your > FLAC with DB poweramp plugin (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ > dbpoweramp.htm) as an insert and redirecting the output to another > audio track. > > Look around here for asometing appropriate: > > http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html > - Thanks for your recommandations. Actually, I was looking for a simple solution in order to browse FLAC files with the "import" function of cubase. Mainly for Sound design and folleys. About winamp plugins, must I understand that some winamp plugin are compatibel with cubase? If it is "directX" plug ins, I'd rather not try this solution since I'm slowly learning how to use Cubase 5wich can't use DX plugins. But yoiur suggestion remains a good one > > Compression is compression...best to leave things uncompressed (PCM > Wav or AIFF) and work in that format. This is true in many situations, but I have quite a few situations were I'd like to save disk space and keep the ability to brawse lossless sounds from cubasE. Anyway, you answered my question: what I'm looking for doesn't exist (yet) :-( Huey
