Cubase SX3: Why does it hate me?

OK, assuming a legit copy will work, I'm thinking of buying SE3. It's affordable and has all of the basic features that SX3 has, and I'm still VERY new to sequencers on the whole. What do you reckon guys? Good idea?

nonononono! Get a few more and go for studio 4, or regular 4! SE 3 is SO stripped down that it's not worth it!

If you are a student you can get a student copy. And actually if you have afriend you could do the same, if you trust them...

Originally Posted by nikolas

nonononono! Get a few more and go for studio 4, or regular 4! SE 3 is SO stripped down that it's not worth it!

If you are a student you can get a student copy. And actually if you have afriend you could do the same, if you trust them...

Studio 4 is about 150 quid more!!! Is it really that much better?

Originally Posted by Fox

OK, assuming a legit copy will work, I'm thinking of buying SE3. It's affordable and has all of the basic features that SX3 has, and I'm still VERY new to sequencers on the whole. What do you reckon guys? Good idea?

you assume wrong, most likely none of the cubase releases will work efficiently on your current setup.
like i said, either re-install your windows or get a dedicated pc.

i agree with nikolas, go for cubase 4, the regular release that is.

Originally Posted by Fox

Studio 4 is about 150 quid more!!! Is it really that much better?

yes.

I think I'll look into getting Studio 4. Can't justify forking out for the main release but Studio 4 doesn't look like it loses too much important stuff that I'll be using...although I am still at the stage of not being certain what I will and wont need lol.

you could always upgrade afterwards, if some day you find yourself needing the extra features.

AWESOME NEWS!

I ordered Cubase Studio 4....and they sent me the wrong one! So I now have a fully functional, fully lisenced version of Cubase 4!

One question, I have input from my MIDI keyboard working and EWQL as well, but sometimes I get a crackling noise when I'm playing/recording from the keyboard into cubase. (A MIDI recording).

Any idea what this is and/or how to solve it?

It's not urgent but it does show up during playback as well which is a bitch.

AWESOME NEWS! If you can replicate the error, let me know how!

On your problem now.

1. DFD settings on EWQL. Open Kompakt, or Kontakt, whatever you use, and go to the DFD settings. Play with them, nothing can break!
alternatively
2. Go to (inside Cubase) menus -> devices -> device setup -> VST aduiobay -> YOUR soundcard (right bellow) -> control panel. Take a look at the buffers. Increase them to 512, or even 1024.

Hey Nikolas! Thanks alot! That really helped. I had to change what I did a little because when I clicked "Control Panel" I got an ASIO LATANCY setting, but I just increased that slightly (it was 4, I made it 5) and the crackling has gone at the cost of a small latency increase. But 7 milliseconds to 9 millseconds isn't too bad!

I also played around with DFD settings but didnt really know what I was doing, how does the DFD stuff work?

First of you do need to go to the official home of EW (Sounds Online) go to the updates and find for the product you use. There should also be a DFD update (otherwise they don't work! ). Now if you don't own the copy legally, I don't think there should be any problem, but then again... :-/

anyways, to the DFD settings you can set how much of the sample "head" you will load on your memory. The more you load, the more RAM you use, but the less trouble is for your harddisk. If for example you load 2 secs, in the 2 secs kompakt needs to go to the hard drive find what is missing and collide it with what is currently playing. If you are playing 50 notes at the same time, this IS a lot and maybe your hard drive, and your CPU can't handle it. If you tell kompakt to load 3 secs, instead of 2, then there will be more time and less crackles, pops, etc.

9 msecs is not bad. When you need more detail, just solo the one you use and the necessary and reduce buffer again to 7 msec, etc. It also has to do with your soundcard (and I'm currently at 3 msecs, when working on a piano, and don't use it for a full orchestra, since it's at 24 msecs! )

EDIT: I really need some kind of salary in here! (joking of course)