Cubase SX3: Why does it hate me?

Brilliant, Thanks Nikolas!

I gotta say I'm loving Cubase now. I've been composing solely with Sibelius for so long, some of my music was failing where my notation was failing. Percussion, for example, I've never been able to effectivly notate. But just bashing it in on the keyboard is awesome.

Tell ya what, I'll donate some good thoughts to you

BY THE WAY: Anyone know where I can get some reasonable drum kit sounds to use in cubase? All I have atm is general midi and orchestral percussion.

Originally Posted by Fox

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.

You lucky bastard!

Originally Posted by Fox

BY THE WAY: Anyone know where I can get some reasonable drum kit sounds to use in cubase? All I have atm is general midi and orchestral percussion.

Cubase has some drum machine inside which could work somehow...

The other alternative would be to go to KVR: Virtual Instruments, Virtual Effects, VST Plugins, Audio Units (AU), DirectX (DX), Universal Binary Compatibility - Audio Plugin News, Reviews and Community and search there for free stuff.

If you want to buy stuff there are opinions... But try the free ones first.

the 909 kit is all you need

Out of drums I'd recommend the newest Battery from Native Instruments, that's what I use.

I used to use Cubase SX3 but recently switched to Sonar Producer Edition and I like it more.

Thanks for that guys, I had a look into some of them but in the end I found a torrent for EZDrummer which seems to be pretty cool!

Torrent? We don't need to know that, lol.

Originally Posted by Maxx

Torrent? We don't need to know that, lol.

Good point, well made.

I got a hold of a copy of EZDrummer, which seems pretty good and works nicely in Cubase.

Better?

the torrent protocol is completely legal.

Quick question for you Cubase users out there: how do you change tempo? I was initially going to do tempo changes in Sibelius and whilst I still might partially, Sibelius does not do Accelerandos well at all. How could I do that in Cubase?

For example I want over a 2 bar period to steadily go from 100 bpm to 140 bpm.

Thanks for any help