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:	post by ArrowHead is watching you at 2007-07-09 23:16:16

Megan:

1) Cubase is crap. I can't stop saying that. Clunky interface, and a sound engine from the middle ages. You can make some really good sounding recordings, but in the end the learning curve ain't worth it (as you are seeing)

2) Sonar is great. I would advice taking people up on the offer to get a copy. Then, drop about $20 at a bookstore for the "Sonar Power!" book by Scott Garrigus. The books are excellent, easy to read, and Scott himself is the man. He's even been known to answer readers' questions via email.

3) Drums: For recording drums, things can be a little tricky. From what I've seen, the midi functions in Cubase are one of the worst things about the software. In general though, here's what you need to do.

Firstly, you need a midi track. This is going to be your "drummer". If you are using onboard sound, there is a good chance you do not actually have any GM (general midi) drumsounds on your computer. This is probably why you're getting so frustrated. A cheap-o soundcard will solve this problem for under $30, but it won't really add much as far as the rest of the sound card is concerned. Once you've created the MIDI file, and set the midi output to GM drums, open up your piano roll editor in your recording app, and scub your cursor up and down the keys. You should get an assortment of drum sounds. Now, you can plug in your drum beats one note at a time, just like a drum machine. Once you've got your drum tracks figured out, you can now use the MIDI track you created to trigger a sampler of some sort to substitute some high-quality drum samples for the general midi sounds. One word of warning: some collections like the Drumkit from Hell series do NOT use the General Midi mappings, so you'll end up finding that the sounds get all mixed up if you try it this way.

As for the drums, I would definitely recommend the drumkit from hell samples, however take care to avoid the Drumkit from Hell 2 package, if they even sell it anymore. It comes with a very clunky sampler, and is buggy as hell. Drumkit From Hell Superior is the creme de la creme, but it's also over 35 Gig and is very expensive. Due to size, it's also not something you're likely to find for download. Drumkit from Hell EZdrummer is a nifty little sampler/interface that they recently released, and with the DFH ezx expansion they released it's got some pretty arse kicking drum sounds. There are quite a few other drum sample compilations available as well, with BFD and drumkit from hell being the top two on the market right now.

This post is getting a little long, so I'd rather stop here and if you have questions about what I said so far, I can pick up there.

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