Learning New Things
Apr. 25th, 2026 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperOne of the things that I've been planning to do since getting laid off is to figure out how to do some new things in the studio. Today, it was stupid Cubase tricks.
I pulled up a song that I've been fiddling with in the editor. Then I spent some time figuring out where the heck VariAudio had gone, because when you hide things in Cubase, sometimes you hide them *very* effectively. Having recovered it, I sent it to analyze the vocal track and determine what notes were in it. Then I told it to convert the track to MIDI.
Ok, now I have a lot of entertaining (if not wonderful) MIDI data. I pasted that onto an instrument track and started fiddling with it using the various instruments that are available inside of Cubase. I also moved the track up an octave, because most respectable instruments would prefer not to be in the octave that I sing in. :)
You will not be at *all* surprised to hear that I got nothing at all that was useful. But I didn't *expect* to get something that was useful -- I just wanted to see what I *could* get this way.
I *much* prefer to have my friends singing and playing real instruments on my recordings.
It's interesting to see what sort of sounds you can get out of the software though... :)
I pulled up a song that I've been fiddling with in the editor. Then I spent some time figuring out where the heck VariAudio had gone, because when you hide things in Cubase, sometimes you hide them *very* effectively. Having recovered it, I sent it to analyze the vocal track and determine what notes were in it. Then I told it to convert the track to MIDI.
Ok, now I have a lot of entertaining (if not wonderful) MIDI data. I pasted that onto an instrument track and started fiddling with it using the various instruments that are available inside of Cubase. I also moved the track up an octave, because most respectable instruments would prefer not to be in the octave that I sing in. :)
You will not be at *all* surprised to hear that I got nothing at all that was useful. But I didn't *expect* to get something that was useful -- I just wanted to see what I *could* get this way.
I *much* prefer to have my friends singing and playing real instruments on my recordings.
It's interesting to see what sort of sounds you can get out of the software though... :)