Apr 10, 2008 12:36 am Is this only when you are record enabled? Have you tried clicking on the speaker icon in the track? What version of Cubase?
Cubase question..
Posted on Apr 10, 2008 12:28 am
Cliffriff
Member Since: May 10, 2007
for the life of me i cannot hear my insert effects on cubase.. i never have been able to. its just the raw vocals in. ive clicked everything in sight, the bypass, etc..any ideas what setting i may have set wrong?
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Apr 10, 2008 12:36 am Is this only when you are record enabled? Have you tried clicking on the speaker icon in the track? What version of Cubase?
Apr 10, 2008 01:04 am Hey thanks for responding..Its when im record enabled and also when im not.And i do hit the speaker because i cant hear the mic without that pressed. I have version 1.01.
Apr 10, 2008 08:11 am what effects are you using?
solo the channel with the effect inserted, make sure the blue on/off button in the corner of the effect box is on and turn the button that says "mix" right up. all should be a go.
with compression make sure you click the compression button on, as well as the on/off switch.
Apr 10, 2008 08:14 am if you cant hear the mic without the speaker icon pressed, it sounds like your direct monitoring isnt doing its job or the "computer/input" nob is turned down.
what interface are you using?
Apr 10, 2008 09:52 pm mmm, not familiar with it myself.
did ya try that other stuff i suggested, any change??
Apr 10, 2008 10:48 pm Hey deon, thanks so much for helping.. i am not familar witht the computer/input button. where in cubase is it?
Apr 10, 2008 11:02 pm cliff reports other weird stuff. apparently when he mutes a guitar track, his vocal track suddenly goes quiet in his left ear. to fix that, he has to hit the mute button on the vocals, and then unmute it. then the vocals appear in both ears. it's a workaround and not a problem, but it's strange. my belief about this insert effects problem is that it has something to do with routing settings involving the motu.
not that i know what i'm talking about. but it's strange to not be able to hear inserts if you're pressing all the right buttons. could it be some routing issue? VST settings?
by the way, i appear in cliff's threads from time to time because i want him to have the experience of HRC solving some of his problems, so that he will get excited about the site, and use it more.
Apr 10, 2008 11:02 pm oh one more thing my headphones are coming out of the motu ultralite... so it is my soundcard maybe this is why the monitoring isnt letting me hear inserts and the monitor button is acting different? anything come to mind i could troubleshoot/ change?
Apr 10, 2008 11:10 pm hey one more thing to add to the mystery.. when i play a track back i recorded..i can hear the insert effects! but not when i record it live. i really would love to hear it as i record it
Apr 11, 2008 01:31 am check your cubase VST settings, explore every option there. that post you sent me touched on that. it has to be a routing thing.
dont understand what youre saying about the headphones two posts above, though...
Apr 11, 2008 10:51 am dont worry about the insert effects while you are recording you cant hear them unless you have external hardware.
chuck em on after.
are you running the updated version of your cubase?
if you can, download the updated version from steinberg.com
it could be a something dodgey in the program.
i know i just had to do it coz evrytime i would insert silence or do anything in the sample editor the program would shutdown.
its all good now ive updated.
also you shouldnt be using your computers sound card, as the motu is your sound card. thats probably be it right there.
make sure in your device setup, under "devices" in cubase, that you have the motu selected in "control panel"
if its not and you need some pointers on how to, let me know.
it will be going haywire if you are using the computers sound card instead of the motu. im not sure how the hell it would do it anyway.
Apr 11, 2008 07:56 pm hey deson. I am using the motu as the sound card. and i guess my overall goal is to somehow get the insert effects so i can hear them while i record. i know it will help with vocal performance. so are you saying you cant unless you have what... an external..? forty seems to be able to hear the inserts as he records
also i think its that i need to have motu set as my "out" i only have it set as my "in" forty figured this out.. how would i set in cubase the setting to have motu be my "out" as in vst setup or whatever. i see its set as "in" but cant see where i can change any settings. know how? thank yoU!
Apr 11, 2008 09:02 pm go into vst connections and check your bus's, under the "inputs" tab, the bus should be, for example stereo 1
or two or 3 or whatever, depending on what line in your instrument is plugged into( in the motu)
if you only have "stereo in", and you want a mono(which is what you should record with) then find the tab "add bus"
and click it.
it will say stereo 1.
change the stereo to mono and click ok.
you wanna record most things in mono so you can pan left and right, otherwise it will always be in both speakers.
in the "device port" section you should see the motu as the device name.
click on the outputs tab and it should be on stereo out left and stereo out right.
thats good.
back in your cubase project, if you're recording to track 1 for example, make sure that in left section next to the track window, it says mono in stereo out.
or stereo in stereo out, depending on what you chose back in the vst connections.
that should be it.
as for the effects thing im not 100% sure, if its cool then i guess ya just set it up as an insert effect.
if we can get that other thing sorted first, it may be sweet.
in your cubase help it has a tutorial thats will set ya straight if i have stuffed up somewhere here. but should be all good.
Apr 12, 2008 12:01 am yeah i think it's important to record with effects on your voice, so that you can get into the right mood, so i understand why he wants to do that. me, i just use my POD effects and write the result to the track as i record. but that's just cause i'm lazy. if i were using vst's for vocals, i'd definitely sing through inserts and then finalize later.
cliff, deon says something about how if you're actually *recording* in stereo, things will always be in both ears. you said something about weird phase outs, and loss of sound in one ear or another when you do certain things, and that sounds suspiciously like you may be recording in stereo? if so, you shouldn't do that. you've got to make it so that what cubase is hearing from your motu is a mono sound, not a stereo sound. the outputs back from the motu to your ears should of course be stereo.
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