Hi Timo
Well, the Electribe I must admit was a Crimbo pressy for my lad and at present he users it upstairs with his set-up, I haven't connected this to mine as yet!!
One deficiency I certainly have is a drum machine, and I am currently looking at the Boss DR880.
As for how I record all these... well, I am learning about MIDI and how to link things up etc, so I tend to record them individually using MIDI, building up a track with say the RADIAS providing Drums and Bass parts, KARMA providing well... errrm... KARMA
and several of the TI channels providing pads, arps and leads (
if my piece were that complex).
Although - in the end - I can record a track, I am having some difficulty at most of the touch-points at the moment Timo. I can't seem to get the best out of Cubase Studio 4, have no idea as to routing and being able to play my cornet and hear what I am playing through headphones, while the backing track comes through the headphones too for example. I also can't seem to get the synths patch or arp tempos to sync to whatever tempo I set it as in Cubase, which is a frustration.
I also have routing issues with Cubase, and as for bouncing tracks... well, I have a lot to learn here. Here's an issue I experience all the time. Daz (
from KF) offered me great advice once by suggesting that when I am happy with a MIDI track layer, I should bounce that to audio separately so i can EQ it singly etc and get the best results. However, when I mixdown that track to audio, if I play that new audio track AND the originating MIDI track back at the same time, they are not in tune and the audio track is lower in pitch and plays over a longer period of time (
up to several seconds depending on the length of the track itself). I then cannot set that audio track to time with any of the other (currently MIDI) tracks - if you see what I mean
I am not fully experienced in MIDI timing yet, and can't seem to easily sync all of my separate synth parts, or even all of the TI parts. There always seems to be a combination of timing and synchronisation issues. I have yet to figure out how to successfully record any ARP data from the TI (
though I have figured this out and can do this successfully on the RADIAS).
So you can see I really do have a lot to learn here yeah
I have today been on the telephone to several Tutors/programmers etc who offer the services I am after from £20 per hour, £200 per day to £300 per day plus travel. i am willing to pay good money as long as I can work out exactly what I want to know from any visit, and that I get it!!
However, any advice greatly appreciated.