Good morning, good evening, hello, goodbye - well maybe not the last one,
I am setting up fro a large musical project. I have Cubase 11 and lots of Orchestras and many VST instruments
To keep this all organized I have set up a large Template. All my sounds are in appropriate folders such as “strings”, “brass” etc, inside these are sub folders “Trumpets”,“Euphoniums”, “Brass Ensembles”, etc. Each folder gets its own group track which routes the sounds onward, thus all trumpets get their own mixer tab and so do all brass. I have done this for all sections of the orchestra and several other genres, such as guitars, vocals, synths. BTW all tracks are disabled so RAM or CPU is not a problem. There are somewhere over a thousand tracks. It took a while, but its all working now, like a dream.
I am now considering if I should save all these sounds as “track presets”, but I understand that I will loose the routings. Presets, I think, just keep the track data, the inserts etc. TBH I have not used them much.
There is another Cubase function called “Track Archives”. I know little about this too, but it looks fairly promising. Not sure if its a blind alley for me. I think Track Archives save the routing, but frankly I can’t see how, if a new project does not have the routing already set up the same way.
Ideally what I would like to do when creating a new project is to import a folder such as “Strings”, Audition the strings I want and delete the rest.
How do people work with track presets and track archives especially when dealing with large scores?
In these days of large libraries, monster hard drives, it’s important to be disciplined, otherwise one loses track of what sounds one has.
Would be very interesting to know how others work
Z
