Although I’ve been using Cubase since 1999 (Cubase VST 3.5)Now on Cubase 14
I’m still baffled by most of what it can probably do.
I seem to have developed a way of using it that I’m sure would have many of you tutting and shaking your heads.
For the first 13 years of using it I was mainly recording other peopls stuff. With a few occasional noodlings of my own.
I was busier playing drums for a variety of bands than recording.
But after years of drumming for other people and being unable to continue live playing due to a shoulder injury I decided it was time to fire up the computer, Cubase and synths.
See if I could learn to play guitar too, and get the ideas buzzing around my head into musical form.
12 albums later I don’t seem to be able to stop!
It’s mostly in the prog area of things. But some departures here and there.
This was all kicked off after seeing Rob Reed perform at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios.
As he’d done the studio albums on his own. It prompted me to give it a go.
Now. After realising a lifetime ambition to write and perform an album based on The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe in 2020/21 and releasing it as a digital download on Bandcamp. I’ve now realised another and mixed it in 5.1 surround using Cubase and slightly remixed parts of the stereo version.
The new stereo version is available from Bandcamp but now also as a Physical CD/ 5.1 DVD as well. Apart from the music I also designed and laid out the artwork:
(All beautifully replicated and printed by DB masters of Faversham)
I’m very pleased and proud of the end result.
This particular album is special for me though as it was an idea I’d had as an eight year old after reading the book to interpret it musically. Only took just over 50 years to get round to it 
As this October (2025) is 75 years since the book was published it seemed like the right time to do this properly. It’s been approved for use of character names etc by the C.S Lewis organisation too. Which was very kind of them.
Just need to get people to listen to it now
I’m hopeless at promotion though.
Despite sending emails to various Radio stations, Distributors, Magazines, I’ve had little response. Perhaps I was little rash in getting 500 copies done.. (It’s starting to look like Les’s cassette drawer from League of Gentlemans Creme Brulee)
Up to this point it’s all gone smoothly but my stumbling block is publicity.
Not least due an assortment of Mental and physical health problems (Bipolar, Narcolepsy being the main issues) I’m somewhat of a recluse and don’t really do social media as I’m not very sociable.
To be honest It’s not about fame and fortune for me. Just getting people to listen would be enough.
Despite all this It still seems like a miracle what is possible using a reasonable PC and Cubase though.
It doesn’t seem that long ago that as a teenager I’d be sticking tape over the erse head of a little cassette recorder so I could ‘multitrack’
Wish I’d had all this gear back then!!
Greg Dilworth (AKA Lodger Wright)
