Cubase 12 Elements on a MacBook Pro: I can’t seem to get my live drums to LOOK like legit sound files. I’m using 3 mics, they sound fine (great with reverb), but the files are all just look like dark bars. The only time there’s dead silence is when I’m not playing. If I hit any drum, the meters on the wave file (wave as in wavey lines, not WAV file) just max out. I’m using an Arturia audio fuse 8 pre, and I’m months deep into this, and I can’t accomplish the simplest things. For starters, I need to get the results to look like they sound. Sounds great, but there are no wave lines in the channel windows. Everything is full blown black. Is this a setting issue? Do I need to turn down something? And why am I dealing with at least 8 different sets of mic pre amps on each of the 3 channels? It goes into the 8pre, I have to set those so they do go into the red. Then there’s the app that goes with the 8pre that shows the same 8 channels again. But the dials don’t affect the app mixer. The app pre amps there are separate from the ones on the face of the 8pre. Then there’s the many mixers in Cubase. No matter how hard I try, i just can’t figure out which one is the mics going in, where are they going in from, and why is there yet a SECOND mixer in Cubase. Then, if I click on “mix console” view, there’s 3 more sets of mixers. That’s like 8 sets of mixers on each channel and I’m only using 3 mics! That’s 24 sets of preamps to get levels on 3 mics: 3 mic going into 3 channels, then 8 different sets of preamps for each. 8 Mixers… end result is I can get everything to sound passable, but the Cubase on the screen looks like a total horror show of 190dB’s of white noise. If this was an 8 track on 1” tape running at 30 ips, I would throw away 7 mixers and just use one. Please. Someone. Anyone. Help. Please.
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The 3 or 4 different MixConsole inside Cubase are there in case you want to have different views on your channels. But they all do the same thing, so you can just ignore all but one of the MixConsoles in Cubase.
As for the view: Cubase has a zoom slider to vertically zoom the view of waveforms. Most liekly this is set to a high value on your system. Turn it down all the way.
Regarding the “preamps”, you’re only ever going through 1 preamp and that is your Arturia hardware with the physical gain knob. The rest are simply various mixing software that may or may not affect the audio based on your use of the hardware.
The control centre app that goes with the hardware is a digital mixer that allows you to control various mixes for the physical outputs at the back of your 8pre. They should have no effect on the incoming signal to Cubase, depending how you set things up.
The mix console in Cubase will have 2 faders potentially assigned to your hardware. The actual input channel: this will have an effect on your recorded audio. Fader level and inserts are “printed” into the recorded wav file. If you have reverb in the insert of an input channel, not only will your wav file contain the source audio from the mic, but it will also record the reverb.
The second fader assigned to an input in Cubase will be the channel that you record to and on which you set the input routing to the desired input channel (previous fader I mentioned). This fader and inserts is POST recording so anything on this channel will have NO effect on the recorded wav file but will be rendered on top of the wav file upon playback.
Thank you times 100x!!! That was it exactly!!! 