Cubase Pro 12 Recording And Mixing

Record and remix professional results with ease.

What you'll learn

You will learn the most important controls and features of Cubase 12 to record and remix your own songs.

Students will learn how to use Cubase 12 by going through the process of recording and mixing different types of song.

Students get the opportunity to see how to record and edit vocals to a professional standard including timing, pitch correction and comping different takes.

The most important of Cubase 12's mixing plugins are covered.

Virtual Insruments such as Groove Agent SE5, Padshop, and Halion SE are analysed as well as important third party ones.

Students will learn how to master and export a single song and full album.

Pitch correction and adapting options are looked at to get professional and modern sounds.

Students will see how to use Variaudio and Audiowarp to correct timing and pitch issues.

Insert, send and Aux buss channels are looked at to create the ‘glue’ of a mix.

Requirements

A copy of Cubase 12 is required to follow along.

Description

In this course - aimed at singer songwriters working in their home studio with a DAW such as Cubase 12 - students will learn the most important controls and features of Cubase 12 to be able to record professional sounding songs.The course is designed for users already familiar with Cubase (or similar DAW) but would like some easy instruction on methods I use when recording and mixing singer songwriters.As the course progresses, different projects are used to illustrate various techniques.Rather than create a simple step by step guide of creating a song from scratch, this course takes a different approach.This course looks at many techniques that can help a singer songwriter record and mix new audio whilst incorporating existing audio too.Students will learn how to use Cubase 12 by going through the process of recording and mixing different types of song.Students will learn how to record and edit instruments such as piano, pads, drums, guitar and bass.Students get the opportunity to see how to record and edit vocals to a professional standard including timing, pitch correction and comping different takes.The most important parts of mixing - EQ, compression, reverb and other ‘sweetening’ effects are covered in detail.The most important of Cubase 12's mixing plugins are covered.Virtual Insruments such as Groove Agent SE5, Padshop, and Halion SE are analysed as well as important third party ones.Students will learn how to master and export a single song and full album.Pitch correction and adapting options are looked at to get professional and modern sounds.For example, students will see how to use Variaudio and Audiowarp to correct timing and pitch issues.Insert, send and Aux buss channels are looked at to create the ‘glue’ of a mix.

Overview

Section 1: WELCOME

Lecture 1 Welcome

Section 2: PRINCIPLES

Lecture 2 Introduction

Lecture 3 Using the Hub

Lecture 4 Resolving Latency Issues

Lecture 5 Audio System Options

Lecture 6 ASIO Guard

Lecture 7 Inputs and Outputs

Lecture 8 Recording Vocals

Lecture 9 Setting Audio Properties

Lecture 10 Download Assistant

Lecture 11 Touring The UI

Lecture 12 Using a VSTi

Lecture 13 Track and Rack pt 1

Lecture 14 Track and Rack pt 2

Lecture 15 Unloading VSTi

Lecture 16 Metronome

Lecture 17 Using Loops

Lecture 18 Tempo Maps

Lecture 19 Adding Midi To A Fluctuating Tempo

Lecture 20 Changing Patches and Programs

Lecture 21 Inspector Principles

Section 3: PROJECT

Lecture 22 Midi to Audio

Lecture 23 Normalising Audio

Lecture 24 Folders and Groups

Lecture 25 Multiple Mic Recording

Lecture 26 Vocal Prep

Lecture 27 Cleaning Audio

Lecture 28 Assessing Instrument Sounds

Lecture 29 Colour Coding Tracks

Lecture 30 Detecting Silence

Lecture 31 Fading Events

Section 4: PRESENTATION

Lecture 32 Substituting Drums

Lecture 33 Drum Editing and Mapping

Lecture 34 Render In Place

Lecture 35 Track Controls Visibilty

Lecture 36 Chord Tracks

Lecture 37 Audio Loops Example

Lecture 38 Audio Loops

Lecture 39 Loop Browser

Lecture 40 Cosmos Sound Browser

Lecture 41 Audio To Midi

Lecture 42 Audio To Midi Drums

Lecture 43 Using Hit Points

Lecture 44 Quantizing

Lecture 45 Creating Quantization Grooves

Lecture 46 Sample Track

Lecture 47 Combining Drums

Lecture 48 Blending Percussion

Lecture 49 Drum VSTi

Lecture 50 Adding Drum Rolls

Lecture 51 Using EZBass

Lecture 52 Blending and Fading Events

Lecture 53 Hi Hat Swing

Lecture 54 Timing Offset

Lecture 55 Manually Moving Events

Section 5: PROCESSING

Lecture 56 Introducing Variaudio

Lecture 57 Variaudio Preferences

Lecture 58 Variaudio In Action

Lecture 59 Variaudio Time Manipulation

Lecture 60 Audio Warp

Lecture 61 Inspector Options

Lecture 62 Channel Strip

Lecture 63 Equalisers

Lecture 64 Frequency Overlaps

Lecture 65 Frequency 2 Introduction

Lecture 66 Side Chaining

Lecture 67 Gain Staging

Lecture 68 Single Band Compression

Lecture 69 Multiband Compression

Lecture 70 Manual Volume Changes

Lecture 71 Audio Expansion

Section 6: PRODUCING

Lecture 72 Presets

Lecture 73 Multiple Insert Effects

Lecture 74 Send Effects

Lecture 75 Kit Effects

Lecture 76 Group Tracks

Lecture 77 Reverb Ducking

Lecture 78 LoFi Beats

Lecture 79 Adding Chords

Lecture 80 Multiple Triggered VSTi

Lecture 81 Adding Impetus

Lecture 82 Fading Drenched Effects

Lecture 83 Vocal Samples

Lecture 84 Mixing It Up

Singer songwriters and producers looking to record and mix to a pro standard.