Tag Archive: DAW
It’s been a long time coming but I can finally let the cat out of the bag (or should that be the tracks out of my computer?) – my debut album “The Boy That Did Not Exist” has made it through the mix stage and is now ready for mastering. Although having started recording in 1999 (yup – a whole twenty years ago) it wasn’t until last year that I really started to make a concerted effort to tie up all the loose ends. I then spent considerable time re-recording all vocals, bouncing tracks to tape and back into my …
Even before you open up Cubase, there are a few settings you can tweak in the Windows operating system itself. Firstly, you need to navigate to the ‘Advanced’ tab of the ‘System Properties’ dialog box. To do this: Right-click the ‘My Computer’ icon on the desktop Select ‘Properties’ Select the ‘Advanced’ tab Right-click the ‘Computer’ icon on the desktop Select ‘Properties’ Select ‘Advanced System Settings’ from the left-hand pane From here you need to click the ‘Settings…’ button in the ’Performance’ section. Now if you really want to squeeze every last bit of juice from your CPU and GPU you …
If you’re serious about your music making, you might want to invest some time thinking about your Windows installation, to really get the most out of your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). The following methodology can be applied to the installation of any music software package for the Windows platform and not just Cubase. Having performed many installations of Cubase and Nuendo over the years, I have learnt that generally the computers I install on fall into the following three categories: General use PC – Your average PC used for everything from playing games to word processing to surfing the internet. …