I want to start using cubase, any recommendations for tutorials?

Fishguy

Hi
I'm trying to use the bundled cubase with my little Yamaha thr amp (cubase le elements 9). There's loads of information out there. Just wondering if anyone found any particular videos or articles  useful? 

PeterOne

Sound On Sound have "Technique" articles about the main DAWs every month, usually they have useful info:

https://www.soundonsound.com/search/articles/cubase?f[0]=im_field_section:6971

Fishguy

PeterOne said:

Sound On Sound have "Technique" articles about the main DAWs every month, usually they have useful info:

https://www.soundonsound.com/search/articles/cubase?f[0]=im_field_section:6971

Thank you, that should keep me busy for a while

wave100

There's loads of stuff on youtube - if you really want to get into the details, Club Cubase does some 2 - 3 hour livestreams where people just ask the presenter how to do stuff and he tells them.

As a long term cubase user, my best advice is to get into the keyboard shortcuts as soon as possible, assuming you have a full sized (computer) keyboard with a numberpad. I use them so much I had to get a bloody 65 quid apple keyboard just so I could have  CMD + numberpad number to set the locaters on my macbook pro. CTRL key on a pc so any cheapy keyboard will do.

My favourite shortcuts :-
space bar                 play/stop
keypad *                   record
keypad 1                   go to left locator
keypad 2                   go to right locator
keypad /                    loop on/off
p                                move locators to currently selected part
q                                quantise
arrow keys to move selection
CMD d                       duplicate part
CMD  k                       repeat part x times

as well as the usual CMD c, CMD v, CMD s, CMD z etc

It really speeds up your workflow.

Fretwired

Steinberg has a tutorial channel on YouTube. Elements LE is a cut down version of Elements but these training courses should help. Just look for Elements.

Fishguy

Thanks for the replies, hopefully will get some time to get stuck into it over the weekend. The keyboard shortcuts are really useful I had been using the * record shortcut, much easier than trying to quickly  click the icon with the mouse with a guitar in your lap.