Have fun fuckin’ about with Cubase, dude. It’s hyperfunz!

It depends on what sort of sound you want to make. The best way to start off would be to get a kick drum going. Do you have any samples (i.e. .wav files) of gabba kicks? If so, go into Cubase, right-click on the blueish grey part to the left of the actual sequencer, choose ‘Add Audio Track’, then go to ‘File’>’Import Audio’ and the kick drum waveform should appear on the sequencer… Then it’s a case of arranging them into a 4/4 format, so they are hitting every beat (4 times in 1 bar).

If you want to create sounds yourself, you’ll need to learn synthesis (pretty difficult to get a grip of at first, but SO fun when you learn what parameter does what). You can always use the presets tho. Anyway, if you wanna do this, right click on that blueish grey area again and select ‘Add Instrument Track’. A little box should appear with a drop-down menu, which should list all of the instruments (i.e. synths) that come with Cubase. I’d recommend getting a third party plug-in though; something like Vanguard is good to learn synthesis with.

Hope I haven’t confused you too much, lol. Hope you get your head around it as music production is just the most awesome thing ever.

z3ta+ is a nice synth… Did you follow my instructions and open it? If so, once you’ve opened up z3ta+, go onto the sequencer screen to the right, click on the Draw tool (it’s shaped as a pencil) at the top of the screen, then select the amount you want to write in by holding down and dragging on the sequencer screen directly next instance of z3ta+ (this is called a Track, by the way). Once you’ve done that, there should be a grey or coloured block in which you can double click using the Object Selection tool (shaped as an arrow), at the top of the screen, to the far left of the Draw tool you selected earlier. This will bring up the Key Editor (also known as MIDI Editor) interface in which you can write down what notes you want to play…

The first sound will probably be z3ta+’s default/start up sound. To change it, you’ll want to click out of the Key Editor, then go to the left hand side of the screen (on the far left, past the greyish blue bit I said about earlier) – you’ll know if you’re at the correct bit because the Track information should be there, including the volume and panning. If you look a few columns beneath the volume bit, you should see the inputs and outputs bit – the output should be selected as z3ta+. Beneath that, to the right, there should be something that resembles a gate (to my eyes anyway). Click on that and it will open up the z3ta+ interface, and from there you can look through the presets and find one that takes your interest.

Again, hope I’m understandable – I’m usually shite at giving advice. As for speedcore & jungle tutorials, I’m really not too sure. I’d get to grips with the basics of Cubase first, before attempting to write something specific. YouTube has loads of wicked Cubase tutorials to get you started. Oh and MusicTech have released a Cubase-specific issue of their magazine that is a lot of help for beginners and pros. Cubase Tutorials – Music Tech Magazine

Good luck, dude.

No worries, man. Lemme know if you need anymore advice. 🙂

Ableton

that is all 😀

@Buzz 410220 wrote:

Ableton

that is all 😀

^ this times a billion, best sequencer hands down

@Iacchus 410234 wrote:

^ this times a billion, best sequencer hands down

What would you say are the major diferances to cubase that make it better?