importing audio

theron3 wrote on 8/12/2001, 7:59 PM
I've a song(audio tracks unmixed) that I recorded using Cubase 5.0. For reasons not concerning this forum, I can't use Cubase anymore. I'd like to grab all the audio tracks from Cubase and do the rest of the work on the song in Vegas. I need to add an audio track and then mix and then master. How would I go about shifting the audio files over to Vegas?
Any help would be most usefull.

Theron.

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Cheesehole wrote on 8/13/2001, 2:27 AM
Not knowing anything about Cubase, the normal thing to do is render each track individually from Cubase to a WAV file. The tricky thing is making sure Cubase doesn't 'do anything' to the recorded audio. You'll probably want to set your levels to 0db on each of your tracks in Cubase. And solo each of your audio tracks as you export them. In Cakewalk I believe the command is 'Export Audio' so it might be something similar to that.

Alternatively you could find the directory where Cubase stores your recorded audio and see if it's in WAV format. You could just use the files as they are in Vegas.

Maybe Cubase has a feature to do this automatically.

The basic idea is to get each of your tracks into WAV format (At whatever resolution you recorded them at) and then drag each track into Vegas.

Synching them could be a pain, but I don't know of another way.
PipelineAudio wrote on 8/13/2001, 3:33 AM
Turn off ALL FX, processes, and the like. Zero EVERYTHING! Zero all faders, pans, master faders, mute all audio.
Now select-create a region from just after the end of the song to the absolute positive, very beginning of the time line so that you cannot possibly go any further left. Now one at a time unmute a track and use the export audio command.

These files will now all start at the same time, and you will have no trouble loading em into vegas by pushing them all the way to the left.
theron3 wrote on 8/14/2001, 10:37 PM
Forgive my ignorance. I would take these steps outlined by Pipeline and implement them inside of Cubase, right?
Soo far to go
Theron
PipelineAudio wrote on 8/14/2001, 10:54 PM
yes you'd do them inside of cubase. My friend is bringing over a Borg manual, so if you havent got it by then Ill know the exact phrases. The idea here is to force cubase to render all of the beginnings from the same point in time, that way it will be no problem to line up all the files in vegas. Alternately you could add one more track that has ONE beep in it or some such, and render that track along with each individual track then line up the beeps, but then you would be introducing the problem Ive been worried about concerning what adding to files together does to the sound.
theron3 wrote on 9/4/2001, 12:15 PM
O.K. so I'm lazy and distracted. I just got around to trying to export the wave files from cubase to vegas. I did as instructed. I zerod out all faders, masterfaders and had no effects on any of the tracks. I muted all the tracks. I set the left indicator at the beggining of the song and the right indicator at the very end (thus creating the region). Then I unmuted one track at a time and exported it to a folder. When I went into Vegas and tried opening the files from the folder, Vegas went through the motions of building peaks but, there was no audio at all. I tried right clicking on onw of these exported wave files and selected play. Windows media player began to play it back and again, no audio.
what did I do wrong?
fosko wrote on 9/4/2001, 8:47 PM
Does this method recreate the wav file (will ittake up much more space on my hard drive). .or is it just a pointer ??