I thought I'd ask this question here as there are so many genres and uses for DAW software that I thought my question would be best understood here, among orchestral midi folks.
I currently use Sonar but am put off by the lack of some midi (or sometimes workflow) capabilities. I wanted to know if Cubase has these abilities that I miss.
1. When you open a tempo view in Cubase, is it opened in a window pane which is in sync with the piano roll view (or whatever window you do main note editing in in Cubase)? In Sonar, the Tempo view is completely independent from the piano roll view and the two are not syncronized, so you can't see the actual notes while you're drawing tempo curves, only measure a beat markings.
2. Say I have a master DAW and a slave computer with VI on the slave. I have a midi track in the DAW and want to record midi data with the audio streaming back from the slave so that I hear the streaming audio with all effects as I play in the line. In order to accomplish this in Sonar I have to have an audio track with it's monitor status set to "record" in order to hear the incoming audio while I record in the midi track. This produces an extra unwanted recording in the audio track which I have to delete later. How does Cubase handle this? Are you able to record a midi track, while monitoring an incoming signal without recording that signal to an audio track at the same time?
These are probably questions for those who have used both Sonar and Cubase. I believe there is no demo of Cubase; it's the only way I can think to find out.
Mahlon
I currently use Sonar but am put off by the lack of some midi (or sometimes workflow) capabilities. I wanted to know if Cubase has these abilities that I miss.
1. When you open a tempo view in Cubase, is it opened in a window pane which is in sync with the piano roll view (or whatever window you do main note editing in in Cubase)? In Sonar, the Tempo view is completely independent from the piano roll view and the two are not syncronized, so you can't see the actual notes while you're drawing tempo curves, only measure a beat markings.
2. Say I have a master DAW and a slave computer with VI on the slave. I have a midi track in the DAW and want to record midi data with the audio streaming back from the slave so that I hear the streaming audio with all effects as I play in the line. In order to accomplish this in Sonar I have to have an audio track with it's monitor status set to "record" in order to hear the incoming audio while I record in the midi track. This produces an extra unwanted recording in the audio track which I have to delete later. How does Cubase handle this? Are you able to record a midi track, while monitoring an incoming signal without recording that signal to an audio track at the same time?
These are probably questions for those who have used both Sonar and Cubase. I believe there is no demo of Cubase; it's the only way I can think to find out.
Mahlon