Cubase should not be crashing-hopefully your new system will have at least 12 gigabytes of memory and two hard drives. If possible get a third solid state hard drive to load all of your programs onto. Sometimes deleting a midi channel that has gotten messed up is the only way to go rather than attempting to figure out what went wrong. I try to take notes on changes I make to a basic setup but don't always do that. It would be helpful.

Also, I am on a kick right now about using All Of The Training Videos for the software VSL makes available. Can't say enough about how many headaches I could have avoided if I had but gone through those first. Those will also help in finding ways to make your midi transcriptions come alive in ways you never thought possible. There is a lot of homework to using those ideas found there but well worth it in the long run. 

Cubase's manual is only good if you have already a well framed question to answer-otherwise trying to use it as a tutorial-Will Not Work. However, on Youtube, Steinberg does make available about a hundred training/tutorial style videos which are very helpful. Search for Cubase and Videos on Google.com and they will come up.

Have fun composing!

Be sure you go through all of the training videos for the Vienna Symphonic Library. Your questions are best answered by those tools-and they and other questions you might have will be answered there.

I am only able to express my thanks in this limited capacity but I wish I could really express how grateful I am to the folks at Vienna Symphonic Library and especially Paul Steinbauer. His clear and detailed teachings have helped me dig into the Libraries and find a great many tools for musical expression. I had no idea my libraries contained such a wealth of informaion and musical tools for composition and aritistic manifestations. These tools help me gain new insights for creativity and are a continued source of happiness and joy. Thanks Again!

Great work! I really think you have accomplished a lot. The attention to detail makes your arrangement stand out from the crowd. Just curious, how much time do you think you spent overall working on this?

Ray

Hello Frieda;

I greatly enjoyed your compositions-inspiring me to seriously start some work. Keep it up!

Hello everyone;

I've always been curious to know if there are any movie soundtracks out there-in the English speaking culture-where the actual soundtrack is VSL sample based. I sometimes wonder, when watching credits float down the screen, if what I'm reading implies virtual orchestra. The clue seems to be phrases like-"sound by"-"orchestration produced by"-but no actual group is listed. If anyone has an example of a film that is available I'd really like to hear about it.

I have searched for metaframes on my computer hardrive but can't find any. All I have is the recent metaframes in the drop down box under 'open recent metaframes.' Even some of those are impossible to locate outside of the VE Pro 5 interface. 

any suggestions?

Ok, Thanks; I'll pay closer attention to the location the next time it happens. Everything is good today. 

Ray

I am experiencing crashes several times a week since the latest upgrade to 5.2.12794. The error message stated that a crash report should be sent. I would do that but where is the crash report on my desktop?

I thought I saw a posting about making a backup of the Vienna Instruments Key-as in a copy-

Can't find the post.

just wondering if making a backup  is possible and how would I go about doing that?

Thanks

Ray Phenicie

Akai has a wind controller-I have not used it.

Here's the link

https://www.akaipro.com/ewiusb

Just discovered the legato features and would like to heap praises and wish  much happiness in this life and the next for all the Vienna Library staff

Thanks for this wonderful feature and especially to Herb and Paul for the wonderful video on polyphonic legato-way cool indeed!

Here's what prompted my journey- Rachmaninoff Symphony no.2 op.27 [HD] - YouTube

I'll be busy making my Library patches sound like that!

In addition I found it helps to tweek the attack slider in the performance tab-11 gives a nudge to the legato settings suggested in the video. Also nudged the release up to around 72, very smooth transitions, just like the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest olv. Eivind Gullberg Jensen

Kind regards to all again

Ray Phenicie

That is indeed the most important question about modern culture; as we move forward much, too much is lost that really does not need to be. However, a large key player in the formulation of what modern culture will be is the education system in conjunction with the media and as of today, the two are talking past each other. Media pouring off TV tubes, other video outlets and printed press often pour a syrupy schlock over all and fail to teach. Schools struggle with programs entitled 'leave all children behind except those of the very wealthy' and we move on.  We on this thread love the music and art that is the root and stem of who we are, but yet even in the concert halls and on the recorded media, producers look to what will sell so we get endless performances of Sibelius sym 2  but what about #3? #6?

I, for one am protesting the Detroit Symphony doing #2 yet again this year after just scheduling it 18 months ago.  The purveyors of culture are to blame for much of the decay in culture by catering and bowing to the sphinx like flame of sales, they, in doing so, then kill of the culture they purport to support. If we could just tell producers we will vomit en masse on their front door  if another release of Beethoven's Symphony 5  is even thought of then perhaps those so called  guardians of taste will get the idea and exhibit a bit of creativity in scheduling concerts and releasing recordings.

Good point and I see that as very important. I think we can all agree, those of us who are whooping crazy passionate about classical music (the period that ran roughly from the time of  Palestrina to Tschaikovsky-or thereabouts) that our first moment of falling in love with the stuff was because of the 'mood' it set, the images evoked and of course the passions and feeling of joy, or sorrow or hatred or fear that were heightened by the experience of music. I still remember the sheer terror of hearing long wandering passages of Shostakovitch's 10th for the first time and being almost afraid to listen to it a second time because of the extreme and utter lonliness that the music evoked. I doubt many movie goers have that feeling evoked in them, instead the  music is rejected out of hand as bad or irrelevant and so move on. But put an exciting  movie to it (as the producer of Gone With the Wind did for Sibelius -his 6th I believe? -) and suddenly all is wonderful, bright and beautiful, stirring and evokes great wonder in the viewer.

In fact, I just found an article that makes this very point, that the early symphonic development led to a narrative style that was to be heavily imitated in the world of movie production.

The Boy on the Train, orBad Symphonies and Good Movies; The Revealing Error of the “Symphonic Score”

Looks like an interesting read so I'll be back. But I like the point that the visual arts are fed by the arts of story telling and literature.

Ah! to million$ available and actors to match and a 100 piece orchestra!

O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention;

A kingdom for a stage, princes to act and monarchs to behold the swelling scene.

Then should the war-like Harry, like himself, assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,

Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire crouch for employment.

Henry V - Derek Jacobi - Prologue