Which professional or famous electronic artists use Cubase?

Question

I'm trying to learn how to use Cubase to create electronic music. I'm having a very difficult time learning how to use the program. Can Cubase make stuff like Owl City, or is some other program better for this?

Answer 1

Most of the pros use Pro Tools. Not Cubase to record with. If you are attempting to create music in Cubase and not record into it, that is likely your problem. To create electronic music, you need a sampler and sequencer, not recording software. Pro Tools and Cubase are digital audio workstations (DAW). Their primary purpose is to record, edit, enhance, and master music. But, a sampler/sequencer like the Roland SP-555 can actually create sounds and record or sample sounds and then sequence them together to make music. A Roland Keyboard synthesizer like the Roland Juno-G can also do that. If you already have recorded sounds that you can import into Cubase, then you can use it as a sampling and sequencing workstation as well. Cubase may have plug-ins that provide drum tracks and other percussion sounds you can use to import into tracks in Cubase that you can then sequence but, you need the sounds to come from recording an instrument or device or synthesizer or importing prerecorded sound tracks.



Your Cubase user manual is the best place to go to figure out how to do what you want to do. Cubase user support is another place if you can figure out the manual.



You might also want to check out some of the samplers/sequencers ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HTQ6Nm6Z9c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSI0bS0KhTY



You might also want to see the equipment that Dub FX uses.

http://media2.roland.com/en/v/v0774/v077403M.mov

Answer 2

What a silly answer. I m going to assume this mostly came from the fact that it was posted in 2010...but even then it s still a silly answer.



Almost ALL DAWs today use some sort of pluggable format for being able to load in software instruments, like samplers, sequencers, synthesizers, etc... As far as I m concerned, the only major complain about using a DAW like Cubase over something like Ableton Live for this type of work is simply that Cubase offers many more features and can make workflows more complex. While I don t downplay other s opinions in wanting to choose a piece of software which is simple and allows them to compose very easily, once the keyboard shortcuts in Cubase are learned, workflows can become equally as simple.



Pretty much everything today has moved to software because it s 1) portable, and 2) doesn t suffer the volatility of many small electronic components and their susceptibility to failure. I m not saying we don t end up buying expensive outboard gear anyways to control the software but it s much easier to replace a $400 midi controller when a board fails than $4000 workstation.



However you decide to make music is up to you... the problem is the companies want to push their products and the composers want to be paid to endorse them... so the corporate side will always make you think you "need" something in order to write music.... all you need is talent and drive, my friend :-)

Answer 3

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