PatrickJ

Isn't Sean Hurley John Mayer's bassist (when it's not Pino?)?

Thanks for this, it covered exactly what I wanted to know (how to have midi and wav tracks) follow the chord track

I'll have to give them a watch. Can either of you recall if he's covered chord tracks in detail?

I think their arrangements are great. I don't really like their mashup stuff as that's not my thing but I really like their takes on covers, the Pomplamoose Daft Punk covers are particularly good for the most part

I was about to dispute the average cover band comment claiming at least they've never done Sex on Fire, then I discovered they have.

Do you mean the number of instruments bundled with the software? Elements has Grove Agent, Halion SE and Prologue. What do Artist and Pro come with that's extra?

More simplistically re: tempo and time signatures. In Elements these tracks can only be viewed by opening a separate Window. In Artist you can have these running as separate tracks in your main project window like you would with a Chord Track. It's a convenience improvement but since we do play with time signatures quite a lot it's a useful feature - the tempo track window always feels a bit cumbersome to use.

Yeah, that could be why I don't see them, same why I don't see my old 9 and 9.5 Elements licences.

OK, so Andertons have the Artist upgrade from AI for £120. That's cheaper. In my Steinberg account I have the download option for Cubase AI 8, can I use that? I don't seem to have a License for it I don't seem to have a License for it though.

Sounds like we should set up a Cubase tips and tricks thread (since I'm now committed to staying with it) to share some of this wonderful knowledge you hold :). One thing I'd really like to get better at is mixing VST drums. I have EZ Drummer 2 and watched the YT video that shows you how to run each of the drums in a separate channels which is cool but I didn't really know what to do with it other than to have finite control over the mix levels of each part of the kit.

As a Cubase user it confused me too - I saw that and always assumed max 3 VST instruments, but since I only ever apply them at track level it seems that may not be a limitation after all. Perhaps I don't need the Artist upgrade after all.

I thought AI sat below Elements in the Cubase food chain - certainly how it appears on their comparison chat :https://new.steinberg.net/cubase/compare-editions/ Interesting that it offers a cheaper upgrade option.

I currently have 10.5 elements. - To move to 11 Elements is £25 - To move to 11 Artist is £190 - to move to 11 Pro is £405 (about the price as a year's subscription to ProTools) My main reasons for considering artist is better handling of the Tempo and Signature tracks, advanced metronome features and for additional VST instrument support like @Dad3353 calls out, although my laptop my start becoming a limitation at the point too. The only feature in Pro that's interesting is the Advanced score editor. I've not checked if they updated it in 10 but in 9 I find out a bit too limited to transcribe bass parts.

Cubase doesn't lack anything per se, or at least nothing that an upgrade to Artist Edition wouldn't solve. But it's a £190 for me to do that so I thought I'd look at alternative options - since I've only ever used Cubase and technology has moved on I was wondering if there was something more innovative available. Maybe Alberton falls into that category - although I've not tried Reaper I've watched a number of videos and it feels like a step backwards, Studio One is cut very much from the same cloth as Cubase, Pro Tools is prohibitively expensive so for me it seems like sticking with Cubase is probably the right decision.

Just Audio. I have Premeire Elements for Video.

'm always disappointed when it's not Nick Campbell in a Scary Pockets or Pomplamoose video, but for Mono Neon I'll make an exception - loved his playing here .

I had a guitar delivered from Bax in Jan, came via UPS so maybe they've learnt and changed their courier choice now. I have to admit I look quite closely at which companies use which couriers and avoid anyone using Hermes. To be honest though I've had problems with them all at one point or another though DPD and UPS do seem to be better than the others on the whole.

The only DAW I've ever really used is Cubase, the free version got bundled with some hardware and I've stuck with it ever since. At some point I got elements and since then paying just £20 to upgrade to the latest version has kept me going with it. Since lock down I've been recording more, not just my own projects but also some bits and pieces for friends and family and I wondering whether to stick with Cubase and possibly upgrade to 11 and Artist edition or look to move to something else. I did play with Pro Tools first for a little while and I found it very intuitive but the limitations of First were so frustrating I gave up after a week or so. I would happily pay for the software but the monthly subscription for Pro-Tools seems excessively high. What other options are there? I see Reaper mentioned a lot on this forum and Ableton pops up in the best DAWs articles on the web. Any recommendations from the BC community? My laptop is a Windows based machine and I have little interest in moving to Mac OS or running Ubuntu. Thanks

I use Cubase Elements 10.5 on a Windows laptop. It's an HP Envy running an AMD Ryzen 5 CPU (4000 series) with 8GB RAM and a SSD. I do use a number of plugins, compressors, EQ, channel strips, VST instruments and have not had any problems. My only slight annoyance is that sometimes on audio play back of a back tracking can cut out right at the start, for about 1 second. It's intermittent and no idea why it does this as if I restart the playback it's generally fine.