File Management in CUBASE 9.5 - mixdown.online
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2018
- Today we’re talking about file management. It may be less sexy than talking compression; however, a well organized hard drive yields efficiency and we ALL like that word ;-)
In this video, I talk about some Cubase specific things, like:
How I use the “pool”
How to copy projects to other folder destination without losing audio files
How to clean up some hard drive space
And more…
BUT FEAR NOT, all you non-Cubase users! You can surely implement the same basic premise to your workflow. You can never be too organized! (Or can you?)
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Chris, your videos are more useful than what Cubase itself puts out. . . I've learned so much from you - even when I'm not interested in the subject I walk away with a greater knowledge base. . . Thank you a million times over
That's so cool! You're more than welcome!
I agree
so true!
Wonderfull very clearly explained.....I have had three people try to explain cubase to me mut none so simple and clear as yours! great!
Chris your videos are really ON POINT bro. Every single one of your videos is very professional and informative. Thank you for spreading the knowledge :)
Thank you Chris I've been watching all your videos this had been one of the most important to date for me you my friend are truly a life saver Thank you once again
Big thanks for all your help throughout all your tutorials.they have inspired me so much to persevere with my lifetime of the love of music.I nearly gave up on cubase 10pro,but as I've said you've helped me 👍
Thanks Chris! Very helpful as always. I saved audio for several songs in the same audio folder recently and was hoping I could find a video to help me figure out how to fix that problem. Much appreciated!
Thanks a lot, my friend! Very helpful as always !
Your videos about Cubase are the most essential ones ever.
You're too nice Peter, thanks! :-)
I am not nice, Chris, I appreciate Your work :-)
nice one tutorial! saving all my songs with "back up project" in different folders, made me save lots of GB by erasing old double and no need audio files
Yeah, good Infos!
Addendum: If you have already a big mess with your songs all in one folder, you can use that Backup-Trick to backup every song in its own folder. When you have done that (every song backed up), then you can delete the original messy folder (that way I cleared lots of space because before that I could never find out, which files where of no use, as long everything rested in the same place...)
That's a very good tip! Thanks for sharing my friend! :-)
Good one Master Johnson!
I use "Cleanup..." function
Paja Rocky , Hey thank you, I nearly forgot that function. But I think the second reason I performed that backup action was, that I preferred to hav all my songs in different folders - and the audiofiles in corresponding subfolders...
Me too. But sometimes I have one song in one folder but lot of versions of final mix (lot of cpr files but stil one song) .
Since I´m planing to upgrade from CB 6.5 to the latest 9.5 this is a great tip to clean up all my old projects! Thanks!
You're welcome! Have fun upgrading :-)
What a useful video you uploaded Chris. And again it answered some of my previous issues I had in the past about missing files. Thank you
You're welcome!
Always big and clear Chris!
Thank you, my friend! :-)
Great points, thanks!
Thank you for he video. I am new to Cubase and I find this is not talked about enough and a very underrated part of the process in my opinion. I am Autistic so having organisation from the start suits me to the ground :)
Happy to help my friend :-)
Hi Chris, I offer this in the hope it might help some users. As you know Cubase stores it's files and settings all over the place. This makes it a nightmare for enabling backups of things like your own key settings, macros, etc. If you save a profile or even backup a project you don't get everything. I have been using a program called BeyondSync for years now and I've just put it to very good use in my Cubase setup. BeyondSync lets you specify a set of folders on your computer and automatically back them up to another drive. You can specify the backup to run whenever you wish. Unfortunately it's not free but it's not expensive. If you use this program, once setup you can be sure that, say, monthly all your settings saved by Cubase to, say, C drive /users/yourname/ Steinberg/blah blah are backed up to another drive. and if all else fails you can retrieve them easily. Cheers!
I never heard of BeyondSync. Backing up is so important. On my side I work with BackBlaze for cloud backup and I also have an NAS for auto backup
Is it possible to change the default location of the mixdown fill? love your channel btw
What about the old feature, we used to be cabable of cubase search all the cpr files and delete all the audio that was unused! They put out that feature? Thanks Chris!
Thanks a lot! Very helpful!
Glad it helped!
Most people will only realize how important this is the hard way.
Hi Chris. Great vid with lots of info, here. Totally see the need for good pre-emtive file management. I want to record a big session (Full Drum Kit, Bass + Scratch Vox & Scratch Gtr) for multiple songs, say 6. I have a recording template, and will be re-recording all guitars/vocals and overdubs seperately later, but I want to keep the record template open throughout the session - always be 'ready' to record. So I end up with 1 project, 6 songs and10 tracks per song. This means I end up with lots of audio in the original pool. When it comes to the re-records and the overdubs (which will be done piecemeal) Later I need to create a separate project for each individual song. What would be the best way to do this, or how would you manage this? Thanks for any help
Hi Chris, I love your channel! Something is unclear to me. I have 8 songs which were tracked in one project folder. i then saved each song to new projects, which all refer to the original tracking audio folder. When backing up the individual song projects and choosing 'remove unused audio' will that delete the audio for all the other songs from the original audio folder? I desperately need to recover drive space but I'm terrified I lose everything. Thank you Chris.
Can you export audio from a project directly to the project auto folder? cubase 10 thanks
hello and thanx so much , Chris . Silly question but with time Cubase projects begin to work slowly and even if there're not many lines , there's a "reading" file of plugins , that is somewhere but i can't find it .. i mean is there a way to renew it or delete , so Cubase would read all plugs like they're just installed and the projects would work faster without sound breaks etc..? sorry again , hope i could explain
Hi Chris. Came by this older video, so it's possible you may have covered my question elsewhere, but since I can't find it, here goes. Re: Transfering a project to either a second machine or someone elses machine, does 'project backup' option save all the necessary files required for a flawless transport of a project to the new machine? This is assuming, the new machine has all the requisite plugins installed. I'm thinking all the relevant addtional files, the same folder, plugin presets, peak & image files, etc. Happy Xmas
Great information! Thanks!
You're welcome!
You're welcome!
Great info. FYI, earlier this year a bug crashes Cubase when using Remove Unused Media. Recent updates fix it. Backup Project is best way to consolidate files to a folder for sure.
I didn't notice that bug on my side but happy they fixed it! Thanks Michael!
Thanks good good info..
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Chris, these kind of fundamentals are very important and easily overlooked or not always understood. Would you mind giving advice on how to minimize "unexpected errors" and drop outs on cubase pro 9.5? I use a macbook pro and at least 5 times a day cubase just shuts off and says "an unexpected error occured."
Hey Billy, it will be hard to do a vid on this cause these types of errors are not general errors that all users will get. It mainly has to do with the computer at your end. It can be anything...Maybe contacting Steinberg support would be a good idea.
excellente video de plus ton anglais est vraiment parfait pour nous les français ^^ merci
Oh yeah, bien heureux que le tout est simple à suivre :-)
I´m working with CB over 10 years now. Started with CB 6.0, now I´m on Pro10.5. What I never noticed and therefore always neglected where substantial things you tell here! Now I´m about to remix almost all of my old stuff and look upon a cluttered mess of files all over my hard drive. Is there a way to make CB grab all the used file of Song1 and toss them in the new Audio folder I create when I start the new mixing session of Song1?
helpful - Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Hey, how do I create a Template of one Song and use it on another Song without the old audios in the pool. It happens that I open the saved template and it has all the old audio files in it. It happend that I deleted all in the pool and my origin files of the old song are gone from my hard drive.
file of options, project, audio, midi, media, transport, study, etc ... do not appear to help me please ... why will that be?
Hi Chris good video as usual. (Paid version) Cubase elements 10.5 does not save an audio folder in my projects folder as in your video.... I'm beginning to think there's many bugs in 10.5 Any advice would be very welcome, before I get too involved with this buggy program... My return to Reaper is looking most likely if these seemingly minor bugs cannot be fixed.
Thanks for another helpful video! This video is not your usual format where you give one useful real world tip, rather in this one you almost explain only basic Cubase functions like the pool. Just saying. What about other ways of moving files between projects like track archive?
not the usual format but needed since I've received a bunch of questions via email about this, people losing files and stuff. I will produce anything that can help even if it's basic stuff. I use Track Archives mainly for track presets or VSTi's like I did here ua-cam.com/video/-s1QSh7k7mA/v-deo.html I can do a vid on what you're suggesting though :-)
Just to give you more feedback what I find the most useful in your videos. So in this file management video I find it most interesting when you say how you usually keep order in your projects, not when you explain all kinds of possibilities in Cubase. I learned about the Track Archives from your vid. But you focus there on using them to set up default synths without audio/midi. I have been recently using them to transfer multimic drum takes between different project files.
Great tutorial Chris!
I have a question kind of related to this. I am moving over to a new computer. On the old I had all Cubase- and plug-in files on the C drive. On the new computer I will use the C drive (ssd) for applications and a D drive (hdd) for the project- and audio files. Once I have moved my existing Cubase project files from the old computer into the D drive on the new computer, what is the easiest way to change the location from C to D in the project files?
Or should I do this in any other way?
I am using Cubase 10 Pro.
Thanks!
Best regards,
Petter
Nothing more to do than transfering your project files to the new drive. Then just open a Cubase Project from your new location, Cubase might ask you to confirm the new location but that's pretty much it. The rest will be to install all of the same plugins and VSTi that you had before.
Great! Sounds like a piece of cake then! 👍🏼 Thanks Chris! 👊🏼😎
I know this is an old thread, but I hoping to get someone to answer a technical question for me. First off, does Cubase use a temp folder on the C drive while working a project? The reason for that question is this...At the moment, I have my projects all saved to a folder on my C drive, also where Cubase lives too. I have a 1TB HDD that I want to move all of those projects too, also samples VST's and so on. I need to know, if I move that all over to that drive, will Cubase continue to process everything in a temp folder on the C drive while I'm working on a project, or will it all be processed using the HHD where the files would be at? I don't want to move them over to the HDD that's only a 5500rmp drive and have my processing speed down to a crawl? BTW I'm using Cubase pro 10.5 on Win 10
Thanks Chris, I almost killed myself having used "save as" instead of backup...
Happy that helps :-)
me too...had to move about 50 files when my C drive was filling up! Two Cubase teachers I paid to come and help me did not tell me this simple and clear explaination or solve the problem!!!
Any suggestions on how to back up all cubase projects to a external hard drive....and to clear up this, when I do this if I saved the individual projects in a folder but audio is still in default folder I have to get those files also....yes I wish I seen this video a long time ago lol
Not doing any music during this coronavirus thing until I organize and back up all my old projects
If all your Cubase Projects and Default Audio folders are in the same location, you can just drag and drop them to your new drive, that simple. You can also so use the Backup Project option in Cubase and back up one Cubase Project at a time. (File---Backup Project) That will create a new project with a new audio folder as well. I will show thatto you on this week's Cubase Q&A video :-)
Hi Cris, I always create a project for each song, once the song is finished I delete the files that are left over from the pool as well as your samples in the video (Remove Unused Media), and then I delete everything from the trash, when I open the project again to continue working I always see the same message as your samples at minute 11:47, what can I do to remove that message? Thank you
That means that you have files in the pool that are not linked to any audio files in the AUDIO folder. For example, if you clean you POOL and DELETE TRASH and you forget to save before closing Cubase, the next time you will open your Cubase project the POOL will list these files even if they are deleted and you will get that message... That's an example
Hey Chris Great tutorial can you explain why all of my cubase files is added to my windows media player and to my groove player as songs
Looks like your cpr files are pointing to media player... Right -Click on a Cubase file (.cpr) andgo on Propreties... in "Open with" look for your Cubase version.
@@mixdownonline Thanks for replying back , sorry I didn't tell what version which is cubase 10.0 Pro and my files are set to the default locations which is c/users/ music and I think this is my problem because my media players also use this correct me if I'm wrong and how can I set cubase not to use this location and I also use an external hard drive I save the file in it but it also send the file to the media players appreciate how you explain remedies
how I my cubase is not doing this with all this step
I use Alt+CMD+S to increment the Song In the same Folder, which gives me a fall back should I not want what I have Done after the increment. would it be advisable to use the backup instead of the increment option.
I do the same when working on a project when I don't need to manipulate my original files. Backup Project is useful when you need to clean up your POOL and delete files for some reason and you don't want to take the chance to loose anything. Or simply to backup your project on another location
Thanks Chris for clearing that up, Great Tutorials, for that I truly am Grateful.
Hi, Chris. A few months ago I bought a Cubase Pro 10.5. And I have a problem- in "Media" a funchtion "prepare archive" shows inactive. So, question is- where is the problem, and how I can turn it on? Help me please.
There's no problem. Prepare Archive will be available if you have Audio in your project that is NOT in your Project's Audio Folder. This way, you can copy them over to your Audio folder. So if Prepare Archive is grayed out, that means that all your Audio is in your Project's Audio Folder, so you're good!
steinberg.help/cubase_pro_artist/v9/en/cubase_nuendo/topics/project_handling/project_handling_preparing_archives_t.html
@@mixdownonline Hi, Chris. Thank`s a lot for your answer. Now I understand, how to use this feature. So I have another one Question about using NI Battery Drums in Cubase. I have noticed, that, when I`m trying use an option "copy drum map from instrument", it doesn`t works with BD. And now I want to understand, where is the point- how I must to configure BD or Cubase for copying drum maps from this VST. I`ll be very grateful, if You`ll help me to find an answer to it.
What about that annoying thing that Cubase does, cluttering my root menu up with "VST3 Presets" and "Steinberg" folders? God I hate that. How can I avoid that? I love my pristine roots menu and would like to keep it that way. And I don't even need either of these folders.
hi Chris, i love your great videos, but as a former logic x user I wanna say that cubase has very bad file management system...a lots of time the project is missing samples, theres no way to save the custom samples played with GA or sample track with the project like logic or studio one...when you open the project the tracks maybe will be there but not the samples....i hope its not a big deal for Steinberg to fix this...regards
When you deal with samples to be used in GA or other VSTi, Cubase will not copy those samples in your project until you render them. It will link those samples to their original locations. I never have a problem with this since I have a dedicated drive for all of my samples :-)
Hi. Can you please make a video on how to use VST connect and pro 4 within cubase. There are no videos on the web. You'd be the first. I have tried it with a friend. But can't get this to work. You'd be the first with an in depth video on this Awesome cubase feature. Thanks in advance. Lou.
I would love too but I ever tried it and don't find the need to work with VST Connect yet. If I end up working with it, I would be more than happy to make a vid about it.
Awesome. If you do make a video for VST connect. Please keep me posted. Thanks for the quick reply. Have an amazing day. Lou
hey Chris, I recently did a recording for one of my friends, and it took him quite a few take to get it right. when I go to my media pool I see that a lot of the takes went to the trash bin. my question is, is it safe for me to empty the trash bin and remove the take completely from my computer? thanks in advance and sorry for the long question...Cheers SUB403
It's safe to empty the bin if you're sure that you have what you need in your session... If you're not sure, Backup your session first (File--Backup Project)
@@mixdownonline Thank you Chris!!! happy holidays my friend
Is there absolutely no way to restore media you permanently deleted from the pool? I’ve been working in Cubase for 5 years and I finally made the mistake today, when trying to export a template.
I hit ‘save as’ -> deleted all the region media -> exported as a template. Then I made a new project folder, and created project from template. Opened the pool and saw that media still existed. So, without checking the file path, I quickly removed it and permanently deleted it from the trash. Went back to the old session to work on the other song, and well BOOM all media gone.
I’m currently running disk drill on my D: drive. Yes, my projects aren’t on my C: drive. No, I don’t have drive protection on. Yes, you can tell me how F’d I am.
How to work with Audio samples?
In what situation?
Slt nous attendons tes template en vocal chain je pense que ça fera un malheur
J'ai fait une serie justement sur le mix de voix lead ua-cam.com/video/vEiX0eXE84Q/v-deo.html
I remove unused media and empty the trash after every session so I'm committed to my keeper tracks. No temptation to go back through old takes.
I love people who are not afraid to commit :-)
Brsvo
Warning! Copying a folder does not copy saved project presets !
Presets are something else and are stored elsewhere.