emusonacid!

Has anybody got any suggestions on the best way to bounce my layered loops from the emu into cubase? I am a bit confused as I have been told the best way to mix down is to put the kicks and snares on individual channels to enable good eq. This means that with four loops I would have 8 channels of audio just for the kick and snare! I have done it before where I recorded the whole output of my layered loops and then put that 1 loop into recycle to seperate the layered kicks/snares/hits. The problem with this is I then lose the ability to get in on the individual loops as they have been recorded together. It seems like a never ending task to have to record 4 loops and seperate the kicks/snares/hits individually but is it the only way? If anyone can help I would really appreciate it thanks Dommy Flexblade.

hiya tom,
ya got 2 ways i would do it but both ways u'll need an audio editor.
soundforge is pretty good or cool edit if u do.
i bounce mine via scsi and and adaptec scsi card it'll shuttle in seconds.

or the longer way is to sample the audio directly from main outs 1+2 and sample it using ur audio editor.both of these u'll need cables.

option 1:adaptec scsi card 4 pci slot & scsi cable
(get right scsi portsizes tho!).

option 2 :2malestereo1/4" jack to single small jack lead depends on ur soundcard !!!!!!!!!!!

but get a pukka sound card like m-audio and do the do!!!!!
as 4 eqing getting how u want it then bounce it and use only 1 or 2 channels after there is no point in wasting channels if uve got it just right.
or bounce 4 eq'd variations but back in the day it was 1 channel 1 break!!!.
hope this helps good luck and if ur baffled ring digital village or turnkey.

In my day we would while away the winter nights by separating the break over the desk, EQing it, putting it through many an aux send, and inserting a compressor over the main mix. Since Thatcher closed the pits we couldn't afford DATs and the like, so we used to record the desk output onto analogue tape.

By having a excessively high recording level ("in the red") you can get some meaty tape saturation (a la Lee 'Scratch' Perry).
It's important to monitor from the tape headphone out, to hear what the tape saturation is doing, the bass booms so hard it makes the high frequencies 'duck', for hours of grimy breakbeat fun.

Once you resample back to the e-mu, use a high quality, phase linear LPF to get rid of the 'eggs frying in the background' and the aphex aural exiter module will give you back some HF harmonics if it sounds too lo-fi.

All in all, using analogue tape to resample breaks is a grimy business, but you can get some gritty, one might even say filthy, results that you wouldn't get by any other means.
So dust off your old technics tape deck, and your friends ears will bleed as they witness your searing breakbeat fury.