Gb, Cubase And Garritan, working with Cubase, Garritan and Garage Options

[taiqi]

I've been lurking for a while and thought I would bring up some problems I'm having. I have a 400 htz G4 ibook that I'm using with Cubase SX and Garageband with Garritan Strings. I mainly do ambient soundtrack like music, rather long tracks with a mix of live and midi instruments.

The first problem is that everytime I use Garritan with Garageband I can only get one sound. Each new track has to bring up a new Garritan keyboard. Can I assume that this is the midi limitation of Garageband?

I would use Cubase more but I find the effects for midi very limited. I love all the control I have with Garageband effects. Is there a way to get a fuller range of effects for the midi channels in Cubase without resorting to the end mix?

And finally (for now) suddenly it seems that I am not able to control the mix of the midi instruments through Cubase mixer. I've been all over the software looking for a way to control the levels. They show up in the mixer but don't respond.

thanks,
doug

[WhiteHawk]

I don't know if you have worked it out yet, but thought I'd post just in case.

I have Garritan's Personal Orchestra, if the Strings package works the same you should be able to have as many insruments going as your system will allow, though how you manage GarageBand and Garritan Strings together on a 400Mhz system is beyond me as even on a G5 1.6Ghz system it's really taxing.

Anyway, what I've done is made a new folder in: Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Track Settings/Software/

Called in Personal Orchestra in my case, then in GB that will show up in the left section, then I open up the Personal Orchestra instrument or keyboard as you call it and load an instrument in and set it as I like, I tend to have to put the volume up on it so I do that on the GPO keyboard and close that window, then making sure the Personal Orchestra option in the left window of GB instrument selector (or whatever it's called) I then press Save Instrument button at the bottom, that will save a preset so I don't have to go into the GPO keyboard ever again just to pick that instrument to use in a piece of music, if you do the for every instrument included in Garritan Strings you will be set.

Also, you then can easliy put multiple instruments from Garritan Strings in seperate tracks in GB.