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why ditch your hi fi.........its always useful to listen to your finished mixes on
most studios have multiple sets of speakers anyway

but it is nice to know what you're hearing is what it is (on flat monitors )

but....... if you want to have a few beers and chill out .. turn the bass up etc on your studio
monitors ( via external EQ )..but dont forget always return them to flat response for recording
and mixing

what you need for a recording setup is flat response studio monitors
so you get a true representation of the full audio spectrum in your mixes

ie if your speakers are bass light then all your mixes will be bass heavy
on a flat system because you will be adding bottom end to compensate for your
speakers non linear response

there are loads of budget price nearfield monitors available that can do the job
and there are some great bargains to be had

but if you've got any spare cash after xmas try these
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WESTLAKE-AUDI … 2137wt_700

just remember.....when you count a song in...... 1..2..3..4       thats the tempo ( the speed at which
you say 1..2..3..4 )  if the bpm is 60 then    theres 1 sec between each count

that would be 16/16 =308bpm  if you change it to crotchets it becomes 77bpm....there are still
16 hihats but the time sig would be 4/4....4 crotchets in every bar

so if you set the tempo to 308 ( but each beat being a semi quav ) you would have 308 semi quav bpm
but still only 77 crotchet bpm....so the speed would still be the same but 4 times the resolution??

so the actual named tempo depends on the time sig..if its 16/16 it would be 308bpm
                                                                                     if its  4/4          "           77bpm

for an identical piece of music the ' speed ' would be the same

the 'n ' is just any number of  measures per bar   ie 2/4  3/4  4/4  n/4  etc

like a waltz is 123..123  123

if there are 16 hihat hits  that means there are 4 to every beat in the bar ( 1/4 )
if there was 20 then it would be 5 for every 1/4 bar...the tempo will still be 77bpm
( assuming the time signature is 4/4 )...i would google this... i bet there is a much better
way of explaining it than i am doing

77bpm precisely    btw nice sounding drum kit is it ez?

set cubase to a fixed tempo of 77 then align the first bass drum hit to start at the first beat of the bar
say 5:1:1:0 then from then on everythig can be cut and paste ( if necessary ) with no timing issues

cubase will only remember ( record/save ) controllers etc ie note on/off..velocities.midi channels..
it does not know how you setup your digital piano

if you use native instruments ( vsti )this problem does not occur as everything is within the
computer

assuming you recorded 3 midi tracks
ch1 for piano
ch2 for choir
ch3 for drums

then you must setup your piano so midi channel 1 has the piano assigned to it
                                                         midi channel 2 has the choir assigned to it
                                                and   midi channel 3 has drums assigned to it

you can usually save and send patch changes to your keyboard....but all keyboards are slightly different
so check your documentation.it seems you're sending all your midi to 1 channel which has a piano
assigned to it.........or midi ch 1/2/3 have a piano assigned to them

a good rule of thumb is when you like a particular part you've written on midi.. say a piano part
record the audioonto an audio track in cubase ...this way you will always have that sound
regardless of what happens to your keyboard...still keep the midi though in case you want to edit it at
a later date ( notes/sound etc )

a good starting point is... after deciding a tempo record a basic drum track..so you dont have to use
the onboard metronome ( except for count in )

render it to audio ( you only have to record say 4 bars ) then copy and paste the length of the song

if you know the chords of a song does it matter what key its in ..... and if i wrote a song
with 3 chords say A D and E who says its in A if im the author why cant i say its in the key of D
...its my song so thats the key ...if you want to do it in C then the chords are G C and D and it wont make the slightest  bit of difference...or will it ????????????

it seems the only significance to what key it is.. is when its written to sheet music
so the musician can play the correct notes ( looking at the stave and knowing which are sharps and flats

and in our world i think sheet music is bottom of the list

a rule of thumb is ..the first chord of the verse is the " key " its in ( 99% )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(music)

imo melodyne is much better than autotune ( ive used both )...and you can get robotic effects with it
cubase 6 has got something similar to melodyne but i am well happy with sx3  and the melodyne
plug in

this can be a case of extreme pitch correction...most of the good pitching programs will do this
just take the vibrato out of the voice and quantise it to perfect notes...so if you look at the waveform on say melodyne...its dead flat...whether this is done on autotune its anybodies guess ..there is probably
loads of other processing as well ( chorus/adt etc )

didnt know geremy could sing...i just thought he was a self righteous condescending patronising
busy body ...making vulnerable people look idiots for his own ends