And all I wanted was my free demo!

I just wasted a good part of my day at the Steinberg site trying to register my Free version of Cubase that came packed with the Tascam. I should really blame tascam for being cruel enough to do this to me! Putting that disk in there is almost as bad as leaving a turd!
Have you ever tried Steinbergs web site? Holy cow, you have to wade through 7 levels of security before you even get to the forum.
I just wanted to ask a friggin' simple question.
Any how in the end I had to waste all day re-registering my software.
I tried it last year and because it's the LE version lost interest in it. There's nothing there.
I have to play guitar for an upcoming 60's concert with the local choir. I downloaded all the MIDI files for the songs to use as a practice tool. I don't have Sonar on my little net book and it would be overkill, right?
So I thought, well maybe the sad version of Cubase 4LE would come in handy for this.
They protect the software with a USB dongle or in this case a virtual dongle using e license software. The instructions were basically wrong. They had me downloading windows net frame work etc and 4 hours later I finally got it to work.
The software is Ok I guess , but I would sure hate to have to belong to that forum. If you book mark the log on page it doesn't work. you always have to go though the home page. Then there is very little activity anyhow.
Anyways, it's good to be back, and I see that you really did scare CJ away, He's not at the Cubase forum.

Guitarhacker

I hear it's like a wild west saloon on a friday night upstairs at times....

That doesn't sound so bad. :)

Ya, I poked up there a couple of times, You think a new thing would make people happy? I'll wait this one out. Might just stub it altogether as I don't see what I would be gaining at this point.
Sonar 7 does way more than I ever use as it is.
 Sooo, what is this mc5 and were can one get some?

I just dug through my drawer full of software and I found my original Guitar Studio 2002! CD There's a serial number felt penned on it. Looks like it might work. I also had Home Studio 2004 I used for half the decade but I can't find it,, Think I gave it to my son. ( ya I know, not supposed to re-use software, tell someone who cares. )

I loaded Guitar Studio, wow, is it ever stripped down compared to Sonar, I forgot how simple things where back then. Basically it's like taking Sonar and strip the dialog boxes of 50% or more of the options. There's no insert soft synth option so I'm using the MS wavetable.
And yes, there's no point in Cubase LE versions. It's about the same as Guitar studio. It comes with one synth, Halicon, but it's not GM as far as I can tell. Space fart generator. And it's interface is just to foreign to bother with. I had a copy of Pro Tools LE came with my M audio but I must of tossed it, doubt if it would do MIDI either. I think I'll just install Sonar 7 and be done with it. It's just not going to be happy with my on board sound card that all. I guess I could use asio4all. Seems you can't access MS wavetable in any mode but MME however.

Funny you should mention that, I just downloaded it and will fire it up tonight, unless better half has better ideas.
I hope it does VST's and can co-exist with a realtech card.
If you wondering what I'm up too and why I'm not planning on using one of my interfaces is  this project requires simplicity and I'm going bare bones. I'll be sitting on a beach in Kona Hawaii end of March so was hoping to have some software to do MIDI editing whilst grooving in the sun. Because it's 100% MIDI it won't matter which software I use, right? I'll just need GM.
I'll also be working with the 60's backing tracks as they are doing these crazy medely's , Beach Boy's,Beatles,Mama,Papas Supreme s,Hair ( barf) and that kind of thing. Need to cut and paste, tempo,key changes. The sheet music is all in completely different keys from originals like Bb F , stupid on guitar.

57Gregy


Makes me glad I never tried to load the free Cubase I got with my Focusrite.
Cakewalk's Music Creator 5 is available in most big box electronics stores for about $40.
If you're in a hurry, the download is only $35, but doesn't have as many instruments as the boxed version. All your VSTs should run in it and you'll already be familiar with the GUI and how things work.

Steinberg was the "thing" that got me to try Cakewalk software 5-6 years ago.  I bought a sound card with a number of bundled apps, Cubase VST or some such among them. I went to the Steinberg forums in the hopes of finding assistance, registered an account... and found out that only "dongled" owners of the full version could have accounts on the forums.  I was deleted in less than 24 hours.  So, I uninstalled Cubase and installed Sonar LE.  Glad I did.