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Aug 24, 20122 by Mike
How To Create a Standard Project in Cubase
One of the easiest ways to get a new project started and quickly setup in Cubase is to use a previously created Standard Project which contains default tracks and channel strip default settings. My standard Project contains guitar, bass, vocals and drum tracks with each track set to a default input and output bus, default effects, default equalizers, level and left/righ panner settings.
To create a standard project you can use a previous project or create one from scratch. In any case, I suggest you have the following tracks set up in your standard project if you're a guitarist and vocalist like me:
Electric Guitar 1 Left (rhythm)
Electric Guitar 1 Right
Acoustic Guitar 1 Left (rhythm)
Acoustic Guitar 1 Right
Electric Guitar 2 Left (fill)
Electric Guitar 2 Right
Electric Guitar 3 Left (solo)
Electric Guitar 3 Right
Drum/Percussion 1 Left
Drum/Percussion 1 Right
Bass 1 Left
Bass 1 Rght
Vocal 1 Left (main)
Vocal 1 Right
Vocal 2 Left (background)
Vocal 2 Right
- You will notice that I like to record in stereo, every instrument/input has a left and right channel.
- You can add more or use less tracks depending on your preference.
- Setup the individual channel strip settings. Set the input and output bus, default effect and equalizers settings, and the default level and left/righ panner settings.
- Create an empty folder on a hard drive and call it Cubase-StandardProject-2022v1. I suggest you use Cubase as an identifier so that you can locate it later and add a significant suffix to denote a version, for example, v2022 or v1, or maybe v1.1 or something similar. I use the four digit year + the (Dewey Decimal System link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification) decimal version number for easy reference.
- Save your default project to the empty folder and call it Cubase-StandardProject-2022v1.
- You now have a Standard Project with predefined default settings that you can use to quickly start a new project.