How to Use Additive Drums with Cubase Essential 4
The Additive Drums VST from XLN Audio provides studio quality drums for your Cubase Essential 4 virtual studio, but if you do not know how to load it into a project, you will not be able to use its powerful sound quality for creating realistic drum tracks for your mixes. You will need to know how to open a 16 track sequencer project and load the VST correctly into Cubase Essential 4 to get started creating drum tracks with it. You can load the VST software plugin into your project in under five minutes.
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Instructions
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Open Cubase and load a 16 track sequencer project into the software. Click "File" and "New Project" and choose "16 Track Sequencer" from the list of templates that appear on the screen.
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Click on the "Devices" tab at the top of the screen and expand the pop-out menu that has empty slots for your VST instruments. A "VST Instruments" folder will be created within the "Project" window.
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Choose which mixer channel output you wish to send the plugin into, then click on the MIDI track in which you wish to add the plugin. Go to "Inspector," and click "Out." It is possible to make this setting within the mixer as well.
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Select Additive Drums as the VST to use for that given track, as well as the MIDI channel. Go to the "Preferences" tab and select "MIDI Thru Active" as well at this time.
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Click your mouse on the "Monitor" button to enable audio to be heard, then navigate to the mixer. You will now be able to play Additive Drums from your MIDI controller.
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