Originally Posted By: Jim Snodgrass
I'm new to these real tracks which are very hip, may I say. What I want to know is can I export these tracks as a whole (that is as a band) or as an individual instrumental track to my Cubase program for further editing, etc.? I have learned that these tracks can be converted to aiff files, but can these be manipulated in the same way midi files can by dropping them into Cubase? Any help will be greatly appreciated.


Jim, a couple of comments on your questions, some of which reinforce answers you already have.

You can export one audio track at a time to Cubase, or you can export all of them in one operation. In BIAB this is called Drag 'n Drop. You literally drag the instrument button to the Dropbox in the upper left corner. That Dropbox has four sections, which produce different results. If you drag the Master button, you get all the tracks.

You want the individual instruments to remain separate tracks until the very last step in Cubase, which is mixing down to a stereo file.

I recommend you work with .WAV files. You always want to work with the highest possible audio quality right up to the last step, where you may then wish to create a compressed file like an MP3.

About Melodyne, there are different versions. Melodyne Editor is the one that allows manipulation of pitches and timing of individual parts in audio files, as described above. Melodyne may be run as a stand=alone program, or as a plugin in a DAW like Cubase.

Depending on how one defines manipulation, there are lots of other things you can do to an audio file, like adding reverb, changing the volume or the apparent stereo width, doing equalization changes (EQ), adding distortion, removing noise below a certain level, and many more. It is not as easy as manipulating a MIDI file as mentioned, but there is a lot you can do.

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