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I've put together my first tutorial video! The main topics I talk about are:

While MD'ing for the Concept Players's production of Evita I was met with an unexpected challenge; how to use backing tracks during a live musical. As we were using the 9-part orchestration, rather than the 18-part one, the Really Useful Group provided us with backing tracks of all the missing instruments, which the band would need a click track to play against to support the singers. The click tracks provided where stereo files - one channel backing track, one channel click. We were also provided with individual stems of each instrument in case we wanted to mix in a more venue-specific manner, though these weren’t necessary.

This week’s largely been based around Footloose, the Clod Ensemble and trying to do more with Django:

Before I start talking about this week’s learning, I have three confessions to make:

In the first installment of my Cubase learning blog I ended with a few initial questions I had. Today I want to go through them and answer them to be the best of my basic understanding, based on forums, video and hands-on research. I'll try and credit the solutions where I found them.