Understanding Cubase’s distortion effects and when to use each of them
Decimate your sounds and add a subtle touch of saturation with Distortion, AmpSimulator, Magneto 2, Bitcrusher and Quadrafuzz.
In this Cubase tutorial, Bruce Aisher gives you a brief introduction to Cubase’s stock distortion plug-ins. You’ll learn the different properties of Bitcrusher, Distortion, AmpSimulator, Magneto 2 and Quadrafuzz, and understand their different approaches to distortion. Bruce also gives you some insight into when you should use distortion and what instruments it lends itself to.
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So far, we’ve covered:
- Introduction to Cubase
- Exploring the interface
- Track types and tools
- Cubase instruments
- Getting started with MIDI
- Get familiar with Cubase’s editors
- MIDI editing tools
- Drum Editor
- Make beats with Cubase’s Groove Agent SE
- Insert Effects
- MixConsole
- Using Audio Loops
- Delay and echo
- Sidechain compression
- Saving and exporting options
Bruce Aisher is an English music producer, music technology journalist and lecturer. As one half of the duo Brancaccio & Aisher, he has had club hits for labels including Bedrock, Parlophone and his own Player One Records. He regularly contributes to MusicTech content and is one of our Cubase Experts.
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