How to PROPERLY backup your Cubase projects #cubase #backup

hello everyone welcome back dom here and in this video i'm going to show you something that's very very important and trust me it will save you a lot of frustration in the future and that's how to back up your cubase project how to create multi-tracks right so that when you want to come back to a project two years five years ten years down the line you have all the flexibility you need and you can open your project and it will sound exactly the same even if you don't have any of the plugins that you used in the original project and i'm going to show you how to do this the right way right after [Music] this [Music] let's say that you finished your track you have created an amazing production you had a perfect singer you had amazing plugins you use your latest soft synths you use your hardware synthesizer you use some hardware compressors you don't have to do all this you just have an awesome track and you're done you upload it one year down the line you get a call from a post-production house and they say we love your track it's amazing we want to use it for synchronization for tv for advertising can you just give us the vocals can you give us a version without the drums can you give us a version that's 30 seconds long without the drums or with the drums turned down a little bit in volume and the question is can you still open your one year old project can you still open a project that's five years old i guarantee that unless you have the same computer and you haven't changed anything you probably have a problem doing this let me show you how you can avoid any of these problems in the future from now on you won't have this problem because with cubase 11 this problem is gone forever so here i have a project here as you can see i've recorded quite a few analog sims it's kind of a cinematic synth track i'm going to link it down below and it's called beautiful asymmetry but i want to keep all the midi i want to keep everything like it is but i also want to have flexibility so how do you do this first of all before you even start doing anything else i would totally suggest that you go to your pool okay this is the pool if you want to open the pool just go media and open pull window or just hit control and p or command and p on the mac the first thing you want to see is if you have everything in the trash and you also want to make sure that all your audio files are in place and they're all in the same working directory if you haven't done this i'm gonna make a video on how to do this forget about it now if everything is okay though because i think that you're already familiar with that then all you need to do is go to file and click on backup project create an empty folder and then you can just go here and select your backup options so what i would suggest is you can minimize the audio files this will reduce the size of your backup personally i don't like to do this why because there might be a take somewhere or maybe like a audio event that i have trimmed that i still want to keep the part that i left out it depends on how important the session is for you if i have a session with a really really good singer then i would probably not minimize the audio files then make direct offline processing permanent so if you've done any direct offline processing like add a specific plugin to an audio event this will make it permanent i don't like to do this remove and use files again that's a good option to have maybe you don't want to have the unused files if you've done like hundreds and hundreds of takes maybe it makes sense to just remove the unused files do not backup video if you have a video in your project i would probably leave this off and do not backup mix down folder i don't click on that i want to have everything so once you do this basically what cubase will do it will take all the files of the entire project and put it into a new folder you can be sure that all the files are going to be gathered there and you're not going to have any missing files if you were you know using fast from elsewhere from external hard drives and all these things so that's step number one this is something that's not related to what i'm gonna show you now but it is a good thing to know cubase has a neat backup option there okay so i wanted to share this with you the most important thing though is the new export cues so if you go export automix down the first thing you need to do is obviously make sure that your locators are set correctly so in order to do this i'm selecting everything ctrl a or apple a on the mac and press b and sometimes i like to add a little bit of you know room in the end it doesn't hurt okay and maybe in the beginning as well depending on if you have like any build up effects or something like this now the next thing that you need to do is make sure that you export everything everything in audio this used to be a little bit of a painful procedure in the past but with cubase 11 it's really so easy there are no excuse for not backing up your projects after you finish doing them how do you do this you go multiple okay and when you go multiple there are a few ways to do this if you click on this icon everything that you select is going to be exported okay the entire length we want everything so i'm going to unclick this and i'm going to say okay i need the output channel why not you know maybe i want to have the stereo out as well and then all the audio channels all the effects channels and all the group channels okay this is very very important now why do you want to do this because you want to have the ultimate flexibility when you go back to this project you know later on and you need the audio channels obviously that's you know self-explanatory you need the effects channels because if you have a send effect like a reverb or a delay then you want to have this and then it's a good idea to have the group channels as well because sometimes you might have some processing on the group channels that's really crucial for the sound for example sometimes i run my drums through the black box the hd2 the hardware device this goes to my group channel so i want to bounce this group channel separately because maybe at that stage i don't want to remember all the settings that i have for my hardware black box so we have this that's great and now it will export the range between the locators so we're good now the next thing that you need to do and this is very very important is you need to set up a naming scheme so if you go here you can see i have a few naming schemes myself see multi-track detailed i have simple multi-track and all these things you want to make sure that every track has a unique name number one and the other thing that you want to make sure is that your tracks are easily searchable okay you can find them easily so if i see a name i know that okay this is for example track number one the real choir beautiful asymmetry and this is an audio now if i want to make sure that i can distinguish the audio channels to the group channels and the effects channels for example i can just move the type to the very beginning see that so now i know that this is audio if it was a group it would say group zero zero one reacquire and so on and so forth coming up with a good scheme is really crucial because after a while you're going to be like okay this guitar is it a group or is it an audio channel for example this scheme has the channel type counter the channel name and the name which is this one here okay so there's a lot of customization you can change the counter you can change the actual digits very very simple but it's very important and you can also have free text for example you might want to have the tempo of the song here always very useful okay so now we have this so up to this point i think you could probably do all this with the previous versions of cubase but with cubase 11 things change dramatically so i'm going to show you now something that's 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save your presets let's say i want to add this with my current settings so all i need to do is add to queue okay check this out boom all my files are there okay perfect now let's say i also want to have a flag file i can add this to the queue and then maybe i want to have a wav file again but here comes the really powerful and interesting bit maybe i want to create different versions this is the default behavior this is including the insert effects and the channel strip so that means that if a channel has insert effects and if it has any channel strip effects they're going to be printed with the audio okay they're going to be exported but sometimes you might want to have some extra flexibility why because you might have added a specific compressor to a track and you want to change it down the line you might want to do a remix or you might want to use your material in a different way if you wanted to do this before cubase 11 you had to go deactivate all the inserts manually especially for a big project like this it would take you a long time and you have to be very very careful in this case we can go and say give me a dry version of all my channels and all you need to do is just click here add to cue there we go done okay and now we're going to have the same files but without the effects how cool is that now let's say that we also want even more flexibility let's say that this hypothetical post-production house says we want to have the acapella with the reverbs and everything okay then you would probably have to go and recreate this project because you would have to add the dry vocal and then you would have to add the send effect but what if on the send effect you also had some other elements you had some backing vocals for example going to the same vocal reverb then you would be in trouble because you don't have that reverb anymore five years down the line so what do you do it gets better i told you you go here and you say include the group effects and the send effects to our export so that means that if i have a vocal it goes to a group the group has a compressor and then it also has let's say a send effect like a reverb this vocal is going to be bounced with the reverb as well how cool is that so again if you wanted to do this manually it would take you days days i'm not kidding it would take you days when i used to work in various studios back in the day and i had to do this i hated it there's a specific dw that couldn't even do offline export yeah okay where here i can say atticu and boom everything is there ready to be bounced now let's say i also want to add my master effects let's say a compressor like my entire mastering chain that it's still here and i have it i can go here and say export the master the groups and the sense everything everything you know included in all the channels and you go and add this boom to our cue so let's see what we have here 51 files 51 files 51 files 51 files we're talking over 250 files these files i would have to do this manually most of them but instead i can just start queue export have my coffee and i can come back after five minutes and it's gonna be done and i think that this is very unique to cubase i haven't seen a daw up to this point that offers this much flexibility some daws major daws even recently they didn't have the option to export send effects properly it was like with a workaround so we really spoiled with cubase so let's use it wisely like i said there's no excuse anymore you finish a project do this you know it's literally five clicks just do it you'll thank me later because if you cherish your music and if you believe in your music and if you love what you're doing you might want to go back okay and this is a very fast way i'm guilty of the same thing i used to write songs in the past and then i wasn't doing this and now i cannot go back to them because i open it and there's the old contact free or contact for and it's not there anymore even if i have the library it's updated it's no longer working and even if it did i would have to find this old legacy installer go figure never gonna happen so this is a very fast way to future proof your projects so i hope you enjoyed this video i hope that you're going to do this from now on and if you enjoyed this and if you found it useful i would really appreciate it if you hit that like button if you subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and share this with anyone you think they're not doing this because you have to do this okay i'm gonna start q export but go go and back up your project now okay just don't forget it i know you have a project with your hard drive

Channel: Dom Sigalas

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Length: 16min 6sec (966 seconds)

Published: Fri May 07 2021