Mixing FL Studio Song in Cubase

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Hi Friends,

I am thinking of Mixing my FL Studio song in Cubase. I know many of you might be already doing it. This is what I am planning to do. Please correct me or throw your suggestions in any of the below steps:

1. Compose song in FL studio without any effects on mixer and keep volume of all channels at default values.
2. Using Export option--> export split tracks 24bits wav files.
3. Import them in cubase using import function and then work on mixing.

Am I missing anything? Is keeping the volume at default is good idea or should make every channel at 100%?

Thanks,
Neil
 
MrWonderful said:
I'd pre mix it in fl then export all wavs out.
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Yeah, I agree with Mr. Wonderful... give it a basic mixdown.. just make sure you assign each instrument or drum sound that you're using into a free mixer insert before splitting the tracks when you export the song.
 
Why not mix it in FL Studio? What does Cubase have that FL Studio doesn't? (genuine question - not trying to be funny btw)
 
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Oh yes, I am going to do that. Assign each channel to it's mixer, arranging the entire song the way I want and then when I am done, I will export split track waves and mix (add effects etc) in Cubase.

But my question is on the volume. What I observed is, the volume of some instruments in FL Studio is not sufficient to play in Cubase. For e.g. the kick in FL studio might sound heavy and bigger but when I import it in Cubase (24bits WAV), it sounds dull. Do you know why is that?

Thanks,
Neil
 
I like the track arranging and composing in FL Studio. But I just read so many people saying composing in FL studio and mixing in Cubase so I thought I will give it a try...that's it...I know FL 10 is much more equivalent to Cubase...
 
neiloutinthedeep said:
I like the track arranging and composing in FL Studio. But I just read so many people saying composing in FL studio and mixing in Cubase so I thought I will give it a try...that's it...I know FL 10 is much more equivalent to Cubase...
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As long as we establish that you are running with the crowd and not your own experiences. Cuz you would know you could by all means just make your life easy and do exactly what you're gonna do in cubase in FL.

Anyways, I'll leave that up to the cubase persons. You should try pro tools too if you get the hang of cubase.
 
neiloutinthedeep said:
I like the track arranging and composing in FL Studio. But I just read so many people saying composing in FL studio and mixing in Cubase so I thought I will give it a try...that's it...I know FL 10 is much more equivalent to Cubase...
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Useless this is for your debut international release of something, I say role with FL. Depending on what ver of Cubase u rollin with (i have 6.5), u probably have a little more mastering options if u go that route. But I have not heard anyone (who knows) suggest that u can't make a hot azz track in just FL (just look in the software/DAW section of the site), now if your talking large ensembles or something Cubase prob will give u more. My point is that if you're making traditional pop music i don't think the daw will be critical to your success, its about u.
 
If you don't need more than 16 channels, you can also load the FLStudio multi VSTi within Cubase, enable all of the outputs, and route them from the FL mixer to Cubase. It would take more steps but if may give you more flexibility if you don't need more than 16 channels. Of course, in Cubase you can add as many as you want for sends and groups, but you can only route 16 channels at a time from FL to Cubase.

Cubase doesn't necessarily have more than FL does when it comes to mixing, but I like the layout much better. FL has good mixing options, but the mixer is almost an afterthought. If it's all you have, there's not much that it lacks. Keep in mind that I've use Cubase exclusively for a long time, so my comments are opinion, not fact. Keep in mind that FL had no audio recording and its sequencer wasn't that great a while back so I think a lot of people picked up an additional DAW. Nowadays, I'd probably get more out of FL if I was just starting out. There's very little that you can't do in it.
 
Why Cubase

JC_Biffro said:
Why not mix it in FL Studio? What does Cubase have that FL Studio doesn't? (genuine question - not trying to be funny btw)
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Why not gently practice your mixing in Fl. read the help and learn alot. Stop complicating your projects with two different daws. The DAW is not making your song, your ears and fingers, effects, and plugins are the ones making them, stop complicating things. I dont even know why you sometimes rewire.
 
if you're adding vocals I would export from FL Studio to Cubase for sure
and as Sleepy said I been using Cubase for a long time and doing it this way
if you're just mixing a beat FL Studio is fine



-Coach Antonio
 
I've come to a roadblock were i tried to compare my mixes to commercial songs, and they are miles apart. I can't seem to achieve that sound in FL Studio.

I use lots of stock FX like the Blood overdrive & Fruity Parametric EQ2. (Blood overdrive on Hi-hats, cymbals, toms, snares)

At this point i feel like, my mixing game should be better, but it isn't. Though i must say, recording in Cubase is hella good. I love the comping tool. Wich FL Studio doesn't have.
 
Well, actually there are, there are some stuff FL studio doesnt have, like cubase already has a dual panner in the mixer but FL doesn't. Also, some reverbs plugins in cubase (cubase 6/+) sound a lot better
 
Id say don't mix in FL studio unless you running through rewire in Cubase. If you have to change the mix in FL without rewire, you have to re-export all the tracks. On the other hand running rewire through cubase can be a headache at times.
 
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