Chris, your videos are more useful than what Cubase itself puts out. . . I've learned so much from you - even when I'm not interested in the subject I walk away with a greater knowledge base. . . Thank you a million times over

Wonderfull very clearly explained.....I have had three people try to explain cubase to me mut none so simple and clear as yours! great!

Yeah, good Infos! Addendum: If you have already a big mess with your songs all in one folder, you can use that Backup-Trick to backup every song in its own folder. When you have done that (every song backed up), then you can delete the original messy folder (that way I cleared lots of space because before that I could never find out, which files where of no use, as long everything rested in the same place...)

Chris your videos are really ON POINT bro. Every single one of your videos is very professional and informative. Thank you for spreading the knowledge :)

nice one tutorial! saving all my songs with "back up project" in different folders, made me save lots of GB by erasing old double and no need audio files

Big thanks for all your help throughout all your tutorials.they have inspired me so much to persevere with my lifetime of the love of music.I nearly gave up on cubase 10pro,but as I've said you've helped me 👍

Your videos about Cubase are the most essential ones ever.

Thanks a lot, my friend! Very helpful as always !

Thanks Chris! Very helpful as always. I saved audio for several songs in the same audio folder recently and was hoping I could find a video to help me figure out how to fix that problem. Much appreciated!

Thank you Chris I've been watching all your videos this had been one of the most important to date for me you my friend are truly a life saver Thank you once again

Since I´m planing to upgrade from CB 6.5 to the latest 9.5 this is a great tip to clean up all my old projects! Thanks!

What a useful video you uploaded Chris. And again it answered some of my previous issues I had in the past about missing files. Thank you

Great points, thanks!

Thank you for he video. I am new to Cubase and I find this is not talked about enough and a very underrated part of the process in my opinion. I am Autistic so having organisation from the start suits me to the ground :)

Hi Chris, I offer this in the hope it might help some users. As you know Cubase stores it's files and settings all over the place. This makes it a nightmare for enabling backups of things like your own key settings, macros, etc. If you save a profile or even backup a project you don't get everything. I have been using a program called BeyondSync for years now and I've just put it to very good use in my Cubase setup. BeyondSync lets you specify a set of folders on your computer and automatically back them up to another drive. You can specify the backup to run whenever you wish. Unfortunately it's not free but it's not expensive. If you use this program, once setup you can be sure that, say, monthly all your settings saved by Cubase to, say, C drive /users/yourname/ Steinberg/blah blah are backed up to another drive. and if all else fails you can retrieve them easily. Cheers!

Always big and clear Chris!

Great info. FYI, earlier this year a bug crashes Cubase when using Remove Unused Media. Recent updates fix it. Backup Project is best way to consolidate files to a folder for sure.

file of options, project, audio, midi, media, transport, study, etc ... do not appear to help me please ... why will that be?

Is it possible to change the default location of the mixdown fill? love your channel btw

What about the old feature, we used to be cabable of cubase search all the cpr files and delete all the audio that was unused! They put out that feature? Thanks Chris!

Thanks good good info..

helpful - Thanks!

excellente video de plus ton anglais est vraiment parfait pour nous les français ^^ merci

Hi Chris. Came by this older video, so it's possible you may have covered my question elsewhere, but since I can't find it, here goes. Re: Transfering a project to either a second machine or someone elses machine, does 'project backup' option save all the necessary files required for a flawless transport of a project to the new machine? This is assuming, the new machine has all the requisite plugins installed. I'm thinking all the relevant addtional files, the same folder, plugin presets, peak & image files, etc. Happy Xmas

Thanks for another helpful video! This video is not your usual format where you give one useful real world tip, rather in this one you almost explain only basic Cubase functions like the pool. Just saying. What about other ways of moving files between projects like track archive?

Thanks a lot! Very helpful!

Thanks Chris, I almost killed myself having used "save as" instead of backup...

Most people will only realize how important this is the hard way.

Can you export audio from a project directly to the project auto folder? cubase 10 thanks

I´m working with CB over 10 years now. Started with CB 6.0, now I´m on Pro10.5. What I never noticed and therefore always neglected where substantial things you tell here! Now I´m about to remix almost all of my old stuff and look upon a cluttered mess of files all over my hard drive. Is there a way to make CB grab all the used file of Song1 and toss them in the new Audio folder I create when I start the new mixing session of Song1?

I know this is an old thread, but I hoping to get someone to answer a technical question for me. First off, does Cubase use a temp folder on the C drive while working a project? The reason for that question is this...At the moment, I have my projects all saved to a folder on my C drive, also where Cubase lives too. I have a 1TB HDD that I want to move all of those projects too, also samples VST's and so on. I need to know, if I move that all over to that drive, will Cubase continue to process everything in a temp folder on the C drive while I'm working on a project, or will it all be processed using the HHD where the files would be at? I don't want to move them over to the HDD that's only a 5500rmp drive and have my processing speed down to a crawl? BTW I'm using Cubase pro 10.5 on Win 10

Hi Chris good video as usual. (Paid version) Cubase elements 10.5 does not save an audio folder in my projects folder as in your video.... I'm beginning to think there's many bugs in 10.5 Any advice would be very welcome, before I get too involved with this buggy program... My return to Reaper is looking most likely if these seemingly minor bugs cannot be fixed.

Thanks Chris, these kind of fundamentals are very important and easily overlooked or not always understood. Would you mind giving advice on how to minimize "unexpected errors" and drop outs on cubase pro 9.5? I use a macbook pro and at least 5 times a day cubase just shuts off and says "an unexpected error occured."

hello and thanx so much , Chris . Silly question but with time Cubase projects begin to work slowly and even if there're not many lines , there's a "reading" file of plugins , that is somewhere but i can't find it .. i mean is there a way to renew it or delete , so Cubase would read all plugs like they're just installed and the projects would work faster without sound breaks etc..? sorry again , hope i could explain

Hey, how do I create a Template of one Song and use it on another Song without the old audios in the pool. It happens that I open the saved template and it has all the old audio files in it. It happend that I deleted all in the pool and my origin files of the old song are gone from my hard drive.

Great information! Thanks!

Hi Chris, I love your channel! Something is unclear to me. I have 8 songs which were tracked in one project folder. i then saved each song to new projects, which all refer to the original tracking audio folder. When backing up the individual song projects and choosing 'remove unused audio' will that delete the audio for all the other songs from the original audio folder? I desperately need to recover drive space but I'm terrified I lose everything. Thank you Chris.

Hi Chris. Great vid with lots of info, here. Totally see the need for good pre-emtive file management. I want to record a big session (Full Drum Kit, Bass + Scratch Vox & Scratch Gtr) for multiple songs, say 6. I have a recording template, and will be re-recording all guitars/vocals and overdubs seperately later, but I want to keep the record template open throughout the session - always be 'ready' to record. So I end up with 1 project, 6 songs and10 tracks per song. This means I end up with lots of audio in the original pool. When it comes to the re-records and the overdubs (which will be done piecemeal) Later I need to create a separate project for each individual song. What would be the best way to do this, or how would you manage this? Thanks for any help

Any suggestions on how to back up all cubase projects to a external hard drive....and to clear up this, when I do this if I saved the individual projects in a folder but audio is still in default folder I have to get those files also....yes I wish I seen this video a long time ago lol Not doing any music during this coronavirus thing until I organize and back up all my old projects

I use Alt+CMD+S to increment the Song In the same Folder, which gives me a fall back should I not want what I have Done after the increment. would it be advisable to use the backup instead of the increment option.

Hi, Chris. A few months ago I bought a Cubase Pro 10.5. And I have a problem- in "Media" a funchtion "prepare archive" shows inactive. So, question is- where is the problem, and how I can turn it on? Help me please.

What about that annoying thing that Cubase does, cluttering my root menu up with "VST3 Presets" and "Steinberg" folders? God I hate that. How can I avoid that? I love my pristine roots menu and would like to keep it that way. And I don't even need either of these folders.

Hey Chris Great tutorial can you explain why all of my cubase files is added to my windows media player and to my groove player as songs

Great tutorial Chris! I have a question kind of related to this. I am moving over to a new computer. On the old I had all Cubase- and plug-in files on the C drive. On the new computer I will use the C drive (ssd) for applications and a D drive (hdd) for the project- and audio files. Once I have moved my existing Cubase project files from the old computer into the D drive on the new computer, what is the easiest way to change the location from C to D in the project files? Or should I do this in any other way? I am using Cubase 10 Pro. Thanks! Best regards, Petter

hi Chris, i love your great videos, but as a former logic x user I wanna say that cubase has very bad file management system...a lots of time the project is missing samples, theres no way to save the custom samples played with GA or sample track with the project like logic or studio one...when you open the project the tracks maybe will be there but not the samples....i hope its not a big deal for Steinberg to fix this...regards

Hi Cris, I always create a project for each song, once the song is finished I delete the files that are left over from the pool as well as your samples in the video (Remove Unused Media), and then I delete everything from the trash, when I open the project again to continue working I always see the same message as your samples at minute 11:47, what can I do to remove that message? Thank you

Is there absolutely no way to restore media you permanently deleted from the pool? I’ve been working in Cubase for 5 years and I finally made the mistake today, when trying to export a template. I hit ‘save as’ -> deleted all the region media -> exported as a template. Then I made a new project folder, and created project from template. Opened the pool and saw that media still existed. So, without checking the file path, I quickly removed it and permanently deleted it from the trash. Went back to the old session to work on the other song, and well BOOM all media gone. I’m currently running disk drill on my D: drive. Yes, my projects aren’t on my C: drive. No, I don’t have drive protection on. Yes, you can tell me how F’d I am.

Hi. Can you please make a video on how to use VST connect and pro 4 within cubase. There are no videos on the web. You'd be the first. I have tried it with a friend. But can't get this to work. You'd be the first with an in depth video on this Awesome cubase feature. Thanks in advance. Lou.

How to work with Audio samples?

Slt nous attendons tes template en vocal chain je pense que ça fera un malheur

hey Chris, I recently did a recording for one of my friends, and it took him quite a few take to get it right. when I go to my media pool I see that a lot of the takes went to the trash bin. my question is, is it safe for me to empty the trash bin and remove the take completely from my computer? thanks in advance and sorry for the long question...Cheers SUB403

I remove unused media and empty the trash after every session so I'm committed to my keeper tracks. No temptation to go back through old takes.

Brsvo

Warning! Copying a folder does not copy saved project presets !

how I my cubase is not doing this with all this step