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Hi again. I hope you are all keeping safe. I was wondering if you could help me. I am using windows 10 and cubase pro 1.5.20 and my project is in 24 bit 48 kHz and when I drag the waveform into the project after generating it, cubase asks me whether I’d like to split the file and I choose yes but then it also asks me if I want to change the bit depth from 16 to 24. Shouldn’t Kick be 24 bit anyway if my project is 24 bit and how to I get a mono version of Kick2. I see in a DMP tutorial that it comes in a mono version for apple and logic. In cubase there is a thing called an instrument track and that is standard stereo track but on some plugins you can activate either a mono or stereo output in the output section. The work around in splitting the file into left and right works but I’m still a bit confused about why Kick2 is 16 and doesn’t follow the project bit rate. I guess I can record this into a track rather than drag the generated sample into the project. It’s all a bit confusing really. Any ideas how I should go about working and if I’m doing the right thing/ I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Gareth

Hi there @gej

Need to be confirmed by @phil_johnston but I think that Kick 2 can only render stereo 16 bit audio files. Also not a Cubase user but it seems to me that in Cubase you have an option to render a stereo track to mono track. So in order to match your Cubase Project settings and get your kick in mono, the following workflow should work :

  • Render you Kick inside KICK 2 and then export it to audio.
  • Import back the rendered audio kick inside a new audio track in Cubase and accept the conversion settings in order to match your project bit depth.
  • Render this new stereo track to mono. ( I’m quite sure this is possible inside Cubase ), the alternative is to export to mono from Cubase which should be possible as well ( That’s what I do with Ableton Live since there’s no mono track available. )
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Hi @Tekalight

Thank you for your helpful reply.
As soon as I get a gap from lime pointing this weekend sometime, probably very late in the evening, I’ll check it out. Instead of rendering to mono, I’ve found that if I choose to export to project after Generating the file, Cubase gives me the option to upsample to 24 bit and an option to split the stereo file So I then have two mono tracks anyway. I can either keep both tracks and process one differently or just get rid of one track and use the other. I just thought there might be something wrong with my download because I saw a mono version being loaded into a tutorial project using Logic. I’ll try what you have said though and get back to you. Thank you again for your reply. Much appreciated. Kind regards,
Gareth

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Do you ever sell ana 2 and kick 2 as a package deal?

That’s more a question for sales that you could ask via mail : <mailto: customerservice@sonicacademy.com>

But from memory I haven’t seen this yet ( I might be wrong though ), S.A runs regular sales & promotional offers on their plugins, they also offer bundle options like plugin + presets packs or presets packs bundle.

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Good intro to Kick.

I like the pitch function very much.

Really good intro!

Good kick course