I often start Cubase with some idea in my head that I want to get down quickly. At this point I usually have no idea about title or sometimes not even genre. I just want to try something out. So, I have a template set up for this with a basic piano, Battery and a vocal channel set up so I can quickly get my ideas down. It works pretty well. There is just one problem.
I have to create a new folder every time or a new folder is automatically created in my Cubase folder. So, my Cubase folder is full of folders named “untitled-xx”. Many times these folders are empty, as the idea didn’t really lead to anything, so I just closed the session without actually saving anything. Sometimes I’ve saved an idea and it is then sitting in a folder called “untitled-37” or something like that, making it hard to find next time.
I came from another DAW a couple of years ago, where I had a default folder for projects and audio, etc, and only when I asked the DAW to actually save the project I had to decide what to call it and where to save it, in a new folder or not. This made it much easier to separate the hundreds of quick grooves and melody lines you create and those that actaually becomes an idea that I will continue to build on. And I didn’t have a Cubase full of folders called “untitled-xx”.
Now, I guess I can start with an “empty project” but that requires to load that piano, Battery and set up a vocal channel. Sure, much of it can be done with track templates, bar send FX that I have to create manually (why Cubase can’t save the whole chain is a mystery to me), but it is still a lot of work to just try out some ideas.
Is there something really fundamental I’m missing in Cubase’ workflow or am I the only one with this type of workflow. Surely that can’t be the case?
Sorry if this has been discussed previously, but I couldn’t find any threads like this, googeling and searching the forum.
Would be great to hear how you solve this.