r/cubase • u/RealitySea1523 • 10d ago

I'm starting to use Cubase >.<

Well... I bought Hatsune Miku V6 and it came with Cubase. I don't know how to start producing music, so I'd like some tips to get me started :3

Also, I'm not very good at speaking English, so I'll use a translator >.<

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u/Seledreams 10d ago

I don't understand people who, whenever theory is mentionned immediately go "i don't recommend it".

My reason for recommending it is from experience trying to make music without for years. Can you make music without ? Yes, but it ends up being way more painful than anything else, being more about smashing your head against the wall until the wall breaks. through endless trial and error in the dark. Quite often it also often leads to sticking to comfort zone, such as just reusing the same chord progression everywhere because it's one of the only things we found to work out due to a lack of knowledge on voice leading.

Telling beginners to not learn it is not doing them a favor.

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u/MarcusarilliuS 10d ago

I said if you want to learn it then fine...

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u/Seledreams 10d ago

you said "push back" the moment you talk about pushing back it's to say you don't recommend it

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u/MarcusarilliuS 10d ago

I said that I wouldn't prioritise that. Also said it's up to them.

2 chords and a bit of soul trumps deep musical knowledge and elaborate arrangements a lot of the time.To each their own though.

Giving my opinion based on a lifetime of playing and a rudimentary knowledge of theory

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u/MachineAgeVoodoo 9d ago

Agreed. I know cubase and I know theory but learning a new software and the basics of producing music digitally I would definitely not combine, or somehow do simultaneously as learning theory. It's not similar skills and it's akin to learning how to drive, and study language grammar at the same time. NOT learning how to drive and learning traffic rules, as it perhaps may seem.