Comments on: Sequencing: Atari ST Cubase 2.0 :)

By: Santos

Santos — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:01:35 +0000

This is the first thing I ever sequenced on back in the early 90s and still the best. I tried sequencing with Logic and Ableton for a while, but the timing is way off so I dug up my ST. I also have an Akai MPC60 and an Alesis MMT-8, which are pretty tight. But in-depth editing on those things is just too time consuming so I only use them live with sequences transferred from the ST. Major drawback of the Atari: it crashes often, as complexer sequences quickly leave it gasping for RAM. You need at least 4MB RAM to work comfortably.

By: Product Designer

Product Designer — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:28:56 +0000

Hey! Anyone interested in music using the vintage atari should check out http://www.atarimusic.net/

Its amazing, and there are some cool products on there, and plenty of up to date info on this scene!!

By: DaveT

DaveT — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:56:15 +0000

ATARI ST today! ST+Cubase = Hard Seq.

By: Juan Trip'

Juan Trip' — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:05:41 +0000

Hi,
You’re right! This cubase 2.0 is amazing. I work with it since early nineties. Look I have a problem here.. I must backup the software from some of my old floppy disk. But guess what? Everything goes good till I insert the new floppy (B) to be copied and the the Atari says… “this disk is not the same type than the original one. Please insert a new disk”. So I did. Didn’t work even with 2 meg disks single or double formatted sides. Look if you can help me on this that would be even more amazing than the Cubase itself. Please rep asap… Question: what must I do to copy the Cubase 2.0 I have from a floppy disk to another? Thanks. By the way, great post here!!! Juan

By: John Biddleston

John Biddleston — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:44:07 +0000

Epic!!!

This is the future!!!

Or is it the past?? Anyways, you cant’t beat atari for midi musix and I got an Atari MEGA ST4 for retro fun and music times.

Makes making music a pleasure again!! Did you also hear about the “UltraSatan” modifiation to use a standard SD Card as a Hard Drive!!! Also you can but an adaptor to run it in VGA!!

By: charles

charles — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:50:19 +0000

hi , atari st cubase 2 is still a great sequencer able to capture whatever music played thru it .

i still use my atari to do music
and will take this time to ask if any body wants to make some midi music?

i have different styles
and am searching for a music maker
to help write parts or just do some verbal suggestion into song content

email
charles.copp@sympatico.ca

By: Credo

Credo — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:26:27 +0000

Cubase runs fine on the regular ST. Best with at least 1meg of memory…

Hexfix, if recording resolution is very important to you, Creator/Notator is probably far tighter than Cubase. SL pretty much replaces much of the buggy TOS stuff to max out the machine’s capabilities for midi. The pattern style user interface takes a bit to get used to…but it’s pretty cool over all, and was done that way to avoid using GEM, which slows things down a bit.

Hexfix, I have some sort of Steinberg midi expander that goes on the parallel/printer port that I’d part with. Maybe it’s an SMP2? It’s a plastic box with something like 2ins and 4 outs.

I forget what it’s called…
This is NOT the full SMP24 that has SMPTE controller and also works as an independent 2/4 mini patch bay. (I have one of those too but it’s not for trade/sale).

I’m looking for Cubase 2.8 for PC and SMP24 drivers for Win95/98.

By: Rab

Rab — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:03:20 +0000

Hey, is an atari STE required for running cubase or would an stock ST be ok?

cheers!

By: magnus

magnus — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:29:37 +0000

800 swedish crowns is about $108 btw

By: magnus

magnus — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:13:05 +0000

This Midex+ is for sale in Sweden. Maybe he can send it to you:

http://www.abc-annons.se/Steinberg-Midex-for-ATARI_196489.htm