Date:  Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Time:  7pm
Location:  Cosmo Music
Address:  10 Via Renzo Drive, Richmond Hill ON
URL:  www.cosmomusic.ca

The October meeting of Club Cubase North Toronto will take place on Tuesday, October 25th.  When possible, we'll try to have a standing booking for the last Tuesday of the month, unless otherwise noted.

Cosmo Music is located west of Highway 404, just north of Major Mackenzie off Leslie, and there is plentiful free parking.

Club Cubase is a user group for musicians, engineers, producers, and anybody interested in making music with their computer.  Meetings may feature guest speakers, product demonstrations, or draws & giveaways, and always feature a chance to trade tips and tricks with your fellow users.  Meetings are free and you do not need to be a registered Cubase user to attend.  Users of all experience levels are welcome.

Date:   Monday, October 24, 2011
Time:  7pm
Location:  Ferguson Music Productions
Address:    17 Oathill Crescent, Dartmouth NS
URL:  www.fergusonmusicproductions.com

This month, we'll talk a bit about the new UR interfaces and CMC controllers that were just introduced.  We'll also take a look at extending the creative possibilities of your studio by introducing controllers such as the iPhone and iPad.  For iOS users, Steinberg has the free Cubase iC remote application, as well as the new LoopMash app, and there are a number of other creative applications that can complement and inspire your workflow.

Club Cubase is a user group meeting for musicians, songwriters, producers, engineers, and anybody interested in making music with their computer.  Meetings feature guest speakers, draws, product demonstrations, and a chance to exchange tips & tricks with your fellow Cubase users.  Meetings are free and you do not need to be a registered Cubase user to attend.  Users of all experience levels are welcome.

Time:  7pm
Location:  Trebas Institute
Address:  550 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal QC
URL: www.trebas.com

This month, Club Cubase Montreal will present some unique VST instruments and discuss their integration into Cubase.  Pianoteq is a virtual piano instrument from Modartt.  Where many virtual piano instruments, including Steinberg's own Grand 3, achieve their realism and flexibility with expansive sample libraries that often take up several gigabytes, Pianoteq offers a different approach by using innovative physical modelling to capture the behaviour of a real instrument.  A free trial is available at the Pianoteq website.

Additionally, we'll look at RealGuitar from MusicLab. The concept of RealGuitar may be familiar to users of Steinberg's Virtual Guitarist and Virtual Bassist instruments.  RealGuitar (and its companion instruments RealStrat and RealLPC) offer some powerful tools so that composers can faithfully capture some of the notoriously-difficult-to-capture nuances that are essential to create an authentic-sounding guitar performance.  How close do they come?  Check out this video of Jeff "Keytar Jeff" Abbott putting RealGuitar through its paces.

Club Cubase is a user group for musicians, songrwriters, producers, engineers, and anybody interested in making music with their computer.  Meetings may feature product demonstrations, draw prizes, guest speakers, and always feature a chance to exchange tips & tricks with your fellow Cubase users.  Meetings are free and you do not need to be a registered Cubase owner to attend.  Users of all experience levels are welcome.

Date:  Thursday, October 20, 2011
Time:  7pm
Location:  Saved By Technology
Address:  10 Breadalbane, Toronto ON
Website:  www.long-mcquade.com

Club Cubase Toronto will return to Saved By Technology for our October meeting.

Saved By Technology is located a short walk from Yonge & Wellesley in downtown Toronto.  It is close to Wellesley station for those arriving by TTC, and there is plentiful metered street parking, including a pay lot on the south side of Wellesly, almost immediately east of Yonge.

Club Cubase is a user group for musicians, producers, engineers, and anybody interested in making music with their computer.  Meetings may feature guest speakers, product demonstrations, and a chance to exchange tips & tricks with your fellow users.  Meetings are free and you do not need to be a registered Cubase user to attend.

Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011
Time: 7pm
Location: St. John’s Music
Address: 1541 Merivale Road, Ottawa ON
URL:  www.stjohnsmusic.com

Club Cubase Ottawa typically meets on the first Thursday of every month at St. John's Music.  For the October meeting, we'll talk about using reverb and delay as send effects in Cubase to build up a soundfield.

As a primer, why not check out an excellent series of articles from Sound on Sound Magazine:

Use Reverb Like A Pro (Part 1)
Use Reverb Like A Pro (Part 2)

Club Cubase is a user group for musicians, producers, engineers, and anybody interested in making music with their computer.  Meetings are free and you do not need to be a registered user to attend.  Users of all experience levels are welcome.

For the November meeting, we hope to showcase the new UR-Series interfaces and CMC-Series controllers, and just might announce a special draw!