How to use Guitar Rig with Cubase?

[abrogard]

Tell you the truth: I'm a total beginner. And I just got Guitar Rig with a Guitar Link thing I bought.

And I want to record the fancy sounds that Guitar Rig makes (very beaut). But guitar rig doesn't allow that - it just records the raw guitar sound regardless of what you're doing... very strange but there you go...

So I was told (googling around) that I need something like cubase.

My son's away and he's got cubase on his machine. Cubase 5. I'm using it. Don't know anything about it. Just want to record Guitar Rig sounds with it.

Can't do it.

googling around I learnt I need to put the .dll in the plugins directory. So I found guitarrig.dll and put it in cubase's 'plugin' directory and I see that cubase sees it there and does something with it....

But then, when cubase has finished coming up, I find myself staring at this strange black screen with lines going top to bottom... seems to be a recording screen... but if I press record and play the guitar nothing gets recorded .... leastways there's no recording levels anywhere to see and nothing can be played back...

Can anyone give a total novice a little leg up here....

:)

[Vinark]

Cubase getting started manual...Typing a guide here would be like typing the manual all over. Manual is installed on same computer.

[abrogard]

O.K. It's that hard, eh? Shame.

I can believe it though. I've seen it happen before. I've looked in the manual. I can't find it.

Guess I'll probably advance quicker if I use one of the other progs people talk about - was something called 'reaper' one of them? and some old fashioned thing called... dunno... CED?

Funny, too, I would have thought it'd be a click, click, click sort of thing... but there you go, what would I know...

thanks for your help

:)

[Vinark]

Reaper is even a little more difficult (and freestyle) to set up. It is not difficult, I could show you in a few minutes, only writing will be terrible. Don't give up!
Small tip, if you can record your guitar clean. Use guitar rig as an insert on that audio channel.