Cubase + other recording? or... Guitar Hero 3?

Habey Gonzo · 01-05-2008, 02:35 AM

Hi everyone.

I have a problem. A very important choice to be made!

I recently bought Guitar Hero 3, and like that game a lot. But that game only works in my C partition, which is almost full. So to run the game, I have to remove Cubase and Guitar Pro's RSE plugins (just zip them away, and then it's ok).

What would you prefer having in your disk? I love this game, but I like recording and writing music as well... For the moment, I left guitar hero AND guitar pro, without RSE, and removed Cubase temporarly, knowing that a simple unzip brings it back if needed (and moving Guitar Hero to another drive in the mean time).

What would you do?

Aqualung · 01-05-2008, 02:54 AM

I would dump guitar hero, but then again, I don't like guitar hero.

The Coker Variations · 01-05-2008, 03:01 AM

why not just play a real guitar instead?

much more satisfying i would think

Habey Gonzo · 01-05-2008, 03:29 AM

Well, guitar proo and cubase are for playing with the real guitar, and guitar hero... well, it's quite fun

(and actually the only way for me to "play live")

Rock N' Roller · 01-05-2008, 03:34 AM

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Mongo97 · 01-07-2008, 05:15 PM

What other partitions do you have?

If you can, move something else and keep everything.

Habey Gonzo · 01-07-2008, 05:31 PM

hda1 (NTFS) - windows xp, system and programs - 10 gb, 600megs free after installing GH3
hda2 (EXT3) - lunar linux - 10 gb, about 5 gb free
hda3 (EXT3) - kubuntu - 10 gb, about 4 gb free
hda5 (SWAP) - kubuntu swap file
hda6 (EXT3) - data, music, games, documents, shared by the 3 os'es (windows XP can read EXT3, after installing a plugin) - about 80 gb, 20 or 30 gb are free.

The problem is that GH3 won't work if installed in any other partition. I had a similar program with Battlefield2, but I solved it by playing with the registry and some configuration files. But the same thing doesn't work here. My guess is that it's due to the EXT3 filesystem, not returning the same checksum or something like that.

For the moment, I use two batches, to move things from one place to another, depending if I want to use GH3 or do some music work. It's not too slow, so I guess it can stay that way.

p.s. the only things taking space in hda1, apart from windows itself, are guitarpro, cubase, and GH3. The rest are just small 10 or 20 megs apps.

Joel · 01-13-2008, 08:40 AM

Is there nothing else that you could move so that you can leave the both of those programs and their files where they need to be?

Habey Gonzo · 01-13-2008, 11:48 AM

I'd love to remove Windows XP, but unfortunately, cubase doesn't run very well on linux (Guitar pro does, Guitar Hero as well I think, with a few graphics issues).

When I partitioned the system I thought that the C drive would only be for windows and a few apps, and the games would be in the other one. But since this particular game won't stay with the others ...

Jowed · 01-14-2008, 03:01 AM

Get a new computer

jk lol

See what old documents you don't need anymore and put the ones you need on some sort of storage device like a key or disk. Then just put it in when you need it. That should give you some room.

Habey Gonzo · 01-14-2008, 09:46 AM

No, really, the only thing using space on that disk, apart of these 3 apps, is windoze xp itself. But a few batch scripts are doing the job quite well for the moment. And, while the thing "loads", I can just use that time to browse KMA a bit

The problem wouldn't be the space in the disk (the computer's quite new in fact) but the fact that, when I installed it, I thought every game would be installed in the "big partition", so the windoze partition wouldn't need lots of space. But it's working fine now, more or less

(Could win against Slash in medium mode, and play Welcome to the Jungle, but still struggling with it on the real guitar !)

Jowed · 01-14-2008, 06:09 PM

then i would say a real guitar and maybe return guitar hero 3 and get it for like Ps2

Habey Gonzo · 01-14-2008, 08:10 PM

Well, that's supposing you have a ps2, and a TV to plug it in

Jowed · 01-14-2008, 08:46 PM

you don't have a system or a tv?

Habey Gonzo · 01-14-2008, 08:57 PM

No videogame console, and no TV, since the only use for a TV would be watching DVD's, and for that, I have a nice computer with a big screen and a 5.1 system. And videogame consoles, I like old games (snes, nes, arcade), and those are played in the same computer, with emulators

so no need for a TV

Jowed · 01-14-2008, 09:34 PM

then i would choose real guitar over guitar hero (even though its fun)

Habey Gonzo · 01-14-2008, 10:11 PM

Just found a fun thing to do, if a song is fun to play in the game, it's usually fun t oplay for real as well. So , convert the tracks to ogg format, and in that way you can remove the guitar from the original track, and play guitar "with the real guys, with a real guitar!"

It's quite fun for Welcome to the Jungle, at least, with both the game and the real guitar.

NYDrummer · 01-17-2008, 03:39 AM

define your passions man. would you rather play guitar or play GH3. which one give you more satisfaction? Here's what I say....playing an instrument is a gift so don't neglect it. I would kill GH3 and stick with Cubase and any other recording software you have. Why play GH3, "Play" music, when you can create it?! I think in the long run, you'll be glad you kept it. Besides, things never work 100% after you start moving files and stuff around.

01-05-2008, 02:35 AM	#1
Habey Gonzo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brussels (Belgium) Posts: 1,252 Thanks: 57 Thanked 93 Times in 83 Posts Rep Power: 87	Hi everyone. I have a problem. A very important choice to be made! I recently bought Guitar Hero 3, and like that game a lot. But that game only works in my C partition, which is almost full. So to run the game, I have to remove Cubase and Guitar Pro's RSE plugins (just zip them away, and then it's ok). What would you prefer having in your disk? I love this game, but I like recording and writing music as well... For the moment, I left guitar hero AND guitar pro, without RSE, and removed Cubase temporarly, knowing that a simple unzip brings it back if needed (and moving Guitar Hero to another drive in the mean time). What would you do? __________________ -=The C in rap is silent=- IceWind -=- Habey Gonzo's nest

01-05-2008, 02:54 AM	#2
Aqualung Pshaw! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Washington Posts: 11,548 Thanks: 527 Thanked 731 Times in 684 Posts Rep Power: 271	I would dump guitar hero, but then again, I don't like guitar hero. __________________ Here we go. Mushu cereal for breakfast with duck sauce.

01-05-2008, 03:01 AM	#3
The Coker Variations Official Reviewer Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 279 Thanks: 21 Thanked 37 Times in 28 Posts Rep Power: 50	why not just play a real guitar instead? much more satisfying i would think __________________ It comes to us all, It's as soft as your pillow

01-05-2008, 03:29 AM	#4
Habey Gonzo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brussels (Belgium) Posts: 1,252 Thanks: 57 Thanked 93 Times in 83 Posts Rep Power: 87	Well, guitar proo and cubase are for playing with the real guitar, and guitar hero... well, it's quite fun (and actually the only way for me to "play live") __________________ -=The C in rap is silent=- IceWind -=- Habey Gonzo's nest

01-07-2008, 05:31 PM	#7
Habey Gonzo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brussels (Belgium) Posts: 1,252 Thanks: 57 Thanked 93 Times in 83 Posts Rep Power: 87	hda1 (NTFS) - windows xp, system and programs - 10 gb, 600megs free after installing GH3 hda2 (EXT3) - lunar linux - 10 gb, about 5 gb free hda3 (EXT3) - kubuntu - 10 gb, about 4 gb free hda5 (SWAP) - kubuntu swap file hda6 (EXT3) - data, music, games, documents, shared by the 3 os'es (windows XP can read EXT3, after installing a plugin) - about 80 gb, 20 or 30 gb are free. The problem is that GH3 won't work if installed in any other partition. I had a similar program with Battlefield2, but I solved it by playing with the registry and some configuration files. But the same thing doesn't work here. My guess is that it's due to the EXT3 filesystem, not returning the same checksum or something like that. For the moment, I use two batches, to move things from one place to another, depending if I want to use GH3 or do some music work. It's not too slow, so I guess it can stay that way. p.s. the only things taking space in hda1, apart from windows itself, are guitarpro, cubase, and GH3. The rest are just small 10 or 20 megs apps. __________________ -=The C in rap is silent=- IceWind -=- Habey Gonzo's nest

01-05-2008, 03:34 AM	#5
Rock N' Roller Music \| Life & Purpose Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,495 Thanks: 150 Thanked 72 Times in 57 Posts Rep Power: 72	I'd gu veet Gooeeter Heru, seence-a I dun't pley mooch oozeenteec gooeeter

01-07-2008, 05:15 PM	#6
Mongo97 Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Deepest Darkest Suburbia Posts: 392 Thanks: 4 Thanked 103 Times in 74 Posts Rep Power: 102	What other partitions do you have? If you can, move something else and keep everything.

01-13-2008, 08:40 AM	#8
Joel Biggest gig ever was a talent show Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Cold Cold Canada Posts: 272 Thanks: 32 Thanked 27 Times in 25 Posts Rep Power: 39	Is there nothing else that you could move so that you can leave the both of those programs and their files where they need to be? __________________ Wrong or right, Black or white, If I close my eyes, Its all the same. Joels Guitar Setup = Ibanez RGA Prestige 121 --> Dunlop Crybaby --> Boss Super Overdrive --> Fuchs Tube Job --> Traynor YCS50 (PODXt Live in loop) --> Ears

01-13-2008, 11:48 AM	#9
Habey Gonzo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brussels (Belgium) Posts: 1,252 Thanks: 57 Thanked 93 Times in 83 Posts Rep Power: 87	I'd love to remove Windows XP, but unfortunately, cubase doesn't run very well on linux (Guitar pro does, Guitar Hero as well I think, with a few graphics issues). When I partitioned the system I thought that the C drive would only be for windows and a few apps, and the games would be in the other one. But since this particular game won't stay with the others ... __________________ -=The C in rap is silent=- IceWind -=- Habey Gonzo's nest

01-14-2008, 03:01 AM	#10
Jowed Unregistered is Cool Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Somewhere - hey isn't this a little too long? Nah but this is a kinda long place to live... Posts: 119 Thanks: 15 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Rep Power: 31	Get a new computer jk lol See what old documents you don't need anymore and put the ones you need on some sort of storage device like a key or disk. Then just put it in when you need it. That should give you some room. __________________

01-14-2008, 09:46 AM	#11
Habey Gonzo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brussels (Belgium) Posts: 1,252 Thanks: 57 Thanked 93 Times in 83 Posts Rep Power: 87	No, really, the only thing using space on that disk, apart of these 3 apps, is windoze xp itself. But a few batch scripts are doing the job quite well for the moment. And, while the thing "loads", I can just use that time to browse KMA a bit The problem wouldn't be the space in the disk (the computer's quite new in fact) but the fact that, when I installed it, I thought every game would be installed in the "big partition", so the windoze partition wouldn't need lots of space. But it's working fine now, more or less (Could win against Slash in medium mode, and play Welcome to the Jungle, but still struggling with it on the real guitar !) __________________ -=The C in rap is silent=- IceWind -=- Habey Gonzo's nest

01-14-2008, 06:09 PM	#12
Jowed Unregistered is Cool Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Somewhere - hey isn't this a little too long? Nah but this is a kinda long place to live... Posts: 119 Thanks: 15 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Rep Power: 31	then i would say a real guitar and maybe return guitar hero 3 and get it for like Ps2 __________________

01-14-2008, 08:10 PM	#13
Habey Gonzo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brussels (Belgium) Posts: 1,252 Thanks: 57 Thanked 93 Times in 83 Posts Rep Power: 87	Well, that's supposing you have a ps2, and a TV to plug it in __________________ -=The C in rap is silent=- IceWind -=- Habey Gonzo's nest

01-14-2008, 08:46 PM	#14
Jowed Unregistered is Cool Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Somewhere - hey isn't this a little too long? Nah but this is a kinda long place to live... Posts: 119 Thanks: 15 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Rep Power: 31	you don't have a system or a tv? __________________

01-14-2008, 08:57 PM	#15
Habey Gonzo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brussels (Belgium) Posts: 1,252 Thanks: 57 Thanked 93 Times in 83 Posts Rep Power: 87	No videogame console, and no TV, since the only use for a TV would be watching DVD's, and for that, I have a nice computer with a big screen and a 5.1 system. And videogame consoles, I like old games (snes, nes, arcade), and those are played in the same computer, with emulators so no need for a TV __________________ -=The C in rap is silent=- IceWind -=- Habey Gonzo's nest

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01-14-2008, 09:34 PM	#16
Jowed Unregistered is Cool Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Somewhere - hey isn't this a little too long? Nah but this is a kinda long place to live... Posts: 119 Thanks: 15 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Rep Power: 31	then i would choose real guitar over guitar hero (even though its fun) __________________

01-14-2008, 10:11 PM	#17
Habey Gonzo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brussels (Belgium) Posts: 1,252 Thanks: 57 Thanked 93 Times in 83 Posts Rep Power: 87	Just found a fun thing to do, if a song is fun to play in the game, it's usually fun t oplay for real as well. So , convert the tracks to ogg format, and in that way you can remove the guitar from the original track, and play guitar "with the real guys, with a real guitar!" It's quite fun for Welcome to the Jungle, at least, with both the game and the real guitar. __________________ -=The C in rap is silent=- IceWind -=- Habey Gonzo's nest

01-17-2008, 03:39 AM	#18
NYDrummer NYC Born and Bred Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 100 Thanks: 0 Thanked 12 Times in 10 Posts Rep Power: 32	define your passions man. would you rather play guitar or play GH3. which one give you more satisfaction? Here's what I say....playing an instrument is a gift so don't neglect it. I would kill GH3 and stick with Cubase and any other recording software you have. Why play GH3, "Play" music, when you can create it?! I think in the long run, you'll be glad you kept it. Besides, things never work 100% after you start moving files and stuff around. __________________ www.conflictinthesky.com www.sellaband.com/conflictinthesky

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