Cubasis 1.2 available!

Great news!

I’m very excited to see how we can use Cubasis to augment a larger DAW setup with Cubase.

I like my tablet for portability and the touch interface, but realize it’s just impossible to recreate a full setup on a tablet. Better as a creative tool for coming up with content/ideas to then later bring back to a project.

Glad you guys are on top of the stability and updates!

My intent is mostly live recording and frankly, I was hoping to NOT have to get one of those pocket mp3 recorders. Portability is so key . Adding the Alesis io dock is a goal since I can minimize cabling, once I can get to stereo mics, I’m probably done…love it so far and it really has performed well in live events. I can also say that the iPhone 5 video did a pretty darn good job with audio as well.

I did not know the process by which Apple approves your app. I was thinking that since it was 25 to 50 times the price of their usual app, maybe they would respond 25-50 times quicker.

Hi there,
From our past experience it takes about 7 days for Apple to get to review the app and it doesn’t matter if the app is free or paid.

Not too much longer to wait now guys. Of course, then we will be pushing for the 1.3 update :wink:

Hey looking forward to the update :smiley: have you concidered to include edit funktion Insert.also it would be nice to have timestretch included for the audiosamples?,
I find it impossible to do tthe fade out/in on the tracks its like it’s bad functioning!
Br
Ren

As far as I can tell, Cubasis only supports 16-bit audio. This is a showstopper for me. I haven’t been recording in 16-bits for at least a decade.

I think that the Cubasis/iPad combination would be ideal as a scetchpad. But for this to be feasable, Cubasis must support bitdepths that are usable in Cubase.

Are there any plans to support 32-bit FP (ideally) or at least 24-bit audio?

ACE work looking forward to a stable app

What personally bugs me (no pun intended) is that updates to existing apps take as long to go through approval process with Apple as the newly submitted apps… WHY…?!
PS; My impatience to get my hands on Cubasis 1.2 is killing me, but than again, good things take time to develop :wink:
Anyway, thanks heaps Steinberg for supporting Cubasis and working on improvements and bug fixes so promptly - love it :slight_smile:

Hi all,

The update is now online!
Please don’t forget to update your Audiobus app too!

Absolutely excellent, this is going to be MEGA.

An chance of leaving the WiFi sever active when the app goes into background mode ?

Cheers.

It’ s not like I have nothing to do, but I did check routinely to see when the update would post. Yup, it is running very nicely on my iPad. I am really looking for an interface next and I am trying to maximize the portability and simplicity.
Will Steinberg be developing an iOS entry?

I really hoped the Alesis iO Dock was going to be updated sooner . That seems to grab my attention and appears to fit the portable, simple requirement.

Thank - you for a well-done job

Thanks for the update - time will tell regarding the overall stability, but i appreciate your efforts to develop and maintain this app.

However I have one issue to report that is not fixed. I previously had an issue with pitch bend not being moved with the rest of a track. This has been fixed so that dragging a track around also moves its associated pitch bend. However this has not been fixed for copy and paste. I created a short segment with pitch bend, then copy and pasted that to the next few bars - the notes were there but no pitch bend data!

Please can this be fixed asap.

How very disappointing! :frowning:
Two updates and still only 16 bit audio! Please please please make this app usable for professionals and add 24 bit support!

Hi Wally,
Upgrading the audio engine from 16 bit to 24 bit is not just simply changing a number in the code. It’s more like a heart surgery. This can not be done within a maintenance update as we don’t want to risk the stability. As I have written somewhere else, we have this topic on our list and will tackle it in due time. In the meantime we will give the users other features that have been requested too. :slight_smile:

so far so good, hasnt crashed yet!

I suggest that you take a look at your priorities, and move this to the top of the list (heartsurgery or not). Does anyone record in 16-bit anymore? I haven’t done so for over a decade!

It’s a great pity that an excellent product like Cubasis is rendered useless by this flaw. This is a showstopper for me, and I won’t touch it until you solve this major flaw. I can assure you that you are loosing a lot of sales, while your customers are sitting around, waiting (and getting annoyed)!

Easy on the negativity. I made a post about this previously…Please..... - Cubasis - Steinberg Forums

It’s not a show stopper for everyone and it’s not going to stop sales. We all have different requirements and working with 24bit is not an issue for most people as it is outside the scope of this App.

Like I mentioned in the previous post, if it’s not suitable for the end user, they should remove the app from their device and put it down to a bad experience. For potential buyers, the same rules apply as when you buy anything… research it first and know it’s limitations BEFORE hitting the download button!

In the meantime, stay positive, be patient and help the developers to make this App reach it’s full potential.

NB> I don’t have anything to do with Steinberg and I have no vested interest other than the fact that I use cubase and cubasis and come on this forum to get updates and like reading the constructive opinions of the other users which are helping to steer the direction of the App. :ugeek:

“Easy on the negativity”. Well, take it easy on the fanatism.

Cubasis has the potential to become a very valuable tool or remain an (expensive) toy. Without support for 24-bit or 32-bit FP audio, it is unfortunately firmly anchored in the toy department. This is not negativism, it is realism.

The 16-bit audio is simply of too poor quality to be used in a professional project. It’s like going back to using cassettes for demos. I’m sure that there isn’t an engineer around that haven’t agonized over demo-performances that couldn’t be used because of poor technical quality and that couldn’t be reproduced.

Cubasis would be an excellent alternative to a powerbook running Cubase LE. But with only support for 16-bit audio, it is unfortunately useless for this purpose.

I would argue that without support for meter and tempo track, it is even more firmly in the “toy” department than without 24+ bit audio support. As it stands now, I can sketch out some compositional ideas, but everything becomes a throwaway once I get home and can work on a real Cubase. Cubase’s heart is as a sequencing tool, not as an audio multitracking tool, and right now we’ve got a heart with only two chambers out of four.
(how’s that for stretching the metaphor?)

I bought Cubasis even though I don’t own an iPad (have one for work) --my top two priorities future updates would be:
Windows RT version
Meter & tempo track

Hello guys,

Thank you for your honest feedback. :slight_smile:
We are musicians too and use our products intensively at work and at home. Of course there was a ton of feature that we would have wanted to include from the first release. But if we would have tried implementing everything for v.1.0 Cubasis wouldn’t be in your hands for at least one or two years.