Three weeks with Cubasis

alexis · September 15, 2013, 6:02am

3sl:

So after using Cubasis for a few weeks I have the following to report

generally a great app, although feels like it’s been engineered to force you to use the full Cubase (i.e. no automation, no stereo effects, no visual feedback in plugins (compression)…all the things needed to start and finish a song on a single device)

excellent integration with external apps such as Audiobus, CoreMidi

does not feel ‘rock solid’ though

crashes sometimes result in corrupt files, this has happened to me in only three weeks of use

mixdowns sometimes have tracks playing at different speeds, or out of sync (this happens randomly). I have tried restarting my iPad (I haven’t seen this reported elsewhere so perhaps I’m just expecting too much from Cubasis)

some parts of a track do not play at all. I have a spoken vocal track with multiple snipets. One part starts to play then stops halfway through. all other tracks keep playing though. I get this on mixdown as well

extremely, extremely slow undo/redo - I can sit there for 20 seconds waiting while Cubasis try’s to move a part back a few bars

I am running Cubasis on an iPad 4 64GB - quite a powerful little device so I didn’t expect to see some of the issues I’m seeing.

Thanks for that update, 3sl!

Can I ask, are you recording any audio … if so what interface are you using, are you happy with that combination, what kind of latency are you getting?

Thanks!