spot on, but this is the point… all the other daw’s have an auto slicing mode that works when you change tempo automatically.
I am demoing cubase 9 at present and it sounds absolutely awful, slowing down any kind of drum loop or drum audio file, when using elastique (or any mode available in the entire program).
Transient loss, phases.
There is another issue… if you import a loop that is already at the correct tempo and musical mode is enabled, it affects the sound of the file… cubase is not smart enough to reference the original audio when it has detected it is the same tempo as the project (clearly evidenced in the tempo display).
I tested this today with a kick loop that i exported from groove agent at 130bpm, in an 130bpm project. Disabling musical mode and it sounded exactly as exported… enabled, every few kicks, every so often, you can hear some mush clearly. Not good!
So out of all the DAW’s, once again, STILL, cubase has the absolute worst drum/transient material time stretch when used in real time… I compared every daw yesterday stretching two drum files and 2 synth files… cubase only sounds great on the synth stuff…
Studio one sounded great on everything, just choose elastique “sound” for the synths and “drum” for the, er drums.
Logic just choose slicing or rhythm for the beats and complex for the synths - perfect
same with live
pro tools is actually not the best… it is NOT using z plane elastique as some people think but rather “elastic audio” and their own(or izotope’s) algorithms… with big stretches on poly stuff, the poly mode is not the best, but the rhythm mode is great for beats. I choose x form for pro tools which takes a sec to render, when it’s time to mix down… and it sounds wonderful on synths and instruments. So overall, yes it still sounds much better than cubase.
Point is, all these daw’s have a way to change tempo on the fly as much as you want, and the drums sound good. Cubase can’t do it, simple as that.
You don’t think this is an oversight? A big one at that?
PS i should add, cubase is actually not the worst, Dp9.5 is… the very worst by a large margin. Cubase is second.