Cubase 10 expectations, hopes, etc.?

Ah man, many (including me) have posted so many things over the years and for 9.5, I just don’t have the time to write it all out again, sorry. :slight_smile: But there are plenty of things that would make things faster and more intuitive (especially if some are given as options for those who prefer the current way even if it’s slower).

THIS!!!

All true and excellent points. It just needs to be paid attention to and modernized (i.e. made faster, more efficient and less clunky/click heavy) in these and some other ways.

Totally agree with these points in particular & especially (8) in comparion to other DAWs.

Track Presets 2.0 - Track presets 2.0 - Cubase - Steinberg Forums . Would transform my DAW use if its rugged and reliable. Don’t care about much else save for bug fixes.

These are all prime for me, and perfectly said. Man, Ripple Editing would be such a gigantic win for Cubase. Let’s hope they “get” what it is (it’s so simple a concept – I have hard time understanding why some don’t get it).

Dual MONO
Massively overhauled SRC

I wish :

  • improvement of latency management (I have better latency in Pro Tools than in Cubase)
  • preset for instruments Rack with the multi audio outpouts linked to it
  • maybe a better color mapping for the console instead of just a little part.

Some of the rumours I have heard for Cubase 10 Pro sound amazing. Here they are:

  1. An AI plug-in which monitors the program for bugs as they occur on the user’s system. The bugs are fixed before a crash happens and the user’s OS is tweaked and optimised.
  2. With the aid of a new and inexpensive piece of Steinberg hardware there will be an interface that allows Cubase to know what you are thinking, make suggestions and help you through difficult periods of composition [and your life].
  3. Some users who have important clients and wish to get their projects finished yesterday will receive preferential VIP treatment. They will always receive financial compensation for any delays. They just have to press a special button on the Hub - only they are allowed to press it.
  4. Cubase will now run on any piece of hardware even if it has no computing power whatsoever.
  5. Those users who wish to use Cubase on several computers that are 1000s of km apart will only require the one dongle. The program will be able to run simultaneously on all of the computers without any latency by using quantum entanglement.
  6. Customer service is to be expanded. Every user will have their own Steinberg employee allocated to them who will be able to call round at their house at a moment’s notice.
  7. Sorry, I just woke up…[sound of delay+reverb added].

LOL, awesome list!

I’d like some sort of sub track - Audio warp is such a great feature, but we should able to warp multiple tracks together without the need for workarounds. It puts me off recording with multiple microphones. If we record with multiple microphones, safe in the knowledge we could audio warp them together that would be ace. Some sort of sub track, where they could be treated as one track on the mixer would work really well.

Some of my hopes actually aren’t features but Steinberg streamlining.

  • get rid of the paid .5 versions so that there is only focus on ONE version for updates and bug fixes.
  • get rid of either Cubase Artist or Cubase Elements and streamline the programs (considering there is also the Nuendo lineup)

Feature hopes

  • access and utilize hit-point information via Arranger for various tools (eg. scissors + locators) (ie quickly chop drum parts to hit points from Arranger)
  • improve mixer GUI
  • variety of templates included for included sounds
  • better dialog menus such as create a new track(s) with more properties (eg Logic)
  • change project audio folder location manually
  • Arranger track improvements such as record audio in Arranger mode
  • new arpeggiator + pattern sequencer
  • Score tablature display improvements (it currently displays inappropriate fingerings)
  • multi-channel audio handling improvements (eg use 4 or 5 channel audio format for recording multi-source), so that editing audio is easier

Feature expectations

  • mono/stereo stereo/mono conversion no rendering required (audio clips maintain information such as splits+fades, etc)
  • VST 2.4 works as expected
  • new VST rack (re-arrange racks, better GUI + scaling)
  • import dual mono as stereo
  • new and improved audio export dialog to better handle the individual tasks of 1) track mixdown 2) export channels
  • export audio channels feature to keep audio properties ‘as is’, such as bitrate + stereo/mono
  • import audio dialog options such as bitrate + stereo/mono (eg. down conversion of import audio)
  • export slices feature (this works currently but there is no actual ‘feature’ to support this

None of this sounds good, I would already want an update. :laughing:

A huge one would be Instrument Tracks being truly multitimbral with audio and MIDI. No, I’m not talking about the Instrument Rack, I’m talking about Instrument Tracks. Let me explain. Instead of having to assign a separate MIDI track to every audio output after the Main output, we should have every output be like the Main output is now: With a MIDI track embedded into it. You can still freely assign extra MIDI if you want, but having every output embedded with a selectable/changeable MIDI channel is light years ahead of what we have now, which is only the Main/1st Output from the VSTi doing what I’m talking about. Logic is great example (and Studio One and almost all others) of how this should work. Instrument Tracks are definitely unfinished in Cubase, and this would finish and make them far more flexible and useful since we wouldn’t have to have a separate MIDI and audio track for every output other then the main one like it is now.

I mentioned this in Feature Requests a while ago, but this has been a request for many years here.

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Please steinberg!! I beg you! :smiley:

I wish they’d create “Levels” for editing automation…or any track
eg: If your automation channel is selected, the ONLY thing you can edit is within that track.

Kinda like layers where every track down eliminates you accidentally hitting anything from the other tracks so you can’t select anything else.

Of course this should be added to preferences so it’s also something you can toggle…

Nice idea, would simplify things a lot. I guess one consideration would be an easy way to keep the legacy way of working a) for compatibility and b) sometimes to work just with one or just a few audio outputs with many midi inputs. So you’d need a checkbox or something either in preferences or in the New Track pop up to combine midi and audio for all additional tracks.

YES! I have also suggested this in the feature requests a couple times over the years. Cubase will be the last kid to the party on this one but better late than never! :slight_smile:

I’m fairly new user, but coming from 8 years of using Reaper, which has a lot of features that are requested here for Cubase, but is absolutely terrible at workflow, and bugs are way worse then they seam to be in Cubase, and for all those who think Cubase UI has problems, they should go try Reaper for a month, build their own toolbar picking from hundreds if not thousandths of half working script, and then try and complete something more complex than pop song in it, and I bet those people won’t even last a month and will run back to Cubase crying ;D

Thought, what i’d like to see in C10, that would be slight cleaner interface thought too. I really like Cubase 7 interface - very tidy and clean, and faster to work with then 9’s. I don’t really care much for customization, and I believe UX specialists are there to do the job for me.

I’d also like to be able to change midi in’s for all selected tracks all together ( thought maybe it isn’t possible only in EL which I use )

Also, some way of accessing an instrument ui when many tracks are selected at the same time.

Also, stretching midi notes and items, which is something I do miss from Reaper ( you hold Alt key and can grab one of the item or selected notes side and stretch all off them so that they still maintain their relative position).

Also, more insert notes options, like insert every second grid etc, just more of automated tools with options in general.

But as I said, some of those might already be available in artist or pro version.