Seven minutes of organized chaos in Cubase. At this point, color coding is doing more work than I am. Anyone else’s projects end up looking like this?

I used to use fl and I made 2 orchestral covers with it. I recently switch to cubase and this is my first project. I'm still learning making it. This is just the intro and I aam working on the rest.

So.. way back in the Stone Age, I used cubase 5 and had great fun.. but since starting college and later “working in the industry” I had to use protools (also logic and ableton).. and protools is definitely fantastic. And expensive.. but since covid I haven’t been working in studios, mostly just mixing and mastering at home with my own home set up.

With the cost of existing in this world is bad enough as is, protools is extortionately priced. Paying that much for something I don’t even own. Fuck that. So I stopped altogether, and nabbed cubase pro 13 during the recent sale AND with a competitive cross grade, so an amazing deal.

I’ve spent the past few weeks re-adjusting to cubase, shortcuts, workflow etc.

And my my.. cubase has come a LONG way in recent years. There’s maybe 1 or 2 tiny things I don’t like about it, and would prefer pro tools for.. but over all, it’s routing, editing, and workflow is second to none. And god damn the midi capabilities are incredible! And I love how modular and customisable it is.

I do a lot of composing and orchestral mock ups in FL studio, as it’s what I’m used to most. But cubase being one the best in the industry for that kinda thing is making me wanna do everything all in cubase.

But most of all, the stock plugins are some of the best I’ve seen! There’s a few that I would happily pay for!

It’s reinvigorated my passion for music and producing and I’m having so much fun with it!

WHY DIDNT NO ONE TELL ME SOONER?! Lol all you ever hear is “yeh but pro tools is the best, industry standard and all that jazz”.. and why? Pro tools is ugly, awkward, unstable and has some of the worst midi utility of ANY daw.

Friendship with pro tools ended❌ Cubase is now best friend ❤️

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Hello everyone,

I’ve been using Cubase since the SX version, and I’ve always loved this DAW for its fast editing workflow. I’ve always found the software intuitive and natural to use.

It allows me to create pieces like these, which are very resource-intensive and would be unthinkable on other sequencers (I don't say you can't make it on Logic or DP, it’s just that they don’t suit me personally)

Even though I’ve worked for a while with Logic Pro (very good overall, but the audio editing never really suited me), Pro Tools (MIDI editing was so-so), and FL Studio (nice native plugins, but MIDI/audio editing really below par for me), I always ended up coming back.

All of this to say that the environment of this DAW perfectly fits my needs. However, since upgrading to version 15, I’ve noticed a change that I don’t like. Either I’m experiencing an issue or a bug, or this is an intentional change, in which case I don’t really understand it.

The Quantize function has disappeared from the main arrangement window, and even though I was able to bring it back in the editor window, it no longer changes the grid timing.

Before, I just had to switch to triplets for the grid to adapt automatically. Since version 15, that’s no longer the case. Now I have to go through the Inspector to make changes, which is much more cumbersome.

Why this change? Is my version corrupted?

EDIT : This piece was made on Cubase 14 not 15 that's why we can see the quantize values in the video.

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I hope this helps someone!

Ctrl+Z will undo changes in the arrangement/editor portion of Cubase/Nuendo, Alt+Z will undo changes in plugins (including 3rd party) and the mixer.

For mac it would be Opt+Z

https://www.steinberg.net/cubase/new-features/

What they should've added

1. Automate last touched parameter

2. Undo and redo for VSTi instruments (I remember using that In Cubase 12) using the mix console or edit functions for the same

3. Midi Strum (logic, FL Studio, Studio One, Ableton all have this)

4. The Ability to share Macros as a standalone file for these can be imported directly. To replicate a macro right now requires you to manually arrange key commands and Logical Editor Presets for them to work.

5. Batch renaming of Audio and Midi Events across multiple tracks to match track name

This would've really been a solid set of updates.

I'm running the demo right now and so far I haven't come across this.

It's shocking to see how a company that's been around for such a long time has completely skipped over the basics.

One argument that I've seen about the lack of vst instrument undo and redo is that the plugin companies need to add that as a feature to their products and that Steinberg shouldn't be held responsible for the lack of this functionality.

Why would a plugin company add this to their Vst instrument if every other DAW offers this natively except Cubase?

Cubase users are a small part of their customer base so there isn't any incentive for them to work on this. Steinberg on the other hand should take a closer look at these things and try to rectify them in the near future.

This functionality is a part of Cubase 12 however it was considered to be a bug in the software as it wasn't working properly with some plugins. Instead of rectifying that the company conveniently decided to remove it.

Imagine how a new user will feel if they're used to having this as a feature in whichever DAW they previously used and it suddenly doesn't work anymore. This is definitely useful for people who do serious sound design as well as regular users who want to toggle between different settings before committing to one thing.

If someone from their software development team is reading this, please work on these things and make a great DAW even better.

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