Steinberg dropped Cubase 15 today and here a list with all the new features:
https://www.steinberg.net/cubase/new-features/
Also a the youtube channel is updated with new videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@Cubase/videos
I am myself on Nuendo 14 and likely have to wait a few months before these features hit Nuendo, but so far I am not that hyped on what is new. Some interesting stuff like per articulation negative track delay, the expression maps update looks nice at first glance and the new modulators are also looking fine.
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Cubase 15 is released
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Re: Cubase 15 is released
All due apologies in advance for being a misery on launch day.
This is a pretty disappointing update for me personally. I abandoned Expression Maps over a decade ago and never looked back - I found them so cumbersome and illogical. I appreciate the new version will help, but it mainly seems to be refinements in the setup. I actually found in use it never behaved as I wanted - I got good people here to hold my hand, I had 3 separate attempts to really give it a go but I always hated it when actually trying to use the damn thing in a composition. I don't think the new improvements think will change the core behaviour I never liked.
Really all I ever wanted was a partition bar in the key editor to make keyswitches immune from transposition etc and the ability to see the named keys in the key editor and just work with the switches as notes. That's it. I wanted it less engineered, not more.
Aside from that the stem separation quality seems poorer than the competition; the AI voice thing looks cumbersome and sounds not great; there's a melody thing mmmmok, an ever expanding hub which looks less clear than before, tons of modulators and plugins I won't use.
About the only feature I liked the look of was the ability to put a separator in the plugin manager. Yay. Oh, and if the exporting is faster that's genuinely good.
Cubase is getting bigger and bigger every year and to me it is genuinely off-putting. I don't use 80% of it now, and almost all the new stuff I won't use either.
The things I really want are better performance and day to day workflow improvements. How about slicker and reliable ways to work with multi-out instruments? How about always bringing VIs to the front, if they are open, whenever you switch channels? Core workflow stuff like that.
Ah well, an easy one to skip so to be fair.... what am I complaining about?
(I posted this on VI-C)
This is a pretty disappointing update for me personally. I abandoned Expression Maps over a decade ago and never looked back - I found them so cumbersome and illogical. I appreciate the new version will help, but it mainly seems to be refinements in the setup. I actually found in use it never behaved as I wanted - I got good people here to hold my hand, I had 3 separate attempts to really give it a go but I always hated it when actually trying to use the damn thing in a composition. I don't think the new improvements think will change the core behaviour I never liked.
Really all I ever wanted was a partition bar in the key editor to make keyswitches immune from transposition etc and the ability to see the named keys in the key editor and just work with the switches as notes. That's it. I wanted it less engineered, not more.
Aside from that the stem separation quality seems poorer than the competition; the AI voice thing looks cumbersome and sounds not great; there's a melody thing mmmmok, an ever expanding hub which looks less clear than before, tons of modulators and plugins I won't use.
About the only feature I liked the look of was the ability to put a separator in the plugin manager. Yay. Oh, and if the exporting is faster that's genuinely good.
Cubase is getting bigger and bigger every year and to me it is genuinely off-putting. I don't use 80% of it now, and almost all the new stuff I won't use either.
The things I really want are better performance and day to day workflow improvements. How about slicker and reliable ways to work with multi-out instruments? How about always bringing VIs to the front, if they are open, whenever you switch channels? Core workflow stuff like that.
Ah well, an easy one to skip so to be fair.... what am I complaining about?
(I posted this on VI-C)
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scherzo
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Re: Cubase 15 is released
Yeah, I feel similar.
I'm an expression map nerd so I'm very excited (and more than a little terrified) to dig into the new system. Will report back when I get to it!
Other than that, most of these updates strike me as decidedly meh, if not outright worrisome for the future. I guess it's a universal trend these days to include more and more toy-like features - like the weird melodic pattern editor, or the 'probability of play' parameter in the previous version - aimed at the most casual of dabblers (and AI gimmickry creeping into everything), and fine I guess, if that's where the money is. You can be sure I'll be complaining about it every step along the way though.
On my personal wish-list: fix long-standing bugs and reliability issues, give me a proper VCA implementation (which I believe Nuendo already has?) and time-stretching in the piano roll. And I wish DAW-makers would stop doing synths, plugins and 'content', and just focus on the core application instead - you know, the one thing that I can't easily cover with third-party solutions.
Ah well, enough complaining, time to go actually download the thing.
Dear Expression Maps 2.0, please be good, please be good....
I'm an expression map nerd so I'm very excited (and more than a little terrified) to dig into the new system. Will report back when I get to it!
Other than that, most of these updates strike me as decidedly meh, if not outright worrisome for the future. I guess it's a universal trend these days to include more and more toy-like features - like the weird melodic pattern editor, or the 'probability of play' parameter in the previous version - aimed at the most casual of dabblers (and AI gimmickry creeping into everything), and fine I guess, if that's where the money is. You can be sure I'll be complaining about it every step along the way though.
On my personal wish-list: fix long-standing bugs and reliability issues, give me a proper VCA implementation (which I believe Nuendo already has?) and time-stretching in the piano roll. And I wish DAW-makers would stop doing synths, plugins and 'content', and just focus on the core application instead - you know, the one thing that I can't easily cover with third-party solutions.
Ah well, enough complaining, time to go actually download the thing.
Dear Expression Maps 2.0, please be good, please be good....
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Re: Cubase 15 is released
Re. Guy’s sentiments, my feelings match his. The term “bloatware” resurfaces in my mind, and I see very few features that I really need or want. Perhaps time will prove me wrong, but certainly less than excited at this early stage.
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Re: Cubase 15 is released
Still on 10.5 here. I bought the upgrade to 13 and never installed it because it didn’t include the one thing I really want, which is the ability to export a finished video with music that isn’t hugely bigger that the imported video I receive from clients.
From the lack of mentions, I assume that hadn’t changed in 15 either?
From the lack of mentions, I assume that hadn’t changed in 15 either?