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Cubasis 3.7 & Iconica Sketch for iPhone, iPad and Every AU-compatible DAW Are Here!
Dear all,
Hopefully you are all well.
Today we’re very glad to announce the release of Cubasis 3.7, which brings the long-awaited tempo and signature track support that allows you to create more dynamic, flexible, and expressive compositions with ease, alongside other new features and improvements, making Cubasis more powerful and intuitive than ever.
But wait, there’s more!
We’re also delighted to debut Iconica Sketch, our very first standalone orchestral instrument app available for iPhone, iPad, and every AU-compatible DAW*. Iconica Sketch brings the lush sound of orchestral instruments to your mobile workflow, empowering you to compose, arrange, and produce stunning scores wherever inspiration strikes.
Download Cubasis on the App Store
Download Iconica Sketch for iPhone and iPad on the App Store
Below, you’ll find all the details about the new Iconcia Sketch iPhone/iPad app, the latest Cubasis 3.7 update, as well as its improvements and fixes.
We hope you enjoy these updates as much as we enjoyed creating them!
And if you do, we’d be immensely grateful if you could leave us a like and review on the App Store.
Thank you for your support, and now let’s make some great music!
Another big thank you to Michael (Tyson) for having this great forum and allow us to share the news!
Enjoy being creative
& warm greetings,
Lars
*Iconica Sketch is also available via Cubasis for Android in-app purchase
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New in Cubasis 3.7
Tempo and signature track support
Take your music creation with Cubasis to the next level, now featuring tempo and signature track support. Easily adjust tempo and time signatures on the fly to match your creative vision. Effortlessly create tracks with unique time signatures, explore new rhythmic patterns, and craft dynamic music that keeps listeners hooked. Unleash your creativity and make every beat count with tempo and signature track support.
Additional Iconica Sketch Cubasis plug-in version
Iconica Sketch, our brand-new iOS/iPadOS orchestral app, pairs brillant audio quality with magical simplicity allowing you to create musical masterpieces on the move, on your iPhone and iPad, as well as with every AU-compatible DAW. Plus, if you own both Cubasis and Iconica Sketch, you get a free additional Cubasis plug-in version of the instrument for improved integration and maximum performance.
Free FM Classics (IAP) voice ROM update
Cubasis' FM Classics IAP comes with all the classic DX7 and TX81Z factory sounds, which match the originals as close as it’s possible to get. To celebrate Yamaha’s Synth 50th Anniversary, you can enjoy the free DX7 voice ROM 101∼106 update, which adds 384 keyboard, plucked and tuned percussion, wind instrument, sustain, sound effect and synthesizer patches, bringing the golden sound of the 1980s back to life.
Improvements
Cubasis assures you always stay focused on your creativity. Cubasis 3.7 matches powerful features and improvements with unmatched usability, ensuring maximum performance and enduring stability, supporting you by helping you to capture your ideas and polish them into amazing sounding tracks.
Cubasis 3.7 | Improvements & Fixes
Arrange Window
* CBT-2998 Playhead scrubbing with multicore disabled no longer renders Cubasis unreliable.
* CBT-3185 Zooming into audio tracks during playback no longer leads to artefacts or high DSP consumption.
* CBT-3326 Zooming the track height during playback no longer leads to artefacts or high DSP consumption.
* CBT-3590 Solves a problem where using undo and redo could break the undo history.
* CBT-3496 Fixes a problem where undo of freezing a track did not work as expected.
* CBT-3892 Fixes several issues where using undo does not work as expected.
* CBT-3855 Creating new copies of an event no longer leads to deleting previously pasted events.
* CBT-3867 Resolves a problem where splitting an audio event could result in overlapping events.
* CBT-4039 Drawing MIDI events of zero length is no longer possible.
* CBT-3417 Addresses an incorrect solo/mute behavior when using group tracks.
* CBT-2966 Resolves an issue where splitting MIDI events had no effect while editors were open.
* CBT-3988 Fixes an issue where wrong or no automation names were displayed in the inspector.
* CBT-3872 Fixes an issue where multi-select fails to work on tracks.
* CBT-3869 Frozen events can no longer be opened in the editors.
* CBT-3992 Fixes an issue where using the copy event handle does not lead to the expected result.
Instruments & Effects
* CBT-3980 Improved real-time freeze and mixdown.
* CBT-3857 Resolves a rare problem where the user interface of an Audio Unit plug-in remains invisible.
* CBT-3888 AU and IAA plugin icons are now properly updated when an icon changes.
* CBT-3801 Browsing the HALion Sonic Selection presets no longer switches to the "Top Picks" folder.
* CBT-3845 Keyswitch coloring for the HALion Sonic Selection IAP has been added to the Cubasis keyboard.
* CBT-3908 MIDI effect notes are no longer dropped if note repeat is enabled.
* CBT-3858 Reducing automation points of Audio Unit plug-ins now works as expected.
* CBT-3815 The status of the "White keys touchable between black keys" setup option no longer resets on app launch.
* CBT-3826 The status of the "Dark Keyboard" setup option no longer resets on app launch.
Editors
* CBT-3945 Resolves a problem where selecting a MIDI parameter doesn’t deselect the previous parameter's points.
* CBT-3963 MIDI editor undo messages no longer cover up undo buttons.
* CBT-4013 Audio editor trim no longer shows a wrong section after splitting an audio file.
* CBT-3927 The automation line no longer disappears when the view is after the last point.
Miscellaneous
* CBT-3912 Fixes an issue where moving a project into a folder could result in a damaged project.
* CBT-3834 Resolves a problem where using the normalize mixdown option could lead to an error message.
* CBT-3898 MIDI Learn of CC messages now reacts to values greater or equal 64 (was 127 previously).
* CBT-3481 MIDI Learn no longer triggers rewind/forward buttons when MIDI CC with a value of 0 is received.
Tutorial | Iconica Sketch for iPhone and iPad
Tutorial | Tempo and signature track support in Cubasis 3.7
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Wow! Been waiting for the tempo change feature for such a long time, can’t wait to use it!
Thank you so much 💛 🎶
Thank you @LFS and team! That’s maybe the most significant missing feature knocked off the TO-DO list!
Although I now use Logic mostly, I do have a soft spot for Cubasis and adding a tempo track is the feature I most wanted in it. It’s always good to have choices and I would hate to see this iOS DAW fall by the wayside, so I will buy the new sound module when I get paid to keep supporting them, as I buy all add ons for it.
Thanks for continued support of this app.
That Orchestra app looks really great value as an AuV3!
Iconica Sketch is great fun, fantastic sounding instruments and great keyswitch/articulation implementation. Hoping that gets expanded on, would love more instruments and articulations! Great job.
Increased range of compound Time Signatures, e.g. 12/8, now available up to 64/64!
@LFS are you going to make Iconica Sketch feature parallel with desktop? I was assuming it was already unfortunately.
At the moment I think? it's missing a couple features that I was really looking forward to using when reading the manual.
Notably, True Release; and being able to stack articulations. I'm also not finding any indication of True Legato.
All of these are key features of this plugin. Please let us know if these are coming or currently available.
Great update way to go Cubasis team.
Looks like you have to download Iconica Sketch twice if you want it in Cubasis 3 so that 3.6 GB in total ! Thankfully I have the space.
Iconica Sketch is very good for it's size. It's a 1.8GB download, but I'm guessing that it's compressed and decompresses to an equivalent size of the desktop version, which is 4.6GB.
The full Iconica was created in partnership with Berlin's Orchestral Tools and comes in at a near whopping 200GB. Most folk agree that Iconica Opus doesn't match up to specialist libraries from Spitfire and Orchestral Tools, but Steinberg did a superb job of picking the best aspects of Iconica Opus to provide a wide palette of articulations that excel, especially across the sections and ensembles in the cut down Sketch version. It compares well with the Spitfire and Orchestral Tools libraries available in Staffpad, but obviously has the added advantage of being an AUv3. For £19.99 it's a veritable bargain as the same library with an identical number of instruments and articulations costs £99 on the desktop.
Hi @Jumpercollins
When you own both Cubasis and Iconica Sketch, you will have the option to install an additional Cubasis plug-in version of the instrument which integrates better. If you decide against it, you can also use the AUv3 version of Iconica Sketch in Cubasis.
Hope that helps!
Best,
Lars
This could be better news for me than the (of course very welcome) ability to change signature and tempo within a song!
this should have happened years ago before I got invested in Logic. Not gonna switch now. too little, too late.
I’m glad I was the bearer of good news to you! I can’t see it mentioned anywhere in the “new features”. It was the first thing I looked for as I’m working on something in 12/8 at the minute.
Iconica Sketch sounds right up my street, but the instruments sound like they have reverb added - is there an option to turn this off for a dry sound?
Dear moderator, my suggestion would be to create a separate forum category 'Cubasis'.
Is it possible to store Iconica Sketch content to an external drive?
In the app store I saw the size of 19.4 MB (hooray!), but here I found that it is way more (1.8GB?).
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iconica-sketch-orchestra-app/id6504404183
Hi @filo01
There is no option to store the Iconica Sketch content to an external drive.
Best,
Lars
Thanks @LFS!! All we need now is plug in delay compensation. Thanks for finally implementing the tempo/time signature features… And @jwmmakerofmusic ssid we need a drum module/machine also . I’m sure that’s coming g in version 3.8..
HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
FOR ALL THOSE WHO TALKED ALL THAT ISSSH
WHO RULES???
CUBASIS RULES!!
ALWAYS DID
ALWAYS WILL
1 DAW ON IOS
(Aka Da Logic Killah)
Enjoy your subs
[special shout out to SOTMC, esp JK lmao]
I told yall….
YESSSSSSS!!!!
For all those wondering,
Now THIS is a real update
It's the big one! The Cubasis 3.7 update.
A full orchestra of incredible sounding instruments on a mobile device, and it’s as cheap as chips! Standalone, AUV3 + Native In Cubasis 3. Trying not to say “Gamechanger” like a cheesy YouTuber 😂😂
+1
You know what
I usually wouldn’t agree but since Logic got its own (undeserved) category Cubasis Definitely deserves one, as the new reigning champion
I think that’s a great idea
Thanks for sharing
Holy crap! ☺️ This is an excellent update. I think I'll be using Cubasis a bit more than Nanostudio 2 for my music (which is Electronic/melodic Ambient/Score work).
@LFS If I may make one feature request, it would be to be able to have a dedicated drum module in Cubasis 3 (similar to Slate in Nanostudio 2 if you're able to). For me personally, it'd be easier to have that than utilise an AU plugin for the task.
I think Groove Agent as an IAP - or Groove Agent included and IAP’s for different kits.