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Hi @ehehehe,
This is great news, thanks for letting us know...
Best,
Lars
Hey Krassmann. All the drum parts go to a bus group track, so they can be processed with some additional effects. Same applies to the bass and synth groups. I usually apply some EQ to the groups as a whole, maybe some compression / side-chain or saturation etc. Just allows a bit more 'shaping' of similar instruments after their initial individual effects. Also means you can pull down the volume of all synths/bass/drum parts with one fader during mixing stages!
Hi Lars. By 'clone patterns', I mean you create a pattern of midi notes as usual and then duplicate ghosts of that pattern throughout the track. If you decide to move a note in your 'master' pattern, all the 'slave' patterns automatically match the change.
Currently in Cubasis, every single pattern placed in the timeline is unique, if you change one note, add another drum hit, tweak the volume of a note, etc. you have to copy/paste that change to all instances of the pattern in your track.
Clone/ghost patterns would save loads of time for an incessant 'tweaker' like myself!
@el_bo Just out of curiosity, what AUv3 'plug-ins' are you using?
Some plug-ins are more stable than others and to keep my sanity I stay very far away from AudioKit based stuff as much as I possibly can and the only one that has not yet caused me any issues is the latest AK Rack Reverb.
I also feel that the 'app cleanup' I've been doing lately contributes to overall stability of my system...
...I just delete apps that cause problems with more than one host and make an extra effort to avoid apps from those developers in the future.
Cheers!
i.e. the feature found in Cubase 1.0 on Atari circa ‘89 😂
Will forever be a fan of Steinberg. Great DAWs, great interfaces. Thanks for all you do, and as someone else said, for taking the iOS ecosystem seriously.
Poly aftertouch with animoog AND a more appealing logo! Hopefully goodbye forever to black & red. This is huge for me!
Thanks for responding
I have the current, basic iPad 9 model.
I tried various different things, including using CB on it's own, after hard-reboots (Holding on/off and Home until reset and return of Apple logo). Various things, really.
I watched a video from a YT channel i'm subscribed. He mixes all his music in CB, on iPad. But it turns out that it's mainly audio recorded from external synths. So I thought that before deleting the app I'll try an experiment to see how stable it is in a project that only uses CB internal sounds and FX. No 3rd-party, at all. And I've not experienced a single problem I've yet to try bouncing-to-audio, so that remains to be seen. Otherwise, it's been great!
I understand that I should've deleted it instantly. But I thought it a worthwhile experiment to check. I knew I'd be re-initialising my iPad soon, so thought it'd be ok. Will be re-installing the iPad at the end of the month, so at that point it'll be gone. Of course, if you'd prefer I delete it immediately I absolutely will. Otherwise, perhaps I can run various tests to determine what's happening.
In the meantime, I'll look at the documents you linked.
Can i ask what model of iPad you're using (The memory etc.), the types of soft-synths (Low-CPU intentionally, or whatever you wish) and what kind of CPU usage is being reported.
Thanks
The most notable problems (The one's i can remember) I was having were with Arturia's iSem and Virsyn's AudioLayer. While it seemed to happen with other synths (Can't bring to mind), the Arturia was the one that would most often not play on project loading. And AudioLayer was the one that most commonly experienced audio dropping out after a certain amount of play-throughs of a loop.
I remember these the most, as they were the last thing I was working on.
In light of my current experience using internal sounds/FX only, I'm inclined to believe the fault is not solely with CB.
Hi @LinearLineman,
600 published tracks... WOW... that is indeed an incredible number.
We're glad to read this and to have you in the Cubasis family...
It might make sense to get in touch with SWAM to let them know about the issue.
Of course we're at hand to exchange with them on a technical basis, if required.
We're happy to read that you do like the new logos...
Stay healthy and happy easter holidays, Mike!
Best,
Lars
Hi @DanSebPage,
Thanks for the clarification... ghost or shared copy make things clearer for me...
Will share this with the team.
Stay well
& happy eastern,
Lars
Hi @el_bo,
Thanks for your message.
Sounds good that Cubasis runs on its own as expected.
As stated above, you could now give it a try to add 3rd party instruments and/or effects piece by piece.
That way it might be easier to find out if a third party plug-in creates the issue(s).
Normally, Cubasis should run fine on regular iPad models.
Please keep us updated about your findings/experiences.
Best,
Lars
Hi @HotStrange,
Thanks for the kind words - greatly appreciated!
Stay safe,
Lars
Hey @Samu,
We're glad to read this, and do the like the new icons too...
Happy easter holidays,
Lars
Thanks, I left a humble feature request over at the Steinberg forum
https://forums.steinberg.net/t/fr-option-to-add-new-empty-midi-track/780656
(It's about creating 'empty' midi tracks with no pre-loaded or duplicated instrument instances).
This is especially handy when using 'heavy' AUv3's as they can cause performance issues if they are auto-duplicated when creating a new midi-track...
Cheers!
Yes, this would be an excellent, and very time-saving feature.
One other feature that may help with this workflow if implemented would be the ability to loop patterns (like in GarageBand). I’d love to see this implemented to speed up the arrangement process!
Another vote for this - also useful when working with hardware.
Thanks! I really appreciate it. Will try a few experiments and see how it goes
Hi El-bo. It's the 2021 11" iPad Pro. I've never selected a synth based on it's CPU usage, I merely chose whatever synth takes my fancy and trust Cubasis' muti-threaded capabilities to handle the CPU load.
I don't really pay attention to the CPU meter (and am currently away for the weekend, so can't check) but the iPad (& Cubasis) just seem to be able to handle anything I can throw at it these days without any audio dropouts - it blows me away how much it can handle in real-time with no audio bouncing required.
I had one project a few months back that was just starting to glitch out the audio (until I increased the latency up a notch). However the very next Cubasis update claimed 'much-improved multi-threading', and lo and behold, after the update, it could handle the exact same project with ease at the lower latency setting!
I really believe Cubasis' multi-core performance is what sets it apart from other iOS DAWs personally.
Thanks, man! Really appreciate the thorough reply.
I really love the app. Not that it bears any real resemblance to the Cubase that I used back in the 80's, onwards. But it definitely feels closer to a traditional DAW (I've been on Logic since 2007), and so very much like 'home'. Made the hiccoughs all the more frustrating, for me. However, it seems people are really 'flying' with the software, so...
Thanks, again.
On my 'old' iPad Air 2 (which is way older than the your 8th Gen iPad) starting with the 3.4.1 update the performance is actually better with the multi-core CPU thingie turned on! (That was not the case on pre 3.4.1 updates where I had it always turned off).
There are a few (SunVox being one of them) AUv3's that play perfectly with it turned on but fail to render properly.
SunVox dev is working on support for 'off-line' rendering for the 2.1 update which should fix most of these issues and those 'fixes' will likely find their way to his other apps as well.
This behaviour really puzzles me as the playback works with multi core rendering turned on but freezing/render fails even with the 'realtime' option turned on, there is no real 'logic' to this behavior.
So when I need to render these 'problem' AUv3's I just turn multi-threading of during the freeze/render and then turn it back on again.
Me just want the Cubase Sampler Track in Cubasis and a bit more flexibility when it comes to track 2 track routing together with support for scales for the on-screen keyboard and piano-roll editor and well the tempo-track and this, and this and that
I’m all for it! Pattern ghosting in Cubasis3 would be so beneficial to me!
Does anyone have a demo of “presets” itself mentioned in promo page ?
Yea to pattern ghosting.