First of all: I LIKE Cubasis and I think that it is REALLY useful.
I use it for songwriting with my band, Visions of Atlantis, and for killing time on the train (I’m an avid user of public transport) all the time.
But… there is ONE thing which really annoys me, and I think it should be fixed.
Cubasis is, for all practical purposes, mostly a pure audio multitracker with a few workstation style MIDI sounds an a good, but somehow limited, vintage style subtractive synth
I know, I know… IAA and Audiobus.
However, both lack total recall as well as multiple instances of apps - and both limitations really make me not use them at all. Ok, it’s nice to play around with Nave or iProphet, but the very next time the project file is opened, all the sounds and everything are gone.
This is an absolut no go, this makes IAA and Audiobus totally unusable for all practical purposes I can imagine.
I have quite a few synthesizer apps, but I don’t see any way I can really use them with Cubasis, because as soon as I close the project, the project basically doesn’t exist anymore.
Let me give you an example about the workflow when writing songs with my band:
I have a cheap “wedding entertainer” style keyboard at the place of my guitarist, one of those EUR 200,- devices. Now, to have more workstation style sounds than the integrated micro Halion, I actually record what I play on the keys not as a MIDI track, but as audio.
And I think that the iPad has the potential, but it isn’t properly used, to support both total recall as well as multiple instances of apps…