Imagine the number of broken projects if Rack instruments are removed!
I just went through a hard drive with projects dating back to 2004-2005 looking for something specific. For funsies I opened a few other Cubase projects of my own. None of the VST Instruments from back then would load. I either didnât own the instrument anymore or they have been updated numerous times over since and there is no backwards compatibility.
I could of course try to recreate the instrument patches with modern counterparts. The MIDI tracks are obviously intact. At the end of the day however, I decided it wasnât worth the time for a little bit of nostalgia and better to leave the past in the past.
If the Rack instrument feature was removed, in say, Cubase 15(!), then any projects from now until then, with HALion, Kontakt, Opus, etc, would be broken.
The horror! 
I guess my point is, perpetual backwards compatibility in software development doesnât exist.
Only if you insist on still using Rack Instruments (which I donât understand why you would nor recommend). Or until an update of said VSTiâs breaks backwards compatibility. Or the VST spec updates and does. Or the processor word size increases. I think you get my drift.
Different strokes, and all that. I donât understand why you wouldnât. Câest la vie?
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Yes this is on my list to. Everything is in cubase but with some work. Now i have my stuff on the master with neutron eq to find key fast and fine tune fast. Yes ear go to. And for the tempo its Little time to spend there to.so Its a +1 for me. And i have sononym to, i think they have tags now so we can put in them in mediabay.
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I hope there is a mute button next to the solo button in the upper left corner of the Piano Roll
Let me not have to switch windows when I want to mute the track.
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- âTouchingâ a parameter on a VST plugin should add a - temporary, until edited - automation track ready to be drawn in. I âhateâ that I have to record a short wiggle or choose a parameter from big table to start drawing automation in.
- Modulation devices, i.e. LFO, MSEG, Env. Follower, etc. that can listen to audio or MIDI and resulting movements can be mapped to any VST parameter
- Ability to bend fades (create curves) right on the audio event, without having to open fade editor
- Clip launcher
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Master Rig (Wave Lab) as an included Plugin in Cubase/Nuendo
I have just one request. PLEASE let us drag & drop the channels in the mixer windows so we can order them as we like instead of ordering them by channel number or however you do this.
Thanks!
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Yeah, odd that you canât (as far as I can tell)
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I use both, if is a multi-output instrument I revert to Rack, if it is not than Track. And I can see the use-case for both. Itâs not yet cristal clear what is more advantageous CPU-wise with, for example, Kontakt: one instance per instrument, or several instruments in one (although this latter approach is much more effective regarding Asio Guard).
The ability to have a âchunksâ feature similar to Digital Performer, where each sub-sequence has its own tempo, time signature and video track.
If it weighs too much on system resources or the coding, then maybe we can have it mandatory where we can only select one sub-sequence at a time.
Instruments-wise, it can still be program level-universal, where all the sub-sequences use. That way, it wonât take forever to load a sub-sequence, and also wonât tax the hard drives that store the instruments every time we have to switch back and forth in between sub-sequences.
All of this, housed under a singular project file.
Mainly a feature-request for media composers.
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Maybe someone knows if this is possible?
But âmove track to beginningâ or âmove track to endâ would be really helpful when you start hitting 150 tracks and are trying to group things together. Also creating new tracks results in them appearing randomly sometimes, they should appear where the cursor is.
Finally - automatically create new audio track when dragging from media bay (like how it works when you drag to an empty row) itâs inconvenient if you are adding sounds to the middle of a large project and have to create a new audio track first.
Otherwise C13 is great.
Black or dark menus on PC, so my eyes can relax when working, and not stare into the sun.
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Oh YES! This drives me nuts. You work on some midi that you want to match with another track. I need to go back and forth between mute/solo on/off so much. Crazy annoying you have to go outside the midi editor window every time.
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Thereâs another thread stating that a Windows 11 compliant Dark mode is in the works.
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- Clean up Cubase
- Ditch all the old icons and visual elements (although CB13 was already a big improvement!)
- Make a proper preferences menu where everything is organized correctly, also, put things who donât change a lot also here. (layout elements of mixer, top and bottom elements (arranger).
- Make note expression data more âedit friendlyâ. It is very difficult to do things like pitch automation with the pen and line tool.
- Some sort of modulation box (for modulating parameters in a different way), if this is too much work, letâs assign (third party) vst device parameters to the current built in fx modulator
- Delete as much crap as possible, donât be scared to lose customers, embrace change.
- Ditch the short lag when âdragâ zooming in the ruler bar.
Note: this is a wishlist, i already love you and CB13 very much, thanks for this great piece of software!
- Proper, full Ripple Edit
- Pay attention to what Ableton Live is currently doing with MIDI FX, editing, generation tools, modulation devices/tools
- No more fiddling with stuff that doesnât need fixing
- Volume control in the Track Header
- Gain reduction meters added to channel meters
- More flexible/lean video handling (import/export options, resolution/size choices). Currently this unnecessarily (IMHO) bloats project size, insisting on only allowing FHD 1080p inside Cubase/Nuendo
- Better support/utilization for multi-core CPUs
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