Cubase 15 Wishlist

[fese]

MASTER LIST

Please copy the list and add your feature requests at the bottom.

New Features

1. Sandbox plugins to prevent crashes.
2. Option to place the cursor on clicked point on event.
3. Option to choose all algorithms for VariAudio.
4. Summing folders
5. Audio interface attached to project, not to Cubase itself.
6. Save and restore ALL audio connections with one click
7. Set meters as VU meters (Logic)
8. Clip launcher
9. Support for CLAP (plugin format)
10. Automate last touched parameter.
11. Lyric track.
12. Global display zoom (similar to Ableton).
13. Minimize the risk of user preferences getting corrupted
14. Update expression maps
15. Rewrite VCA faders to have them function like proper VCA (and without bugs)
16. Implement an optional scroll lock on the upper track list when the track list is divided
17. Do not automatically add newly created channels to existing channel visibility configurations
18. Introduce a selection mem/zap (similar to zoom mem/zap) that stores and recalls selected tracks/channels/parts/events
19. Reconsider the graphical design of the mix console
20. Unlimited inserts and sends
21. Channel EQ with 8 filters.
22. Gate plugin with threshold lower than 60dB (synths have noise below that and its nice to hear full reverb tail).
23. Modulators controls to module other modulators.
24. Plugin Chainer: Merge effects. (eg. Merge synths or effects like Waves StudioVerse)
25. Folder/ Group track merged into one.
26. Expression Maps overhaul. (including per articulation negative track delay).
27. Add expression map controls in the Logical Editor.
28. Digital Performer Chunks for larger film scoring projects.
29. Further/advanced Dorico Integration.
30. Muted events with a darker shade of the current color rather than white.
31. Combine multiple instruments into one rack and one midi and to have modulators control any parameter of any synth instrument in that rack.
32. Multiband splits and parallel splits.
33. Always on top.
34. VU meter on tracks (similar to 10)
35. Nameable CCs
36. Option to disable Video Engine “enhancements”.
37. Left-click the title bar of the inspector for drop down color menu rather than Alt-Click.
38. Remove default automation parameters and have users choose their own.
39. Preset list: Select preset using up and down arrow keys
40. Using Tab to select the next instrument in the instrument list (Can apply to other dropdown items as well).
41. Multi-sequences each with independent tempo, time sig and video track, housed under one project file, like Digital Performer’s ‘Chunks’ feature.
42. Fixed height for folder tracks
43. Ableton style plugin containers with routing options for Parallel/multiband processing on one track.
44. Pitch automation for audio clips.
45. Have an undo function for VST instruments.
46. Global undo/redo controls (not separate for mix console).
47. Add global modulators that can control parameters on different tracks.
48. Implement modulation assignment similar to Bitwig, where you can drag up or down to simultaneously set the modulation amount.
49. Make the modulation amount easier to control instead of a tiny bar.
50. Make ‘hide all automation’ behave the same as ‘hide automation’ but for all tracks, instead of reseting all automation visibility when reopened
51. Allow volume automation to ‘detach’ from fader, without having to automate a separate volume plugin
52. Always show parameter values, not just on hover.
53. Allow sample track to export slices to drum machine track.
54. Have automatic tail detection for bounces and Offline Processing, that extend the bounce range automatically.
55. Tightly integrated Hardware Midi Controller.
56. Full and proper Ripple Edit
57. Gain Reduction meters in Channel meters
58. Plugin Renaming (Similar to Studio One)
59. Missing plugins can be highlighted with a different color
60. Addition of a MIDI input transformer on every control in MIDI remote.
61. Addition of controller conditions (if mixer open and full screen, the midi remote controller activate the mixing page. If this instrument open, the controller reacts this way, control these parameters)
62. Double-click on volume faders/parameters to do something, input a valor, or reset to 0.
63. VST 2 Support
64. Negative articulation delay (Mentioned in 26)
65. Ability to control a modulator with CC sent from controller keyboard, fader, or knob.
66. Load plugins with a shortcut
67. Ability to see and switch to other inserts on a track when opening a single insert plugin. (A tab that displays all insert plugins over the opened plugin, with which you can then open the plugins over it without having to go into the mixer and the new plugin opens in the same window. So you only have one plugin window open at a time)
68. Saving the modulators also includes the connection with the plugins
69. Imrproved Chord pads

• Editing of the notes, manually. Now you cannot double the root reliably, and often the arrow buttons for inversions limit what you can do.
• AI suggestion of progressions and alternative chords. Different genres. Adding a transition chord. Add pre-chorus and add bridge progression.
• Drag and drop of midi to pads to add chords. From desktop or from inside Cubase.
• Performance per pad. Ie add riffs, arps, or strums to the pads, on a per pad basis. Also to have a note scatter and complexity function sliders for the performance
• Add/import chords from Chordpad preset, while keeping what you already have, including preview before adding.

70. Audio rate modulator.
71. Share modulator on multiple channels.
72. Midi Modulator.
73. A pattern editor suitable for melody (8 lane, live record per lane, with euclidean, random, glide, accent, pitch, velocity).
74. Song unmix on Spectralayers Go.
75. Efx containers.
76. Flatter GUI, simple and modern.
77. Full screen mode (Similar to Studio One).
78. Increase the number of MIDI sends.
79. MIDI Sends on instrument tracks.
80. Rack Instrument modulation.
81. Option to max out the control room level to 0.
82. Ability to drag lowerzone all the way to the top.
83. Ability to zoom or go full screen for the drum machine.
84. Send drum machine samples to Groove agent using a button (similar to sampler track).
85. Easy export button of Drum Machne sounds sampled and sythesized.
86. Generative features of Pattern editor present in Key editor.
87. Ability to switch pattern editor to non percussion mode and randomized follow suit.
88. Ability to choose scale in Pattern editor within a Melody or musical pattern mode.
89. If 16 or 32 steps are selected, the pattern editor splits into halves for easier editing (like in Logic).
90. Ability to move sounds lanes within the pattern editor.
91. Size of pattern editor to follow the size of the lower zone.
92. Modulator matrix to be either in a straight line or within a square format
93. Modulators when opened in a larger editor take up the whole screen same as pattern editor and Drum machine.
94. A simple “collect all” option that pulls all audio into one folder with the project file after the initial save, without asking for a project name upfront.
95. Cubase shouldn’t force a new project directory if you’re just testing or listening to an audio file without planning to keep it.
96. Midi remote Support for mixing consoles such as Midas M32, Behringer X32, Allen & Heath, etc etc.
97. Gap Less audio
98. Automatic gain staging integrated on each chanels : with option to set up gain like -18db rms or -18LUFS or -10 peak level
99. Optional: Tabbed window for plugins on a channel, like in Studio One
100. Improved insert bypassing: Use mouse modifiers on insert slots, e.g. shift-Click for bypass plugin, Str-Click for disable plugin

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Fixes

1. Fix problems in Direct Offline Processing like not always generating a tail
2. Fix the Dialogue tabbing misbehavior
3. Fix flatten real time processing which mess up timing no matter the algorithm used.
4. Fix VCA channel losing its values upon reopening of project.
5. Fix the bugs in MIDI Remote
6. Fix batch flatten processing on multiple events which results in pops and whole parts broken.
7. GUI consistency across all menus. (media bay, media pool, preferences)
8. Legible text everywhere
9. Fix Scroll issues on Mac.
10. Support for a light GUI mode instead of dark/black mode (and respect OS settings for that like in Win 11)

[wavefunktion]

101. New Automation Track functions:

• Reverse
• Mirror
• Invert

[izak]

@fese

Optional: Tabbed window for plugins on a channel, like in Studio One

Replacing 66 with this one.

[izak]

@fese

Support for a light GUI mode instead of dark/black mode (and respect OS settings for that like in Win 11)

This is already present to an extent. The menus turn light or dark based on the OS setting.

The project window can be made lighter by configuring it in Preferences.

[izak]

MASTER LIST

Please copy the list and add your feature requests at the bottom.

New Features

1. Sandbox plugins to prevent crashes.

2. Option to place the cursor on clicked point on event.

3. Option to choose all algorithms for VariAudio.

4. Audio interface attached to project, not to Cubase itself.

5. Save and restore ALL audio connections with one click

6. Set meters as VU meters (Logic)

7. Clip launcher

8. Support for CLAP (plugin format)

9. Automate last touched parameter.

10. Lyric track.

11. Global display zoom (similar to Ableton).

12. Minimize the risk of user preferences getting corrupted

13. Update expression maps

14. Rewrite VCA faders to have them function like proper VCA (and without bugs)

15. Implement an optional scroll lock on the upper track list when the track list is divided

16. Do not automatically add newly created channels to existing channel visibility configurations

17. Introduce a selection mem/zap (similar to zoom mem/zap) that stores and recalls selected tracks/channels/parts/events

18. Reconsider the graphical design of the mix console

19. Unlimited inserts and sends

20. Channel EQ with 8 filters.

21. Gate plugin with threshold lower than 60dB (synths have noise below that and its nice to hear full reverb tail).

22. Modulators controls to module other modulators.

23. Plugin Chainer: Merge effects. (eg. Merge synths or effects like Waves StudioVerse)

24. Folder/ Group track merged into one.

25. Expression Maps overhaul. (including per articulation negative track delay).

26. Add expression map controls in the Logical Editor.

27. Digital Performer Chunks for larger film scoring projects.

28. Further/advanced Dorico Integration.

29. Muted events with a darker shade of the current color rather than white.

30. Combine multiple instruments into one rack and one midi and to have modulators control any parameter of any synth instrument in that rack.

31. Multiband splits and parallel splits.

32. Always on top.

33. VU meter on tracks (similar to 10)

34. Nameable CCs

35. Option to disable Video Engine “enhancements”.

36. Left-click the title bar of the inspector for drop down color menu rather than Alt-Click.

37. Remove default automation parameters and have users choose their own.

38. Preset list: Select preset using up and down arrow keys

39. Using Tab to select the next instrument in the instrument list (Can apply to other dropdown items as well).

40. Multi-sequences each with independent tempo, time sig and video track, housed under one project file, like Digital Performer’s ‘Chunks’ feature.

41. Fixed height for folder tracks

42. Ableton style plugin containers with routing options for Parallel/multiband processing on one track.

43. Pitch automation for audio clips.

44. Have an undo function for VST instruments.

45. Global undo/redo controls (not separate for mix console).

46. Add global modulators that can control parameters on different tracks.

47. Implement modulation assignment similar to Bitwig, where you can drag up or down to simultaneously set the modulation amount.

48. Make the modulation amount easier to control instead of a tiny bar.

49. Make ‘hide all automation’ behave the same as ‘hide automation’ but for all tracks, instead of reseting all automation visibility when reopened

50. Allow volume automation to ‘detach’ from fader, without having to automate a separate volume plugin

51. Always show parameter values, not just on hover.

52. Allow sample track to export slices to drum machine track.

53. Have automatic tail detection for bounces and Offline Processing, that extend the bounce range automatically.

54. Tightly integrated Hardware Midi Controller.

55. Full and proper Ripple Edit

56. Gain Reduction meters in Channel meters

57. Plugin Renaming (Similar to Studio One)

58. Missing plugins can be highlighted with a different color

59. Addition of a MIDI input transformer on every control in MIDI remote.

60. Addition of controller conditions (if mixer open and full screen, the midi remote controller activate the mixing page. If this instrument open, the controller reacts this way, control these parameters)

61. Double-click on volume faders/parameters to do something, input a valor, or reset to 0.

62. VST 2 Support

63. Negative articulation delay (Mentioned in 26)

64. Ability to control a modulator with CC sent from controller keyboard, fader, or knob.

65. Load plugins with a shortcut

66. Optional: Tabbed window for plugins on a channel, like in Studio One. (A tab that displays all insert plugins over the opened plugin, with which you can then open the plugins over it without having to go into the mixer and the new plugin opens in the same window. So you only have one plugin window open at a time)

67. Saving the modulators also includes the connection with the plugins

68. Imrproved Chord pads

• Editing of the notes, manually. Now you cannot double the root reliably, and often the arrow buttons for inversions limit what you can do.

• AI suggestion of progressions and alternative chords. Different genres. Adding a transition chord. Add pre-chorus and add bridge progression.

• Drag and drop of midi to pads to add chords. From desktop or from inside Cubase.

• Performance per pad. Ie add riffs, arps, or strums to the pads, on a per pad basis. Also to have a note scatter and complexity function sliders for the performance

• Add/import chords from Chordpad preset, while keeping what you already have, including preview before adding.

69. Audio rate modulator.

70. Share modulator on multiple channels.

71. Midi Modulator.

72. A pattern editor suitable for melody (8 lane, live record per lane, with euclidean, random, glide, accent, pitch, velocity).

73. Song unmix on Spectralayers Go.

74. Efx containers.

75. Flatter GUI, simple and modern.

76. Full screen mode (Similar to Studio One).

77. Increase the number of MIDI sends.

78. MIDI Sends on instrument tracks.

79. Rack Instrument modulation.

80. Option to max out the control room level to 0.

81. Ability to drag lowerzone all the way to the top.

82. Ability to zoom or go full screen for the drum machine.

83. Send drum machine samples to Groove agent using a button (similar to sampler track).

84. Easy export button of Drum Machne sounds sampled and sythesized.

85. Generative features of Pattern editor present in Key editor.

86. Ability to switch pattern editor to non percussion mode and randomized follow suit.

87. Ability to choose scale in Pattern editor within a Melody or musical pattern mode.

88. If 16 or 32 steps are selected, the pattern editor splits into halves for easier editing (like in Logic).

89. Ability to move sounds lanes within the pattern editor.

90. Size of pattern editor to follow the size of the lower zone.

91. Modulator matrix to be either in a straight line or within a square format

92. Modulators when opened in a larger editor take up the whole screen same as pattern editor and Drum machine.

93. A simple “collect all” option that pulls all audio into one folder with the project file after the initial save, without asking for a project name upfront.

94. Cubase shouldn’t force a new project directory if you’re just testing or listening to an audio file without planning to keep it.

95. Midi remote Support for mixing consoles such as Midas M32, Behringer X32, Allen & Heath, etc etc.

96. Bold text checkbox for track names

97. Add automation lanes for multiple selections.

98. Gap-less audio Engine

99. Automatic gain staging integrated on each channel with option to set up gain like -18db rms or -18LUFS or -10 peak level.

100. Encode video using high compressed codecs.

101. Shuffle at an arbitrary speed (e.g. 0.5, 1.2, 1.5) with the corresponding acceleration or deceleration of the video.

102. The focus of the upper zone remains on the events of the upper zone when copying events to the lower zone.

103. Hot keys for calling ARA plugins

104. More convenient management of presets in Direct Offline Processing

105. Ability to quickly call the last used plugin in Direct Offline Processing

106. Add align (snap) only to the active track marker

107. More key modifiers in Editing-tool modifiers.

108. Lower zone: Option to change order of tabs (mixer, editor, drum machine)

109. Improved insert bypassing: Use mouse modifiers on insert slots, e.g. shift-Click for bypass plugin, Str-Click for disable plugin.

110. New Automation Track Functions

• Reverse, mirror, invert.

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Fixes

1. Fix problems in Direct Offline Processing like not always generating a tail

2. Fix the Dialogue tabbing misbehavior

3. Fix flatten real time processing which mess up timing no matter the algorithm used.

4. Fix VCA channel losing its values upon reopening of project.

5. Fix the bugs in MIDI Remote

6. Fix batch flatten processing on multiple events which results in pops and whole parts broken.

7. GUI consistency across all menus. (media bay, media pool, preferences)

8. Legible text everywhere

9. Fix Scroll issues on Mac.

10. Fix Per note automation.

11. Fix clicks when cross-fade events with various stretch algorithms used.

12. Support for light GUI mode (respect OS settings for that like in Win 11)

[Alexander_D]

Many great offers here.
Really will be great if we will finally have chance to choose the quality of the video render! It’s really annoying to render the video from Cubase and then open it in the third party video converter to do the small size of this one!.. it’s really annoying…
And of course - VCA!

[battleangel]

+1 this is my daily routine every single time: render from CUbase, convert in another app to small size

[somecomposer]

@Alexander_D

Many great offers here.
Really will be great if we will finally have chance to choose the quality of the video render! It’s really annoying to render the video from Cubase and then open it in the third party video converter to do the small size of this one!.. it’s really annoying…
And of course - VCA!

Agreed

+1

[Thurisaz]

Hello dear Cubase team and colleagues,

Here is the wishlist of mine about Cubase 15:

1. Pro Tools - BeatDetective (like)

• All in one powerful tool for quantizing, slicing, fade-in/out. crossfading…
• In Cubase all these features are separated and placed a bit chaotically. A centralized tool would be very welcomed.

2. Polyrhythmic Audio, MIDI and Instrument tracks.

• Would be nice to have an ability to set a custom Time Signature per track, or even per Staff

• In case we are having piano, we should be able to have different time signatures per staff.
  

  

• Probably in this scenario we’ll need the Metronome to perform by selected track, or staff basis

• This needs also to be synchronized with the Score Editor.

• In general since Dorico and Cubase are going to become an ecosystem, many things that are available in Dorico, need to be integrated into Cubase as well.

3. Option to open the instruments inside the Pattern Editor, like in Studio One:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW7v9Y7QEPM

• This will improve the single screen workflow
• It’s useful in case of live performance involving Cubase on the stage.
• Currently something like that is available only with the Drum Machine.
• Would be nice to have it with all possible instruments, or at least with those provided by Steinberg.

4. Playing Techniques - (available in Dorico)

• Will provide two opportunities - to have more restrictive Expression Maps to techniques / expression assignment and opportunity to create custom techniques / expressions.

5. Playback Templates - (available in Dorico)

• Allows faster switch between various existing Instrument Templates, without closing Cubase.
• Useful when we need to transfer a project from powerful workstation, to a far weaker laptop with less RAM, or CPU power, or lesser hdd/ssd space, where we need to use lighter Playback Template.

6. Flows - (available in Dorico)

• Allows the creation of a separate movements, or scenes.
• Allows the having of various instrument sets per flow, while saving vertical screen space. It shows only the instruments per flow, the rest are hidden.
• This will be very welcomed by the film music composers because they will be able to have clear Symphonic orchestra, jazz band, or rock band per Flow within a single project.
• In Cubase we’ll need an option to shows us all Flows, together, on the Timeline, or per Flow basis.

7. Divisi - Independent Voice Playback (available in Dorico)

• This will allow us to have properly controlled multi-articulation Divisions, while they are looking fine in the Score Editor at the same time.

8. Score Editor improvements that will lead to overall Cubase improvements that I’ve mentioned in another threads here:

• Cubase 14. New score editor lacks important features of the old editor - #34 by Thurisaz

• Dorico in Cubase - #94 by Thurisaz

Best regards,
Thurisaz

[Googly_Smythe]

1. All the features of Logic;
2. All the features of Ableton;
3. All the features of Reaper;
4. All the features of ProTools;
5. All the features of Dorico;
6. All the features of Digital Performer;

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Not just the best bits, you understand.
Apologies if I left out your fave DAW.

[fese]

I thought Reaper already included all the features of every other DAW (that is, if you spend a lifetime customizing it)

[openmemorymusic]

On Import From Project, would love to be able to see BPM of project before importing (as well as signature perhaps).

Also, would be wonderful to see which tracks HAVE DATA or be able to sort by tracks which have data.

This is a reach, but Logic saves a screenshot of the project, so when you hit the spacebar in Mac OS while highlighting the project file, you can see a glimpse of what the session looks like.

[somecomposer]

@Googly_Smythe

1. All the features of Logic;
2. All the features of Ableton;
3. All the features of Reaper;
4. All the features of ProTools;
5. All the features of Dorico;
6. All the features of Digital Performer;

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Not just the best bits, you understand.
Apologies if I left out your fave DAW.

[battleangel]

7. All the features of FastTracker II

[noise]

I posted this request a while ago:

Please add a “Save Project Report” text file function

When handling a lot of projects, it can be hard to keep track of the details. It would be great to have the basic data of a project in a text file—just a plain text file. It would be invaluable when opening the project months or years later. Many programs in other fields have this as a standard feature for decades.

You could group the tracks by type or by the order they are in the project at last save.

Implementation

[text in square brackets are field names from the project]

Location: File->Save Project Report…
radio button: basic | detailed

Report Structure

Project name: [project name]
Date Created: [date created]
Last save date: [last modification date]
Author: [author]
Company: [company]
Bit Depth: [integer]
Sample rate: [integer]
Project Frame Rate: [integer]
Project Location: [project path]

##Track List

Audio tracks
------------
[Audio track name]
[Audio track name]
[Audio track name]
[Audio track name]

Midi tracks
-----------
[Midi track name]
[Midi track name]
[Midi track name]
[Midi track name]


VST Instruments
-----------------
[ Halion Sonic v7 ]
[ GrooveAgent 5SE ]
[ Moog GooberSynth ]
[ VST instrument name ]


VST Effects
------------
(a list of the effects used in the project. It doesn't have to be by track or anything)


Audio Files
------------
[Pool data output]

[csurieux]

• Comments and user tags (or taxonomies) for each project we could use to filter projects in the hub.
• maintain links for hierarchy in each project (i.e. this project is a backup from, this project is a new version of, etc.) AND display corresponding schema of the various hierarchies

[csurieux]

• Cubase instruments (HALION, PADSHOP, RETROLOGUE, GROOVE AGENT, BACKBONE, ETC.)+ their presets should handle Native Instruments NKS and provide NKS libs.
• Cubase Medialib should be extended to read and play NKS libs.

[drym]

What do you all think about:

• Enable “learn MIDI CC command” as an additional option in Key commands, so we can directly teach Cubase Metagrid / Lemur / TouchOSC / (whatever you use) commands, without the need to set up Generic / Midi Remotes

Sorry if this was mentioned before.

[sempondr]

Bigger font size in Inspector and other places where the same tiny font is employed. Or an option to adjust it.

[Antoine-B]

Thanks Izak for collecing, great work !!

• add a feature to be able to select multiple parameters for automation, eg ctrl+click to select both a filter cutoff and resonance and load both automation lanes at once.
• an option to control the behaviour of the export menu target range : it seems to automatically pick everything in the project window, I’d like an option to set the range to what’s in the markers zone by default (so that it leaves extra unused parts outside that range)