Cubase 15 Wishlist

izak · December 10, 2024, 2:49pm

MASTER LIST

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

New Features

Sandbox plugins to prevent crashes.
Option to place the cursor on clicked point on event.
Option to choose all algorithms for VariAudio.
Audio interface attached to project, not to Cubase itself.
Save and restore ALL audio connections with one click
Set meters as VU meters (Logic)
Clip launcher
Support for CLAP (plugin format)
Automate last touched parameter.
Lyric track.
Global display zoom (similar to Ableton).
Minimize the risk of user preferences getting corrupted
Update expression maps
Rewrite VCA faders to have them function like proper VCA (and without bugs)
Implement an optional scroll lock on the upper track list when the track list is divided
Do not automatically add newly created channels to existing channel visibility configurations
Introduce a selection mem/zap (similar to zoom mem/zap) that stores and recalls selected tracks/channels/parts/events
Reconsider the graphical design of the mix console
Unlimited inserts and sends
Channel EQ with 8 filters.
Gate plugin with threshold lower than 60dB (synths have noise below that and its nice to hear full reverb tail).
Modulators controls to module other modulators.
Plugin Chainer: Merge effects. (Eg, Merge synths or effects like Waves StudioVerse)
Folder/ Group track merged into one.
Expression Maps overhaul. (including per articulation negative track delay).
Add expression map controls in the Logical Editor.
Digital Performer Chunks for larger film scoring projects.
Further/advanced Dorico Integration.
Muted events with a darker shade of the current color rather than white.
Combine multiple instruments into one rack and one midi and to have modulators control any parameter of any synth instrument in that rack.
Multi-band splits and parallel splits.
Always on top.
VU meter on tracks (similar to 10)
Nameable CCs
Option to disable Video Engine “enhancements”.
Left-click the title bar of the inspector for drop down color menu rather than Alt-Click.
Remove default automation parameters and have users choose their own.
Preset list: Select preset using up and down arrow keys
Using Tab to select the next instrument in the instrument list (Can apply to other drop-down items as well).
Multi-sequences each with independent tempo, time sig and video track, housed under one project file, like Digital Performer’s ‘Chunks’ feature.
Fixed height for folder tracks
Ableton style plugin containers with routing options for Parallel/multi-band processing on one track.
Pitch automation for audio clips.
Have an undo function for VST instruments.
Global undo/redo controls (not separate for mix console).
Add global modulators that can control parameters on different tracks.
Implement modulation assignment similar to Bitwig, where you can drag up or down to simultaneously set the modulation amount.
Make the modulation amount easier to control instead of a tiny bar.
Make ‘hide all automation’ behave the same as ‘hide automation’ but for all tracks, instead of resetting all automation visibility when reopened
Allow volume automation to ‘detach’ from fader, without having to automate a separate volume plugin
Always show parameter values, not just on hover.
Allow sample track to export slices to drum machine track.
Have automatic tail detection for bounces and Offline Processing, that extend the bounce range automatically.
Tightly integrated Hardware Midi Controller.
Full and proper Ripple Edit
Gain Reduction meters in Channel meters
Plugin Renaming (Similar to Studio One)
Missing plugins can be highlighted with a different color
Addition of a MIDI input transformer on every control in MIDI remote.
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)
Double-click on volume faders/parameters to do something, input a valor, or reset to 0.
VST 2 Support
Negative articulation delay (Mentioned in 26)
Ability to control a modulator with CC sent from controller keyboard, fader, or knob.
Load plugins with a shortcut
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)
Saving the modulators also includes the connection with the plugins
Improved 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 prechorus and add bridge progression.
- Drag and drop of midi to pads to add chords. From desktop or from inside Cubase.
- Performance per pad. i.e., 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 Chord pad preset, while keeping what you already have, including preview before adding.
Audio rate modulator.
Share modulator on multiple channels.
Midi Modulator.
A pattern editor suitable for melody (8 lane, live record per lane, with euclidean, random, glide, accent, pitch, velocity).
Song unmix on Spectralayers Go.
Efx containers.
Flatter GUI, simple and modern.
Full screen mode (Similar to Studio One).
Increase the number of MIDI sends.
MIDI Sends on instrument tracks.
Rack Instrument modulation.
Option to max out the control room level to 0.
Ability to drag lower zone all the way to the top.
Ability to zoom or go full screen for the drum machine.
Send drum machine samples to Groove agent using a button (similar to sampler track).
Easy export button of Drum Machine sounds sampled and synthesized.
Generative features of Pattern editor present in Key editor.
Ability to switch pattern editor to non percussion mode and randomized follow suit.
Ability to choose scale in Pattern editor within a Melody or musical pattern mode.
If 16 or 32 steps are selected, the pattern editor splits into halves for easier editing (like in Logic).
Ability to move sounds lanes within the pattern editor.
Size of pattern editor to follow the size of the lower zone.
Modulator matrix to be either in a straight line or within a square format
Modulators when opened in a larger editor take up the whole screen same as pattern editor and Drum machine.
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.
Cubase shouldn’t force a new project directory if you’re just testing or listening to an audio file without planning to keep it.
Midi remote Support for mixing consoles such as Midas M32, Behringer X32, Allen & Heath, etc etc.
Bold text checkbox for track names.
Add automation lanes for multiple selections.
Gap-less audio Engine.
Automatic gain staging integrated on each channel with option to set up gain like -18db rms or -18LUFS or -10 peak level.
Encode video using high compressed codecs.
Shuffle at an arbitrary speed (e.g. 0.5, 1.2, 1.5) with the corresponding acceleration or deceleration of the video.
The focus of the upper zone remains on the events of the upper zone when copying events to the lower zone.
Hot keys for calling ARA plugins.
More convenient management of presets in Direct Offline Processing.
Ability to quickly call the last used plugin in Direct Offline Processing.
Add align (snap) only to the active track marker
More key modifiers in Editing-tool modifiers.
Lower zone: Option to change order of tabs (mixer, editor, drum machine).
Improved insert bypassing: Use mouse modifiers on insert slots, e.g. shift-Click for bypass plugin, CTRL-CLICK for disable plugin.
New Automation Track Functions
- Reverse, mirror, invert.
Option to set video render quality.
Beat Detective equivalent in Cubase.
Poly-rhythmic Audio, MIDI and Instrument tracks (custom time signature per track or notation staff).
Option to open the instruments inside the Pattern Editor, like in Studio One.
Enhanced playing techniques (restrictive and custom expressions as in Dorico)
Playback Templates (faster switch between various existing Instrument Templates, without closing Cubase).
Flows (similar to Dorico).
Divisi - Independent Voice Playback.
More Dorico like features to the Cubase Score Editor.
Ability to view song BPM before importing.
Ability to distinguish between empty tracks and tracks with data.
Previewing a screenshot of project like in Logic.
Ability to save a project report consisting of song metadata and track lists, instrument list, audio pool, .etc.
Comments and user tags for filtering projects.
Maintain project hierarchy and display corresponding trees of the various hierarchies. (i.e. this project is a backup from, this project is a new version of, etc).
Make Cubase instruments and their presets handle Native Instruments NKS libraries.
Cubase media library should be enhanced to read and play NKS libraries
Bigger inspector font size with an option to adjust the size.
Ability to select multiple parameters or automation.
Ability to control the behavior of the export menu target range. (option to set the range to what’s in the markers zone by default).
Sticky notes.
Track Presets should have the option to save with the routing
De-clutter the LH track inspector Basic and Routing panes, increase font size on most-used controls - MIDI channel and which instrument it’s routed to - and allow user to ditch the others. I never use track presets, MIDI panning, change patches, or drum maps
Get rid of that silly ‘extend pattern?’ prompt in key edit mode
Clear “Recent Files” List
Global Solo Mute Toggle, instead of Reset.
m4a import
Reflect the disabled track (and its regions) in the arrangement too with similar paler color
Export/Save Sample Track and Drum Track with samples to custom location (Like GA5 or Halion)
Save Track Presets with drag drop to Mediabay or Media Rack. Also to a custom location.
Right click option to move the selected track/s to a certain folder track.
Drag midi event/s to an audio track for BIP with auto tail.
Midi Notes stretch and strum in Piano Roll.
Range select certain notes in Piano Roll to duplicate ( Currently only option is to select everything)
Option to auto switch to the selected track’s VST instrument editor window while closing the previous one.
Track “Names” should dynamically expand and contract accordingly when resizing the track list instead of having a fixed “track name width” value in the track control settings.
Track “Visible Controls” that are positioned next to the “Track Name” should always remain visible when expanding or contracting the width of the track list. Track “Visible Controls” that are positioned next to the Track Name should override the visibility of the Track Name.
Have the option to choose the color of the Solo (yellow), Mute (red) buttons, like on the Mackie MCU or other consoles /software
Make Cubase skinable
Per-channel dither [primarily for output channels]
Restore C12 and earlier insert slot functionality

Fixes

Fix problems in Direct Offline Processing like not always generating a tail
Fix the Dialogue tabbing misbehavior
Fix flatten real time processing which mess up timing no matter the algorithm used.
Fix VCA channel losing its values upon reopening of project.
Fix the bugs in MIDI Remote
Fix batch flatten processing on multiple events which results in pops and whole parts broken.
GUI consistency across all menus. (media bay, media pool, preferences)
Legible text everywhere
Fix Scroll issues on Mac.
Fix Per note automation.
Fix clicks when cross fade events with various stretch algorithms used.
Support for light GUI mode (respect OS settings for that like in Win 11).
When using the second or later channels of a multi-timbral sound source in a midi track, for some reason, all panel setting windows are connected to the first channel.

dangole · December 13, 2024, 5:19pm

This! Drives me nuts. I just wanna be able to browse presets easily.

Why · December 13, 2024, 6:12pm

I would love to see a tab style organization window in the lower zone that allows users to organize plugins like Helix native and Neural DPS GUIs so they don’t pop up all over the screen every time I want to open up an amp sim.

Aleque · December 13, 2024, 7:04pm

Do you mean the program selector? The minimalistic Media Bay kind of thing, that shows up when you press to the left of the up/down arrows on the top of a VST?

wavefunktion · December 13, 2024, 7:13pm

Ability to insert bezier curves and break points directly onto Audio Event fades without needing to enter into the Audio Event fade dialog box.
Update GUI from raster graphics to vector graphics.

Aleque · December 13, 2024, 9:43pm

I would love an option to be able to left-click anywhere within the midi editor to place my cursor / playhead there, without holding down the Ctrl key.

Click on the midi node = select midi node.

Click anywhere else = place playhead there.

wavefunktion · December 14, 2024, 12:47am

“Remove selected tracks” should be available in the MixConsole mouse right click context menu

jonny.turner487 · December 14, 2024, 11:29am

Once again…

Updated expression map system/articulation manager - with variable per articulation pre day. As they have in Dorico
Summing folders
when changing tracks, option for open vst instrument window auto banking to newly selected tracks
option for key editor window not to close when deleting a region and auto populating when new region is selected - just as key editor in lower zone behaves
sampler track to be expanded to multi sampler
redesigned easier to use media bay - copy whats in halion7 with ability to create own atributes

My big feature request is to expand on the Midi remote idea but to for it to exist in its own window/editor on screen (no hardware required). Then it can easily be dragged onto a touchscreen of some kind and we’d have our own built in, easy to configure and adaptable version of all the hz type touchscreens, that people dump hours and hours into setting up, with third party software and scripting nonsense. And if If I’m allowed to really dream combine with the ‘hopefully’ new EM’s with autobanking articulations for whichever track your on… Crazy how SB haven’t attempted to create this as all their ‘famous’ users seem to be using touchscreens

Yeah I’ll keep waiting…

InLight-Tone · December 14, 2024, 2:08pm

Please give us a Track preset system with access from MediaBay unlike Track Archives, whereby a Track Preset recalls it’s routing ala Studio One. Also include Track Delay within those presets.

qaplah1 · December 14, 2024, 3:49pm

MASTER LIST

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

New Features

Sandbox plugins to prevent crashes.
Option to place the cursor on clicked point on event.
Option to choose all algorithms for VariAudio.
Audio interface attached to project, not to Cubase itself.
Save and restore ALL audio connections with one click
Set meters as VU meters (Logic)
Clip launcher
Support for CLAP (plugin format)
Automate last touched parameter.
Lyric track.
Global display zoom (similar to Ableton).
Minimize the risk of user preferences getting corrupted
Update expression maps
Rewrite VCA faders to have them function like proper VCA (and without bugs)
Implement an optional scroll lock on the upper track list when the track list is divided
Do not automatically add newly created channels to existing channel visibility configurations
Introduce a selection mem/zap (similar to zoom mem/zap) that stores and recalls selected tracks/channels/parts/events
Reconsider the graphical design of the mix console
Unlimited inserts and sends
Channel EQ with 8 filters.
Gate plugin with threshold lower than 60dB (synths have noise below that and its nice to hear full reverb tail).
Modulators controls to module other modulators.
Plugin Chainer: Merge effects. (Eg, Merge synths or effects like Waves StudioVerse)
Folder/ Group track merged into one.
Expression Maps overhaul. (including per articulation negative track delay).
Add expression map controls in the Logical Editor.
Digital Performer Chunks for larger film scoring projects.
Further/advanced Dorico Integration.
Muted events with a darker shade of the current color rather than white.
Combine multiple instruments into one rack and one midi and to have modulators control any parameter of any synth instrument in that rack.
Multi-band splits and parallel splits.
Always on top.
VU meter on tracks (similar to 10)
Nameable CCs
Option to disable Video Engine “enhancements”.
Left-click the title bar of the inspector for drop down color menu rather than Alt-Click.
Remove default automation parameters and have users choose their own.
Preset list: Select preset using up and down arrow keys
Using Tab to select the next instrument in the instrument list (Can apply to other drop-down items as well).
Multi-sequences each with independent tempo, time sig and video track, housed under one project file, like Digital Performer’s ‘Chunks’ feature.
Fixed height for folder tracks
Ableton style plugin containers with routing options for Parallel/multi-band processing on one track.
Pitch automation for audio clips.
Have an undo function for VST instruments.
Global undo/redo controls (not separate for mix console).
Add global modulators that can control parameters on different tracks.
Implement modulation assignment similar to Bitwig, where you can drag up or down to simultaneously set the modulation amount.
Make the modulation amount easier to control instead of a tiny bar.
Make ‘hide all automation’ behave the same as ‘hide automation’ but for all tracks, instead of resetting all automation visibility when reopened
Allow volume automation to ‘detach’ from fader, without having to automate a separate volume plugin
Always show parameter values, not just on hover.
Allow sample track to export slices to drum machine track.
Have automatic tail detection for bounces and Offline Processing, that extend the bounce range automatically.
Tightly integrated Hardware Midi Controller.
Full and proper Ripple Edit
Gain Reduction meters in Channel meters
Plugin Renaming (Similar to Studio One)
Missing plugins can be highlighted with a different color
Addition of a MIDI input transformer on every control in MIDI remote.
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)
Double-click on volume faders/parameters to do something, input a valor, or reset to 0.
VST 2 Support
Negative articulation delay (Mentioned in 26)
Ability to control a modulator with CC sent from controller keyboard, fader, or knob.
Load plugins with a shortcut
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)
Saving the modulators also includes the connection with the plugins
Improved 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 prechorus and add bridge progression.
Drag and drop of midi to pads to add chords. From desktop or from inside Cubase.
Performance per pad. i.e., 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 Chord pad preset, while keeping what you already have, including preview before adding.

Audio rate modulator.
Share modulator on multiple channels.
Midi Modulator.
A pattern editor suitable for melody (8 lane, live record per lane, with euclidean, random, glide, accent, pitch, velocity).
Song unmix on Spectralayers Go.
Efx containers.
Flatter GUI, simple and modern.
Full screen mode (Similar to Studio One).
Increase the number of MIDI sends.
MIDI Sends on instrument tracks.
Rack Instrument modulation.
Option to max out the control room level to 0.
Ability to drag lower zone all the way to the top.
Ability to zoom or go full screen for the drum machine.
Send drum machine samples to Groove agent using a button (similar to sampler track).
Easy export button of Drum Machine sounds sampled and synthesized.
Generative features of Pattern editor present in Key editor.
Ability to switch pattern editor to non percussion mode and randomized follow suit.
Ability to choose scale in Pattern editor within a Melody or musical pattern mode.
If 16 or 32 steps are selected, the pattern editor splits into halves for easier editing (like in Logic).
Ability to move sounds lanes within the pattern editor.
Size of pattern editor to follow the size of the lower zone.
Modulator matrix to be either in a straight line or within a square format
Modulators when opened in a larger editor take up the whole screen same as pattern editor and Drum machine.
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.
Cubase shouldn’t force a new project directory if you’re just testing or listening to an audio file without planning to keep it.
Midi remote Support for mixing consoles such as Midas M32, Behringer X32, Allen & Heath, etc etc.
Bold text checkbox for track names.
Add automation lanes for multiple selections.
Gap-less audio Engine.
Automatic gain staging integrated on each channel with option to set up gain like -18db rms or -18LUFS or -10 peak level.
Encode video using high compressed codecs.
Shuffle at an arbitrary speed (e.g. 0.5, 1.2, 1.5) with the corresponding acceleration or deceleration of the video.
The focus of the upper zone remains on the events of the upper zone when copying events to the lower zone.
Hot keys for calling ARA plugins.
More convenient management of presets in Direct Offline Processing.
Ability to quickly call the last used plugin in Direct Offline Processing.
Add align (snap) only to the active track marker
More key modifiers in Editing-tool modifiers.
Lower zone: Option to change order of tabs (mixer, editor, drum machine).
Improved insert bypassing: Use mouse modifiers on insert slots, e.g. shift-Click for bypass plugin, CTRL-CLICK for disable plugin.
New Automation Track Functions

Reverse, mirror, invert.

Option to set video render quality.
Beat Detective equivalent in Cubase.
Poly-rhythmic Audio, MIDI and Instrument tracks (custom time signature per track or notation staff).
Option to open the instruments inside the Pattern Editor, like in Studio One.
Enhanced playing techniques (restrictive and custom expressions as in Dorico)
Playback Templates (faster switch between various existing Instrument Templates, without closing Cubase).
Flows (similar to Dorico).
Divisi - Independent Voice Playback.
More Dorico like features to the Cubase Score Editor.
Ability to view song BPM before importing.
Ability to distinguish between empty tracks and tracks with data.
Previewing a screenshot of project like in Logic.
Ability to save a project report consisting of song metadata and track lists, instrument list, audio pool, .etc.
Comments and user tags for filtering projects.
Maintain project hierarchy and display corresponding trees of the various hierarchies. (i.e. this project is a backup from, this project is a new version of, etc).
Make Cubase instruments and their presets handle Native Instruments NKS libraries.
Cubase media library should be enhanced to read and play NKS libraries
Bigger inspector font size with an option to adjust the size.
Ability to select multiple parameters or automation.
Ability to control the behavior of the export menu target range. (option to set the range to what’s in the markers zone by default).
Sticky notes.
Track Presets should have the option to save with the routing
De-clutter the LH track inspector Basic and Routing panes, increase font size on most-used controls - MIDI channel and which instrument it’s routed to - and allow user to ditch the others. I never use track presets, MIDI panning, change patches, or drum maps
Get rid of that silly ‘extend pattern?’ prompt in key edit mode
Clear “Recent Files” List
Global Solo Mute Toggle, instead of Reset.
m4a import
Reflect the disabled track (and its regions) in the arrangement too with similar paler color
Export/Save Sample Track and Drum Track with samples to custom location (Like GA5 or Halion)
Save Track Presets with drag drop to Mediabay or Media Rack. Also to a custom location.
Right click option to move the selected track/s to a certain folder track.
Drag midi event/s to an audio track for BIP with auto tail.
Midi Notes stretch and strum in Piano Roll.
Range select certain notes in Piano Roll to duplicate ( Currently only option is to select everything)
Option to auto switch to the selected track’s VST instrument editor window while closing the previous one.
Track “Names” should dynamically expand and contract accordingly when resizing the track list instead of having a fixed “track name width” value in the track control settings.
Track “Visible Controls” that are positioned next to the “Track Name” should always remain visible when expanding or contracting the width of the track list. Track “Visible Controls” that are positioned next to the Track Name should override the visibility of the Track Name.
Have the option to choose the color of the Solo (yellow), Mute (red) buttons, like on the Mackie MCU or other consoles /software
Make Cubase skinable
Per-channel dither [primarily for output channels]
Restore C12 and earlier insert slot functionality
Gapless audio. Do not interrupt audio stream when adding/removing tracks, vsti’s and vst’s.

Fixes

Fix problems in Direct Offline Processing like not always generating a tail
Fix the Dialogue tabbing misbehavior
Fix flatten real time processing which mess up timing no matter the algorithm used.
Fix VCA channel losing its values upon reopening of project.
Fix the bugs in MIDI Remote
Fix batch flatten processing on multiple events which results in pops and whole parts broken.
GUI consistency across all menus. (media bay, media pool, preferences)
Legible text everywhere
Fix Scroll issues on Mac.
Fix Per note automation.
Fix clicks when cross fade events with various stretch algorithms used.
Support for light GUI mode (respect OS settings for that like in Win 11).
When using the second or later channels of a multi-timbral sound source in a midi track, for some reason, all panel setting windows are connected to the first channel.
Gapless audio. Do not interrupt audio stream when adding/removing tracks, vsti’s and vst’s.

DosWasBest · December 14, 2024, 4:54pm

Anyone happen to know the oldest-living request from the list?

Reco29 · December 14, 2024, 6:00pm

I guess that would be to please please please (with extra cream on top) fix issues that have been around forever and not only recently…

skijumptoes · December 14, 2024, 9:08pm

Yes, they’re very inconsistent. Most allow you to select a preset and then cursor up/down and it changes in realtime which is great.

Then, Others you have to click to select a preset which then closes the preset list, so you have to click back into it, find where you were before, to try the next preset.

Aleque · December 14, 2024, 9:14pm

Yes I agree - it’s very inconsistent and random, some of it. I also wish they could add a hotkey for opening the program selector, instead of having to manually click to open it.

I use it a lot to browse through (and rate) presets, and it’s nice to be able to use the arrow keys and hear the presets change in real time, as opposed to Halion’s Media Bay, where you have to double click a preset or press enter.

E.J · December 14, 2024, 10:13pm

THIS:

izak · December 15, 2024, 4:22pm

Just curious, how hard would it be to move from raster to vector?

izak · December 15, 2024, 4:26pm

Gap-less audio engine is already added at 98.

izak · December 15, 2024, 4:28pm

MASTER LIST

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

New Features

Sandbox plugins to prevent crashes.
Option to place the cursor on clicked point on event.
Option to choose all algorithms for VariAudio.
Audio interface attached to project, not to Cubase itself.
Save and restore ALL audio connections with one click
Set meters as VU meters (Logic)
Clip launcher
Support for CLAP (plugin format)
Automate last touched parameter.
Lyric track.
Global display zoom (similar to Ableton).
Minimize the risk of user preferences getting corrupted
Update expression maps
Rewrite VCA faders to have them function like proper VCA (and without bugs)
Implement an optional scroll lock on the upper track list when the track list is divided
Do not automatically add newly created channels to existing channel visibility configurations
Introduce a selection mem/zap (similar to zoom mem/zap) that stores and recalls selected tracks/channels/parts/events
Reconsider the graphical design of the mix console
Unlimited inserts and sends
Channel EQ with 8 filters.
Gate plugin with threshold lower than 60dB (synths have noise below that and its nice to hear full reverb tail).
Modulators controls to module other modulators.
Plugin Chainer: Merge effects. (Eg, Merge synths or effects like Waves StudioVerse)
Folder/ Group track merged into one.
Expression Maps overhaul. (including per articulation negative track delay).
Add expression map controls in the Logical Editor.
Digital Performer Chunks for larger film scoring projects.
Further/advanced Dorico Integration.
Muted events with a darker shade of the current color rather than white.
Combine multiple instruments into one rack and one midi and to have modulators control any parameter of any synth instrument in that rack.
Multi-band splits and parallel splits.
Always on top.
VU meter on tracks (similar to 10)
Nameable CCs
Option to disable Video Engine “enhancements”.
Left-click the title bar of the inspector for drop down color menu rather than Alt-Click.
Remove default automation parameters and have users choose their own.
Preset list: Select preset using up and down arrow keys
Using Tab to select the next instrument in the instrument list (Can apply to other drop-down items as well).
Multi-sequences each with independent tempo, time sig and video track, housed under one project file, like Digital Performer’s ‘Chunks’ feature.
Fixed height for folder tracks
Ableton style plugin containers with routing options for Parallel/multi-band processing on one track.
Pitch automation for audio clips.
Have an undo function for VST instruments.
Global undo/redo controls (not separate for mix console).
Add global modulators that can control parameters on different tracks.
Implement modulation assignment similar to Bitwig, where you can drag up or down to simultaneously set the modulation amount.
Make the modulation amount easier to control instead of a tiny bar.
Make ‘hide all automation’ behave the same as ‘hide automation’ but for all tracks, instead of resetting all automation visibility when reopened
Allow volume automation to ‘detach’ from fader, without having to automate a separate volume plugin
Always show parameter values, not just on hover.
Allow sample track to export slices to drum machine track.
Have automatic tail detection for bounces and Offline Processing, that extend the bounce range automatically.
Tightly integrated Hardware Midi Controller.
Full and proper Ripple Edit
Gain Reduction meters in Channel meters
Plugin Renaming (Similar to Studio One)
Missing plugins can be highlighted with a different color
Addition of a MIDI input transformer on every control in MIDI remote.
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)
Double-click on volume faders/parameters to do something, input a valor, or reset to 0.
VST 2 Support
Negative articulation delay (Mentioned in 26)
Ability to control a modulator with CC sent from controller keyboard, fader, or knob.
Load plugins with a shortcut
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)
Saving the modulators also includes the connection with the plugins
Improved 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 prechorus and add bridge progression.
- Drag and drop of midi to pads to add chords. From desktop or from inside Cubase.
- Performance per pad. i.e., 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 Chord pad preset, while keeping what you already have, including preview before adding.
Audio rate modulator.
Share modulator on multiple channels.
Midi Modulator.
A pattern editor suitable for melody (8 lane, live record per lane, with euclidean, random, glide, accent, pitch, velocity).
Song unmix on Spectralayers Go.
Efx containers.
Flatter GUI, simple and modern.
Full screen mode (Similar to Studio One).
Increase the number of MIDI sends.
MIDI Sends on instrument tracks.
Rack Instrument modulation.
Option to max out the control room level to 0.
Ability to drag lower zone all the way to the top.
Ability to zoom or go full screen for the drum machine.
Send drum machine samples to Groove agent using a button (similar to sampler track).
Easy export button of Drum Machine sounds sampled and synthesized.
Generative features of Pattern editor present in Key editor.
Ability to switch pattern editor to non percussion mode and randomized follow suit.
Ability to choose scale in Pattern editor within a Melody or musical pattern mode.
If 16 or 32 steps are selected, the pattern editor splits into halves for easier editing (like in Logic).
Ability to move sounds lanes within the pattern editor.
Size of pattern editor to follow the size of the lower zone.
Modulator matrix to be either in a straight line or within a square format
Modulators when opened in a larger editor take up the whole screen same as pattern editor and Drum machine.
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.
Cubase shouldn’t force a new project directory if you’re just testing or listening to an audio file without planning to keep it.
Midi remote Support for mixing consoles such as Midas M32, Behringer X32, Allen & Heath, etc etc.
Bold text checkbox for track names.
Add automation lanes for multiple selections.
Gap-less audio Engine.
Automatic gain staging integrated on each channel with option to set up gain like -18db rms or -18LUFS or -10 peak level.
Encode video using high compressed codecs.
Shuffle at an arbitrary speed (e.g. 0.5, 1.2, 1.5) with the corresponding acceleration or deceleration of the video.
The focus of the upper zone remains on the events of the upper zone when copying events to the lower zone.
Hot keys for calling ARA plugins.
More convenient management of presets in Direct Offline Processing.
Ability to quickly call the last used plugin in Direct Offline Processing.
Add align (snap) only to the active track marker
More key modifiers in Editing-tool modifiers.
Lower zone: Option to change order of tabs (mixer, editor, drum machine).
Improved insert bypassing: Use mouse modifiers on insert slots, e.g. shift-Click for bypass plugin, CTRL-CLICK for disable plugin.
New Automation Track Functions
- Reverse, mirror, invert.
Option to set video render quality.
Beat Detective equivalent in Cubase.
Poly-rhythmic Audio, MIDI and Instrument tracks (custom time signature per track or notation staff).
Option to open the instruments inside the Pattern Editor, like in Studio One.
Enhanced playing techniques (restrictive and custom expressions as in Dorico)
Playback Templates (faster switch between various existing Instrument Templates, without closing Cubase).
Flows (similar to Dorico).
Divisi - Independent Voice Playback.
More Dorico like features to the Cubase Score Editor.
Ability to view song BPM before importing.
Ability to distinguish between empty tracks and tracks with data.
Previewing a screenshot of project like in Logic.
Ability to save a project report consisting of song metadata and track lists, instrument list, audio pool, .etc.
Comments and user tags for filtering projects.
Maintain project hierarchy and display corresponding trees of the various hierarchies. (i.e. this project is a backup from, this project is a new version of, etc).
Make Cubase instruments and their presets handle Native Instruments NKS libraries.
Cubase media library should be enhanced to read and play NKS libraries
Bigger inspector font size with an option to adjust the size.
Ability to select multiple parameters or automation.
Ability to control the behavior of the export menu target range. (option to set the range to what’s in the markers zone by default).
Sticky notes.
Track Presets should have the option to save with the routing
De-clutter the LH track inspector Basic and Routing panes, increase font size on most-used controls - MIDI channel and which instrument it’s routed to - and allow user to ditch the others. I never use track presets, MIDI panning, change patches, or drum maps
Get rid of that silly ‘extend pattern?’ prompt in key edit mode
Clear “Recent Files” List
Global Solo Mute Toggle, instead of Reset.
m4a import
Reflect the disabled track (and its regions) in the arrangement too with similar paler color
Export/Save Sample Track and Drum Track with samples to custom location (Like GA5 or Halion)
Save Track Presets with drag drop to Mediabay or Media Rack. Also to a custom location.
Right click option to move the selected track/s to a certain folder track.
Drag midi event/s to an audio track for BIP with auto tail.
Midi Notes stretch and strum in Piano Roll.
Range select certain notes in Piano Roll to duplicate ( Currently only option is to select everything)
Option to auto switch to the selected track’s VST instrument editor window while closing the previous one.
Track “Names” should dynamically expand and contract accordingly when resizing the track list instead of having a fixed “track name width” value in the track control settings.
Track “Visible Controls” that are positioned next to the “Track Name” should always remain visible when expanding or contracting the width of the track list. Track “Visible Controls” that are positioned next to the Track Name should override the visibility of the Track Name.
Have the option to choose the color of the Solo (yellow), Mute (red) buttons, like on the Mackie MCU or other consoles /software
Make Cubase skin-able
Per-channel dither [primarily for output channels]
Restore C12 and earlier insert slot functionality
tab style organization window in the lower zone that allows users to organize plugins like Helix native and Neural DPS GUIs so they don’t pop up all over the screen
Ability to insert bezier curves and break points directly onto Audio Event fades without needing to enter into the Audio Event fade dialog box.
Update GUI from raster graphics to vector graphics.
‘Remove selected tracks’ should be available in the Mix Console mouse right click context menu.
Updated expression map system/articulation manager - with variable per articulation pre day. As they have in Dorico
When changing tracks, option for open VST instrument window auto banking to newly selected tracks.
Option for key editor window not to close when deleting a region and auto populating when new region is selected - just as key editor in lower zone behaves
Sampler track to be expanded to multi sampler
Redesigned easier to use media bay - copy whats in halion7 with ability to create own attributes
Track preset system with access from Media Bay unlike Track Archives, whereby a Track Preset recalls it’s routing ala Studio One.

Fixes

Fix problems in Direct Offline Processing like not always generating a tail
Fix the Dialogue tabbing misbehavior
Fix flatten real time processing which mess up timing no matter the algorithm used.
Fix VCA channel losing its values upon reopening of project.
Fix the bugs in MIDI Remote
Fix batch flatten processing on multiple events which results in pops and whole parts broken.
GUI consistency across all menus. (media bay, media pool, preferences)
Legible text everywhere
Fix Scroll issues on Mac.
Fix Per note automation.
Fix clicks when cross fade events with various stretch algorithms used.
Support for light GUI mode (respect OS settings for that like in Win 11).
When using the second or later channels of a multi-timbral sound source in a midi track, for some reason, all panel setting windows are connected to the first channel.

Aleque · December 15, 2024, 4:48pm

Great job assembling all the desired features and fixes!

By the way, could we perhaps make a vote or a poll, somehow? Would be nice to see which features (or fixes) would be most popular. And then Steinberg could work on implementing features that the majority of the users want.

An idea - Steinberg could make a temporary website (or a special topic), where they list all the latest features and fixes from this topic. And then they could allow each user to place five votes, in total.

mlib · December 15, 2024, 9:22pm

Hilarious