Cubase 15 Wishlist

Aleque · December 15, 2024, 9:31pm

And listing hundreds of wishes, hoping that Steinberg fixes them all in the next Cubase, isn’t?

izak · December 16, 2024, 3:53am

I’m not sure how to get a poll set up but I can definitely look into it.

csurieux · December 16, 2024, 8:58am

List and vote are not identical concepts.
I vote to keep list

evanh75 · December 16, 2024, 9:21am

Bring back Cubase 13 Score Editor

I have been working with song writers using Cubase Score Editor as a sort of Real Book.

Jazz-y (handwritten) looking score functions are completely gone at this point…

Very sad…

eqdttwujholtnsawea · December 16, 2024, 11:46am

FYI you all, CLAP plugin will probably be never supported since Steinberg got a lot of money for licensing VST3

caseypittman · December 16, 2024, 1:04pm

Better smpte time code implementation. Similar to mixbus/ardour.

wavefunktion · December 17, 2024, 9:29pm

Hybrid tracks where MIDI and Audio can reside on the same track.
“Audio / Bounce Selection” to be updated with new dialog box options:

- Replace Events? Yes/No
- Onto New Track? Yes/No
- Mute Original Events? Yes/No
- Ok or Cancel (ability to cancel the procedure)

The “Key Editor, Sample Editor and Audio Part Editor” should have a “Channel Strip” window layout setting to allow the user to adjust the volume of VST instruments and Audio Events while working inside of the full screen mode of these editors.

mlib · December 17, 2024, 9:35pm

What is missing in the current implementation?

caseypittman · December 17, 2024, 10:15pm

Cubase/Nuendo only generate smpte/LTC. I would like to be able to input an LTC signal into a “timecode track” similar to or the same way that Mixbus/Ardour does it.

mlib · December 17, 2024, 10:43pm

Still curious of what you actually want to accomplish. (I have no experience with either Mixbus nor Ardour.) MTC doesn’t work in your case?

I’m pretty sure Nuendo can sync to LTC, no? Might need a Syncstation, I can’t remember.

Markus_Leuthel · December 18, 2024, 7:13pm

Hi @evanh75,

as a workaround, you could download and install the “Finale Jazz” and “Finale Jazz Text” fonts:

Finale SMuFL fonts now available as standalone download

…and then change to them within the Cubase 14 Score Editor:

[Cubase (Pro) 14]

select MIDI file
Main Menu [6]: “Open Score Editor”
Main Menu in Score Editor [3]: “Score” → “Score Settings” → “Fonts”

Best wishes,
Markus

izak · December 19, 2024, 5:29pm

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.
Better smpte time code implementation. Similar to mixbus/ardour.
Hybrid tracks where MIDI and Audio can reside on the same track.
‘Audio / Bounce Selection’ to be updated with new dialog box options:
- Replace Events? Yes/No
- Onto New Track? Yes/No
- Mute Original Events? Yes/No
- Ok or Cancel (ability to cancel the procedure)
The ‘Key Editor, Sample Editor and Audio Part Editor’ should have a ‘Channel Strip’ window layout setting to allow the user to adjust the volume of VST instruments and Audio Events while working inside of the full screen mode of these editors.

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.

Budawg · December 20, 2024, 5:08am

Because this list has grown quite long, I might have missed the following. My apologies any duplicate requests.

Implement a new “Arpache Pro” advanced arpeggiator MIDI plugin taking its inspiration from the outstanding arpeggiator in Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere virtual instrument. (I’m really surprised no one else has requested an improved arpeggiator in Cubase.)
Add the option to time stretch individual Sampler Track loop slices so that when slowing down a loop there are no audible gaps between slices (and when playing back individual loop slices from the keyboard, the hits are more musical-sounding and don’t cut off abruptly).
Do not duplicate the VST instrument itself when duplicating an Instrument Track. Get rid of legacy Rack Instruments once this much needed improvement to instrument Tracks has been implemented.

caseypittman · December 20, 2024, 9:34pm

MTC requires another interface. I use Cubase in a broadcast scenario where another piece of equipment sends out LTC. If I use Mixbus I can patch the LTC signal into an audio input and setup the program to read that and stay in complete sync with the broadcast. Clocks drift and we do 2hr broadcasts. When a remix is needed it easier to just have the audio & video files re-sync themselves via the embedded timecode when dealing with longer timelines.

But sure, I’ll buy one more box to do something that someone else already does as a stock feature.

mlib · December 21, 2024, 1:19am

Thanks for the explanation.
It sounds like a feature request that warrants its own thread. I would post in the Nuendo forum and tag it with the feature-request tag if you haven’t already. There’s a pretty big chance it gets buried and unseen in a big thread like this.

Akshayp · December 22, 2024, 12:32am

Also start saving for 100 more dollars.

Anyways, will there ever be any improvement in mouse handling in Piano Roll? I see numerous requests for the same over a long period of time, yet their is no positive lead in that direction. Whoever thought that double clicking to draw or erase a note in Piano Roll should not be designing UX for softwares. It is dumb. It sounds bitter but that’s how it is. And yes, there is a pencil to draw but it is totally unnecessary, if you fix the select button. I am wasting more time in dealing with the tools than dealing with the actual notes.

I honestly don’t think the Cubase developers are using Cubase as their primary DAW. These nuances wouldn’t have gone unnoticed, if they were. Amd I can’t justify paying the amount money for the upgrades. We are getting peanuts for the price of Pine nuts.

I also own FL Studio and Ableton. Ableton is already got most things right and balanced and now they are focusing on innovating. They release updates over 2-4 years and they are worth the price.

Now for, FL Studio, there Image-Line guys are insane. They don’t charge any money. I love their forum. The developers and support all participate in discussions and decide on features and changes. Their changes are quick. It has happened on multiple occasions, that I have requested a feature and it was released the next week. It have even happened in this month. There was piano roll thing related to patterns, which was annoying for people who uses smaller length pattern, so me along with a couple of users complained about it and it was implemented within a weak and a small update was pushed for the same with some other minor things. This is how should be things, especially when you are charging a lot of money. I have purchased quite a few things like FL Studio mobile, which I don’t really use, but just to support them. When you care more about the product and less about the money, it reduces the friction and reluctance of the people to pay money.

Exactly, opposite occurs at here. A lot of people were left hurt, while that Cubase 13 sale leaving hell a lot of people feeling cheated. A lot of people don’t realise how expensive Cubase is as compared to other DAWs. Ableton don’t release paid updates as often as Cubase. For FL, you can buy a FL Studio Producer edition every two years with the money you spend on the upgrades.

Steinberg should realise that their Pro Tools style attitude won’t help them. Pro Tools is still relevant because of the ‘Industry Standard’ tag. Because of which they can get away with anything, without getting hurt financially. By virtue of functions, they don’t deserve the place they are at, when better DAWs exists out there. They are in a position that is hard to replace. But Cubase is easily replaceable. Studio one and Reaper can easily take over Cubase and they are cheap too. It just that Cubase exists since long time so have more exposure to the market and I think Steinberge is realising it lately. Ditching the dongle and e-licencer was a step in this regard.

I just hope Steinberge realise that happy existing customers brings more sales than any marketing. Go to any DAW related forums and see how passionately people try to pursue others to use their favorite DAW. DAW wars are real. So focusing on keeping the existing customers happy as much as acquiring new is the key.

Anyways, the implementation of Ableton style modulators and FL style patters/sequencer was indeed a great move, though they aren’t that useful yet, especially the drum editor brings more pain than relief but it is a good positive step, so welcomed. Bring more such things. Don’t rush for updates. We can wait for April-May, rather than paying for half baked stuff in November. Make it worth the money before releasing it. Peace…

evanh75 · December 23, 2024, 2:55pm

Wow!!! Thank you so much!!! That looks great!!!

izak · January 10, 2025, 6:40am

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.
Better smpte time code implementation. Similar to mixbus/ardour.
Hybrid tracks where MIDI and Audio can reside on the same track.
‘Audio / Bounce Selection’ to be updated with new dialog box options:
- Replace Events? Yes/No
- Onto New Track? Yes/No
- Mute Original Events? Yes/No
- Ok or Cancel (ability to cancel the procedure)
The ‘Key Editor, Sample Editor and Audio Part Editor’ should have a ‘Channel Strip’ window layout setting to allow the user to adjust the volume of VST instruments and Audio Events while working inside of the full screen mode of these editors.
Implement a new “Arpache Pro” advanced arpeggiator MIDI plugin taking its inspiration from the outstanding arpeggiator in Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere virtual instrument
Add the option to time stretch individual Sampler Track loop slices so that when slowing down a loop there are no audible gaps between slices (and when playing back individual loop slices from the keyboard, the hits are more musical-sounding and don’t cut off abruptly).
Do not duplicate the VST instrument itself when duplicating an Instrument Track

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.

izak · January 10, 2025, 6:57am

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.
Better smpte time code implementation. Similar to mixbus/ardour.
Hybrid tracks where MIDI and Audio can reside on the same track.
‘Audio / Bounce Selection’ to be updated with new dialog box options:
- Replace Events? Yes/No
- Onto New Track? Yes/No
- Mute Original Events? Yes/No
- Ok or Cancel (ability to cancel the procedure)
The ‘Key Editor, Sample Editor and Audio Part Editor’ should have a ‘Channel Strip’ window layout setting to allow the user to adjust the volume of VST instruments and Audio Events while working inside of the full screen mode of these editors.
Implement a new “Arpache Pro” advanced arpeggiator MIDI plugin taking its inspiration from the outstanding arpeggiator in Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere virtual instrument
Add the option to time stretch individual Sampler Track loop slices so that when slowing down a loop there are no audible gaps between slices (and when playing back individual loop slices from the keyboard, the hits are more musical-sounding and don’t cut off abruptly).
Do not duplicate the VST instrument itself when duplicating an Instrument Track
Upgraded Media Bay with AI tools to simplify library analysis, auto-tagging, filtering, and pitching to a specific note, similar to third-party services like Splice, Loop-cloud, etc.
Easy total backup: A one-click solution to prepare and export all settings, presets, hotkeys, and paths into a single file, especially useful when reinstalling the OS.
Audio to MIDI tool: A tool powered by AI that converts audio to MIDI notes accurately
Track auto-coloring rules by name: For instance, if a track contains the word “drum” in its name, it automatically gets assigned a red color. (workarounds : Daniel Ayo, Dom Sigalas - Color Coding With One Click)
Cubase Hub - Project Preview: The ability to preview (listen to) a project without opening it. Similar to preset previews, this would allow quick identification of projects.
Project info: Detailed statistics about the project, such as total time spent, the number of instruments, tracks, and notes.
Select next/previous presets with hotkeys: Since Steinberg created the VST format, it would be great to have a feature for switching VST presets with hotkeys. This could also inspire hardware developers to add physical buttons to MIDI keyboards for this functionality.
SuperVision analyzer as a small un-docked bar: A compact, floating analyzer bar (e.g., at the top or bottom of the screen) without buttons. Many producers use apps like Minimeters for this purpose; upgrading Steinberg SuperVision to a similar compact design would be highly beneficial.
Add specific VST/effect to a selected channel with a hotkey: A faster workflow by assigning hotkeys to quickly insert frequently used VSTs or effects.

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.

valsolim · January 10, 2025, 8:32am

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Cubase 14.0.10