Cubase Pro 16 Wishlist

[Musicobserved]

Project Master Tuning / Concert Pitch Reference

Please add a project-wide concert pitch setting, stored with the project (Project Setup, and ideally visible in the toolbar next to tempo / root key).
Default: A4 = 440.00 Hz
Presets: 415 / 430 / 432 / 442 / 443 / 444
Custom value in Hz (0.01 Hz) and/or cents offset from 440
This should be a reference frequency, not a global pitch-shift of the mix. It should not change audio length or formants by default.

What should follow the project reference
VariAudio
Pitch grid, snap-to-note, Correct Pitch, cents readout, and MIDI extract should use the project A4. Right now a performance recorded or written off 440 never sits on the grid, so correction is always a workaround.

Pitch Correct
Detection and target notes should use the same A4. The existing per-instance Master Tuning control is an output detune, not a project reference.

Steinberg instruments and tools
HALion Sonic, Groove Agent, Retrologue, Padshop, Sampler Track, Tuner, loop/MediaBay preview, and any stock instrument with a Master Tune / A4 parameter should inherit the project value, with a per-instance override.

Optional VST3 follow
If a plug-in exposes a standard master-tune / A4 parameter, offer “Follow project tuning.” Instruments that do not support it stay unchanged.

Why Fine Tune / Transpose / PitchShifter are not enough
Per-event Fine Tune and offline pitch shift do not retarget VariAudio’s grid, do not keep vocals and virtual instruments on one reference, and do not live with the project the way tempo and root key do.

Use cases
Orchestral and scoring work at A = 442–443
Historical / period pitch (415, 430, 432, etc.)
Sessions tracked off 440
Full projects written at a non-440 reference so VariAudio and instruments agree
Melodyne, Auto-Tune, MuseScore, and several other DAWs already have a project or master reference. Cubase still treats 440 as fixed for VariAudio and related tools.

A single Project Setup field plus “follow project tuning” on Steinberg pitch tools and instruments would close a request that has been on these forums for more than a decade.

[TheElementz]

This is a small list of requests or dreams

1 Markers auto quantized ( like pro tools )

2 Using Apple Loops

3 Changing multiple VSTis at the same time ( like logic or pro tools )

4 Keeing Plugin open the changing channel, assigned to new track ( if you go from channel 3 , changing to channel 4 opens the instrument of channel 4 and closes the one from channel 3 )

5 Insert VSTIs in the Mixer

6 Audio Regions Folders ( like logic, when you are loop recording )

7 Change VSTi on Channel setting windows

8 Groove Track ( like logic. all tracks, midi or audio, follow the groove quantize of a master track in real time )

9 Audio to text ( like pro tools )

Thank you

[AliAlyousuf]

Few things I would like to see, im not sure if the first one is there or not but I couldnt achieve it.

1- Renaming CC lanes, for examples I hide all unused CC’s in the midi editor and showing the one use, if I could give them names like CC21 to be Vibrato, and so on, but I couldnt find a way to do it.

2- Track versions for the marker tracks, this will be useful if your trying different frameworks within the same project.

3- I’m sure there is a workaround but there might be better way to approach it: switching track version for all the tracks at once, I recently started to compose a whole album in one project and for my workflow this will help alot, I can create track version for every piece, instead of having the whole album as a long sequence.

[Googly_Croft]

@AliAlyousuf

1- Renaming CC lanes

Pigs will fly before this gets implemented - been requested for donkey’s years.
EG:

Name controller lanes

PREAMBLE: If you think this is a good feature request, as much as a “+1” comment is appreciated, hit the “vote” button! This is how the devs can decide which features get implemented. Similar to Logic, I think it would be a big productivity boost if we could name controller lanes. When you’ve not used an instrument in months then you load it up and see ten CC numbers, then have to scour the VST or manual for a reference to what they do, it can end up taking a long time. But if we could just se…

[Bojan_Zdolsek]

Hi there, I would love to see in next version two things. First one is ON/OFF button or BYPASS button for entire EQ section on EQ screen, (preamp has one and all individual bands has it but not as a whole thing) second is a delta button on plugins screen next to bypass . If those are there but in didnt found the I apologize.THnx

[Dtgtrman78]

You can bypass the entire eq.. look up at where it says equalizer and there is a small circle to the left. If you click it and it turns yellow, then it’s bypassed. That’s a good idea for the delta button.

[Zdzislaw]

Stop automatically creating/moving Event Snap Points

Please give us an option to disable automatic Event Snap Points.

An Audio Event should always snap from its actual beginning by default. If I want a different Snap Point, I should be able to set it manually.

At the moment, Cubase can automatically create or position a Snap Point somewhere inside an Audio Event. This can make basic operations such as moving, copying, duplicating and aligning multiple audio events unnecessarily difficult and unpredictable.

The current behavior is especially frustrating because the visible beginning of the event is no longer necessarily the point from which the event snaps.

Suggested solution:

Default: Snap Point = beginning of Audio Event

Optional setting:

Audio Event Snap Point

• ○ Event Start (default)
• ○ Automatic
• ○ Disable automatic Snap Point changes

The key principle should be simple:

Cubase should not change my Snap Point unless I explicitly tell it to.

[Galdin]

These are some of my humble wishes for the new version:

• Improved Audio Warp: Algorithm efficiency elevated to the level of Pro Tools’ Elastic Audio (mono and polyphonic).

• Stem Separation and Tempo Detection: Refined and precise tools, comparable to the usability of Logic Pro X.

• Solid and Objective Score Editor: Stability and simplicity inspired by MuseScore, aimed at non-copyists who need a basic and functional tool without relying on Dorico.

• Channel Activation and Deactivation: A new shortcut or native button to easily turn Group and FX Channels on and off.

• Timeline Optimization: Correction of the behavior that generates endless empty measures after the audio or MIDI ends on the track.

• MIDI Editor Layout Fix: Correction so that sub-tracks (Velocity, Modulation, Sustain) removed or hidden by the user do not reappear on their own.

• Color Management Fix: Resolution of the structural bug that prevents saving color presets, as reported in the 15 Pro version.

• Render in Place Without Suffix: Option to perform Render in Place without automatically adding the “(R)” suffix at the end of the name, avoiding the extra work of deleting it manually.

• Vocal and Phase Alignment: Improvements to the vocal alignment feature; for example, it promises the same as other third-party plugins but is still not as efficient. It could also include a feature like Auto Align 2.