IF inserts ≯ 8 THEN super advanced plugin chainer??

[Hattrixx]

I would LOVE to have infinite inserts, it’s been on my Cubase wishlist for 10 long years. I’m an advanced user and I’m not happy with the suggested workarounds (render, use a 3rd party chainer, route through busses, use less inserts, use sends creatively, etc).

My top request would be to have infinite inserts. HOWEVER, I understand the concerns that this could upset the existing mixer, which I absolutely wouldn’t be in favour of. More inserts would have to be implemented in a way that’s invisible to any user who only ever uses a handful of inserts.

I’ve created a thread with a poll about my idea for a potential solution, which I’ve quoted an excerpt from here:

@Hattrixx

Personally, I’d like infinite inserts and I don’t want to use a third party chainer. However, I think if Steinberg were to build a native chainer into Cubase, it could potentially be done in a way that would satisfy me (I’d have to think long and hard about what conditions would have to be met, but the bare minimum would be for the chainer to have identical plugin support to Cubase).

Possibly my favourite plugin in the world right now is MeldaProduction’s MXXX, which among other things, allows you to build chains with complex routing options (L/R, mid/side, parallel/serial, feedback, sidechain, etc - it doesn’t host 3rd party plugins, though). If Steinberg were to present something vaguely along those lines - obviously not with the full feature list of MXXX - I think that could be a sound designer’s heaven without necessarily having to disrupt the mixer.

I’ve created a poll: https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=250&t=107456

[Hattrixx]

If you’ve already voted, you may need to vote again as I added an extra option and then the poll reset.

Didn’t know it would do that!