Multiple timelines in one project - “Flows” system like in Dorico

Hey!
Been a Cubase user since SX3! Love it and just purchased Cubase 13.

I’m doing lot’s of theatre productions and musicals, on those projects I found it easier to work on 1 enormous project with lots of cycle markers. And that’s create certain problems.

I think the ability to have multiple timelines in the same project, would be a huge feature for me! It’s a very regular concept in video apps (sequences in Premiere or compositions in After Effects for example) but I don’t think any DAW does something like that…

Now, you can tell me that I can open a few projects in the same time and activate every project each time I want to move timelines… but that’s not what I’m looking for…
the ability to mix entire projects more efficiently with the same chain across all production + the ability to jump to any song quickly, without the need to wait for everything to load is a huge timesaver and selling point for me.

What I’m suggesting is the amazing and innovative “Flows” system from Dorico imported into Cubase. Or something like what’s happening in Vst live.
Every track I add to any timeline (vsti or audio) becomes “available” and loaded on all timelines… But now, the difference from a huge timeline is that every song could start from bar 0… and whenever you want to add bars (and especially irregular bars) to a certain song, you don’t have to deal with all sort of timeline problems. Every timeline has a unique tempo map… and all plugins across the project are loaded. EXTREMELY useful!!!

I’ll probably use this feature for 80% of my projects.
Thanks

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I would love to see this as well. I’m working on a scoring project that involves making a whole lot of very short separate clips which could be used in any order, and I’m having to put them one after the other on the timeline, with cycle markers like you. I don’t want to use 20 different projects for pieces of music that are sometimes only 5 seconds long. It isn’t really ideal because the CC data from one earlier short cue can affect a future one if I’m not careful. I also use the new score editor in Cubase 14 to look at what I’ve written and it would be nice for the cues to be split up into flows like in Dorico instead of showing up in one big score.

Would be an absolute game changer for film and tv composers.

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