Hi. This is my wishlist for Cubase 15.
I hope someone finds this useful. (Sorry for my English.)
Fix Automation latency
I used to be an FL Studio user, and when I switched to Cubase, I noticed automation has a delay of a few milliseconds. For example: I automate the volume down before a drop, and the kick loses its transient because of automation latency. Someone might say it’s due to buffer size, but I never had this issue in FL Studio. Please look into it.
Interface customization and presets for this
I want Cubase to allow more flexible interface adjustments — contrast, saturation, and general UI customization similar to Studio One, FL, or Ableton. Also add a Day/Night mode that follows the system theme. There should be a theme preset manager in the options so users can save and switch custom interface layouts.
Automatically save new projects to selected folder
When I create a new project and select a folder, the project file is not saved automatically into that folder. If I press Ctrl+S a window opens asking where to save the project file, and I have to choose the folder again. Why can’t this be automatic?
Make ability to remove latency when you turn off vst plugin has it.
I don’t want to use delay compensation which turns off all my VST plugins with latency, I want to choose.
Smoother fade curves
When I apply a fade-in or fade-out, the curve looks too harsh and polygonal, like an old-game model. Please make fade curves smoother.
Optional ideas to make Cubase better:
Ability to play sounds in sample browser more than one time, by clicking them.
In Midi editor you can after select by range tool choose which notes will selected to move. Like, I select 1 bar but I need only Cymbals, not all drums and I copy range to next bar and it moved only I selected (Cymbals). Sorry, my English is too bad…
Color palette like Pro Tools or Studio One (Horizontal box with same gradient location)
Fix fader button because if you have to zip channels wide like 30 channels in view, your button stretches like spaghetti, fix button’s size!
I always use SuperVision and I dislike small plugin’s window and always resize this. But I’d like to have ability for saving the size in presets.
For customization interface I would like to have grid opacity option for workspace.
Also, I have a trouble with mediabay when I added new samples or changing it in explorer, like I add new sample packs and in cubase I don’t see it untill I open mediabay and rescan my folders where I have all samples.
I would add mine, some of them coming from Cubase 14 wishlist :
Attach audio interface to project, not to cubase.
This would be appreciated for those using several audio interfaces and dedicated projects.
Allow one or several Instruments to take direct input from one midi track.
This without having to play with midi channel and/or midi send.
Just selection of one midi track as input.
This to avoid duplicating midi data in several instruments.
I think this one is already available, isn’t it?
You have the switch for enabling/disabling delay compensation and an option, which plugin remains active and which not by typing in the acceptable latency time:
I see what this works for recording only, and I want to select not by making value > <. Like I turn off Ozone plugin on insert and this track lose latency from ozone. Now if I do it, latency is still work on this track channel
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what you mean here, but you can already set up a Batch Export in Cubase Pro that can render multiple formats in a single export batch. I do it all the time, typically to export CD-quality WAV plus 4 different MP3 bitrate files. You do have to set up each option within the Export/Audio Mixdown dialog prior to running the export. So, for example, I’ll first set up the WAV export and add that to the queue, then maybe I’ll set up the 320 kbps MP3 and add that to the queue, then the 256 kbps MP3, then 192 and 128. Once I’ve got all 5 entries in the queue, I run the export. It seems like they are all running in parallel, though I wonder if maybe Cubase uses the WAV file output as the source for the individual MP3 conversions.
You can also export other formats in the same batch. The biggest limitation for me on that front is that, because Cubase doesn’t handle dithering and noise shaping in the export itself, but rather in a plugin, I have to separate 16-bit and 24-bit exports into separate batches due to different dithering plugin settings (i.e. 16-bit versus 24-bit). I can, however, do both 48 kHz and 96 kHz exports in a single 24-bit batch.
(There are also other limitations for my project archival needs, but those are about what tracks are heard, such as full mix, karaoke mix, and instrumental mix, as opposed to output audio file formats.)
Here is a better version of my initial list.
Translated from french by Google with errors.
- For Cubase on Windows, the audio card and active MIDI inputs should be attached to the project and not to Cubase.
This would provide some flexibility for those like me who, depending on what they’re recording, use different audio cards or different MIDI inputs (e.g., the Fishman Triple Play and MIOXL).
The current constraint requires that each time a project using different hardware is opened, the entire configuration must be redefined, only to then revert to the previous one. A real pain.
-Real project management:
with an HTML comment box (supporting embedded images) for each project, accessible via text search,
with real project dates (creation, modification, unrelated to OS dates) that can be used for searches and filters,
with the concept of inheritance, which allows you to know that a project was created from another (either by creating a new version, by backup, or by imposed inheritance). This should be coupled with a tree view of this hierarchy, with navigation and selection for opening. Artificial links may be created for personal management purposes.
with project-based taxonomies, taxonomies not imposed but user-createable, this would complement tags (a slightly different function). The whole thing could be used in filters applicable to different views (list or treeview).
- A revision of Cubase’s antediluvian MIDI:
with the simple ability for instrument tracks to take their MIDI data from a MIDI track. It is currently possible, using MIDI sends in a MIDI track, to choose instruments to send MIDI data to. This is limited to four instruments and is fatally complicated. The idea would be to take this the other way around, from the perspective of the instrument track, which could simply choose its MIDI data track. No limits to four, no complications with MIDI channels, ultimately simply considering MIDI tracks as MIDI inputs, just like a keyboard. Everything is already present for this in Cubase, but we’re still stuck with something that came out of the lab 20 years ago…
Implement MIDI 2 for the hardware and the software (plugins) that support it (with dual direction of interactions).
-Allow the project window to display, as is done for vertical tracks that can be frozen in the upper zone, bars that always remain horizontally present.
Associated with this function, naturally comes the ability for the project window to display only a reduced horizontal view between bar X and bar Y.
A bit like what you can do in a spreadsheet.
No more annoying horizontal scrolling that kills mouse. And why not have several of these zones that could be scrolled individually (that would be for Cubase 25)?
-Fix an issue/bug that bothers me a lot in the mixconsole window with its three zones, of which only the central one can be scrolled.
Currently, if the right zone is full, the left one is empty, and you fill the central zone with tracks, there comes a point where the space on the screen dedicated to the central zone becomes smaller than that of the right zone. This is a recognized bug that has been around for a long time. Reducing the width of the tracks doesn’t help.
What’s missing here is the ability to choose the respective size you want for these three zones, not to let Cubase calculate them because it fails with poor result, perhaps because of variable screen definitions and Windows, I don’t know, but it doesn’t work.
And why not be able to scroll each of the three zones, not just the central one?
There are others, less massive, but you have to know how to limit yourself.
“Make ability to remove latency when you turn off vst plugin has it.
I don’t want to use delay compensation which turns off all my VST plugins with latency, I want to choose.”
Already possible. Don’t remember, if you have to make ctrl or alt click.
And in the preferences you can set the allowed latency before they are switched off. For example you can set that plugins with a latency up to 3ms should not be switched off, when enabling constrain latency.
O, it really has this option, but why it works when you use alt + click? Why cubase’s developers can’t combine this function to usual turn off on inserts…
Maybe to not mess with the latency every time you bypass the plugins, especially during the playback. I think it is quite a useful behavior. I wish Bitwig had this behavior too.
Be happy with a seamless audio engine, a proper non linear clip launch feature like ableton/bitwig and the right click pop up bar back how it should be
Before you say it i already am, bitwig
haven’t upgraded cubase since 9.5 and won’t until they play the game. Looks like all the users who were waiting and waiting like me left already for the apps that make modern workflow features, shame, +20 years using cubase.
I’ve said it before but I would like to be able to record MIDI parts with Cycle Mode on without it automatically making the MIDI Part the length of the cycle. On no other DAW does this happen when recording in a loop mode.
