I took Audio Engineering in college in the last couple of years for four semesters. We used ProTools, but I don’t have the money to really invest into something that expensive, especially with the upgrades and me having a Mac. I also felt like using my MacBook Pro to do animation, Adobe stuff like After Effects/Photoshop, coding, AND music production was going to have a bad effect in my hardware too.
I’ve also used GarageBand, Logic, and some others. I didn’t find Logic very good compared to ProTools. It was like relearning how to use a DAW.
Cubasis works very well on my iPad Mini, and I plan to get a MIDI interface to use with it. It’s great for my personal use. Probably will buy Audiobus later on too so I can use Figure and some other apps I have.
My first daw was reason 2.5 and if propellerheads are going to release a reason (with audio recording) for ios it would be tempting:)
I always liked cubase, but somehow i never managed it to work properly on my pc, mostly because my pc was the central computer in the house used by multiple persons, so it simply wasnt stable enough with al that adaware and stuf the others installed. Also i im not rich, i dont have a creditcard so i was never able to buy a decent asio card.
Atill i always wanted to work with synths like the arturia moog modular v or the ems synthi a vst’s wicht i am missing in reason…
I also tried the free LMMS, both on windows and linux
Propellerheads rebirth, on pc and ios.
I bought practically al the major daws for ios
Nanostudio, very nice with its very good sounding 16 virtual analog eden synthesizers. Amazing that it runs fine on an ipad 1! If i had a wicht than it would be something like the eden synthesizer internally in cubasis. Audiobus is nice but all the other synts take singlehanded more recources as all the 16 different ede synthesizers together.
I recorded this track with the korg ims20 synth trough audiobus into cubasis.( live, so i could tweak the sounds during recording) - YouTube
and i had to redo the take 5 times because of audio drop outs during recording, luckily i could cut and paste very nicely in the song in cubase , so i just took the loops where the drop outs where out of the mix and actually left one in (at the last third of the song because that one accidentally souded cool
With build in synths you would not have that problem…
I also have beatmaker2 and tabletop.
Although i made songs with them all i decieded to concentrate on cubasis because of its better workflow and the hope that all those issues as automation, clock and internal synths wil come at the end, but is fyou want to make me realy happy than it would be this version of cubasis for windows 8 touch pc’s
Imagine a 20 inch 10 point touchscreen with a i7 processor where your onscreen keyboard, your mixer and your buttons are all life size. That would be awesome…
Although i wold prefer it if apple would make a 20 inch i7 ipad:)
Proud owner of Cubasis with its cutting edge 1990’s workflow. Cubase was my first all in one (midi/audio) workstation back when. When Ableton brought out Live, it was an opportunity to expand my approach. Now on the iPad, which is itself a kind of DAW with the help of Audiobus, there are a lot of alternatives to the traditional multitrack workflow as well. Anyway, Cubasis is smooth and enjoyable experience for linear multitrack work, and i think they’ve done a good job translating to the touch screen. I just hope they keep an open mind to possibilities and not lock in to their comfort zone too much, but it is their thing.
Well, since this is my very first post on the Steinburg forum ever I feel I must clarify my answer as yes Cubasis is my first DAW. It is my first computer based DAW but only if you follow that criteria. For years I’ve used my Yamaha AW16G and still do. My reasons being as I have a great distrust in “Swiss Army Knife” systems. I prefer a hammer to only be a hammer and a screwdriver to only be a screwdriver. With my AW16G I wasn’t ever bothered with updates, new apps, new software etc. These are things that I find tend to distract very many musicians from actually creating music. It’s about the limitations.
Unfortunately, one of the limitations finally caught up to me. The AW16G is so old that it doesn’t have USB. AND! It doesn’t tell you when the hard drive is getting close to full.
Without USB, in order to get a song onto my computer, (my wife’s) , I had to burn a CD first. Plus, one day while recording my friend a message came up telling me that I didn’t have enough space to save what we had recorded.
I also do a lot of recording on my Korg Kronos but it only has 2 inputs plus USB. When I record I sometimes using a few more than 2 ins.
My one major concern is that I too will get caught up in the vortex of apps and other things.
So now, here I am. I’ve bought a 4th gen iPad with 128 gig, a Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 and I’m going to get Cubasis as soon as my wife stops playing games on MY iPad!
I play guitar and bass. Oh yeah, and sing!
Jumped ship from Cakewalk (when it was still called that) to Cubase many years ago. Been doodling with music on and of, making music for a couple of years then nada for a couple of years then back into it again. Dunno why really. Circumstances around you in life I guess. Anyway, still got a non up to date Cubase DAW, and iOS got me back into messing around with music again with Auria and all the cheap synths. Now I’ve finally bought Cubasis (as a long time Cubase user I would have gotten it day 1 if I didn’t already have a an iOS DAW). Looking forward to see Cubasis grow, still a bit wobbly on its legs but nothing future updates will sort out eh?
Cubase was my first all in one (midi/audio) workstation back when. When Ableton brought out Live, it was an opportunity to expand my approach. Now on the iPad, which is itself a kind of DAW with the help of Audiobus, there are a lot of alternatives to the traditional multitrack workflow as well. Anyway, Cubasis is smooth and enjoyable experience for linear multitrack work, and i think they’ve done a good job translating to the touch screen. I just hope they keep an open mind to possibilities and not lock in to their comfort zone too much, but it is their thing.