Hey I had a doubt related to the midi workflow in Cubase 13. Every time I try to copy a part of the midi clip using the range selection tool or manually shorten it (dragging from the bottom left) I can see all the extra midi information that fall outside the region boundary. Is there a way to hide this extra information as it just clutters up the screen when I'm doing multi part editing. The only fix for this so far is to duplicate the midi event and split it using the scissor tool. That is completely counter intuitive and is an extra step with the range selection tool available. I might be missing something in the settings. Please let me know if there's a way to fix this. I've used Logic Pro and Ableton Live for the most part. Has it always been this way in Cubase?
@@YashOnTheBeat When you are in the Project View you should not see the notes that are no longer in the scope of the reduced MIDI event (they are still there, but you don't see them). When you are in the MIDI Editor or use MIDI Edit in-Place function, then the MIDI notes that are overlapping with the current MIDI event are visible but they should appear with only an outline color and no background, so that you know they won't be played, even if you see them. If later you decide to extend your MIDI event back to its original size, your MIDI notes will re-appear normally. I think it is a good behavior, at least I'm used to it 🙂
Awesome! I've been thinking about changing my DAW to Cubase for a while now. You have convinced me :) Also, I love Dom Sigalas' channel and the enthusiasm with which he talks about Cubase.
Dom is the Cubase guru. I love his videos. He makes great points while staying diplomatic to other DAWs. I've learned so much from his channel. I'm glad I could help you make a decision! Which DAW are you coming from?
Ableton. Live 11 had so many stability issues that I started looking for something else. Studio One looks great, but like you said, the on-board tools and instruments are not as good as in Cubase.
helpful key command is the toggle channel/left zone. In my case its 'i' . Don't know if i changed it myself because i ported lots of logics keycommands to cubase. With this you can have either channel or leftzone open, and toggle with one button. So you can use your screen more for the actual productions. Greetings
Interesting. I came back to Cubase from Logic principally because I hate Apple. Had some frustrations due to dodgy gfx drivers but other than that far prefer it to Logic. And yes it's deep.
It’s a small but annoying thing with Cubase that you can’t mouse-swipe along over adjacent track mutes or track solo buttons to activate them like you can in LP and S1. Such a natural move and if you add up all the seconds saved, it makes quite a difference over the course of a project.
@@tam_ryan1036 one of shift-click or control-click does that, I do it sometimes, can be bothered to check with of those keys is, but try click + modifier key and you'll find it
Take more time i recommend you to finish a hole song making the beat bot also recording vocals and you will be surprised on how many futures it have and why is my favorite daw also go check in any instrument track the midi inserts theres alot of hide stock plugins theres amazing like beatdesigner and stuff amazing for producers that not much people know about
Hi Josh, planning to switch to cubase 13..(10y logic user, just bought c13).please can you make a comparison between logic and cubase sound engine? load some kontakt instrument in both and export the file, do you think that cubase sounds kinda cleaner and warmer than logic? or am I crazy? regards and thank you for your honest reviews...
DAWs all sound the same. The "X sounds warmer than Y" is a myth. You can export a track from one, export the same track from the other (with matching levels), load to whatever DAW as 2 separate tracks, invert the phase of one, and you'll get absolute silence. This has been time many times, and what means is the audio produced by both engines is identical. The only thing that DOES and CAN change is the bundled stock fx plugins, stock instruments, etc. Those will have their own sound.
Finally someone who has a Mac running cubase. Every UA-cam video I've watched the person is using windows machines. Anyway, have you had any issues with the audio not working correctly. My audio works through my laptop speakers but I can't hear shit through my headphones. I've tried all the settings and nothing is working. So, my question is, how do you reset cubase, I can't find any info on this for a Mac.
I believe you have to trash the preferences file. There is a female producer who has a video here on UA-cam having a very similar problem. Cant remember her name tho. lol sorry about that.
@@joshuabutlermusic Yes, that was one of the little annoyances that drove me away from Cubase 9. The whole “trash preferences” thing sounds very kludgey. It’s a bug workaround, basically. It really should have been looked at and sorted out by now.
Hmm? Dom Sigalas is a major Cubase youtube and uses a Mac. Chris Selim - Mixdown Online also uses a Mac. The Club Cubase Live Stream channel (from Cubase themselves) also uses Macs. Jef Gibbons, Cubase on Mac. Guy Michelmore, also Mac. Others too.
@@3.14ULSAR Yup… that’s his plan. I’m looking forward to the learning curve videos. The one he’s just released about piano plugins shows him back in his ‘shed’ still on Logic….
Big bummer also: my Logic has NO Macros!!! and NO track searching!!! I can't understand how anyone can work without fast macros. And there is still an old latency bug with sidechain/busses/sum. Cubase stock plugin are on par with Logic´s in these days, I must say.
Lots of people swear by Reaper and I keep meaning to try it. It has a rep for being the most resource light and stable (and cheap!). Correct me if I'm wrong though but it doesn't have things like the Arranger or the chord pads does it? Does it have a good midi editor (ala FL Studio or S1)?
The biggest problem that prevents me from switching DAW is that Studio one supports ctrl+z operations (recording all parameters of VST), but Cubase is not working. Additionally, I am unable to select multiple tracks on Cubase for unified adjustment (not precise enough). If these two issues are resolved, I will not hesitate to use Cubase/nundo. How did you solve this problem? Adapt to it? Is there a similar setting?
Hi. In S1 I can set my song to E-Flat and see the flats in the key editor… can I set my project key…before working at the song? it seems very diificult in cubase …
I don’t know C13 but in S1 you can version your arrangements and every session for that matter as well and create unlimited versions of an arrangement and sessions. Could you go into more details of what the differences are?
My understanding with Studio One is that you can only drag and drop arranger sections and that you only have one arranger track. Is that correct? In Cubase (and in Cakewalk actually) an arrangement is separate from the timeline. You can have multiple arrangements and each one is a list of arranger sections. So an arrangement plays through its list of arranger sections in that order and not how are they are displayed on the timeline. Eg arrangement 1 (let's name it Single Edit) might say play intro alternative 2, verse 2, chorus 1, verse 1 twice, chorus 2 twice. You can have multiple arrangements so arrangement 2 (let's name it Extended Remix) can be defined differently. None of this affects anything on the timeline. In addition you can define multiple arranger tracks so you can define subsections and / or overlaps. Arrangements can call sections from any and every arranger track. You can render an arrangement out to external audio directly, or you can commit an arrangement to the timeline in either the current project or a new one. Honestly I don't know why every daw doesn't have this or similar. Apart from anything else it's the easiest way to try out different ideas for arrangements.
@@tam_ryan1036 Yes and no. The arrangements don't look like the timeline, they're just a list of arranger sections with some parameters. But yes, more sophisticated in my opinion. The arranger in S1 looks like little more than a (very) convenient labelling and cut / copy / paste mechanism. That's great but this is a lot more. It's not perfect but it is extremely useful. I'd struggle to be without it.
S1 users, might be time to move again to a different DAW now that presonus pushes users to use a subscription with S1 + Hybrid, very sad since the S1 6.6 version.
I just got the 6.6 update. I really hope they don't go subscription only. That would be a sad day. And I'll be the first to make videos telling them to NOT do that.
Wait, Presonus is not pushing anyone. You can still get the perpetual license so you will have all of 6.x and you will get the 150$ price to upgrade from version 6 to version 7. So, nothing is gonna change except they are adding a new method that's all...
Have you experienced any noise and CPU peaks on Mac when using Cubase? It is so frustrating when transposing and time-stretching. There's always random noise.
@joshuabutlermusic so you made a decision to switch to cubebase permanently? (Just asking cuz I saw a bunch of videos praising studio 1 ) so I thought it was my lack of knowledge, but you liked Cubase that much huh ?
@@isaacislas9023 studio one is great. I’ve used it for almost ten years. But for me Cubase has a LOT more to offer for actually composing music. It really depends on what you are looking to do with it and workflow style you are looking for. I’d say download the cubase demo and try them both to see which fits you best. Studio one has a demo also.
@joshua butler How do you handle key commands when switching between different daw’s? Do you use a preset from another daw or do you just learn the key commands. I’m a logic user thinking of switching to cubase maybe studio one.
Cubase has custom key commands. You can either set them as logic, key commands or whatever you’re comfortable with. My key commands is a mixture of Reason Studio and Cubase shortcuts..
The quick answer is.... I'm hitting the wrong ones all the time. 🤣 Studio One was my most used DAW before Logic so I switched everything over to a Studio One style key command setup. Cubase has very similar commands to Studio One. If you make the switch I'd just customize the key commands to your liking. Both Studio One and Cubase make it really easy to do. First one I changed in all of my DAWs was to press R for record. lol
You have a lot of free time. How long are you going to do this back-and-forth DAW thing? Is it fair to assume this is all in the name of having something to make content about? Your UA-cam quest must be an attempt at a full-time job.
I don't have a lot of free time I just know how to manage it properly. Check out the book "15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management" It's a great read. And no, UA-cam has never been an "attempt at a full-time job". It's just for fun.
@@joshuabutlermusic think it is great to test and try other Daw's like you do and not get stuck on one cause you will never know how far you are left behind when not looking around! Great job.
Cubase really is a great DAW, especially for music composers mixing MIDI and audio. You will never end discovering new powerful features.
I just purchased my license to 13 Pro today. 😬 10 years with protools and almost 10 with studio one Cubase has amazed me.
i agree
Hey
I had a doubt related to the midi workflow in Cubase 13. Every time I try to copy a part of the midi clip using the range selection tool or manually shorten it (dragging from the bottom left) I can see all the extra midi information that fall outside the region boundary.
Is there a way to hide this extra information as it just clutters up the screen when I'm doing multi part editing. The only fix for this so far is to duplicate the midi event and split it using the scissor tool. That is completely counter intuitive and is an extra step with the range selection tool available. I might be missing something in the settings. Please let me know if there's a way to fix this.
I've used Logic Pro and Ableton Live for the most part. Has it always been this way in Cubase?
@@YashOnTheBeat When you are in the Project View you should not see the notes that are no longer in the scope of the reduced MIDI event (they are still there, but you don't see them). When you are in the MIDI Editor or use MIDI Edit in-Place function, then the MIDI notes that are overlapping with the current MIDI event are visible but they should appear with only an outline color and no background, so that you know they won't be played, even if you see them. If later you decide to extend your MIDI event back to its original size, your MIDI notes will re-appear normally. I think it is a good behavior, at least I'm used to it 🙂
Awesome! I've been thinking about changing my DAW to Cubase for a while now. You have convinced me :) Also, I love Dom Sigalas' channel and the enthusiasm with which he talks about Cubase.
Dom is the Cubase guru. I love his videos. He makes great points while staying diplomatic to other DAWs. I've learned so much from his channel. I'm glad I could help you make a decision! Which DAW are you coming from?
Ableton. Live 11 had so many stability issues that I started looking for something else. Studio One looks great, but like you said, the on-board tools and instruments are not as good as in Cubase.
Didn't know Cubase had a mono/stereo switch on a track. Went to the track settings and added it. Thanks a lot!
Cubase is the most feature-rich DAW on the market.
Most definitely
That's cap
I’m not the biggest Cubase fan but C13 is buttery smooth on my m1 MacBook Pro.
I moved from Studio One to Cubase 100%. No more turning back.
helpful key command is the toggle channel/left zone. In my case its 'i' . Don't know if i changed it myself because i ported lots of logics keycommands to cubase.
With this you can have either channel or leftzone open, and toggle with one button. So you can use your screen more for the actual productions.
Greetings
Interesting. I came back to Cubase from Logic principally because I hate Apple. Had some frustrations due to dodgy gfx drivers but other than that far prefer it to Logic. And yes it's deep.
It’s a small but annoying thing with Cubase that you can’t mouse-swipe along over adjacent track mutes or track solo buttons to activate them like you can in LP and S1. Such a natural move and if you add up all the seconds saved, it makes quite a difference over the course of a project.
Also, is the a Solo shortcut that switches off all other Solos but the one you click? Another little S1 time saver I got used to…
@@tam_ryan1036 one of shift-click or control-click does that, I do it sometimes, can be bothered to check with of those keys is, but try click + modifier key and you'll find it
Cubase 13 have problem for video player it's black screen how to fix this problem
Take more time i recommend you to finish a hole song making the beat bot also recording vocals and you will be surprised on how many futures it have and why is my favorite daw also go check in any instrument track the midi inserts theres alot of hide stock plugins theres amazing like beatdesigner and stuff amazing for producers that not much people know about
Hi Josh, planning to switch to cubase 13..(10y logic user, just bought c13).please can you make a comparison between logic and cubase sound engine? load some kontakt instrument in both and export the file, do you think that cubase sounds kinda cleaner and warmer than logic? or am I crazy? regards and thank you for your honest reviews...
DAWs all sound the same. The "X sounds warmer than Y" is a myth. You can export a track from one, export the same track from the other (with matching levels), load to whatever DAW as 2 separate tracks, invert the phase of one, and you'll get absolute silence. This has been time many times, and what means is the audio produced by both engines is identical. The only thing that DOES and CAN change is the bundled stock fx plugins, stock instruments, etc. Those will have their own sound.
Finally someone who has a Mac running cubase. Every UA-cam video I've watched the person is using windows machines. Anyway, have you had any issues with the audio not working correctly. My audio works through my laptop speakers but I can't hear shit through my headphones. I've tried all the settings and nothing is working. So, my question is, how do you reset cubase, I can't find any info on this for a Mac.
I believe you have to trash the preferences file. There is a female producer who has a video here on UA-cam having a very similar problem. Cant remember her name tho. lol sorry about that.
@@joshuabutlermusic Yes, that was one of the little annoyances that drove me away from Cubase 9. The whole “trash preferences” thing sounds very kludgey. It’s a bug workaround, basically. It really should have been looked at and sorted out by now.
Hmm? Dom Sigalas is a major Cubase youtube and uses a Mac. Chris Selim - Mixdown Online also uses a Mac. The Club Cubase Live Stream channel (from Cubase themselves) also uses Macs. Jef Gibbons, Cubase on Mac.
Guy Michelmore, also Mac. Others too.
Christian Henson now works on Cubase 13 on Mac.
@@3.14ULSAR Yup… that’s his plan. I’m looking forward to the learning curve videos. The one he’s just released about piano plugins shows him back in his ‘shed’ still on Logic….
Big bummer also: my Logic has NO Macros!!! and NO track searching!!! I can't understand how anyone can work without fast macros.
And there is still an old latency bug with sidechain/busses/sum. Cubase stock plugin are on par with Logic´s in these days, I must say.
Reaper is the best DAW ever. Try it
I have a lot of friends who use Reaper and they swear by it. But I'm on the Cubase path currently. And I'm really liking it. lol
Lots of people swear by Reaper and I keep meaning to try it. It has a rep for being the most resource light and stable (and cheap!). Correct me if I'm wrong though but it doesn't have things like the Arranger or the chord pads does it? Does it have a good midi editor (ala FL Studio or S1)?
@@glennlittle7955 it has no chord pads or even a chord track unfortunately.
No it isn't, the best daw is what works for you
The biggest problem that prevents me from switching DAW is that Studio one supports ctrl+z operations (recording all parameters of VST), but Cubase is not working. Additionally, I am unable to select multiple tracks on Cubase for unified adjustment (not precise enough). If these two issues are resolved, I will not hesitate to use Cubase/nundo. How did you solve this problem? Adapt to it? Is there a similar setting?
You just click Alt+Z for plugin undo (Option-Z on the Mac) in Cubase
Hi. In S1 I can set my song to E-Flat and see the flats in the key editor… can I set my project key…before working at the song? it seems very diificult in cubase …
In Cubase you can do the same!
And more.
I don’t know C13 but in S1 you can version your arrangements and every session for that matter as well and create unlimited versions of an arrangement and sessions. Could you go into more details of what the differences are?
My understanding with Studio One is that you can only drag and drop arranger sections and that you only have one arranger track. Is that correct?
In Cubase (and in Cakewalk actually) an arrangement is separate from the timeline. You can have multiple arrangements and each one is a list of arranger sections. So an arrangement plays through its list of arranger sections in that order and not how are they are displayed on the timeline. Eg arrangement 1 (let's name it Single Edit) might say play intro alternative 2, verse 2, chorus 1, verse 1 twice, chorus 2 twice. You can have multiple arrangements so arrangement 2 (let's name it Extended Remix) can be defined differently. None of this affects anything on the timeline.
In addition you can define multiple arranger tracks so you can define subsections and / or overlaps. Arrangements can call sections from any and every arranger track.
You can render an arrangement out to external audio directly, or you can commit an arrangement to the timeline in either the current project or a new one.
Honestly I don't know why every daw doesn't have this or similar. Apart from anything else it's the easiest way to try out different ideas for arrangements.
I find I never use that option. I can’t see the advantage over just using ‘Save as…’. Then you see all your different versions in Finder.
@@glennlittle7955 Ooh that sounds much more sophisticated than S1. Sort of a combination of their Arranger Track and Scratchpad?
@@tam_ryan1036 Yes and no. The arrangements don't look like the timeline, they're just a list of arranger sections with some parameters. But yes, more sophisticated in my opinion. The arranger in S1 looks like little more than a (very) convenient labelling and cut / copy / paste mechanism. That's great but this is a lot more. It's not perfect but it is extremely useful. I'd struggle to be without it.
S1 users, might be time to move again to a different DAW now that presonus pushes users to use a subscription with S1 + Hybrid, very sad since the S1 6.6 version.
I just got the 6.6 update. I really hope they don't go subscription only. That would be a sad day. And I'll be the first to make videos telling them to NOT do that.
Wait, Presonus is not pushing anyone. You can still get the perpetual license so you will have all of 6.x and you will get the 150$ price to upgrade from version 6 to version 7. So, nothing is gonna change except they are adding a new method that's all...
Have you experienced any noise and CPU peaks on Mac when using Cubase? It is so frustrating when transposing and time-stretching. There's always random noise.
I have not had any issues. (knock on wood) I'm using an M1 iMac with 8 gigs of ram.
abelton all day
Im really debating on leaving studio one but am a beginner should i commit to studio or cubebase
Both really good are you more interested in making beats or recording or mixing or what
After almost 10 years with studio one I just purchased a license to cubase pro today. I’m switching. Cubase is amazing.
@@rjjtmt recording =) and probably beats not interested on mixing
@joshuabutlermusic so you made a decision to switch to cubebase permanently? (Just asking cuz I saw a bunch of videos praising studio 1 ) so I thought it was my lack of knowledge, but you liked Cubase that much huh ?
@@isaacislas9023 studio one is great. I’ve used it for almost ten years. But for me Cubase has a LOT more to offer for actually composing music. It really depends on what you are looking to do with it and workflow style you are looking for. I’d say download the cubase demo and try them both to see which fits you best. Studio one has a demo also.
@joshua butler
How do you handle key commands when switching between different daw’s? Do you use a preset from another daw or do you just learn the key commands.
I’m a logic user thinking of switching to cubase maybe studio one.
Cubase has custom key commands. You can either set them as logic, key commands or whatever you’re comfortable with. My key commands is a mixture of Reason Studio and Cubase shortcuts..
I've made my key commands on both logic and Cubase match a lot of the Studio One key commands as i find them the easiest and most logical
The quick answer is.... I'm hitting the wrong ones all the time. 🤣 Studio One was my most used DAW before Logic so I switched everything over to a Studio One style key command setup. Cubase has very similar commands to Studio One. If you make the switch I'd just customize the key commands to your liking. Both Studio One and Cubase make it really easy to do. First one I changed in all of my DAWs was to press R for record. lol
You have a lot of free time. How long are you going to do this back-and-forth DAW thing? Is it fair to assume this is all in the name of having something to make content about? Your UA-cam quest must be an attempt at a full-time job.
I don't have a lot of free time I just know how to manage it properly. Check out the book "15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management" It's a great read. And no, UA-cam has never been an "attempt at a full-time job". It's just for fun.
@@joshuabutlermusic think it is great to test and try other Daw's like you do and not get stuck on one cause you will never know how far you are left behind when not looking around! Great job.