Cubase SX 4 Arrived

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:18 am

King of Snake wrote: I'd like to see an overhaul of the automation system sometime, better looping features, and an easy way to route a midi controller to cubase mixers and effects.

Damn straight,. Who knows, ONE DAY Steinberg might re-introduce the looping/recording features which were available in Cubase 2 for the ATARI *sigh*

Way back in them there days, Cubase would keep track of layers of takes in a recording loop, allowing the user to keep sub-layers, delete sub layers and keep the top, keep all layers (or the topmost layer) unless new recording information is added in the current loop etc. Very flexible and made recoding e.g. MIDI drum loops quite a creative and painless process. In SL1 & SL2, loop recording is pretty pants really. You've got 'overdub' and 'replace', basically which aren't really that useful.

I think a MIDI-CC to VST Automation matrix would be pretty easy for them to implement too, Cubase is already aware of all automatable paramaters for any VST device, so why not simply allow users to map MIDI CC#'s onto them?

Royston

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:51 am

Counterparts wrote:
King of Snake wrote: I'd like to see an overhaul of the automation system sometime, better looping features, and an easy way to route a midi controller to cubase mixers and effects.
I think a MIDI-CC to VST Automation matrix would be pretty easy for them to implement too, Cubase is already aware of all automatable paramaters for any VST device, so why not simply allow users to map MIDI CC#'s onto them?

Have another squint at the manual. There's a section called 'remote controlling the mixer' where it's all explained. If you're controller isn't on their list of common control surfaces, you probably need to use the generic remote with which you can map out whatever you want. Can't say how good it is, since we've mainly been using SX for midi routing, recording & programming.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:59 am

Aye, I've read that section. I think that in SL2, one can use the generic remote to control the mixer, audio and MIDI channels.

I think that SL3/SX3 takes this further, allowing control of all VST devices.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:16 pm

It seems as though I get an 8 channel AD converter with my purchase, any one else have such luck? If so, is it any good? I'm sure it was probably on par with the ESI group out of Korea that did this before.