Cubasis 3 - DAW & Music Studio 4+

Thanks for updating your app. I’ve used this for years now for all of my official releases but since your latest update and the new function of being able to search for MIDI instruments I have lost all assigned instruments on previous tracks, most of which were unlabelled (which was my own lack of due diligence) but I was never aware that not labelling what the instruments I used would cause an issue in the future, like now. I have too many tracks using SynthMaster One for example, and I cannot recall which instrument I used for each track. The old app used to search automatically for the instrument and there was never a problem. Is there a way you can give the option to those who are like me who are not the greatest when it comes to naming conventions (due to personal creative flow) so that we can have instruments load automatically as they used to?? Otherwise I would have lost so many tracks! Thanks!

Hi Striking_chords, Many thanks for your review and rating. I've exchanged with our engineering, and it seems unlikely that your issue is related to the new search feature. Please file a bug report at our Cubasis forum (steinberg.net/cubasisforum) to allow us further exchanging with you regarding the issue. Talk soon, Lars

I’ve had Cubasis 2 for years, used on various iPads, with hardly any issues. I recently purchased Cubasis 3 while the sale was on, and so glad I didn’t pay full price. I have also updated it to latest Cubasis 3.4. Cubasis 3 has so many issues. I use iPad 11 pro and iPhone 13 pro max. Haven’t used it on the iPhone yet, but on iPad it constantly crashes during recordings. And now it has started playing back recordings at really slow distorted speeds! Really frustrating. Tried so many obvious solutions, restarts, iPad restart etc etc. Sometimes it plays back normal speed then other times it switches back to slow distorted speeds. I’ve never played around with speed settings, tempo etc, just left everything as default. I use Audiobus 3 to set up Cubabsis with recordings. Always starts of great, then once you get going adding more instruments or sounds, it either stops dead or crashes off screen. Think I’ll go back to using Cubasis 2 until Steinberg can sort these bugs out. I’ve read through various forums that there are a lot of issues with Cubasis 3. Seems a lot more work needed to go into this before it’s released.
There are constant complaints of Cubasis 3 crashing in different scenarios. Steinberg should not be releasing it without fully testing. Tried everything you suggested and checked on forums. These crashes are constant. I’m giving up on Cubasis 3 and applying for a refund. Wasting too much time trying to resolve different types of crashes.

Hi Jamestyros, Please note that Cubasis 3.4.1 has been released yesterday evening, adding many fixes and improvements to a wide range of user-reported problems. Please find out more what's included in the update right here: https://forums.steinberg.net/t/cubasis-3-4-1-available. We would be glad to have your updated feedback, once you've downloaded and checked Cubasis 3.4.1 yourself! Thanks in advance & stay safe, Lars
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Hi Jamestyros, Thank you for your updated Cubasis review and rating. Again, we are sorry to read about your issue. Please note that Cubasis 3.4.1 is planned to be released shortly, which will include many improvements and fixes to user-reported issues. We would be very glad to hear about your feedback, once the update has been released. Thanks in advance & stay safe and sound, Lars
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Hi Jamestyros, Thank you for your Cubasis review and rating. We are sorry to read about your problems. Please give the following steps a try, to see if it helps to resolve the issues: (1) Load the "New Project" project template. (2) Close all running apps, including Cubasis. (3) Fully shut down the iPad/iPhone. Does Cubasis works as expected, once relaunching the iOS device and the app? In addition, it would be great to have more details about your playback speed /distortion issues. Are these related to using Bluetooth devices (such as BT phones or speakers)? It would be of great help if you could share your bug reports with us in our forum at steinberg.net/cubasisforum to allow us exchanging with you. Once our engineers can reproduce the problems, there is a good chance for a fix! Thanks & stay safe, Lars

Hello Generally v good. I’m running 3.4 on iPad Pro .. yet why so difficult to achieve a fade? I’d prefer to do this from the main tracks without opening the waveform window yet when I do nothing appears easy and intuitive including achieving a fade. Coming to Cubasis3 on iPad Pro from using Digital Performer for years this is disappointing. In addition on an iPad mixer panning isn’t easy to do with some accuracy. Open pan into a separate window perhaps?

Thank you for your reply Lars, I’ve worked it out !
My confusion arose thus : I’m making audio splits in the main tracks section and assumed if I then double clicked on a particular split section to bring up the waveform window I’d then only see my split area but the whole original waveform is displayed so I then have to shuffle through this to find the bars I wish to fade. As you point out The movable Handles in the waveform area define the fade points as I’ve just realised! By the way the handles are a fabulous idea. Be nice also to have some ‘markers’ as feature in Digital Performer yet I appreciate this might over complicate what is a clean uncluttered intuitive design. I rate Cubasis3 v highly indeed and look forward to the next update …

Hi martinstephen, Thank you very much for your updated Cubasis review and rating! Glad to read that things work as expected for you! Please note that Cubasis 3.4.1 is planned to be released shortly, which will included many improvements and fixes to user-reported problems! Enjoy making music & stay well! Best wishes, Lars
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Hi martinstephen, Thanks for your Cubasis review and rating! There are various options to create fades in Cubasis. You can use the handles of an event to easily create fade ins and outs. But, Cubasis comes with full automation support too. To learn more about the Cubasis workflow, I strongly suggest to check out our "Getting started with Cubasis" tutorial, where Dom Sigalas shows all steps to create a full blown track with the app in near to no time: https://youtu.be/KcFuk4z-eUQ. Hope this helps & that you enjoy the clip! Thanks again! Stay safe and sound & best wishes, Lars