Better still, you can now switch between the different takes from a pop-up menu of available Playlists without any of the nonsense of muting and unmuting different sets of tracks. With Playlists, however, you can simply group the tracks together, create a new Playlist, and suddenly you can record straight away onto the new Playlists, but still the same tracks. In Cubase, traditionally, you'd mute the initial take, create another 32 tracks, and record again and if you keep recording takes, the number of tracks can build up and the management of the project can become a nightmare. It's not quite right, so you want to record another take.
For example, say you're recording a multi-miked orchestra across 32 tracks and you record a take.
For those not familiar with Pro Tools, the Playlist feature basically allows you to have multiple versions of different material on the same track. If you were to ask an audio engineer fluent in Pro Tools to list the features he or she might miss the most when using a competing product, I'd be willing to bet that Playlists would be high up that list - especially if said engineer records orchestras, drum kits, or anything involving multi-take, multitrack audio. The company have clearly been spending time looking at various workflows users find essential in competing music and audio software. These addressed much of the initial criticism certain areas of the program received, particularly concerning the aesthetics of the Mix Console, but Steinberg's focus in Cubase 7.5 is very much on production workflows.
Steinberg have packed a lot of new functionality into their bargain upgrade to Cubase.Ĭubase 7.5 is, in many ways, a more refined Cubase 7, building on the many point releases Steinberg have issued throughout the year.