Cubase 5 Evaluation
After spending a few hours working up a song idea in Cubase, I’m really pleased with the workflow improvements, and of course have a few concerns over some other changes. I’ll detail them later on, but I think this is pretty great improvement overall. Cubase has become a serious production workstation rather than a tool for recording ideas… and that’s really great. I’ve pushed the cpu hard with Reason and Cubase and a pile of hungry effects, no glitches or performance issues at all. That’s got to do as much with my new laptop as the program, but the impression I get is that under the hood things are very efficient in C5. The new REVerence convolution reverb is quite cool, with a boat load of impulse responses that are fairly useable, but it’s not complicated to use like Waves IR plug-in. Rewire implementation is solid and things happened automatically for me… add an instrument in Reason, and I have midi talking to it right away. I’m sure there’s a REASON for that (heh), but it all contributed to me thinking things are talking to each other nicely, and for those of us in PC land, this is a welcome change. :) Going to dig deeper later tonight. This release is cool enough I might have to pop it onto my DAW workstation and get using it seriously here too.
One gripe I have is the included Halion instrument. It couldn’t be more boring and unexciting if it tried. Maybe I’ve invested in too many cool vsti’s for it to shine, and so I suppose as a writing tool it’s functional, but a run through the included patches did not inspire me at all. I guess Steinberg has to stay competitive with Sonar and Logic and the bundled instruments, but I’d rather see them dump these (for me) useless instruments and focus on more innovative workflow tools and features.
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