Echoing developments seen in some controller keyboards, a new Scale Assistant in the Key Editor lets you set a song’s scale and have it knock out or hide any notes that don’t conform to the scale, or quantise a part to the scale. Multiple new playback modes like LFOs and mono legato glide make this more naturalistic than simply triggering sample slices might normally sound. A new Slicing Mode chops up any sample, making it playable from your MIDI keyboard like an instrument. Present in all new versions are enhancements to the Sampler Track. A new Cycle Marker export option makes it simple to export multiple, defined areas of a project in one go, which is great for scoring or remixing purposes. There’s also now the option to sync track selection to export which means you can choose tracks in your Project window and they are automatically included in the export selection. There’s a new Export Queue section that lets you queue up multiple sessions - one with effects, one without, different tracks per-export and so on - and then hit Go and leave it to run. Particularly helpful when working with larger projects, you now get an expanded set of choices for exporting stems, to include or exclude channel strips, sends and master bus effects. The first major change and one that’s only in the Pro version is a major update to the export options. It’s no bad thing - there are so many tools and functions on offer, keeping the interface as uncluttered as possible must be a full time job. The look and feel of Cubase has if anything become a little more clinical, reflecting perhaps the workflow-centric changes in version 11. You’ll need 35GB of space to install the full content set though this can be downloaded on a per-instrument basis using the Steinberg Download Manager. System requirements aren’t too different from last time out, any recent, up-to-date Mac or PC with a solid number of cores and RAM spec will do it. Also you might want to read our review of version 10 for a little more background. It’s the Pro version - a detailed comparison with Artist and Elements can be found on the website. Since Cubase is a vastly capable DAW, I’m not going to go through every one of its features but rather focus on what’s new in version 11. While Steinberg has continued to innovate in other areas with Cubasis for iOS and its virtual instrument family, Cubase and its post production-focused sibling Nuendo have remained at the heart of what the company does. Now at version 11, it’s actually gone through many more than 11 iterations, having had a ground-up rewrite and a naming convention change with Cubase SX in 2002. Cubase is an elder statesman of DAWs, having been created way back in 1989 as a MIDI sequencer running on the Atari.
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