3 Great Cubase Features for Composers

Cubase has some great features for working with large projects. This video shows some of my favourites!
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[@tnbee]

that asio guard tip is really helpful! thank you so much!

[@KM-tv5km]

Love seeing a Blakus video in my notifications, thanks for the tips!!

[@commonoctopusmusic]

Everything about your template seems so logical and obvious. Thanks for this. Side note - your desk set up is pretty awesome, and something I might copy in the future. Cheers

[@DestroyingTheDevoid]

Awesome video! I've always been curious about having a high ASIO guard setting. I'm definitely going to give it a try! Thanks!

[@BrandonJamesComposer]

That tip about visibility presets is golden, didn't even realise you could do that, thanks for sharing!

[@zaharishtonov]

Thanks for explaining ASIO Guard in more layman terms, Blake. All other features I already use to various degree, but I’m gonna have to crank up my ASIO Guard up to high. Thanks again!

[@brookmunro]

Thanks for sharing. I've been tempted to switch to Cubase from Logic for some time now. These look like great tips.

[@TomHawkComposer]

Cubase looks so awesome, I'm definitely considering making the switch from Logic to this DAW one day for composing to picture. Thanks for such great content Blake!

[@petterrong1590]

That's exactly where I am at now. Seriously considering going for the crossgrade offer!

[@scoretosettle6568]

Hey, it's Tom Hawk

[@VoidloniXaarii]

Thank you for explaining asio guard

[@MusicalWizardryMarcoIannello]

I have been faffing around with ASIO Guard, enabling/disabling it selectively for only certain VST/plugins, because I have read a few articles about doing that and wanted to try that out for myself. I might go back to keeping it active all the time, after watching your video, cheers 🙂

[@ownlifedanny]

Love your videos and you music! Keep up the good work! (And I'd love to see an update on your current template, including EQ and reverb settings :-)

[@AndreasvanHaren]

Great tips! I only have 8 gb in my 2017 iMac, so everything that can take the pressure down is helpful. How do you create the visibility presets? I don't see a create button or something like that.

[@Louis_Viallet]

Nice, thank you ! Very useful.

[@manganume]

Thank You!

[@audios22]

New to your channel. Great info. Thanks.

[@MustacheVerra]

Thanks man.

[@OldDirtyMors]

Very interesting! How long does it take to load that template? :)

[@estolad]

Thanks!

[@Kashkr3w]

Thanks for the explanations! I'm still coming to grips with Cubase. A bit off topic, how are you running your daw audio into OBS? I'm having some trouble getting it to work.

[@Kashkr3w]

@Ali Al Yousuf Pc w/ Focusrite Clarett.

[@tuneboxmusic]

What the navigation panel you have on your table to fast swithing between instruments? Thanks

[@Ahmad-Mounir44]

I hope you still love that Disable feature bro because I completely abandoned it as it takes up to 15 seconds to auto-save the project and I cannot turn off the auto-save because I need it. And this long save is due to the template size that keeps growing in GBs which is another drawback.

[@kurttomlinsoncompositions1067]

so are you using an instance of kontakt per instrument in order to disable individual tracks?

[@kevinross8558]

Thanks for the info! Your desk...is that custom made?

[@Blakus]

It's custom made by a company here in Australia, you can find out more info here blakus.com/studio

[@CedricMialaret]

For what it's worth, all capabilities are also available on Studio One 4: - Disable Track - Dropout protection + low latency monitoring for instruments. In the case one Studio One, there is one limitation for these low latencies monitored instruments: any effect adding more than 3 ms of latency won"t work. Any such limits in Cubase? - Scenes to define lists of viewable/hidden tracks. Not having 128 GB of RAM, I couldn't test 500+ instrument tracks.

[@OldDirtyMors]

One more thing I really wonder. I see you are on Windows 10, so on every Windows machine there is that FLS Slot Limitation, means just a certain amount of plugins can be loaded. How you deal with that when you have those immense projects? BTW the slot limit will be overcome with the next Win 10 release 1903

[@RohitMeenaMusic]

Great

[@LeeNashMusic]

I heard that its easier on cpu to use multiple instruments in a kontakt instance and do multi out routing. but i see way more ppl using only one instrument per kontakt instance....so what is better?

[@DavidKudellMusic]

I can’t figure out how to disable track in Logic. Does Logic not have this feature?

[@DrSlightlyEvil]

Out of interest which Fireface do you use.I'm currently running a huge VEP template but my audio device is a Motu 828 mk3 and i cant get it below 512 without problems.Good video by the way...

[@Blakus]

Currently using Fireface UCX. I think you CPU is probably a bigger factor with ASIO performance however.

[@DrSlightlyEvil]

@@Blakus Thanks for reply I think I need to upgrade my interface regardles as I can no longer open the control panel to change the settings.Motu haven't updated the drivers in two years.RME it is then : )

[@CjPusha2000]

Hey, guys! Could you suggest, what NI Kontakt libraries for epic drums & percussion does Blakus use? Because I can't "catch" them during stream. I really want to find powerful epic drums, maybe, you use some kind of them. I will be grateful if you write me names of these libraries. Or, Blakus, will be grateful for your answer :)

[@djmag4u]

i am FL user :D but i like your videos alot

[@Meat-Puppet]

What kind of CPU is in your PC? Are you using any master/slave setup?

[@Blakus]

I use a single PC setup, you can find more specs here www.blakus.com/studio/

[@hcdhcd1]

500 piece orchestra - AYE ? - lets hear it

[@deonlee7353]

Do you use the expression maps feature in Cubase at all?

[@Blakus]

I don't actually! I prefer to keep different articulations on separate tracks for layering purposes etc.

[@J-MLindeMusic]

Ah, Asio Guard, my savior. Also, damn, I have almost the same CPU as you but my Focusrite is nowhere near those latency numbers...the RME drivers are crazy!

[@Blakus]

wow interesting! Windows or Mac?

[@J-MLindeMusic]

@@Blakus Windows 10

[@pavelzuk]

Never used Cubase but curious how the track disabling works, you don't actually have a Kontakt instance on every track do you? 😅

[@Blakus]

I never used to, but I do now. It only uses marginally more RAM, allows me to handle all mixing/routing at a fine level in Cubase. It also opens up this possibility of working using disabled tracks, freezing tracks, etc. I feel that Cubase handles multicore processing better than Kontakt does also.

[@pavelzuk]

That's very interesting.

[@sdm151]

Where did you get your desk?

[@Blakus]

It's custom made by a company here in Australia, you can find out more info here blakus.com/studio

[@Laurikoivisto]

do you have a reason why you decided to have all your instruments on cubase project and not using ve pro?

[@Blakus]

I used to use VE Pro. The main benefit to using it was faster load times when switching projects, and spreading samples over multiple computers for more power. These days with SSDs and new generation CPU’s with huge amounts of RAM available, I personally find no need for VE pro. Having everything on one computer with the ability to easily apply effects to every channel directly in Cubase as needed is fantastic, at least for me :)

[@Laurikoivisto]

blakus | music for media okay, and cubase is quite stable with that amount of instruments loaded into it? (Off the record)

[@Blakus]

Lauri Koivisto it’s been rock solid here, especially since V10, the multi core performance is very good. My template only takes about 2mins to load too, which is acceptable for me.

[@Laurikoivisto]

blakus | music for media might have to try that! Ve pro has its pros but the more stuff you have between keyboard and VI, the more latency there is.

[@Blakus]

Lauri Koivisto true! For me it was just another layer of complexity I didn’t need anymore.

[@NickHintonMusic]

Hey Blake how are you? long time! Quick question. Let's say for example you want to load up a bunch of tracks at once, it looks like you're doing one articulation (ish) in one separate Kontakt instance, one stereo output, right? If I've got that right, doesn't loading up that many Kontakt instances impact your CPU a fair bit? If not, this looks like a great way to go for me. Thanks mate! Nick

[@Blakus]

No extra cpu hit, slight extra RAM hit. Splitting out the kontakt instances allows cubase to manage the multi core performance better though. I find it a much more user friendly way to work.

[@NickHintonMusic]

@@Blakus cheers for that!

[@claudep.1926]

@@Blakus Hi Blake, how many cores you set on Kontakt? (multiprocessor support)

[@Blakus]

Claude P. I have that to use most cores but not all.

[@claudep.1926]

@@Blakus thanks dear! I believe your CPU has 6 cores, so you use something like 5 out of 6?

[@yeppy013]

Is this Cubase 10 or 9?

[@LukeTruanMusic]

Exactly! I do the same with my Pro Tools templates. I like to have all the instrument available at any moment that I may use during writing!

[@b.j.blazkowicz8612]

What CPU do you have?

[@Blakus]

Rostyslav Travin I’m using an i7 6800k. You can check out the rest of my specs at blakus.com/studio if you wish!

[@b.j.blazkowicz8612]

That is very impressive setup, thank you for answer!

[@Iegacyfilm]

Oh my god. Your The Last Jedi music at the beginning.

[@Blakus]

Haha! Not surprised YOU noticed ;D

[@Iegacyfilm]

@@Blakus HAHA. OF COURSE, BLAKE. ;D

[@Iegacyfilm]

My heart literally jumped the moment I heard it.

[@j.t.peterson]

No VEP pro...all samples loaded in Cubase...no expression maps....and 1 Kontakt instance per articulation...mind blown. This goes against everything I thought I knew. Quick question how fast is your RAM these days? I'm building a new Template after 8 years and I might try building it your way.

[@kimseniorb]

Sadly cubase is a bit of shit when it comes to disabled multiout tracks(mangled outputs when enabling them) and disabled tracks still slowdown and clutter the project a lot. Importing the tracks would be a good option for modular projects, but its still problematic since the outputs get mixed up and the routing goes to shit. Only applicable to multiout tracks, single out instruments work fine

[@Kraflyn]

keyword: studio one

[@lelemen2969]

too much talking

[@scoretosettle6568]

no u

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

lol wtf