Cubase 14: Under the Hood Improvements and Challenges!

[@ThomsenTower]

Excellent video. You had a good idea creating a video about these less glamorous, “under the hood”, changes in Cubase.

[@LazTLaz]

The new score editor was a game changer for me. I have loads of parts originally played on a keyboard that I'm having real brass/string players come in to play. Even without quantization, it does a great job of producing readable parts on the default settings. If necessary, I can import the parts straight in to Dorico for further refinement. It does lack some features that the old score editor had, but it's much, much more intuitive. Steinberg definitely got this right as far as I'm concerned.

[@PereRevert]

Great nurturing video, as usual from you! Hope they fix the multi core performance issues with new gen CPUs. Just build a new Win 11 PC with an i9 14900K, 64GB RAM, SSD M2... a beast. Already optimized all the OS all... but to my suprise I'm getting CPU spikes (overloads) on Cubase 13, even with a few plugins loaded. And also loading just a few plugins quite loads got the CPU. Quite frustrating. Tried everything within the Studio tab in Cubase 13, with different settings of the ASIO guard, but without no success. I see they recommend to set the cores affinity in the task manager while Cubase is running, but it seems an awkward solution, so didn't tried yet. Considering this, I'm a bit hesitant to get the new vers 14 if there's no improvement in that issue!

[@LanewoodStudios]

Thank you. Very disappointing that the multi-core performance is still a thing. They previously announced that they tackled it in Cubase 13 I believe which I even made a video about. I would definitely contact support about this.

[@KeyboardPonderings]

As a long time user of Dorico Pro, I don't think I'll be using the scoring features within Cubase. I think the update to include Dorico scoring is great, just can't see why I would use it. I'd be interested to know what other Dorico users think. Regarding the grace period comments, one detail they don't mention in the release notes: There is no free upgrade / grace period for those who purchased Cubase with the recent special anniversary pricing vouchers, as I found out. I guess getting Cubase Pro 13 for 70% off was all they were willing to offer. While saving yet another $99 would have have been nice, I have to agree with Steinberg's reasoning. Thanks for the video!

[@LanewoodStudios]

You're welcome. And yes I can imagine that you'll keep using Dorico if you have that already anyway. Didn't know about the grace period in combination with the earlier anniversary deal. Thanks for adding that!

[@MarkSlaterMusic]

The score integration is what I've wanted for years. But I'm now retired from composing and I'll only do it again when I can give verbal instructions and both score and mockup will be created automatically.

[@LanewoodStudios]

Good update for you then but you want more automation 😉.

[@LanewoodStudios]

What are your experiences with the new Cubase version? Were you aware of these under-the-hood changes already?

[@oliverschmidt4831]

Using the score editor heavily since the early 90s I'm slightly shocked by the new score editor's loss of functions and features. Especially the automation features of how the score is displayed with no chance to edit it how I want it to look pisses me of.

[@svenisaksson3970]

A small correction. "the version that opens is determined solely by your licence". This is not auctually true. They launching Cubase, while holding down the Option key. Something interesting will happen.

[@LanewoodStudios]

@@svenisaksson3970 they lied 🤥 n the release notes then? 😱😉

[@svenisaksson3970]

@@LanewoodStudios I don't think it's a delibereate lie. More of a misscomunications, which can easily happen with such a complex software as Cubase. I see this being useful in two cases. 1) People, like you, who deals with teaching. You no longer have to guess if a feature is present in a lower version (or have multiple versions installed). Just launch Cubase in a lower version, and check. 2) You can also avoid nasty surprises, if you're collaborating with someone who runs a lower version of Cubase. Such as the project relies on a feature that isn't avalable in the lower version. Just launch Cubase in a lower version, open the project, and check that everything is OK, before sending it off. Perhaps you should add this to your other video, about sharing projects.