Based on my experience, throughout which you could safely say I was blown away by how well it worked, this has the potential to be a truly useful compositional aid, rather than just a tacked-on gimmick. I can only imagine the army of musicologists they must have had locked in a windowless room somewhere in Germany for months on end, surviving only on flat food that could be pushed under the door, in order to come up with an intelligent harmonising system of such depth that it actually works with you, rather than against you. At last, a DAW feature that creates truly useable harmonies that stick to and track changes in the proper scale of your track. While I’m not so keen on the EQ module’s longitudinal green sliders, it’s easy enough to switch the controls to the much more intuitive rotary knob format.Įlsewhere, Steinberg have really done their homework on the musical theory side with the new Chord Track and Chord Assistant. Once you know where everything is, it’s a joy to be able to access the tools and windows you need quickly and easily. The signal flow is logical and working the layout soon becomes familiar to anyone with an engineering background. The environment, once you’ve figured out how to reveal and hide everything to your own advantage, has obviously been tailored towards the needs of those who know how to work a traditional analogue desk. Maybe it’s because I’m a bit old school and grew up with SSL desks, but the retro knobs have a very comfortable feel. Each channel strip can now make use of five new plug-ins – noise gate, compressor, transient designer, tape saturation and limiter/maximizer. The revised MixConsole with its new, Logic-esque Channel Strip functionality and dedicated Channel Settings window is a revelation. It certainly makes Logic’s interface look a bit shabby by comparison. The colours, particularly in the new MixConsole and Channel Settings windows, just pop out of the screen, with solid shiny blacks contrasting with vivid, striking colour which doesn’t distract from, but rather enhances, the use of the program. The new interface has polarised opinion somewhat amongst Cubaserati, but personally I love the look and feel of it. Well, after using it solidly for a few weeks now, I can safely say that it doesn’t disappoint. So is the second paid update in under a year worth shelling out for? Now, less than nine months after causing contoversy with their first ever paid point update, Steinberg have unleashed Cubase 7 on an unsuspecting public, and what’s more are charging £120 for the privilege of upgrading from 6.5. It was like meeting up with an old friend to find that they’d taken up bodybuilding, learnt five new languages and had four facelifts since you saw them last. Until March 2012, when I was asked to review Cubase 6.5 for Computer Music magazine. So Cubase was ditched as soon as I could get my hands on ProTools, and I haven’t used Cubase again since. But then hard disk recording was born, and to my dismay the £5000 Mac system I bought to run Cubase Audio XT, the first audio capable version of Cubase, just wasn’t up to the task. It was my MIDI sequencer of choice back when we were all using Atari 1040ST’s to program tunes, syncing up to analogue tape machines via SMPTE code when any audio tomfoolery was required. Cubase should now be re-activated on your computer.I’ve always had a soft spot for Steinberg’s Cubase. You will then be issued with a new activation code for Cubase which you can enter in eLicenser Control Center by clicking 'Enter Activation Code'.Ĩ. Paste this new number into the corresponding field on the Steinberg site and then click 'Reactivate'.ħ. Next, in your Steinberg account go to Registration > choose the 20-digit Soft-eLicenser number and click on "Copy Serial Number".Ħ. To do this, download and install eLicenser Control Center from on your new computer/operating system from this site:ĥ. Now, enter your new Soft eLicense number. Select your old Soft eLicense from the list.Ĥ. Should you need to change computers/re-install your operating system, you will need to re-activate Cubase following these steps.ģ. Cubase LE 6/7/8 activation codes may be used to activate the software on only one computer.
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