Worship Musician Magazine January 2021 | Page 158

With the new Legato and Glide features , You can make killer bass lines and solos . They ’ ve also added two LFO ’ s to create rhythmic movement you ’ ll love . Sampler Track also can import REX files .
Scale Assistant is one of my favorite features . You can tell the Assistant what Key and scale you want to use . Then you can turn every note on your keyboard to the " right " note automatically . I found this so much fun for soloing and especially bass lines . It ' s such creative freedom for me as a guitar player to sound like a brilliant soloist on keys ! And thanks to Quantize you can ' t lose . It also works in conjunction with Chord Track and Chord Pad . With these three tools songwriters with less experience will be able to write high quality interesting tracks .
Switching to MIDI , there ’ s a great new Pitch Bend Editing feature that now has “ curves ” which creates smooth transitions without countless little Points when you are drawing a MIDI Velocity Curve , Ramp , or any MIDI CC parameters . This also makes it easier to keep your pitch changes in tune and editing a snap .
The new Stem Creator Is one of the things you ' ll come to love . All my clients want Stems , mostly for live backing tracks , teaching individual parts , and remixes . It ' s simple to use , and it ' s automated , so once you tell it what specific stem combinations you want , just hit start , and it will process everything in the cue one at a time . It can save hours of painstaking busy work .
Spectra Layers One is a powerful tool to determine if you have conflicting audio in your mix . It can also remove a vocal from a track . Pretty amazing !
There are a couple of other things I want to mention about Cubase 11 Pro . Automatic Audio Alignment will take your
BGV ’ s and align them together or with the lead vocal . This takes the place of very expensive stand-alone software . I also really like the Audio Comping features and Audio Warp Quantize .
TAKE AWAY : There is a handful of popular DAWs on the market , and they ’ re getting better all the time . You can ’ t beat Cubase Pro 11 for all the powerful features . Cubase stands out as thego-to in most of Europe for recording , EDM , modern programming , and film scoring . It ' s an amazing piece of integrated software . As a recording system , it has several advantages over the competition with its fantastic set of over 90 professional VST Audio and MIDI plugins . Steinberg invented the VST format and they know how to use it . Cubase has a sound that ’ s big and punchy with extended headroom , 5.1 surround , and even Virtual Reality for VR projects . On the MIDI side , Cubase has always been a leader . With Cubase 11 , I can ' t think of anything
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