So you want to know what the Volume plugin is for. First; it's NOT a metering plugin. It's a gain level plugin. It's a godsend if you have a plugin chain where a plugin that lacks an output level goes into another plugin that expects a specific input level. This is a very common occurrence. Especially with plugins that emulate analog gear. Before, you had to find another plugin, that had an output level and dd not affect the sound otherwise, and put it in-between them. With the Volume plugin, you can just drop it in there (without wasting computer resources). Other DAWS (ProTools, Logic, etc.) has had this kind of plugins for ages. They are usually called "Gain", or something similar. It's a very welcome addition to Cubase. Although, I agree that it's weird that it's a "Pro" only plugin. It's very simple. There's nothing "pro" about it. But Steinberg makes very weird decisions sometimes. Such as making the "Headphones Match" plugin Nuendo only. A Cubase Elements user is far more likely to mix on headphones, than a Nuendo user! Oh, well.
So the volume plugin is simply just a volume fader that is not the overall volume of the track and not the pre-gain. it's useful if you need extra volume and don't want to put on a compressor or EQ just for its volume knob. Underwater is underwhlming.
The purpose of Volume is quite simple. While you can use it as a gain staging plugin, as was already suggested, it is available for Pro only because it aims to be a target for the Modulators. The idea is that you can modulate your track level without having to touch the volume fader, as that might already have automation data to it. Modulators are Pro only, therefore so is this Volume plugin.
The score integration with Dorico will eventually be a game changer for composers working with both DAWs and notated scores. At the moment, it is a first step that is modest. But when it reaches full implementation, this will be unprecedented and will have no real competition in the market for a long time.
I first bought Pro 24, then, in 1989, I bought Cubase for Atari. It war great. I bought it for PC, had even a little shop in Geneva for music by computer. Then i Bought it for Mac. Now I own Cubase 11 for Mac. And it will be my last Cubase ever. For the € 239 as an upgrade to Cubase 14, I can buy Logic pro 11, with all future upgrades for free. I can also buy Studio One Pro 7 for less than the Cubase upgrade price. Of course, I shall choose one of these opportunities and NEVER consider a Cubase purchase.
The font is so tiny on a lot of the words/texts, especially the information under the Inspector Tab. Is there a way to enlarge the text size? Variaudio's grid and colors are so dark that I have to really squint.
No. Unless you change the size in your operating system. It’s one of the things they need to add to the settings. Some of us have 4K screens so it’s a tad tiny
Hi, great video - have you also noticed that the ASIO performance has become somehow more unstable? Sometimes completely inexplicable peaks in the load - I didn't have that at all in v13.
Oh wow, i haven't noticed that. Currently i'm testing the Cubase in-built ASIO driver because it's better for video making with OBS. I will definetely have an eye on it. Let's hope for a quick bug fix ;)
Underwater, is used extensively in Trap & Drill music. You take samples and you cut the top off them by resampling them down and filtering the top off, so the rappers vocals can sit on top of the water, as they say. Cubase 14 is steering towards the new modern music makers, Trap, Drill, Afrobeat are the hottest musics in youth culture, If you dont appeal to these genres you will slip behind the times. FL Studio and Ableton are the most popular DAWS amongst young electronic makers, Cubase wants to take a share of this market. Cubase is aiming at 3 markets 1. Composers / Orchestration 2. Audio engineers/Mixers 3. Electronic music beatmakers In Nuendo also add, Post-Production. Cubase 14, was a step in the right direction to taking on Ableton, Bitwig and FL Studio. Nuendo 14 will heavily step on Pro Tools feet and try to steal its market share. I would have thought Cubase 15 will try to please the orchestration crowd by revamping Expression maps, and also for beatmakers give them stem separation.
Aah, i get it. I think i need to check out that genre before i slip behind the times ;) I generally have trust issues when it comes to one-click solutions 😎
I just pass for now. I bought Cubase Pro 13 (upgrade) few months ago. I didn't know they were about to launch another upgrade so fast. And to be honest, many upgrades are things we can do before already, just in another way or in another layer. Let's see maybe a new upgrade next year. Still I love Cubase and that won't change :)
Thank you for demonstrating some of the new features. For me Steinberg is playing catch with other DAWs (Live, Bitwig), but it is a few years late already. I would love the company to focus on developing its product originality. Honestly I think Cubase needs a major overhaul. Instead of adding more and more features, fix the ones that are too old and clunky (eg. media bay, midi logical editor). Fixing the score editor was a great thing by the way, but it still need full integration with Dorico.
This comment is ridiculous. Live can’t even use the efficiency cores of the new M4 Pro chips, and it’s consistently among the worst DAWs (along with Studio 1 and FLStudio) in terms of audio-production performance on next-gen Mac systems. Also, if you’re hell-bent on comparing Cubase to the small niches carved out by Abelton and FLStudio, you need to analyze it the other way, too. The only other DAW that compares to Cubase with respect to all-around versatility, power, and functionality is Logic.
I find nothing all that impressive about it. If you are doing synth music, Maybe. But for humans playing instruments? Meh. Not so much really. The VST2 enable is a decent courtesy to the users. That I agree with. But I don’t want a machine doing my creative decisions for me. But it seems that is what the world is coming to. I’m giving this one a pass.
In Dom's video he showcased that the event-level automation was improved greatly so you can use the pencil tool to subtract OR add gain to the event pre-fader and it's easier to select whole areas to modify + the line is in the center of the event like other DAWs. That's incredibly useful for recorded tracks. It was such a pain up until now to try and boost the tail end of a phrase that the singer did too quietly without cutting up the event or boosting the whole track and then lowering the louder part. Their ruler improvements with time offsets are also amazing because I like to have a bar or two of emptiness at the beginning of the track as a lead in before recording and it was so annoying that the ruler just had to inaccurately show the time or you had to mess with the start of your entire track just to make it look right. Now you can just offset the project and the ruler by 1-2 bars and have everything display correctly.
@@stevenleonmusicI understand but those things have never been a problem for me. They seem to be more something I would have to adjust to. Most likely, I would revert to doing what I have already learned.
It only looks worth it if you do a lot of disco loop dance stuff. Not much use to people that are not keyboard based. That's how it looks to me. No go for me and I should imagine millions of others. Now it only caters for one group of users.
Cubase = Pro Tools + Logic + Bitwig.
Cubase = best daw. no doubt.
So you want to know what the Volume plugin is for. First; it's NOT a metering plugin. It's a gain level plugin. It's a godsend if you have a plugin chain where a plugin that lacks an output level goes into another plugin that expects a specific input level. This is a very common occurrence. Especially with plugins that emulate analog gear. Before, you had to find another plugin, that had an output level and dd not affect the sound otherwise, and put it in-between them. With the Volume plugin, you can just drop it in there (without wasting computer resources).
Other DAWS (ProTools, Logic, etc.) has had this kind of plugins for ages. They are usually called "Gain", or something similar. It's a very welcome addition to Cubase. Although, I agree that it's weird that it's a "Pro" only plugin. It's very simple. There's nothing "pro" about it. But Steinberg makes very weird decisions sometimes. Such as making the "Headphones Match" plugin Nuendo only. A Cubase Elements user is far more likely to mix on headphones, than a Nuendo user! Oh, well.
Also good for modulating the track volume with new modulators, so you do not have to do it with faders and have a crazy mixer :)
I used GEQ-10 until recently. Luckily I switched to Reaper.
So the volume plugin is simply just a volume fader that is not the overall volume of the track and not the pre-gain. it's useful if you need extra volume and don't want to put on a compressor or EQ just for its volume knob. Underwater is underwhlming.
The purpose of Volume is quite simple. While you can use it as a gain staging plugin, as was already suggested, it is available for Pro only because it aims to be a target for the Modulators. The idea is that you can modulate your track level without having to touch the volume fader, as that might already have automation data to it. Modulators are Pro only, therefore so is this Volume plugin.
That makes sense :)
@@thegroundnoise The plug-in has a "not above 0dB" button, which is quite handy when being the target of a modulator.
Gonna continue on 12, the UI design is still superior. I wish they’d go back to that style. It had soul
The score integration with Dorico will eventually be a game changer for composers working with both DAWs and notated scores. At the moment, it is a first step that is modest. But when it reaches full implementation, this will be unprecedented and will have no real competition in the market for a long time.
Excellent review Marcus, thank you very much.
My pleasure!
I first bought Pro 24, then, in 1989, I bought Cubase for Atari. It war great. I bought it for PC, had even a little shop in Geneva for music by computer. Then i Bought it for Mac. Now I own Cubase 11 for Mac. And it will be my last Cubase ever. For the € 239 as an upgrade to Cubase 14, I can buy Logic pro 11, with all future upgrades for free. I can also buy Studio One Pro 7 for less than the Cubase upgrade price. Of course, I shall choose one of these opportunities and NEVER consider a Cubase purchase.
The font is so tiny on a lot of the words/texts, especially the information under the Inspector Tab. Is there a way to enlarge the text size? Variaudio's grid and colors are so dark that I have to really squint.
No. Unless you change the size in your operating system. It’s one of the things they need to add to the settings. Some of us have 4K screens so it’s a tad tiny
@@MaximusWhyman Not "SOME" of us..... It's "MOST ALL" of us. It's 2024, not 2000.
great update, but where's the instant audition of presets and sounds like komplete kontrol can do.
having to load up presets kills the workflow..
Hi, great video - have you also noticed that the ASIO performance has become somehow more unstable? Sometimes completely inexplicable peaks in the load - I didn't have that at all in v13.
Oh wow, i haven't noticed that. Currently i'm testing the Cubase in-built ASIO driver because it's better for video making with OBS. I will definetely have an eye on it. Let's hope for a quick bug fix ;)
@@thegroundnoise yes, I hope so too - I work with SSL12, super stable and first-class performance in Cubase13 - not so in Cubase14, unfortunately ...
Not sure if it's worth it for someone that does orchestral programming. Seems like it's more for beat makers or electronic music. Doraco is nice,
well done.
Thanks!
Underwater, is used extensively in Trap & Drill music. You take samples and you cut the top off them by resampling them down and filtering the top off, so the rappers vocals can sit on top of the water, as they say.
Cubase 14 is steering towards the new modern music makers, Trap, Drill, Afrobeat are the hottest musics in youth culture, If you dont appeal to these genres you will slip behind the times.
FL Studio and Ableton are the most popular DAWS amongst young electronic makers, Cubase wants to take a share of this market.
Cubase is aiming at 3 markets
1. Composers / Orchestration
2. Audio engineers/Mixers
3. Electronic music beatmakers
In Nuendo also add, Post-Production.
Cubase 14, was a step in the right direction to taking on Ableton, Bitwig and FL Studio. Nuendo 14 will heavily step on Pro Tools feet and try to steal its market share.
I would have thought Cubase 15 will try to please the orchestration crowd by revamping Expression maps, and also for beatmakers give them stem separation.
Aah, i get it. I think i need to check out that genre before i slip behind the times ;)
I generally have trust issues when it comes to one-click solutions 😎
Cubase 💯
I think I even will choose BOTH these opportunities. I don't like robbers.
Well, calling Steinberg "robbers" goes too far i think. I'm sure that other companies have "stolen" many things from Cubase themselves over the years.
Have they fixed 10 point touch on PC or are we never getting that?
How to sequence the drum sequence
I just pass for now. I bought Cubase Pro 13 (upgrade) few months ago. I didn't know they were about to launch another upgrade so fast.
And to be honest, many upgrades are things we can do before already, just in another way or in another layer.
Let's see maybe a new upgrade next year.
Still I love Cubase and that won't change :)
Have you checked if you're still in the grace period? Maybe you can still have 14 for free.
@@thegroundnoiseI'm the same. I just got pro 13 in the last sale. How would one find out if there is still a chance of a free upgrade.
Thanks.
I found this statement in the Steinberg Forums... Well, it's disappointing :(
forums.steinberg.net/t/cubase-14-grace-period/948919
Cubase upgrades are usually in November of every year.
14, great---er, lol.
Thank you for demonstrating some of the new features. For me Steinberg is playing catch with other DAWs (Live, Bitwig), but it is a few years late already. I would love the company to focus on developing its product originality. Honestly I think Cubase needs a major overhaul. Instead of adding more and more features, fix the ones that are too old and clunky (eg. media bay, midi logical editor). Fixing the score editor was a great thing by the way, but it still need full integration with Dorico.
This comment is ridiculous. Live can’t even use the efficiency cores of the new M4 Pro chips, and it’s consistently among the worst DAWs (along with Studio 1 and FLStudio) in terms of audio-production performance on next-gen Mac systems. Also, if you’re hell-bent on comparing Cubase to the small niches carved out by Abelton and FLStudio, you need to analyze it the other way, too. The only other DAW that compares to Cubase with respect to all-around versatility, power, and functionality is Logic.
That’s just an ordinay upgrade !!!
I find nothing all that impressive about it. If you are doing synth music, Maybe. But for humans playing instruments? Meh. Not so much really. The VST2 enable is a decent courtesy to the users. That I agree with. But I don’t want a machine doing my creative decisions for me. But it seems that is what the world is coming to. I’m giving this one a pass.
In Dom's video he showcased that the event-level automation was improved greatly so you can use the pencil tool to subtract OR add gain to the event pre-fader and it's easier to select whole areas to modify + the line is in the center of the event like other DAWs. That's incredibly useful for recorded tracks. It was such a pain up until now to try and boost the tail end of a phrase that the singer did too quietly without cutting up the event or boosting the whole track and then lowering the louder part. Their ruler improvements with time offsets are also amazing because I like to have a bar or two of emptiness at the beginning of the track as a lead in before recording and it was so annoying that the ruler just had to inaccurately show the time or you had to mess with the start of your entire track just to make it look right. Now you can just offset the project and the ruler by 1-2 bars and have everything display correctly.
Agree - i thought dey would make VariAudio polyphonic & implement Stem-Separation.
nonsense. the new range tool functions and Volume Envelope Curves alone are so great for editing "normal playing instrument music"....
@@stevenleonmusicI understand but those things have never been a problem for me. They seem to be more something I would have to adjust to. Most likely, I would revert to doing what I have already learned.
@@Byron101_never needed them that much. I guess if they work for you that is great. They just don’t do much for me.
It only looks worth it if you do a lot of disco loop dance stuff. Not much use to people that are not keyboard based. That's how it looks to me. No go for me and I should imagine millions of others. Now it only caters for one group of users.