Mine is more metering options (to get all the channel meters to be able to behave like VU meters with -18 dbfs as 0db).
And a project information text export.
(P.S.: I know you can futz with the meter appearance via preferences but it wold be nice if it could match the options of Logic)
Not a whole lot I feel like I’m missing in Cubase these days, but I would love to see improvements to the Sampler Track, e.g. being able to edit individual slices or make groups of them that can be edited, modulated, have effects, etc.
Would also love to have an equivalent to Studio One’s Scratch Pad.
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Thanks! That’s not in the Sampler Track though, right? Ideally what I’d like to do is be able to use the Sampler Track controls (ADSR, pitch, filter drive, etc.) on a per slice basis, and make groups of slices. Being able to assign them to different outputs would also be awesome.
I know some of this can be done by sending the slices to Groove Agent, but then you lose a few features of the Sampler Track and the workflow is different, so it’s not ideal.
So what is the advantage of the scratch pad against Cubase‘s track versions? The scratch pad is just a section at the end of a song, to test some ideas. You must copy the parts into place if you want to use them, right? With track version you can create as much new sections as you want right in place!
In my experience from using both, the Scratch Pad is just a lot easier to pull up in the middle of working, throw extra bits in there, and then recall them when you want to use them. On a functional level you can do this in Track Versions (and I do), but Scratch Pad is designed with speed and convenience in mind, and they really feel like two distinct features with different purposes when you use them.
There is a key command for every track version function in cubase. So the scratch pad could not be faster than this. I prefer to have my alternative ideas right in place so that I can switch between original and alternative version. With track versions you can handle an alternative chorus idea, just for the drum tracks or for all tracks if you use track version id‘s. So I still couldn’t imagine any advantage for the scratch pad.