This happens very often with vocal recordings especially. It is extremely useful if you find something, say, annoying in high frequencies or whatever in a recording - and just a small part of it rather than thorough. It allows you to simply select a range of a clip and apply processing directly to that part of the clip. Lot of people do use them, so check Steinberg forums to get ideas on what they can be used for.īiggest bonus and a vast improvement to workflow if you do anything where such things are useful is the "direct offline processing" feature. In the past, I've used them to sort out lack of certain features that didn't exist until later. However macros tend to be quite rare these days - I haven't really been able to use them much anymore but perhaps that's due to my lack of experience with them. Not only can you use custom hotkeys, but same goes for macros. Whenever you see Cubase suddenly switching to default stuff, just use the backup.
You want to save the preferences folder and keep backups. Be warned though, Cubase likes from time to time forget your preferences for various reasons (including due to daylight savings time, which apparently has to do with Windows).
Nearly every kind of hotkey imaginable in Cubase can be set in custom. Given how much people request session view, it might be a future feature of Cubase but do not purchase Cubase assuming it will be.
If session view is significant part of workflow, Cubase has no alternative and you either have to learn how to use only arrangement view without session view or stick to Ableton. Here's what I can say:Ĭurrently, Cubase has nothing equal to session view. I've hopped from Ableton to Cubase years ago.