1. Auria Vs Garageband Ipad 5
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GarageBand is a DAW. FL Studio Mobile is a toy. FLSM is not even able to handle measures other than 4/4. It works as a plugin inside FLS, but not (yet) on Mac. GarageBand has lots of features, virtual drummers, lots of patches, supports plugins, and has a Launchpad-esque mode. A full DAW you can check is Auria Pro, but it can get quite expensive.

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Way back in the mists of time, Cubasis was a PC application that was an entry-level, cut-down version of Cubase. Steinberg resurrected the name a couple of years ago for a completely new app built for the iPad. Technologically, it was light years ahead of the software from which it inherited its name, bringing Steinberg’s famed ease of use to a surprisingly powerful mobile DAW.

Version 2 of Cubasis continues this development to build on the impressive work already done in translating Cubase’s core features to the iPad platform. It really is like a mini version of Cubase, distilling the essential features down into a touch-enabled environment that comes closer than anything I’ve used to feeling like a really serious DAW for iOS, yet one that doesn’t have a prohibitive learning curve.

It’s definitely recognisable as a member of the Cubase family.

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Nice Specs

Ideally you’ll want a recent iPad to run bigger projects, though the app is apparently compatible with any iPad that can run iOS 8.3 or higher. It weighs in at just over 1 GB, half of which is made up of loops and instruments. You get Micro Sonic, Micrologue and MiniSampler, each with a healthy selection of instrument presets as well as a bunch of MIDI loops. Audio Units and Inter-App Audio are also supported and work really well, meaning you can expand the selection of instruments and effects available to you without any problems. Audio tracking is fully supported as is multichannel output, where your interface allows it.

The new Channel Strip module, just one of the bundled processors.

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In terms of effects, there’s a new Channel Strip module for every channel with filter, noise gate, compressor and saturator. Like other internal modules and features in Cubasis this can be automated using a clever and well-designed automation editor that’s much more powerful than you might expect to find on an iPad. There’s a decent selection of bundled effects plus the ability to unlock extra effect packs, and AUs and IAA are supported here too.

Recording MIDI using the clever built-in keyboard or pads is a breeze and there are easily customizable chord tools like you get in the desktop app. Quantization and transposition are available plus there’s now an auto quantize during record option. Audio loops can be manually or automatically time stretched without changing pitch using the zplane Elastique 3 system, which in practice works fantastically well and means loops and timing are a breeze to get right.

The keyboard and pad interfaces let you customise chords easily.

The interface makes excellent use of the iPad’s screen real estate with tools and features cleverly laid out and not too much reliance on menus or swiping. Pinch to zoom is everywhere of course, and you can have as many tracks as your iPad can physically run. Track freeze is even available to lighten the load. You can import from and export to various locations including iCloud, iTunes or Dropbox and stem and MIDI export are available in addition to regular mixdown. There’s actually tons more to the app so do check out the site to find out more.

Final Thoughts

Cubasis 2 is a free update for owners of version 1, which is pretty generous. As a new purchase, it’s £40 / $50USD and while this might initially sound a lot for an iPad app, be sure that this is no ordinary iPad app. It’s much more in-depth than something like GarageBand, and much more user friendly than something like Auria. Add an audio or MIDI device to really unlock its potential and what you have in Cubasis is a serious proposition for music production on iPad, without the compromises you might once have thought that would involve.

Price: $49.99 USD / £39.99 GBP

Pros: Beautifully designed to take advantage of the iPad platform. Unlimited audio and MIDI tracks. Great bundled content. Powerful and useful effects. Advanced automation capability. Expandable via AU and IAA. Fun and friendly to use. All the core tools you need for working with audio and MIDI and arranging songs.

Cons: Given the purchase price, bundling all the effects in might have been nice.

Web: http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/mobile_apps/cubasis/whats_cubasis.html

If you are a Cubase fan or iPad user (or both!) then the new Steinberg Cubasis app really is a no brainer. We have had a few iOS apps that promise to behave like full blown DAWs but have perhaps fallen short in a few areas so far.

Cubasis seems to tick all the boxes, on paper at least, and with Steinberg’s heritage could this be the only serious audio app you’ll need on the road? Let’s get under the hood and see how it performs.

The Spec Sheet

So before I get into what I actually think of Cubasis and how well it works, I thought I’d cover a few key aspects of the App’s specs. This isn’t usually that important with an iOS app as it’s pretty rare that you are able to produce entire projects on them. Well, things are changing and the specs of this app are pretty impressive!

Cubasis has over 300 MIDI and Audio loops bundled with it, 70 Virtual instrument sounds (based on HALion Sonic) and 10 Studio grade effect processors. You also get the ability to export to Cubase 6 or 7, SoundCloud, AudioPaste, Wi-Fi servers and iTunes. You can also perform traditional, straight up, audio and MIDI exports.

Some of the Cubasis key features list.

Although all of this is really impressive, the real key feature here is the ability to add unlimited audio and midi tracks to your Cubasis projects. That’s right you heard me, unlimited tracks! There are of course a few real world limitations on this and they are actually based on the hardware you are using.

If you are on the iPad 2 or iPad mini, you will be limited to 48 voices of polyphony (either audio or virtual instruments). If you have the iPad Retina or v4, you will be upgraded to 64 voices. Either way, this is enough to put together a decent sized project and blows Garageband’s 8 tracks well and truly out of the water.

First Impressions

After having a small lie down, due to learning that I had 48-64 voices available to me, I was ready to start testing Cubasis out for real.

It’s worth mentioning here that Cubasis is $49.99/£34.99 but for what’s on offer, that seems perfectly reasonable to me. You have to put this into perspective and realize it’s probably about half the amount you would pay for a basic plug-in in a full DAW.

The default view in Cubasis.

On loading up a demo project in Cubasis, I was pleasantly surprised by how similar the interface was to that of my latest version of Cubase. The continuity they have managed to achieve here really is bang on.

Loading up projects is pretty straightforward.

Without even thinking about it, I was navigating my way around the different tracks and devices in the project, editing audio and accessing the mixer. If you are proficient in any DAW the learning curve is about zero here and even the beginner should find this straightforward to operate. If you get stuck there is an awesome built-in help facility.

The included Help system.

Touching Bass

The fact Steinberg have managed to adapt a completely mouse controlled environment for a touch screen interface is a feat in its own right to be fair. Everything works well and even the most fiddly job like editing MIDI notes works smoothly.

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Zooming using a two finger pinch gesture is extremely smooth.

Other functions such as zooming in and out in the arrange window actually work a little better! There are also some very nice touches for customizing your view of the interface. The tools area and inspector for example can be quickly folded away to free up valuable screen real estate for the arrangement or editing.

The MIDI note editor in the lower section of the screen.

On the subject of editing, most extra windows needed when editing either audio, midi or indeed the mix, will be brought up at the bottom of the interface. Each one of these windows is tailor made for its purpose and everything is laid out very well.

The Audio Editor.

Other windows you can expect to see as pop-ups are the fully featured mixer (with pan, solo, mute, record arm, edit and monitor buttons), a scalable keyboard and drum pads. As I dug deeper here, I was honestly impressed with every new feature I explored. This really is very well put together.

The Cubasis Mixer.

In The Mix

This is actually my first phase of testing of the Cubasis app, so I only really had enough time to get into the demo audio and projects. As far as I could tell, everything worked perfectly and with little to no noticeable lag or latency.

I was able to edit audio, add effects and edit MIDI sequences without any glitches. Things ran so smoothly it’s almost in danger of running better than a fully blown computer based DAW. Some of the demo projects have a good number of tracks and effects running simultaneously too.

Cubasis has ten studio quality effects.

The effects here are excellent and pretty much identical to those you would expect to find in Cubase. There are ten in total with all of your EQ, dynamics, spatial and modulation needs covered.

The Compressor effect.

.. And the Reverb.

You can have three insert effects per track and up to three send return effects as well. You can also process you master output, to create a basic mastering chain. This is far beyond anything we have seen on the iPad so far.

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The Cubasis keyboard.

I really can't stress how smoothly this thing runs. After hours of editing, playback and exporting, I didn’t experience one hiccup. I really think you could run this as a pro mixing tool on the road. Obviously, we are missing a lot of features here but there are enough to get by until you are back in studio.

Final Thoughts And Conclusion

So all in all Cubasis is a hands down victory. Everything supplied here works and works perfectly. If you are a Cubase user and own an iPad, this is simply a no brainer, you have to have it. For just under £35 you can’t really go wrong.

Cubasis running on the iPad 2.

I have only two criticisms of the Cubasis system, one minor and one pretty major. The first (minor) thing I’d like to see changed is a zoom function on the mixer. The channels are quite wide and take up a decent amount of screen. The ability to ‘crush’ them when less info is needed would be fantastic.

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My second criticism here would be the lack of any automation. At first I was certain I just hadn’t come across the controls and that I would unveil it at any point, but the further I delved I realized that it just wasn’t going to materialize. I got very upset and then finally accepted reality.

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I’m not sure if it was omitted due to the lack of support on the hardware / OS or if it’s simply a CPU resources issue. I would certainly sacrifice some polyphony for the ability to record basic automation. It’s a real shame and could actually see it being a bit of a handicap in larger sessions. Maybe it’s something that will get introduced at a later date, I certainly hope so!

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Download Cubasis from the App Store here.