Cubase 10.5 is here now....

[thebutler]

@fmr - Agree with your 6, 7, 8, 9 - a 1000%

Your number 2; Export to Video => ALREADY THERE

How so..?

[Mushy Mushy]

10 Automation shown directly on tracks => WOULD LOVE THAT

I don't understand. Where else is it shown now?

[thebutler]

10 Automation shown directly on tracks => WOULD LOVE THAT

I don't understand. Where else is it shown now?

In its own separate lane(s), below the actual track. If you look at say ProTools, the automation line(s) are overlaid directly onto the (audio/waveform) data

[Mushy Mushy]

10 Automation shown directly on tracks => WOULD LOVE THAT

I don't understand. Where else is it shown now?

In its own separate lane(s), below the actual track. If you look at say ProTools, the automation line(s) are overlaid directly onto the (audio/waveform) data

That would be a nightmare. On every track I have 10-12 lanes of automation. How on earth would that lay over each other? It would be incredibly messy.

[noiseboyuk]

In its own separate lane(s), below the actual track. If you look at say ProTools, the automation line(s) are overlaid directly onto the (audio/waveform) data

(Just for clarity - this is overlaid thing is view option in Pro Tools, alongside the usual lanes under the track. Personally I never use it.)

[Imaak]

A couple other things I forgot to mention:
The person who shared these leaks with us originally posted this info on July 7th 2019. The version at the time was Alpha 3 (not even beta). It was also mentioned that the update will be out in November.

I also remember reading somewhere that the development team at Steinberg follow agile/scrum development model. So here's hoping that this leaked feature set is incomplete.

Edit: Alpha versions do usually end up with a feature freeze.

[thebutler]

In its own separate lane(s), below the actual track. If you look at say ProTools, the automation line(s) are overlaid directly onto the (audio/waveform) data

(Just for clarity - this is overlaid thing is view option in Pro Tools, alongside the usual lanes under the track. Personally I never use it.)

Ah.! Thanks... and you can freely choose how to display these (overlay/in lanes)..?

BTW, I'm with you (and @Mushy Mushy) - can't say I'd use it much myself...

[noiseboyuk]

In its own separate lane(s), below the actual track. If you look at say ProTools, the automation line(s) are overlaid directly onto the (audio/waveform) data

(Just for clarity - this is overlaid thing is view option in Pro Tools, alongside the usual lanes under the track. Personally I never use it.)

Ah.! Thanks... can you choose which (how many) to display as overlay and/or in the lanes below..?

BTW, I'm with you (and @Mushy Mushy) - can't say I'd use it much myself...

You know I might be going mad, but I think actually its just clip gain you can overlay on the waveform, not automation. Couldn't find automation overlay on a quick look just now.

For lanes below, yes you just add as many as you want / need.

[fmr]

In its own separate lane(s), below the actual track. If you look at say ProTools, the automation line(s) are overlaid directly onto the (audio/waveform) data

(Just for clarity - this is overlaid thing is view option in Pro Tools, alongside the usual lanes under the track. Personally I never use it.)

Ah.! Thanks... can you choose which (how many) to display as overlay and/or in the lanes below..?

BTW, I'm with you (and @Mushy Mushy) - can't say I'd use it much myself...

I'm not saying we wouldn't have the lanes anymore. and I also don't say I wouldn't use the lanes too. But for things like volume and pan, for example, I would prefer to see those in the track. An option to choose WHICH ones would be displayed in ther lanes and which ones would display in the track would be great.

But that's not the most important feature I would like to see, though, and certainly not a showstopper.

[wjoyce]

I'm hoping for a gapless playback engine (unbelievable that it still doesn't!) and proper fixes to HiDPI, otherwise I'm skipping and possibly selling on.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

Well, compare that list with this one:

1 Move tracks within the MixConsole => WOULD LOVE THAT
2 Export to Video => IS THERE
3 Chord Detection from audio => DON'T BOTHER MUCH
4 Polyphonic audio editing => I guess that's what Melodyne Studio does, but would be great to have that integrated in Cubase Pro),
5 Stereo effects on mono channels => WOULD LOVE THAT
6 Bezier curves in MIDI editor => WOULD LOVE THAT
7 Open all Plug-ins of one track in one Window with tabs => WOULD LOVE THAT x 1000
8 General improvements to MIDI Editor => WOULD LOVE THAT
9 Smart tools for MIDI editing => WOULD LOVE THAT
10 Automation shown directly on tracks => WOULD LOVE THAT

Well, I mean you don't expect them to put the Top 10 in a single .5 release do you? They've gotta spread the top requests out over a few years to keep people upgrading every year.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

I'm hoping for a gapless playback engine (unbelievable that it still doesn't!)...

Considering how old the Cubase codebase is, and how deep the audio engine is, I suspect trying to make the engine gapless now would be a complete nightmare and bug/crash-fest. I remember when I was using Sonar, and it seemed like they literally spent years trying to make the engine "more gapless" in each release and never quite got there (by the time I stopped paying attention anyway).

[Imaak]

I'm hoping for a gapless playback engine (unbelievable that it still doesn't!) and proper fixes to HiDPI, otherwise I'm skipping and possibly selling on.

I literally asked for a gapless playback engine around 2 or 3 weeks ago and someone from Cubase replied with a big "can't do it. It would require a rewrite of the whole engine"

[BERFAB]

I'm hoping for a gapless playback engine (unbelievable that it still doesn't!) and proper fixes to HiDPI, otherwise I'm skipping and possibly selling on.

I literally asked for a gapless playback engine around 2 or 3 weeks ago and someone from Cubase replied with a big "can't do it. It would require a rewrite of the whole engine"

Curious as to what a gapless playback engine is, in english, in 25 words or less, please?

[wjoyce]

I'm hoping for a gapless playback engine (unbelievable that it still doesn't!) and proper fixes to HiDPI, otherwise I'm skipping and possibly selling on.

I literally asked for a gapless playback engine around 2 or 3 weeks ago and someone from Cubase replied with a big "can't do it. It would require a rewrite of the whole engine"

Curious as to what a gapless playback engine is, in english, in 25 words or less, please?

A gapless playback engine provides the ability to perform actions such as creating sends, activating EQs and adding plugins during playback without interrupting the audio. Cubase is the only DAW that I've used that still can't handle this and, for me anyway, it's a major annoyance.

Correction : activating EQ doesn't glitch the audio.