6 features that make work faster in Cubase than Logic \\ Jacob's Piano 

Thanks for all the comments highlighting that many of these features presented in this video are actually available in Logic as well! It's important to know, especially for anyone considering changing from one of the DAWs to the other. I guess it's down to personal preference and for me, I still prefer the audio/MIDI editing experience in Cubase and I still work faster in Cubase than Logic :D

I have zero problem with Logic. I love its Drummer to quickly get my song done.

Last year, I changed to Cubase as my main DAW. First, inspired by Hans Zimmer (who works in Cubase) I tried it out. I pretty fast realized that the simple features available in Cubase were so useful, so started using Cubase full-time. In this video, I share some of those simple features with you! Please post your inputs, if you know about any other nice features, or maybe you know more about the features in Logic :)

Worked 10 + years on Cubase, but prefer Logic all the way nowadays.

You can set up the same behavior of your feature number 3 in logic under project-preferences/MIDI/Chase/Notes

For #6 in Logic you can click Functions tab on your Piano Roll and turn on "Include Non-Note MIDI Events" and that will move your automation with the notes/data.

Thanks Jacob! I am so in the fence to making the leap. I really still am on the intermediate side of knowing Logic, but I see so many film composers using cubase that I wonder if I should change before diving any deeper in Logic. Which I had to after a complicated urgent project I went through. Learned a ton, but well. this video does help! Cheers

Great tips! Thank you so much!

Cubase is good, no doubt, but Logic is better :)) But man, read the manual, practically all the features that you mentioned in the video are perfectly realized in Logic. Like Immediate Note Playback - click Record Project Settings, check the Midi tab, and there find so-called "CHASE" tab where you can check the Notes. Another examples of yours that you called Time Base Toggle - this called in Logic SMPTE lock. With the right click in the Edit menu check the SMPTE lock of the region and it won't change the tempo. However you didn't mentioned the really good thing from Steinberg guys that is only partially realized in Logic - for example it is CHORDER - it has an amazing feature of triggering custom chords by just one key, the same in Logic, but in Cubase you can have different chord variations depending on a velocity. That's a game changer.

Hello. Thank you for this tutorial. I am a long time Cubase user, but lately I have been thinking logical (in other words, thinking about Logic). So, thanks to you, I'll stay as a Cubase user. These tricks were useful

On logic hold the option key and drag the side of audio or midi and it will time stretch the sample as shown here

Hey, I really love your videos and this new channel is wonderful! Would it be possible to make videos about piano tips and tricks as well? I'm especially mesmerized by your unique hand movement, and would love to see a video about how you record a video from the performance side (hand movements, fingering, etc.). Thank you for your amazing content and keep on posting!

Nice video sir 👍 Love from India 🇮🇳

former hardcore Logic user here, now on: Cubase 12 - and finally happy. Hint: Logic has NO MACROS!!! can´t live without this! Logic´s rudimentary old unflexible tiny mixer is a joke. Logic can only have 1 video in arrangement. Logic´s automation is clunky. Logic has no plugin searching function. Logic lag in Midi Editing/ Compose features - please see Cubase 12! Cubase has the best DAW mixer on the market, I love it´s audio editing and the high quality onstock plugins are on top with Logic´s. Cubase GUI is very flexible. Cubase is much FASTER with the use of own key commands and own macros...And I´m a big fan of Cubase´s Multiple Markers and render export options! C12 wins in so many areas. Sorry to say, but I know both daws very good.

I'm a Cubase user but in Logic to see multiple Midi CC lanes and velocities you can switch to the Step Editor

Добрый вечер, Яков! ☕ Вы доделали свою декабрьскую композицию? Не забрасывайте её, -это очень глубокая и эмоциональная вещь. Надеюсь, что мир её услышит🎶🎹🎶🎹🎶

...cmd+option is the same zoom in logic...

I see, this is the man that made me cried with those talented hands. Nice to meet you! 😊

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Tried Cubase today. Took 2 hours to find record pre roll 😂. Coming from logic this DAW is so hard to learn.

Dude, i switched from cubase to logic. hold cmd and the zoom slider in logic. hold cmd + r in logic. use the marquee tool in logic! cubase can't do that with the marker tool. logic is far superior. steinberg didn't come up with some useful stuff in years. all they can do is small updates for major update prices.

Jacob, are you playing piano in orchestra or in cafe? I hope I can meet you and watching your performance someday. ❤

well Hans can not be wrong

I really wish you made some effort in actually learning how to do these functions in Logic BEFORE making this video. 0:38 1. Zoom function: you don't have to go all the way to the top where the Ruler is to reposition the Playhead. Just Shift and Click LITERALLY ANYWHERE and the Playhead will snap exactly to where your cursor is, and then you can hold down Command Option and Scroll up/down to zoom in and out at the Play head position. 1:51 2. Multiple Automation Panes: You can't view multiple automation lanes in the Piano Roll BUT you CAN view multiple automation lanes in the Main Workspace Window itself. Hit key command A to open Automation view, switch the automation button on the track from Track to Region and then click on the small '>' button towards the center left of the track to Open All of the currently available Automation Lanes just like Cubase. 2:55 3. Immediate Note Playback: several other people already mentioned this but I'll state it here again for brevity: Top left, go to 'File'/'Project Settings'/'MIDI'/''Chase', select 'Notes' and 'Sustained'. You have to save this setting in your custom template since it's not a global setting but everyone really should be starting all projects from a custom template anyway. 4:45 4. Tempo Adjusting (Time Warp): It's even faster in Logic. You don't have to use the Smart Tempo editor for this, go all the way to the top where the Tempo Display is, right beneath where the BPM is shown, click where it says 'KEEP', change that to 'Adapt Tempo' and start recording. When you stop recording, Logic will automatically calculate the BPM AND align the downbeats of what you just recorded. Switch it back to 'KEEP' and you can select and delete any extra tempo information just like you did in this video at 7:33. 10:03 5. Time Base Toggle: Select the region or regions and hit Command ⇟ (page down) to Lock SMPTE. Done. 11:34 6. Move Events Shortcut: Top left go to 'Logic Pro/Settings/Automation/Move Track Automation with Regions' and set it to 'Always'. Now any automation will ALWAYS follow the region just like in Cubase. This is a global setting so you only have to do this once.

"Immediate Note Playback" is not correct, you can actually activate the setting in logic that lets you hear the note even if you don't play it from the start. It's called midi chase under project settings

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should know your daw better

Great tips! Thank you so much!