Cannot change the time signature?

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your message.

As stated earlier tempo track/time signature support is on our feature list for future updates.

Cubasis gets updated on a regular basis, and we do our best to fulfil as many as possible user-requested features/improvements per update.
The app is driven by a very small but skilled team, some bigger feature requests - which applies for tempo track/time signature support - might take longer in the process.

To glue audio tracks, simply press the freeze button in the track list, which creates a new track below the original track.
In this context, please make sure to set the “Unfreeze Deletes Audio Track” option located in Setup/Arranger accordingly.

If you decide to part with Cubasis, please get in touch with Apple, who handle all app purchase matters.

Hope that helps!

Best,
Lars

Hi Lars,

Any news on the tempo / time signature track feature? any ETA by any chance? I understand about the team being small, but even if it’s a “big feature”, it could have been planned as part of the main release, and not in an update, or very early, but not after a 2.0 version. This is actually a very common feature that everyone is using quite often…
I own Auria Pro, which has it. I could just use it, but I like using Cubasis whenever I’m working on a project on the go that I’ll have to import into my Cubase later; one of the main reasons I’ve actually purchased Cubasis.
Anyway, please let us know.

Cheers!

I’ve managed to fake time changes by using the freeze track function on my my midi tracks and then stretching or shrinking the resulting components. Far from ideal, but it works, in a punk sort of way for simple projects, especially if you have only a few time changes per project. To change time signature it would be necessary to freeze various parts of the track and mess around a bit but it should be possible. Its a nuisance rather than a total road block. I agree that I hope to see this functionality in a future upgrade this year.

Hello Lars,
Any news on this? I’m on the verge of purchasing Cubasis, as I read that the UI gives a better experience than Auria Pro. However, my daughter’s first song includes a couple of lines ending in a bar of 3/4, in what is otherwise 4/4 time. So, changes in time signature seem to be needed right from the start of a person’s song writing and it will be a deal breaker ifor me if it’s not in an imminent update.
Stéphane

Hi Stéphane,

Thanks for your message.
Tempo track/time signature support is on our list, but definitely takes some more time.

Best,
Lars

This is a fundamental feature for actual musicians. It has been requested for years now. It’s especially frustrating to see that less-necessary developments occur with each version/update, such as integration with hardware toys. Simply saying that it’s on the list is not enough for those of us who bought in at the outset believing that such a critical ability would be the top priority.

Hi Don,

As mentioned earlier, tempo track and time signature both remain on our list for future topics.
Due to the complexity, it still will take a while until it becomes available in Cubasis.

Best,
Lars

Time signature change has been a feature of much more primitive sequencers/DAWs since, we’ll I won’t date myself. Do other iOS programs enable this? It’s been a goes-without-saying feature of Cubase since…
Please make looong-time users like me (I do a lot of theatre work from conductor’s score) happee happee by instituting time signature functionality, and while you’re at it, tempo change mapping as another absolutely necessary feature for making sophisticated music. (Think of the Pink Floyd song in 7/4 time for what I’d be willing to pay for these features).

Hello!
I’m joining in to what other users have been saying. I’m after a 6/8 time signature. I hope there will be an upgrade to solve this issue soon.
Ronnie

I hope there will be an update soon to add these features. I am also after a 6/8 time signature and would like to have tempo changes within some of the pieces I will be playing. Any idea when these features will be added to Cubasis?

You have a customer here waiting to buy Cubasis the moment time signature + tempo changes become available.

Ive been also wanting to buy Cubasis, specially with the offer thats going on right now
Is the feature now available?

Hi Snardash,

Thank you for your message.

The feature remains on our list for future updates.
At this moment I have no further information, when it will become available.

For further information what has been added to the app, please have a look at our Cubasis Version History.

Six years later, we are still waiting for a basic feature… :rage:

I definitely lost hope … I mean we’ve been asking/talking about this feature since 2013, and 2019 is almost gone
“… The feature remains on our list for future updates. …”
I don’t know … it might be at the very bottom of their list. Or maybe they have a road map for the next 20 years? … lol, but no, not funny …
Last update was what … 4 month ago?
sigh…

Hi agaland,

Thank you for your message.

As you might imagine we receive many feature requests for Cubasis.

Cubasis is made by a fairly small team, so we always have to plan feature scopes carefully, in order to keep up with regular updates.

As of yet, Cubasis has seen 30+ regular free updates with many new user-requested feature additions: New in Cubasis 3: A Brand-New Cubasis | Steinberg

As mentioned before tempo/signature track support remains on our list.
As of yet, I have no date, when the feature will be released.

Best,
Lars

As you might imagine we receive many feature requests for Cubasis.

My only answer is: 2013 man … 2013; that’s a long time ago!

Oh and now I get it; you guys were actually busy writing Cubasis 3 from scratch, which got released today, as a separate app of course, at 50 bucks … smart.
I’ve checked on the feature list, but couldn’t see anything related to tempo track/time signature … until I went to the Audiobus forum, when someone was actually asking about it, and your response was

Tempo/signature track is on our list for the future, but not included in v3.

:open_mouth: :laughing:

Sorry, I don’t think this thing will ever come to life, whatever the version of Cubasis is. Like I said, I really lost hope after all these years.
And that’s fine, I mean, NanoStudio 2 supports tempo track and time signature changes for instance …

Anyway, good luck on the C3 release; I certainly won’t buy it, especially not for another $50 (and I know, no need to repeat, upgrade is not possible through app store for C2 users, and you’ve released 30+ update on C2, etc, etc…I know the song)

Hey agaland,
I too have lost hope for tempo track/time signature.

Moreover I feel we’ve been strung along: these are rudimentary feature “requests” (If what I ran off of floppy drives, what is currently possible with other DAWs that aren’t so “flagship”, and Cubase itself’s capabilities since Adam-was-a-kid are any litmus test.)

Years. And now this.
I resent it.

Don Craig

Hey agaland,
I too have lost hope for tempo track/time signature.

Moreover I feel we’ve been strung along: these are rudimentary feature “requests” (If what I ran off of floppy drives, what is currently possible with other DAWs that aren’t so “flagship”, and Cubase itself’s capabilities since Adam-was-a-kid are any litmus test.)

Years. And now this.
I resent it.

Don Craig

Yes I agree tempo change is a rudimentary feature, both Opcode Vision and MOTU Performer had it in the 80’s. I think the problem here with Cubasis is the guy or guys that write the code just simply don’t know how to write it in … it’s been on their ‘list’ for almost 7 years now. Nanostudio 2 has it … and that’s written by one guy! … and that one guy is currently coding audio for the program … when that gets implemented Cubasis will pretty much be done with if they don’t get on board with such rudimentary features that even our 80’s DAW’s had.