Waves Audio and Steinberg have collaborated in offering Cubasis and Cubasis LE users three in-app purchasable Waves plug-ins – making Waves now available for iOS.
Cubasis is Steinberg’s sequencer app for iPad, similar to its Cubase music production system, providing project compatibility for migration to Cubase. It provides all required tools to arrange, mix and edit music productions, including many effects and instrument sounds.
Exclusively for Cubasis, Waves is providing in-app purchases of revamped and reskinned 25th Anniversary versions of the Q10 Equalizer, AudioTrack channel strip and L1 Ultramaximizer level maximizer/peak limiter, allowing high-end mixing on an. Each plug-in can be purchased individually or together as a bundle.
‘We are delighted to join forces with Steinberg, providing iPad users with Cubasis, along with access to our plug-ins and studio-quality mixing tools, to help users polish tracks with professional sound within iOS-compatible music software,’ says Waves EVP of Sales & Marketing, Mick Olesh. ‘Waves’ availability for iOS is in line with our belief in open platforms, which goes hand in hand with our continual objective to faithfully serve all users, regardless of hosts, pro audio field or genres.’
‘It’s always a fun challenge to do better than with the previous release of Cubasis, but I think our great team has done just that,’ adds Steinberg Team Lead & Product Planning Manager. Lars Slowak. ‘We’ve come up with many improvements and user-requested features. And the absolute apex is that Waves has come onboard with three highly acclaimed effects, available to the iPad for the first time. Together, Cubasis and the Waves effects for the iPad complement themselves perfectly and provide a complete and professional solution for producing music.’
The first plug-in by Waves, the Q10, is a multiband paragraphic EQ with up to ten bands of precision equalisation for mixing and mastering. It is a go-to tool for both surgical repair and gentle colouring. With its ten EQ bands, Q10 offers offers six different filter types and control of gain, frequency and Q. Unlike most multiband equalisers, each Q10 band can use any filter type, so there is immense flexibility when shaping a signal. The Q10 offers extremely large Q values and large boosts and cuts. It is configurable as either two independent mono equalizers or as a precisely-ganged stereo equaliser.
AudioTrack includes three processors – EQ, compression and gating – and supports multiple instances, one per channel. The four-band paragraphic equaliser provides bell, high-pass, low-pass, and shelving filter options. Its dynamics section includes a fully adjustable compressor/expander and gate. Input and output faders allow gain staging, and dynamics and output meters enable accurate visual feedback.
The L1 is the first software unit to offer a brick wall limiter. With only two major controls, quick and simple to use, the L1 is an advanced maximiser, look-ahead peak limiter and high-resolution re-quantiser for mastering and mixing.
