Discovering Tonalic in Cubase | Ian Kirkpatrick (Dua Lipa, Sabrina Carpenter)

🎸 Tonalic is now deeply integrated into Cubase and Nuendo as an ARA plugin – built in close cooperation with Steinberg.
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👉 See Tonalic and what's new in Cubase 15: https://www.steinberg.net/cubase/new-features/
👉 More on Tonalic: https://www.tonalic.com

it's like Band-in-a-Box but better!

I cant drag and drop in the main window project! why? I think everything its ok...

Urghhh..................................

Amazing stuff. But $30 per month? Are you kidding me? Talk about subscription saturation!!!!!

Looks like a nice intergration with cuebase, the upgrade option from cubase 14 pro is £166, and then subscription for this. However it looks like it can be useful if like me you can not play 6 string. I would prefer a one off purchase, but expect it would be a high point of sale. I subscribe to East West Sounds who do regular updates which are included in the subscription. Its another option to consider and am grateful for this. I focus on wellbeing, I have retired now and all this amazing creativity really helps cognative balance. Nothing compares to.playing live but its great all these tools are available

Thank you for demonstrating this. It is great that Cubase now supports this ARA plugin. I downloaded and tried it, but I decided that it is not for me. I have a lot of virtual guitar instruments in Kontakt which are capable of doing a similar trick with much less hassle. The free version came with only acoustic and electric guitars, no drums, bass or keys. Being a guitarist myself, I mainly use virtual guitars for inspiration, or for fleshing out ideas, then I record myself playing a real guitar. I think it is good that Celemony finds new uses for their Direct Note Access technology. I just don't fit the bill. Besides, the UI is a mess! It is almost impossible to tell the different patterns apart since they are only represented by small icons resembling the patterns. Color schemes or pattern names would really be a help here. I tried setting up a track with a 'picking guitar'. While it did sound great, it gave me four(!) different guitar sounds when putting together a take from separate patterns - not even useable! The user is left completely in the dark when trying to choose patterns that work together. Finally, I am not a fan of subscription software, especially when the subscription amounts to double the amount one pays for a yearly Cubase update. If the free version had different instruments, instead of just guitars, I might find a use for it, but for now, this is not for me. Caveat Emptor...

That’s a good one need to try it - good to see Cubase rocking it’s my DAW forever

I'm almost 74, so I don't know who these players are. I want to use Cubase to create music that sounds more like Manfred Eicher's ECM Records circa the 1970s onward. So, what can Tonalic do for me? I seriously doubt that there is a bassist who plays like Eberhard Weber or Arild Andersen, or a guitarist who plays like Ralph Towner, or a drummer who plays like Jon Anderson. I'm not interested in making music for today's kiddies. I wouldn't know a Dua Lipa if I tripped over her.

All money going to computer programmers more, and leaving out the actual people who invested years in the craft.

We will have whole lot of players in crime because the part that used to give them bread when they are not performing live is replaced by monthly payment to an AI app.

I'm not saying we should not have explored this but it is as if programmers now redirect money to themselves and investors while destroying sources of incoming of people who actually play. If a producer needed a session player, they had to save money to hire them. They would then play, the producer pays them and they would take care of their families. Now, if I subscribe to this, it is as if I'm hiring only people who worked on this software.

0:38 Ryan casually referencing his past DAW

Ick.

All was good until I looked at the purchasing options. You can't actually purchase Tonalic, it's a ##$@!^ subscription model. You will lose a lot of potential customers by using the subscription model. Companies think they are smart until they go out of business and wonder what happened. It's happened to many, many companies.

I've been influenced

Something I will never use, all that work and it sounds so boring and generic, not to mention subscription.

$15 - $25 per month!!!! Nope.

Had this studio one first.

Cubase finally catching up

Quick question: How much of this is essential tier? Do I need the subscription to get the same tools and players that Ryan and Ian just showcased?

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Subscription. Pass.