Cubase iC Pro 4

Get Avid Control Instead

Cubase iC Pro is very barebones and definitely not worth the money. Avid Control is a far more feature comprehensive app and it is free. I have requested a refund for Cubase iC Pro and will be using Avid Control moving forward.

Pros:
- Setup is quite simple
- The project navigation control from the app is very good. It allows you to navigate through the project and set bookmarks easily. This really really fantastic - but not enough to justify purchasing in my opinion. Note that Avid Control does not have this which is unfortunate.

Cons:
- The “shortcuts” are all mapped ok but they are not logically presented as with Avid Control. They seem as if they are an after thought.
- You cannot click on the instrument in the mixer to select that instrument and there is no way to select an instrument other than scrolling with the up, down, left and right button shortcuts. Avid Control allows you to select the instrument using the mixer AND even has its own dedicated page for instrument selection.
- The application hangs sometimes when selecting certain settings in the settings menu.

Gridlock

There are indeed a few things to love about this app, especially the cue mix! But the major oversight of having a ruler grid set to seconds instead of bars renders this app frustratingly useless as a remote control. It is almost impossible to accurately set up an 8 bar loop to record to! Really! Did I already say it’s so frustrating? It makes matters worse when a quick scan of user forums reveals that this fundamental feature has been requested for over 10 years. The cue mix and key commands are wonderful, but the grid actually makes this remote a time waster, not a time saver. It could be SO GOOD!

Developer Response ,

Hi DeeJay SchmeeJay, Thank you very much for your Cubase iC Pro rating and review - greatly appreciated. Cubase iC Pro supports using markers, which comes in pretty handy when it comes to loop recording. Here I'd suggest to create several cycle markers in your Cubase project (e.g. individual cycle markers for several verses and/or chorus parts etc.), which all will be displayed in Cubase iPro. Once done you can pretty easily jump to those cycle marker sections via simple tap(s) from within iC Pro to play these in a loop. Hope that makes sense for you workflow-wise. Happy to further discuss, if required. Please let me know if it does via your updated review! Thanks & warm greetings to lovely Australia! Warm greetings, Lars

Basic yet useful

I have now spent a few months with this app and while at first it seemed too basic (I expected it to look and behave exactly like Cubase), now I see it as an additional controller to a mouse & keyboard, and for that purpose it is great.
Also very useful for me when tracking drums.
My whole band is on iPhones, and each can control their own cue sends via this app too.
It still isn’t perfect, could use an update, and costs too much I think, but I’m honestly using IC Pro more often than the much better-featured and much cheaper (free) Avid control app.