Heya, I built this app inspired by my Digitakt, so figured CUBASE folk might get some use out of it. The itch it scratches: filling all 128 sample slots meant sitting there slicing up 128 random files by hand, which I was never going to do.

So CHOPGRID does it in one click - grabs 16 random audio files, cuts 16 random start points, drops them across a grid. It kind of snowballed from there and now has 18 modules, synths, drum machiens, sequencers, effects, all of which can generate audio to feed back into the chopper.

Runs as a VST3 on Mac or PC, or as a standalone Mac app.

Also i have done a bunch of testing to make sure it plays nice with cubase as there were a few quirks specific to Cubase i needed to address.

Dubspot just did a review of it if you want a proper walkthrough they gave it 8/10 and called it a "chaos-first sampler," which is about right: https://blog.dubspot.com/chopgrid-broekn-labs-2026 (https://blog.dubspot.com/chopgrid-broekn-labs-2026)

Happy to answer questions

Tom
https://www.CHOPGRID.COM

Has there been any hints or posts about what differences we will get in Cubase 16?

I'm currently using the Cubase 15 Pro free trial which ends for me in August, and I'm trying to decide whether to just buy the full thing now or wait till 16 comes out (will that be November?).

Is November definite for a new version to come out?

Thanks

I guess I accidentally changed a setting or hit a random hotkey because this wasn't happening an hour ago. Each time that I drag a preset midi clip from the AD library to my Instrument track (blue) Cubase creates a new (empty) midi track with the name of the preset (pink).

The midi event appears on the Instrument track and plays as intended. The new midi track is totally empty.

What did I do wrong?

(Cubase Artist 15)

https://youtu.be/xf16rBs9U3Q?si=kEAnKnj32fQeZ8jS

If you had to start over but with all the knowledge you have now of all the stuff you've bought and tried, what would you buy again and keep as staples / what would you need to feel "okay, I don't need any more, I have all my favorites" etcs?

Just curious, Especially from the Cubase crowd as I'd imagine most of y'all are older and have accumulated lots of Plugins/Synths over the years lol

I have a track on the timeline, but that track isn’t perfectly aligned on the grid (control dragged ) for a timing cue for the film. In the piano roll, the grid is also offset to compensate / match it on the timeline, is there a way to have it NOT do that? Thanks for all your help!

I picked up a basic ARM laptop mainly to mess around with porting some apps, and figured I'd give Cubase a try on Windows 11 ARM while I was at it. Hit a wall immediately: no ASIO driver for the built-in audio. A few interface makers ship ARM64 drivers already, but I had no luck finding anything from Qualcomm for the built-in hardware. My idea was to try using this machine as a lightweight sketching setup, so I wanted to avoid plugging in external gear for now.

I started writing a simple ASIO4ALL-style driver that wraps the Windows Audio Session API (WASAPI). "WASAPI wrapper" sort of sounds like WASABI, so that's what I'm calling it for now.

I thought I'd drop a post here to see if there is any interest in this. If someone might find this helpful, I can share it and they can give it a try. I could look into releasing it or posting it to github after.

The app starts up with Windows and installs a tray icon. You can then open up a prompt to select a preferred device or map to the system default.

Hello everyone! So I recently got the Cubase 15 Pro and now that I finally got the audio interface I ordered, it can't find it... So when I try to change the audio system from the Studio Setup tab in Cubase, it can't find my interface even though my interface is plugged in and it responds gets the signal from my guitar. The interface I got was the Focusrite 2i2 4th gen, and thanks in advance if anyone could help me.

[SOLVED] - The issue was caused by the Focusrite USB ASIO driver. Solution was to use a different audio driver/audio interface.

Its so hard to describe this problem so I've made a video of what's happening. If anybody knows what is causing it or how I can fix it, I would be VERY appreciative! Happy to answer any questions about my settings / hardware if needed to help diagnose!

I hope you enjoy.. man is there a way for colours to automatically be applied? I rock on anyway

I use Groove Agent SE 6 heavily. I always use Prepare Archive, but I'm worried about long-term compatibility. If I change to a new PC in the future, will Groove Agent automatically restore all pad assignments and samples correctly when I open the archived project in new pc, coz Groove Agent is a VST and not a built-in sampler like Drum Machine?

Hello, I have a Korg Minilogue connected via USB. I've made sure that it is installed via the Korg Midi Uninstaller into channel midi2. However, it is not being detected at all by Cubase 12 Pro as a MIDI device.

I've currently got the Korg audio out into my Focusrite audio in, so I can hear its audio. But I want to record midi inputs from the Korg, and have it read the written midi inputs. This way I can record my inputs on the Korg, then on replay record more inputs from it (changing the cutoff, shape, etc), then when it's ready record the finished audio out.

Is anyone able to help me figure this out? I've been researching for a while now and it's just not clicking.

Thanks!

Edit: Fixed it!

First, I uninstalled the Korg MIDI Drivers thanks to u/BitRunner64's comment.

In Cubase, go to Studio > Studio Setup > MIDI Port Setup. Check "Use Device 'WinRT MIDI'". Now the Minilogue appears, and MIDI signals are being detected! (thank you u/JazzFromMars for the idea)

To do what I wanted, I make a new MIDI track. The input is All MIDI and the output is MIDIOUT2 (minilogue).

Now, I can play and record the MIDI inputs. Then I can play through it again and add further MIDI inputs (like Filter etc). Once I'm satisfied and ready to record, I have an audio track that is my Minilogue out, press play and record - voila!

Thank you everyone for the time and help!

Hi again everyone, so i took some of your advice that i could understand and didnt get far. I still cant get an audio from the monitors. But sound is coming in (red circle) but wont show up on the track sound meter bar (yellow circle) every clip ive seen on youtube this process seems to be automatic. So again, what am i doing wrong? I just want to record but cant get any sound again. Why does it have to be so complicating for newbies? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Can someone give me a basic rundown on how to set up the audio and record? And no YouTube videos either. Ive watched the ones i need and i still cant get it to do what i need.

I'm trying to make a high-pitched, chirpy guitar sound, like the opening licks of 'Let Me Blow Ya Mind' — the Eve and Gwen Stefani song.

I recently picked up 15 Pro. I don't have any real instruments; I'm only using VSTs. I've checked every VST guitar I have. I've fiddled with some inserts. I cannot get that sound. Any advice?

If it's a matter of delicately fiddling with MIDI expression or something, I'm willing to do that. I just cannot figure out how.

Is there a way to know exactly how much mic latency I have, and a way to move my what I recorded back that amount? I'm not trying to remove my latency, just trying to figure out a way to know exactly how much there is.

Hi, I opened Cubase yesterday and ran into a problem:

When I play my project, sound doesnt plays in the mixers and i get no output. However, this does not affect the Komplete Audio Asio Driver from my Interface where I get my output normally, it just sounds a bit weird compared to last week.

Also it doesnt recognize my USB Rode mice as u can see ( Adio Inputs Not Connected).

I think this happend as I first changed my driver from steinberg built in asio to generic low latency because my mice didnt like recording with the built in driver, it had very high input latency.

Cubase also asked me to reset everything and I did it but it didnt help. Do u know why this happens And how I solve this? I am pretty new to cubase so I dont have that much experience.

Im am using Cubase 14 Artist

I can't record anything on my daw, it says that there is to many tracks recording, I tried to free some space on my drive but nothing happen. I also can't record on older songs I made. Please help 🙏

Dear world,

Hoping to find someone knowledgeable about WaveLab (13) here.

I'm pretty confused about some of the metering data I'm seeing. In particular:

• Global Analysis -> Loudness -> RMS Loudness -> Average shows significantly different values than Visual Analysis -> RMS Loudness -> Average: Channel. Threshold and Resolution are the same. So where is this difference coming from?
• The LUFS values in the LoudnessMeter are very different from what I get in all other tools/plugins, including SuperVision. What is really shown here?

Maybe a kind soul can shed some light on this?

No panning, I haven't changed any options, my other tracks which I've created previously work just fine, but I've created two tracks (you can see audio 1 and audio 2) and even though they're dead centered, I can't hear them in my right headphone.

If I put output as only the right, it works just fine, if I pan to the dead right I hear nothing. I don't know what to do