Steinberg please take some notes from other software interfaces. There is a lot that can be done to take the current interface of your products to another level.
2 products off the top of my head that have a great interface:
The brand new Ableton Live 9. It can go full screen, looks incredible and is most importantly fun and intuitive to use.
Adobe CS6. All of the applications go full screen with all the windows being able to snap in place or move freely on the screen.
Having floating windows is fine for opening vst instruments and effects but the core functions such as the transport, mixing window, vst instruments etc need to be incorporated not as floating but as built into the interface.
There is a lot of exciting possibilities and I hope to see some forward thinking interface changes in Cubase 7.
Highly subjective, but as a multi-monitor user, I really, really hate the Ableton interface.
Highly subjective too, but agreed. I personally love Adobe’s UI’s, especially because of there flexibility. I always find it a relieve when firing up Audition or any other CS5.5 product.
Halion 4’s interface is pretty similar and less clunky than Wavelab 7
It’s should be up to the user to dock, un-dock or group any desired panel, like Adobe’s UI’s.
I’m not saying Steinberg should rewrite their entire interface I’m simply suggesting saying that having the feature to go full screen and also having a more efficient way of dealing with windows is something I would like to see.
I can’t imagine that Cubase will go Metro (actually now called “Modern”) any time soon. That would sort of obliviate the mouse and all VST’s would immediately have to follow suit.
More likely they will slowly incorporate some touch friendly UI features in Classic (opposite of Modern).
We’ll see where this takes us, but it won’t be anywhere close to overnight.