Sorry to say, but I much prefer the ProTools mixer over the new Cubase one… I don’t think it’s ‘way too busy’ by any means and the whole thing is sober ; everything seems streamlined and put at its right place. I especially like the graduations on the meters and channel faders and the sends ones. All this seems more ‘professional’ in a way…
Never saw ProTools at work, but I guess that its users don’t have to deal with key commands behavior problems, clicking fest, strangely cut labels, hidden buttons and gain values, erratic sizing of racks, close to invisible strip separation between faders, etc.
If ProTools is so reputated for mixing tasks, there must be actual reasons and, seeing this, I guess that this UI has something to do in them…