Maybe you should offer an option between good and bad? It’s not good and it’s not bad either.
“What 3 issues stop Cubase 7 from being a near-perfect solution for you, a modern film/TV composer?”
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Terrible frozen-track management. A frozen track is basically dead in Cubase, unless you export it and re-import it. If you freeze a track and then warp the other tracks, the frozen track will be out of sync. That’s unacceptable.
In other DAW’s, frozen tracks are treated as audio and they are totally editable. Oh, and you can freeze multiple tracks with a single command.
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Obsolete windowing system. It’s kinda hard to believe that in 2013 you STILL can’t take the piano roll and scoring views out of track view and into another monitor. Other DAW’s are completely modular and you can detach and move around your screens virtually anything.
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Video is still cumbersome to handle in Cubase. It’s assumed that the music should always be modified to fit the video and not vice-versa. Sometimes the latter is the optimal solution, and if I want to suggest something like that to a director/producer, I’d have to export everything and use another application, like Vegas. To be fair, this is an issue that affects virtually all pro-level DAW’s. But you asked what would make Cubase “perfect”…