THANK YOU STEINBERG!! Cubase 7 and Cubase 7.5 are amazing!!!

Lets face it Cubase has to be more than an alternative to Pro Tools.
For me the fact that is more than just a studio recording software is it’s strength. I am a guitarist but love playing about with sounds and going places I have never been before. Steinberg has always been a DAW that encourages us to think outside the box. (I have been using Loopmash to re-sample my playing.) I guess that is why there are so many bugs, because they want to be so many things to so many users. I for one love that. I certainly am glad that I am am not stuck in a studio with bands rehashing all the old clichés - I would rather rehash my own and perhaps add a few unexpected things on the way.

I am not knocking those of you who run studios. Far from it, I think you do wonderful stuff and provide a really valuable service. Not to mention living a financially precarious life. However I baulk at the use that many people make of the word professional, as if it is a passport to some higher plane of knowledge and creativity. What is a DAW professional? I mean anyone can claim whatever they like on a forum and nobody would be any the wiser. After all did I not just claim to be guitarist.

The value of Cubase to me is not it’s perfection, because it quite plainly isn’t. It is its versatility and the possibilities that it offers its users. I may not be the best musician, but I have the best fun. Sure I get cross with Steinberg at times and irritated with Cubase. I am sure we could say the same about our partners, as they could about us. However, we still love them in spite of all that. That is the value of a long term relationship.

this is a inverse trolling? ahahahhah

Exactly +1

This is meant to be a feel good thread even thou a little bit OTT on the subject but non the less should still be kept a feel good thread and I find it really irritating that a person that was screaming and shouting for people to keep his threads in order has decided to act god and intervene on every feel good thread he feels he has the right to and change to subject back to his usual one man war on Steinberg ! VERY IRITATING

Can I join your club?
Do I need a degree?
What are the requirements?
Do I need extensive use with PT, Logic, DP, Sonar, S1 or that free thing everyone rants about because he has excellent communication with his users?

Or…do you mean every-day Cubase user for the past 15 years who has grown weary of workflow and genuine issues being ignored while Steinberg prioritizes new features that attract EDM and new users with every new upgrade/update? I’m not attacking this stuff, but I’m totally against them making this stuff a priority.

I agree with you. Relatively speaking Cubase is still the best DAW for me. It still has a long ways to go, and I’m pessimistic about any real marketing/policy change because it’s the EDM and new users who subsidize what you call the “DAW professional.” Ever wonder why EveAnna Manley signed that agreement with UAD? Ever wonder why Nuendo costs so much more than Cubase?

By the way, yeah thanks Steinberg…your amazing. (relatively speaking when compared to the competition)

I have said enough now. I fear Sgt. Schultz is coming for me.

Guys, I hear what you’re saying, but come on, let Freddie be Freddie. Of course Cubase has bugs, of course it isn’t perfect, of course there are people who are dealing with issues, just like any major software! I’ve criticized Steinberg my fair share in due course.

But to give Freddie a hard time when all he’s doing (in my view) is expressing his enthusiasm, just seems a bit glum, as I implied before. Just let him do what he does. Frankly, I enjoy reading his posts from time to time, and I think he’s generally more like a Steinberg cheerleader. So what? We could use that around here!

When we need a serious thread, we can start (yet another) serious thread. There’s plenty to be serious about. But let’s give the guy some space.

And who cares if he’s shouting with caps and fonts and smilies? He rarely says anything directly offensive, and if he does, it’s generally well-meaning from what I have seen. We actually need more people like Freddie in the world. And besides, those font/smilie options are sitting right there in the forum interface, and if you find it a breach of netiquette, just ignore him.

And finally, no one is saying that serious people and serious threads are wrong or not needed. I have had my share of problems with Steinberg over the years, and I will join the occasional angry threads if I think it will help. But this thread and other similar Freddie threads are just generally intended to be light-hearted, positive testimonial and opinion in my view, as are most of Freddie’s posts as far as I can see. He’s human too, so I’m sure he crosses a line sometimes, but generally, I find his posts positive and good-natured.

My two bits only. I have no beef with any of you. I also don’t know Freddie personally, although I remember him from the Cakewalk forum, and he was a positive upbeat guy there too for the most part. And I definitely agree with the sentiment of the OP. Cubase is indeed amazing. Perfect? No, of course not! Amazing? You bet. Let’s take a moment every once in a while to get some perspective. Granted, Freddie takes more than “just a moment” expressing his enthusiasm, but so what? I’ve been around DAWs (and just before DAWs) long enough and can appreciate the golden age of awesomeness we’re in right now, and frankly, I can use a dose of enthusiasm to remind me.

If this Freddy is Tommy then he means nothing by his actions , he’s just a flamboyant showman and you should respect his way of communication .
@Bredo your not exactly the most eloquent communicator on this forum so give Freddy the respect you expect for yourself and stop disrupting his thread , your the one after the attention and yes it’s working isn’t it .

Freddie for president! put the cat amongst the pigeons - how dare you! lol
Apart from all the bugs…
+1

likewise i have dared those complainers to PM asking for details as to my personal website, which via Whois could produce a name but at all times was refused.

Sometimes I’m staggered by the expectations, demands and moans of certain self-proclaimed professionals, and others, on here. I started with Pro-24/Atari and was THRILLED to be able to program drums and no longer be dependent on lame TR-707 loops. As far as I’m concerned, since those early days Steinberg have increasingly provided me with useful ways to while away the time between making a bob or two, the features and sheer power offered by Cubase in 2013 are WILDLY beyond anything anyone could have imagined in the early years. I made a living writing midi files in the 80’s - no DAW has ever surpassed Cubase’s midi implementation.

How can Freddie’s post possibly have been seen by some as provocative? Thanks to him I’ve looked again at my old XP tweaks, turned my AERO back on and background services to programs - stability and performance have improved as a result. I really LIKE Freddie, and Cubase too - all you moaners should sort out your own systems before accusing Steinberg of writing anything but GREAT software.

+1 exactly , no other DAW offers the features Cubase does and Cubase does it with style .

I think Bredo needs banning again for constantly dragging a thread off topic , sorry but facts are facts you have just turned into a moaning troll :wink:

@bredo Then you should no better then shouldn’t you oohhh great one .
And if you think being the same person on a forum for 14 years is some what of a status symbol then you are more shallow that ive always thought you were .
Sorry I must stop because this is completely off topic as yet again it’s all about you Bredo !

so you confirm you are a name-dropper then?

Don’t send PM’s unless you actually want to know who i am.

bredo makes an unsafe assumption that recent joiners to this forum are inexperienced newbies. I, for one, have been a forum member for longer than his 14 years but I’ve got bored, left and rejoined more than once…actually four times. Some of us have ‘too much music’ to spend a lot of time on forums. Senior Members are maybe more technical than creative? Who knows?

For sure, the most talented and creative artistes I’ve produced are the least interested in the technology! :unamused:

Aloha guys,

Great discussion going on here with ups and downs, ins and outs, over/unders etc;
and with the conclusion being that Cubase 7.5 (while could and will be better)
is THE killer DAW app of this year.

+1 for this being (IMHO) the:
‘Thread of the Year for 2013’.

{‘-’}

So true from my experience too. At some point I just have to stop and tell myself enough is enough. Why am I here? To admire the tool? To learn all things the tool offers complete with workflow & bug issues?

Or do I just try to make best with what I have?

For me its so easy to get distracted away from music creation & production.

If we are moving back towards the original thoughts in this thread, I too have been enjoying the new 7.5 but make no bones that it is strictly a hobby for me brought on by trying to preserve 50 + years of my guitar playing.

It is not something I push to extreme performance limits or maxed out memory and consequently have really never experienced the frustrations displayed at times by some. I’m no engineer and wish I had a better understanding of what I might do with Cubase. I deal with customer service and administrative crap at work. It pays my bills and to read a post like Freddie’s which I find uplifting, enjoyable and enthusiastic…I really love it. Do you know what dealing with some people can be like :smiling_imp: I’m here in the forum to get better quality in my recordings

By the way…I do like the idea of sections for traditional recording / electronic / etc etc

Do you know what dealing with some people can be like ?

Pretty much. C7.5 is storming and still they come. If it isn’t Cubase doesn’t have remote tap tempo then it’s the wrong version number and it’s not new (cheap) enough. And it has a rocket-scientist-proof dongle.
I’d hate to deal with those people in the real world.

No Bredo, you are wrong to expect people to identify themselves just because you do. In case you don’t understand, read the forum rules about how Steinberg will only divulge personal information when there is a law enforcement imperative.

And this isn’t provocating behaviour from a self important professional , oohh please Bredo act your age and get a life .Again you have changed the thread to all about your self importance again .

Freddy has done no wrong at all on this thread apart from being a little OTT with his happiness of using c7.5 and all you have being doing is attacking him for it which is nothing short of trolling and I for one feel that your responses to Freddies feel good thread are completely unjustified but again you have got the reaction you want , the self notoriety on other peoples threads . Well done good work !

apart from "Cubase has stopped working " on exit my C7.5 certainly ROCKS