If you like the 7.5 update...+1 this and reply

Sorry I don’t have quite enough Cubase experience since you started in the mid 80s. I started in 1997. My experience with them tells me most will be ironed out…not all…by a long shot!

I will gladly provide you a list of things they have never ever fixed. Yes, they are usually small things you learn to live with, however some seem so innocently simple to fix yet Steinberg ignores them and continues to add new features.

So truthfully, wouldn’t you say something like 80% of the things “will be ironed out?” This is my experience at least and obviously depends on what level you use Cubase.

I should add that I’m not referring to strictly bugs. I mean things that are broken, bugs, and obvious issues never corrected. Some of them can be as “small” as key commands. However key commands can be huge to users who attempt to take advantage of fast workflow.

So to start…
Why can you open the History page with a key command…but not close it with any key command? The history window is such a god-send! Yet it requires a mouse to close it. Something so seemingly simple to fix…yet to my knowledge never acknowledged by Steinberg. But don’t worry…there will be another Loop Mash improvement in the next update. :mrgreen:

Loopmash is a plugin, not a feature.

That’s the best reply from the self proclaimed “DAW expert?”
BTW…I’m still wondering how people qualify to be up to that esteemed status? You never replied.

Don’t do it. That’s when ‘trouble’ walks in. :smiling_imp:

“Draw the wagons into a circle”!
“Why do you always do that”?
“We get better reception that way”! —firesign theatre

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+1 excellent.
Had an issue that carried over from 7.06 where after exporting audio mix cubase would freeze on a macbook pro.
Tried the trash preferences routine and instantly solved the problem. Rock solid stable and responsive. Great update, love it.

first you need an email address (preferably a freemail, in order to stop spam) then sign up. In the past you needed to have purchased an appropriate software application in order to post but now it appears to be open slather. Once in the forum try to be accomodating of varying points of view and always take on board moderators’ directive(s).

+1

just got it… love it!

+1

still crashes but not as much in 10.9 osx

Plus a tongue firmly in your nether cheeks.

Well, I can’t bend that way so that lets me out… :laughing:

  • 0.75 :slight_smile:

Since the upgrade everything works fine except for…

  • Its very difficult to resize the windows… the cursor just flickers when you pass over the edge of a window so you cant “grab” the edge to move it around or make it bigger (sorry if this has been mentioned already)
  • Projects take very long to save… at least 3 times as long as before with 7.06

Liking 7.5 a lot. Appreciating the great update. :slight_smile:

I don’t use 100% of Cubase. Some things I rarely use. The things I do use however, works great. Sure there are some things I wish worked differently at times, but hey, there are bigger things in life worth fighting for. Grinding about a mouse click that would saved some time, seem to negate the benefit.

So truthfully, things will work out. Maybe not the way some would want it to work, but close enough. If you cannot live with that, based on my experience, you need to move on, go elsewhere, change, adapt, whatever. Life is just too short, and these kind of worries will just bring the end a little closer. It’s already too close for my taste! :wink:

+1. No DAW is ever going to be perfect, but I can’t think of a better one now for the MIDI composer (and I own Logic X and DP 8. I don’t do much audio work so can’t comment on that side of things.

Forget the other “DAW’s” for MIDI, nothing beats Cubase that’s for sure.

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I really like the return of Magneto and the return of the gate’s adjustable gain reduction. These two alone justified the upgrade cost for me. :slight_smile:

In that perspective I agree with you. But the above also depends on your frequency of use, especially if you earn money using Cubase. Better workflow…less waste…more money. I have always said compared to the competition Cubase is the best. If it were not, why would I be here?

A great DAW can bring out great passion with users. And that is the problem…even though Cubase is the best for myself, I see so many areas of improvement…most of them are workflow and fixing already implemented features.

Many issues appear to be so simple to fix! Since there is a key command to open the history window, how hard would it be to create a key command, or use the same one to close it? While there is a micro for Bounce In Place, how difficult would that be for Steinberg? Would a little mono button be THAT difficult to implement? Is fixing key command mixer focus issues all that difficult?

So close…yet so far…

if it was as simple as you infer, don’t you think it would have been addressed already?

Absolutely, I use Cubase every day and part of my income comes from using Cubase.

Workflow, waste and money are business related terms. The tool chosen, only enhances the job. However, no matter how much a tool is changed and improved, in the long run it won’t have any effect on the business side.

Some improvements just make sense, others are often very subjective. E.g. have you ever been to Home Depot (or any other hardware store, for that matter)? If you haven’t, check out how many types of “hammers” there are, for example… Still, houses are built as cheap as possible. One for business, and all for business. :laughing:

Again, it’s business that kills that “great passion”, not Cubase (or any other DAW for that matter). They are just tools, not magical music wands. Steinberg has always been a great innovator of tools for musicians, and those musicians are the ones hammering out the magic (or cheap radio trash, :wink: ).

And still close enough. :wink:

I don’t know. I would think if they created a KC to open, they could just as easy create a KC to close…or use the same KC a second time to close. I’m not a programmer.

Do you assume it’s complex or impossible to fix and it has been addressed already?

If it’s only possible to open, but not close with a KC, wouldn’t some type of communication from Steinberg be in order? I sent a request to support for this specific problem, but he never heard back from Germany. In the past other requests have usually resulted in fixed issues in the next update. Even if it’s not possible, a reply from Germany via my tech support guy would be nice.

I do know there have been key commands in the past that Steinberg simply left out from prior versions, and when brought to their attention, the KC was added. For example “reset meters” was left out with 7.0. And there have also been KC’s suggested by users which they implemented. Based on prior releases such as 7.0, I don’t think KC’s are a very big priority.