Like everything in this world things started simply. Well at least for me and my Atari last century. Progressively the basic software has added functionality, processes and plugins. Computers were certainly had very little processing power in the early days and very little memory.
Look around you now and that has all changed. Computers now have immense power and enormous amounts of memory. The software is incredibly complex and most users only scratch the surface of all the things this software offers. Cubase has become a bit like a musical instrument in that you have to spend a reasonable amount of time leaning how to use it, how to organise your workflow and how to deal with the inevitable issues and problems that arise with in such a complicated and demanding environment.
It cannot have escaped everyone’s notice that we are going through the most intensive series of technological changes in living memory. As has been pointed out mobile phone and tablets have changed the landscape - certainly with regard to how users interact with technology. Why would Steinberg ignore these developments? I would imaging the coding upon which the current version of Cubase relies upon is now out of date and being able to cope with the future proofing of this product is putting an enormous strain upon the developers. I would like to be able to use Cubase well into the future.
I am too old to learn a new DAW. Actually I am not sure that there are many DAW’s out there that are perfect. I would assert that Cubase is the most readily functional of them all. I have been working with a friend using Logic and I cannot for the life of me work out why it is called Logic. I have not got money to throw away, so that rules out ProTools.
It seems to me that for many users the first scent of a problem and they are complaining on the forum rather than doing a little trouble-shooting into this problem and learning more about the software they rely upon. No one forces you to use Cubase in the same way that no one forces you to buy a guitar. All that can be realistically expected from the use of either is that we learn how to play/use it and rise above each of their individual foibles. I find it difficult to understand users who feel that this is all some underhand plot by Steinberg to exploit us for as much cash as they can. I just want Steinberg to survive.