7.5.20 Impressions...

Would love to know the majority advice on this.

Im currently on the previous update and very happily working away, I’m using cubase in a full time capacity so question is the update worth it or am i better not touching anything, if its not broke etc…?

Ask G-string :mrgreen:

Oh thank you iBM
Thank you for the kind welcome back from my months prison sentence :wink:

The question is Chris995 is there anything you need to update for ? As you say if it isn’t broken :wink:

First impression is Cubase runs smooth , graphics are ok , Asio doesn’t spike now , the control room still suffers with shite loads of latency issues , try it for yourself , disable the control room and everything is tighter , re-enable the control room and your forever fighting latency … I feel another Ban coming on :wink:

possibly unimportant to most, i am glad the new update fixes the “show channels connected to the first selected channel” command. this previously only displayed channels routed to and from a selected channel, but omitted any busses routed to via sends.

i am still waiting for ‘channel zapping’ using control+click to be restored. :confused:

if I install 7.5 as an update to 5 can I still use 5?

I have 6.5, 7 and 7.5 all installed as separate applications on my MBP. As well as many other members on this forum.

If you click on the first page of this topic you will notice other members are also running Cubase 5 to 7.5 all as seperate applications. I beleive the same goes for Mac and PC.

Cheers :slight_smile:

Hitpoints detection still inaccurate. No triplet grid in audio editor. No multitrack warping.

This one, yes… +1000

The video out bug is still here. I’ve been reporting it for a year now. Awful

Hello,

The problem with this “bug”, is that it is not consistent across all systems, some have it and some don’t.
It happens to me sometimes but only when I have left Cubase idle for a couple of hours, then I save the project and close Cubase.
Still we are making some tests and unfortunately we haven’t figured out what is causing it.
First we need to know what causes it and then we can fix it.
Do you have a step by step guide to reproduce it?

Best regards,
GN

Thanks for replying.
No, I don’t have a step by step guide, but it happens randomly. Sometimes closing a project, sometimes in the middle of a session, sometimes when idle for a while. Some users report to happen just in 64 bits. Anyway I think it is a major bug for this kind of software.

I have C5 - C7.5 all installed. No issues.

All I had to do with Reaper was download the White Tie Imperial Theme.

White Tie : Imperial - REAPER theme for large monitors

If only Cubase looked like that, genuinely thinking of jumping ship after seeing this.

LOL.
Imperial Theme? yes, it looks great.
But…
It´s ONLY the mixer (!) - incl. stupid tiny buttons!!, not scalable, problems with small flat screens, e.g. :unamused:
nevertheless:
Reaper´s menu´s, plugin windows, preferences, etc. etc. looks like Office Windows 95 GUI style (!)
very ugly. Sorry.

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Wow… Thx for the honesty. I don’t have this problem (Video not the honesty lol) but kudos on the transparency!

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No thanks. Having software look like the actual hardware for the sake of, well, looking like actual hardware can actually be counter-productive. There’s a word for this: (practically word-of-the-year for 2013, thanks to the iOS7 re-design) Skeumorphism.

comparisons:

offers a clear and well designed control surface, which makes for user-friendly operation.


Wikipedia:Arguments against skeuomorphism in digital design

The arguments against skeuomorphic design are that skeuomorphic interface elements use metaphors that are more difficult to operate and take up more screen space than standard interface elements, that this breaks operating system interface design standards, that it causes an inconsistent look and feel between applications,[13] that skeuomorphic interface elements rarely incorporate numeric input or feedback for accurately setting a value, that many users may have no experience with the original device being emulated, and that skeuomorphic design limits creativity by grounding the experience to physical counterparts.[14]

Apple Inc., while under the direction of Steve Jobs, was known for its wide usage of skeuomorphic designs in various applications. The debate over the merits of Apple’s extensive use of skeuomorphism became the subject of substantial media attention in October 2012, a year after Jobs’ death, largely as the result of the reported resignation of Scott Forstall, described as “the most vocal and high-ranking proponent of the visual design style favored by Mr. Jobs”. Apple designer Jonathan Ive, who took over some of Forstall’s responsibilities and had “made his distaste for the visual ornamentation in Apple’s mobile software known within the company”, was expected to move the company toward a less skeuomorphic aesthetic.[15] With the announcement of iOS 7 at WWDC, Apple officially shifted from skeuomorphism to a more simplified design, thus beginning the so-called “death of skeuomorphism.”[16]


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Yes, it’s very nice. As are a couple other themes (RADO is another one I’m using).

The problem is that it has zero hope of ever becoming “resolution independent” across Retina (and PC equivalents).

Not a big issue now for most of us, but it already affects Apple / Retina laptop users.

I’m glad to see Cubase taking these future-proofing steps toward a true, scalable, razor-sharp, resolution independent UI, but there are tradeoffs: growing pains.

A lot of the complaints about font sizes and clarity are likely a causality on a larger battle Steinberg is waging for us, behind the curtain.

I know it’s not an easy battle for them, as they used to be king of the pixel-perfect font thing (one of the reasons I gravitated toward earlier versions) – so their designers definitely “get it.”

Having the pixel-perfect, almost photo-realistic look and having resolution independence is really hard problem to solve.

Some get attracted by shiny things… :laughing:
I second your intention to jump ship!

I’ve this bug constantly on the mac 64bits… :confused: