2000-2005 was the wild west days of the internet. Cubase cracks n warez, a guaranteed spicy forum sometimes out of control, and not a day went by when someone didn’t ask where that damn button is to convert midi to audio. Oh, and how to make a Van Halen Jump patch too.
We pleaded and begged Steinberg to give us multiple undos. They did just that with CubaseSX, but we lost the fabulous Cubase-Wavelab integration because of it.
We laughed at Steinbergs Neon because there was Reaktor had just been released.
Waves ruled…if you could afford the Native Power Pack. Otherwise use Freeverb and suffer through the basic bad Steinberg effects, although Free Filter was intriguing.