All joking aside, this -is- a drag. Like it or not, the world has gone EDM and if you do electronica of any kind you GOTTA be able to -easily- and -precisely- draw complex patterns.
I’ve been struggling (literally) for months with a vocoder effect in Reaktor where I want to modulate a formant filter to make various ‘syllables’ really POP on certain bars/beats.
What I -want- should be easy as pie: imagine a sine wave pattern that is itself modulated by a square wave.
Now… try -drawing- that in Cubase. Can it be done? Sure. You can also break out of Shawshank in 19 years.
Electronica lives and dies by creating complex automation like this and without precise drawing tools it’s a total pain. You can have all the new synths in the world, but good automation is what makes it -interesting-.