Dear Steinberg,
A few hours into trying to mix a song on Cubase Pro 8 and several bad crashes later, here we are. I must say, man…that was the most bizarre and painful experience in a long time.
I guess I was really lucky with 7.5. Even the notorious “hang upon exit issue” would only creep up once in a while. That being said, 8 seems quite the opposite for me.
Let me say, that I really appreciate your attempt to streamline Cubase and to make it the leading DAW on the market, but for goodness sake, please give us a stable DAW.
Some of the GUI and Engineering aspects make me wonder if the designers and architects of Cubase ever use it in a real life situation.
For example: I was really stoked on render in place feature, as it is something I personally appreciate due to my work flow. Mixing today I find out that render in place only renders to Stereo Tracks, unless a mono track is routed to a mono out or the out is disabled?
So instead of clicking render in place, now we got to disable the output on the mono track, render in place, go back and enable the output of the original track rendered, just in case we want to later audition and tweak the track some more.
Mono files aren’t some sporadic occurrence in mixing, but make up the majority of the tracks in a mix session imho. At least live tracked music with drums, bass, guitars, vocals etc. Why not incorporate an option to render mono/stereo??
What’s up with the animated graphics when loading plugins and the mixer? Nobody cares for that. It is a waste of time and probably leeches unnecessarily on recourses. Make it snappy to load right away instead. Some of the other GUI aspects are a can of worms I don’t even want to touch.
After fighting blank plugin GUI-s, plugins not wanting to load (Sound Toys in particular Native v4) multiple crashes followed by a deck of error messages, in a session where CPu is barely peaking at 25%, I’ve decided to export all the tracks as a track archive into a new session. That has served as a work around in the past when faced with similar problems. Unfortunately this time it rendered the title bar of C8 useless. It was frozen and wouldn’t respond. Everything else worked fine.
So I decide to to go back to 7.5. Suddenly I notice this weird graphic bug in the inspector. See the pic attached. I figure it must be because of the multiple tabs expanded. In C8 you can scroll up and down. This is how it behaves when importing a C8 session into C7.5.
More crashes, more reboots. Suddenly my preferences on C7.5 are wiped out. Gone!!! Disappeared.
HAHAHAHHHAHA…Haahhahahahahah HAHAHAHA, Hahahahahaa…this is the sound of me being taken away by two men who just put a straight jacket on me.
Sincerely yours,
Beta tester for the latest paid professional Steinberg release
PS. Please don’t think that my intent is to troll on this forum. I have quite a few investments with Yamaha/Steinberg (Nuendo 4, Cubase 6 – 8, CC121, MR816, QC quick controller, to name a few) and in general like the innovative approach most of the stuff brings. But please, give us a stable platform. Please!!!