Can Mac users who were having GUI issues before please comment on 9.5?

adc · November 22, 2017, 8:29pm

Fabio Bartolini:

tmtm:

Hi Fabio,

Can you tell us a little bit about what it exactly was that needed fixing? Was it something Apple changed in OSX or were the issues more related to the Cubase code itself? If you don’t have time to explain all this, thats perfectly fine, I’m just interested in this stuff, that’s all

Thanks.

I actually don’t know how deep I can delve this, I could fill a hundred pages and still I’m pretty sure I know only a little… Is it good enough to say ‘a bit of everything’?

More seriously and being very brief, Pro 9 introduced some inefficiencies that caused excessive redrawing and UI refresh (MixConsole, Events high-light, waveforms) and needed correction. These affected Windows too, although less common in general and in fact not noticeable on most systems.
Said inefficiencies did not justify the slowness some Mac users reported (and I saw quite a few of these remotely). Something in OS X indeed changed too, we curiously have several reports of C9 running fine on the same Macs and 10.9, which is not even supported, but I can’t say we found anything ‘wrong’ in OS X, too. Almost esoteric. It is still unclear why it was so severe on some systems.

The bright side is that this triggered extensive research,implementing a new framework, improvements and fixes and there’s a lot of stuff done and ready for testing.

I’ll add some links to more detailed discussions on the forum (apart from the ‘big sticky thread’, which I’m sure you’re familiar with), a few aspects mentioned above have actually been discussed at length.

@James, Evertone, In_Stereo: thanks a lot, that’s great to read.

Well I’m very glad this is being addressed Fabio, thanks.