After many years using Cubase as primary it has become clear to me that unless I want to take part in unofficial Beta testing…never jump onboard a major release until at least 12 months have passed.(including point 5 versions)
These paid releases are essential for Steinberg to survive financially, but they will regretfully always contain all sorts of issues to begin with.
Why is this happening? I think it has to do with sales and marketing. And I guess development teams too, it much more fun doing new cool features than clean-up some eases mess-up. This time Apple has fucked up with removing GUI components. And I think Steinberg uses third party software for getting their GUI to work on both OSX and MSWindows. If this third party is not ready with the quality needed for DAW, Steinberg wont either be ready. But they dont have much options. But there are more technical problem with 10.5 than can be explained by GUI changes.
But I agree that is not ready yet and I get the feeling that Steinberg now see this as solved.
Rock solid for me. Running 10.5.12 for 12 hours every day. No show stoppers. Some issues, like sampler file track location errors, but show me a DAW that’s perfect?!
Some smaller project is working fine. Some bigger and cubase become very sluggish. Audio seems to flow, but frame rate is about 1hz. And it is not that high cpu load, Intel meter says about 24-30%, and cubase uses about 12 GB so there is no resource that is running out. But it is hard to get a easy way to reproduce it, and it most likely also require some external pluggins. And it seems that it is really hard for plugin vendors to get their VST3 to work properly.