A Wishful Whim driven by nostalgia

Cubase
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This idea is based purely on a wishful whim driven by nostalgia.

Ive been a cubase user since the days of the Atari ST, which cubase was originally written for to run natively.

Ive noticed a huge ressurgence lately or 3rd party engineers and software devs producing new Atari 1024 st computers using modern hardware and bespoke chips etc, much like the commodore amiga revival.

In my fantasy world I would love yamaha and steinberg to create a new Atari PC, built specifically to run cubase natively. The hardware could be produced with enough power to rival AMD and Intel cpus. Boards can be made to use conventional ram and storage mediums.

A simple computer built purely to run steinberg products. I would imagine the OS devs for such a pc could write code to allow the use of vst or a prefered plugin format.

anyways, away with might little fantasy. but thoughts woiuld be welcome

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Wouldn’t it be nice!

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So you would want to have that run Cubase as it was back then, as a pure MIDI sequencer, on a tiny screen? Or as it is today, with it’s massive capabilities but high requirements? In which case, I don’t understand it really, what would be the advantage? (apart from the obvious disadvantages, like most likely a higher price due to being a niche product, or the all the technical problems (if not impossibilities)).

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Like Apple?

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Although a niche thing there are a few using OctaMED on Amigas to run old hardware. Especially the Drum & Bass/ Jungle producers. I think to make something new would be more of a boutique thing.

Edit: He also uses old Cubase on the vid.

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And 16 bit as well!