Although Cubase has integrated many features like audiowarp and variaudio. The ARA compatibility can make Cubase a studio-friend DAW, because some engineer and producer has get used to Melodyne and Autotune.
Q1 means 1st quarter, literally breaking the 12 months of the calendar year into 4 quarters of 3 months each. The last day of the first quarter is March 31st. The new version will be part of Cubase 10 Pro. It will likely be the next minor release. It will certainly be free for Cubase 10 Pro users.
Looks like there are levels of ARA integration into the DAW.
Read that Studio One is better or more fully integrated with ARA than Reaper.
Personally I’ve been waiting for a long time for ARA in Cubase that any less than full functionality will be a big disappointment.
I’m very disappointed in steinberg lying so often.
ARA integration is the main reason I upgraded to Cubase 10,
and it’s not even implemented yet.
Steinberg got a lot of customers by lying that there’s ARA in cubase 10.
I asked specifically in pre-sales section of the forum if there’s ARA in cubase 10 and was told “yes”,
upgraded to c10 and here I am waiting for ARA for months.