sometimes, i wish i just could sit in front of some CEO, like Steinberg, Sony, etc, and ask them “why aren’t you doing this and this and this, goddamit???”
Steinberg is the inventor of the VST standard. they should be AHEAD of the competition, by a huge margin, in most domains.
Just like Apple didn’t want to support Flash, in order not to be dependent on someone or something they don’t master at 100%,
Protools and their AAX standard, they want to get rid of the vst format.
Apple, they give a huge F uck you to all pc users (if we don’t buy any apple product, then, we can go f uck ourselves, they don’t have the smallest consideration for us, as humans, as consumers), and they do their Logic X for apple only. ok, you want logic X ? get a mac, or go f uck yourself. this is the message from apple to all people, all companies, and devs, who strived to code their apps to OSX. you don’t have a mac device, you don’t want to be another indoctrinated enslaved person, who will need to buy all the apple devices and ecosystem, so everything works ? no mac, no Logic X. and f uck yourself and your vst standard, from now on, it’s audio units for everybody, or nothing at all.
what is the next big company to stop supporting the vst standard ?
i am doing a .doc document, i’m close to almost 100 ideas for cubase, to improve its interface, functions, features, important missing features, etc. and i don’t use and watch other daws, so i don’t copy anything i’ve see somewhere.
there are just sooo many things Steinberg could do.
tons of people are already using 1440p monitors, after ditching the 2 or 3-monitor setup, and keep just one. next step, is 4k.
i would like to sit in front of Steinberg devs and CEO, and ask them:
“what are you waiting for, to make Cubase Scallable-resizable, so people can use cubase on their 1440p or 4k monitors, without using a magnifying glass? have you noticed that 1440p on a 27” monitor, or 4k on a 28-32" monitor, cubase stops being usable, as all captions, all windows, are as small as a postal stamp ?"
Steinberg, if you read this, what are you waiting for, to allow cubase users to resize their windows, their plugin windows, so everything is nice and visible, on the screen ? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ?
if i WERE STEINBERG, i would evolve the VST 3.5 standard, to 4 or bigger, and would INVENT a new GUI for plugins.
DEVELOPERS, plugin makers, they would make a standard plugin GUI, with nice textures, etc, to please the eyes, and EMBEDDED on the plugin, they would make a VECTOR version of the plugin, with simple vectorized buttons, faders, displays, captions.
THEN, THE VST 4 standard, WOULD HANDLE THAT, and as a result, CUBASE USERS would BE ABLE to build a quick and SIMPLE GUI for this or that plugin-instrument, with vectorized components that STEINBERG WOULD PROVIDE.
ex:, a bunch of knobs and different colors, a bunch of faders, a bunch of leds, a bunch of displays, a bunch of text areas, etc, ALL with plenty of colors available as starting ideas, but users could customize, if they want a black background on the main GUI, with some red faders and green knowbs, at 50, 100-200 pixels big, WELL, THEY COULD DO IT.
DEVELOPERS WOULD ALSO create some VECTORIZED components for their plugin-instrument, that people could then use, customize, or use other knobs, sliders, etc, from STEINBERG or other plugin makers.
THIS WAY, IF I WANT TO USE a, say, cubase compressor, with its standard GUI, i can.
IF I WANT TO QUICKLY CREATE a VECTORIZED GUI, put some colorized knobs, use a different font, and use a texture as background color-texture, I COULD DO IT.
and BECAUSE IT WOULD BE VECTORIZED, I COULD USE A 4K MONITOR, AND MAKE MY PLUGIN WINDOWS 300-500-1000 pixels BIG, TO FIT MY NEEDS.
MORE AND MORE PEOPLE will use 1440p - 4K - dual-triple 4K monitor setups, in the future. BUT NOT IN 25 years. NO.
YESTEDAY, TODAY and TOMORROW, PEOPLE are already doing it.
STEINBERG, you NEED TO MAKE A NEW VST 4.0 STANDARD, and MAKE THIS VECTOR FEATURE, for all vst plugins and instruments.
i feel like flying to GERMANY, to STeinberg HQ, going straight to their directors-ceo-chiefs MEETING, grabbing a CHAIR, and telling them THIS I JUST WROTE.
AGAIN, STEINBERG (i know, using capital letters is not nice), WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, to upgrade your VST standard to 4.0 or above, and integrate this VECTOR thing i just described ? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ?
DO YOU WANT TO START LOSING CUSTOMERS BECAUSE THEY HAVE FOUND A DAW THAT ALLOWS SCALLING THE INTERFACE AND MAKING THE PLUGINS-INSTRUMENTS GUI BIGGER, and therefore, USABLE, unlike CUBASE, where everything is so small, and 1440p or 4k monitors, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO WORK AND SEE WHAT’S ON THE SCREEN ?
DAMN, STEINBERG, you have invented the VST, you almost invented music composition on a computer. you SHOULD be having ideas and creating news things that THE COMPETITION will only do in 5 or 10 years.
you OWN the VST standard, you can ADD and IMPROVE THINGS WHENEVER YOU WANT.
¨WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ?
do you want me to send you an email, explaining how this vector thing should work ?
do you want me to explain you how this “DOUBLE” interface DEVS would be doing, wouldn’t change a thing, if ONE DON’T WANT TO CHANGE A THING, but for those who would like to create a BIGGER PLUGIN WINDOW-GUI for their plugin-plugins, with simple VECTORIZED knobs and sliders and other components, THEN, PEOPLE WOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT.
JUST THINK ABOUT THIS FEATURE:
imagine a DJ, who is performing live.
instead of having cubase running, or a VSTHOST, with a small tiny window, that he is controlling during his live SET,
the DJ could MAKE a nice LIGHT INTERFACE for, SAY, RETROLOGUE, with a black backgroud, and only 4 or 5 knobs and sliders HE IS GOING TO NEED AND USE, he could then maximize that window he build, and on the screen, instead of having a RETROLOGUE classic GUI, with tons of knobs, sliders, etc, HE WOULD HAVE a BIG WINDOW, with only the 4 or 5 components from Retrologue that is is going to use, and those vectorized components could easily be midi-mapped, for an even faster workflow.
he could build 2 or 3 interfaces for Retrologue, 1 with cutoff, resonance, volume, modulation 1 and 2 values, that he would save as a GUI preset. then, he could have a second GUI preset, this time, he has only an Oscillator type knob, a LFO1 modulation knob, and 4 filter knobs (ADSR). big yellow knobs, texts in red, values in blue, and background color in dark grey.
STEINBERG, IF YOU READ THIS, this isn’t bashing you or whatever.
this is a message to make you REALIZE you CAN DO FANTASTIC THINGS FOR CUBASE-NUENDO users, BUT YOU DON’T DO ANYTHING, or little.
I have invested in cubase sx 1, 2, 3. then, i bought cubase 7, 7.5 and now pro 8. i bought reason 7, in december 2013, but barely use it, because i find proppeler… rack extension business model a real shame.
I, just like tens thousands others, WE WANT cubase to be THE BEST DAW, with more and more useful features on each version, features that no other daw has.
again, i wish i could be in one of your meetings, and talk, as a user, as someone who sees cubase from a different angle than you.
yesterday, i received a poll, on my email. about what i think about plugins, etc, and which things i would like to see.
i started doing it, i wrote several pages with ideas and complaints, but after 2 hours, i closed the whole window and stopped. you know why ? because i am sure pretty much nobody will ever read all those ideas and comments on that poll. datamining apps will analyse everything a create fantastic excel graphs, but all the ideas, suggestions, etc, nobody will read it, and if they read it, no way dozens thousands of suggestions and complaints will be taken into account.
there are hundreds of things that cubase could have, from complex to simple features, that would certainly help people.
for example, i wish i had a big button on the top, some kind of red cross, like the “delete” icon on windows 8 explorer, or any other icon, where could simply drag and drop something on it, to delete an element.
ex, if i want to delete an event, some midi data, or any other elements, i need so select them, right click, delete. or select, right click, contextuel menu, choose eraser tool, aim and click on the elements i want to delete.
or i can select some items, than, with my left hand, i click on my keyboard and use the “delete” shortcut"
MAN, it would be SO SO SIMPLE, if i could simply drag any element, to the top, under the main menu, over a “delete” icon, and by dragging and dropping the different elements on that icon, it would automatically perform a “delete”. no contextual menus, shortcuts, sub menus, left clicks, right clicks, etc, to delete a simple element:
just drag it and drop it on an icon on the top of the window.
i am sure 90% of cubase users would use and like such feature. it would be just soooo great and fast, to delete elements, just using the mouse and dragging those elements over that delete icon.
CAN YOU DO IT, STEINBERG ?
i have like +100 ideas like this, and could easily reach 200, 300, 500 ideas. if only steinberg would listen.
DAMN, i want cubase to be even more perfect. is there a problem with it ?
will i get banned for my big comment ?
will anyone from Steinberg even read my comment, and i mean someone who actually decides, chooses which features should be or not, on x version, or actually codes… ? my comment… and all the others, the tons of ideas people submit…