Congratulations team Steinberg on 40 Amazing Years!

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On multiple occasions I’ve mentioned that I’m a huge Steinberg fan. Since the time I started using Cubase and then upgraded to Nuendo, I’ve hardly felt comfortable in any other DAW, despite having to use most of them due to professional setups. Getting to know the journey of Charlie Steinberg and Manfred Reurup is so inspiring! Anniversary Interview with Co-Founders of Steinberg | Steinberg

Having a musician as a co-founder to try out the products & share feedback, along with smart developers who would translate ideas into tangible tools — what a perfect setup! Plus VST really made a huge upgrade to the audio industry, making audio plugins a sub-industry of its own.

This story is for every single music tech enthusiast. 2 quotes from Charlie Steinberg that can sum up the AI world in some way as well:

  1. “As I mentioned, computer music started out with text input, imagine that.”
  2. “Creativity is something more cultural than technological”

Congratulations Team Steinberg on 40 superb years!

PS: Seeing lua scripting in Dorico, I have a hunch that it would also be coming to Cubase & Nuendo. Really hope this comes true :slight_smile:

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Great interview!

Nice to see the Pro24 GUI again which I only saw in monochrome ( but pretty hi res!) on an Atari 1040 ST. When Cubase came out I jumped on that and added a Timecode interface , a Steinberg D-A converter ( for sample editing in Avalon… had to transfer samples back and forth from the sampler via MIDI! S_L_O_W ) .

Then the CBX -D5 was irresistible ( couldn’t afford ProTools ) and it did very well for us in conjunction with MIDI for some fairly involved film post production work. We ended up running two CBX’s for 8 tracks of audio synced to video tape and got away with it

The early years of VST were less than promising, but when (eventually) audio interfaces / and drive performance got their act together there was no turning back.

What we have now is mind blowing from my perspective - perhaps too much? But that’s for another topic. :wink:

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Yeah, I’m becoming a fan, really liking Cubasis 3 on my ipad… so good.