Thank you guys for great responses. I just received a first message from Steinberg sending me link for Demo download. Rather poor joke! I do not even know who is sending it (no signature) so I consider it’s a SPAM.
From your opinions Cubase doesn’t seem to look so bright as it is presented online in many videos. I haven’t make any decissions yet, because I need to test it more. So far the two major turn off’s are:
- poor support
- scaling and customization problems
I’m not sure if I can liv with that or not. When you mentioned a bug reported on the Forum, were you refering to the INSPECTOR which is non-resizable ? Also in this inspector are some fonts and suuuuspe-tiny icons which really suck, because I have to stick my nose to the screen to read it.
When one deisgns the interface thefonts which supposed to be readable (ie. those who are being red several times a day) should not differ in size more than 20%. In Cubase the differences are more than 50% which shows that the GUI designer is lacking basic skills and knowledge. IT was all OK 15 years ago with HD monitors but not anymore.
One best decission Abelton made was converting LIVE into fully vector based GUI.
Thereis VERY BAD TREND in GUI design started years ago by Aple where fonts are designed to be light color on LIGHT BACKGROUND. For the graphical web pages it looks nice and cool, but for the desktop GUI it is very stupid idea and whoever uses this philosophy (trend) should be simply fired.
Developers have no clue and experience on software usability. They do what they think is god, but not what users want and often nobody does any surveys to research what works the best. For many word CONTRAST seem not to exist. Obviously with low contrast eyes get tired much quicker. When you have low contrast and add small objects, you have a perfect equation for disaster (read FRUSTRATION).