I, for one, don’t want them to rush Cubase 13 or Nuendo 13. I’d rather Steinberg take this opportunity of the “reset” of their sales schedule, to get on really solid footing with a killer version 13 with a complete focus on core feature and workflow and totally rock solid reliability.
I know they need revenue, but the old yearly cycle was not optimal IMO, and some features in past years would not get as much love as they really needed before release, and Steinberg would have to spend too much time bringing them up to production level later on. I’d rather they spend the time to solidify everything BEFORE release this time.
And honestly, who wants their DAW to be in a “feature-race” with other DAWs? That just makes for sloppy work and poor design for everything. I’m happy that Fender hasn’t dismantled Studio One’s team and they are still creating pretty good software, and I’m happy that Avid now has 500,000 subscribers, good for them. But it sure would be great if a DAW maker just focused on quality, quality, quality. Instead of rush rush rush, more, more more, cloud, cloud, cloud, crap, crap, crap, subscription, subscription, subscription.
Anyway, I get Steinberg has to make money. But with the new licensing system behind them now, maybe just focus on core features, make them bullet-proof, and for godsakes, please give us true RIPPLE EDITING after all these years. And please, no one tell me how they already do ripple editing right now. I know all the tricks. We need TRUE ripple editing. Not workarounds.
And for those Cubase users that think there’s a DAW race going on, and you think your music is better with more more more features, the problem is NOT the DAW. It’s the skill and talent of the operator. More creative music was made in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s with 8- or 16-track reel-to-reel machines, a few outboard effects boxes, and some great musicianship and real creativity than the vast majority of the crap produced today. All the modern DAWs are enough to make a masterpiece.
But nowadays, every DAW has to hold your hands with music theory, endless plugins, beatmaking tools, pitch correction, performance correction, correction this, correction that, AI crap, and a million other things to compensate for people’s actual SKILL, and that’s fine for those that want it, and I’m not trying to be an old grouch about it, but how about a solid, consistent, robust, set of core tools that works great, loads fast, looks good, is intuitive and doesn’t have glaring bugs? That’s the Cubase 13 I want. And I hope they’re building it. No offense to anyone who doesn’t know a G major chord from a G string.
And again, for all that is holy in the Universe, can we PLEASE get real, perfectly executed ripple editing? I’ll pay a $200 upgrade fee just for that in Cubase. And a $350 upgrade fee for my Nuendo license too.
Cheers and again, no offense intended.
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