Congrats to the Steinberg team for this release! While I’m disappointed (but not surprised) that ripple editing didn’t make it into this release this year once again, I’m still happy to see so much good effort put into workflow issues. Workflow is king IMO, and Steinberg spent some good resources on important workflow issues, so I have upgraded out of respect for that, not to mention it will help save time on projects.
The improvements to the video engine are also welcome, thank you for that.
However, the lack of ripple editing as well as the lack of improvements to expression maps are two areas that I really hope Steinberg will spend time on ASAP. It’s about time, Steinberg. These two features are becoming issues for me, personally. And I don’t want those issues to become dealbreakers for me, but I’m tired of using other DAWs for ripple editing (I’ve discussed ripple editing for years and years in other threads so I’ll leave it there), and now that Dorico is part of the Steinberg family, you guys really need to sit down together at a relaxing retreat in some beautiful resort town in the Bavarian Alps, and not leave until you have mapped out EXACTLY what you are going to do for expression maps.
We all know that Dorico is the future of the Cubase scoring and notation features, and both apps need to have a unified future-proof approach for expression maps. You guys need to SOLVE the articulation/expression map situation once and for all. Your brightest minds know what needs to be done deep in their hearts, and the accountants and marketing folks need to talk to Yamaha to get some extra funding if needed, so you can GET IT DONE and DO IT RIGHT. Yamaha has been an innovator for eons, and I hope you get them on board with money, and appeal to their sense of being a standard-bearer in the music industry to create a collaboration between the smartest people in your broad organization. Steinberg/Yamaha should lead the way on this with all its combined institutional knowledge on this topic. But so far… stagnation. So please solve this and bring Cubase into the future on expression maps, and don’t be shy to set the bar very high. Let’s do it! Come on, Steinberg!
And again, while you’re at it, don’t forget about ripple editing.
Other than that, congrats again on a solid workflow release!