Why @Matthias_Quellmann new Cubase 14 have that absolytely ugly and ancient style and colour Preferences menu for Windows systems? You stated in Cubase 14 as a marketing advertisement that ‘‘New Cubase 14 is fully supporting Windows Dark and Light colour schemes’’ but Preferences still looks from 2000s era… Will this be improved and also switched to dark window colour?
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I made a whole topic about this problem:
I tested 14 trial yesterday. Menus in the top bar look much better now, imo, and Halion’s right click menus are also pleasant to look at, with the new dark menus. But the Pool window is still the same white window, and the right click menus of other VSTs like Retrologue and Padshop are still the same, as before.
It looks like they are trying, but there is still some way to go. I am mostly annoyed that they roll out a new version of Cubase so shortly after the sale of their previous version. Instead of just being decent and let us have the newest version on sale, which apparently already was so close to release and which clearly still suffers from so many bugs, from what I’ve read.
So how do you do the dark mode on cubase 14 pro on m1 max?
Couldn’t agree more!
We got ‘dark mode’, but the first thing we see (on windows 11) are gray boxes…and across the whole Cubase UI…complete and utter inconsistency! The new FX UI are totally inconsistent with the last generation. Just compare Maximiser, Raiser, imager with Shimmer and Studio Delay. Seriously…do Steinberg not have.a pattern library???
It all works great…but you guys win the crappy UI award of the year.
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How do you ACTUALLY turn on dark mode?
I imagine Steinberg are sat in a room patting themselves on the back. But maybe there is a guy in the corner saying ‘but what about all the stuff that we haven’t fixed yet’…and the marketing guys tell them to ‘shhhhhhh’
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If you are on Windows…it’s in Settings, Personalisation
My understanding…from browsing this forum over the past few days…I might be off on some details but I think it’s ‘generally’ accurate.
13 was released ‘late’ because the old ‘Software Store’ had issues (legal? Finacial?) and there was a mad rush of some sort to get those changes working. It resulted in some late releases. Nuendo 13 went out closer to when it normally would I think, but without the benefit of the Cubase level stuff making it to a 0.20 release or above first.
Things should be back on track now. Some time will pass before Nuendo 14 comes…but it will get recompiled a few times by then and released with an 0.20 or higher revised engine under the hood.
The time between releases should go back to something more normal/steady/predictable.
As for the Anniversary sale, that was gravy. I think they meant to do it earlier as well…but that old store falling apart shafted Steinberg, and to some degree, we users as well.
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I’m not sure what you mean. According to this website Steinberg Cubase - Wikipedia C13 was out November 2, 2023.
I only found out about this “schedule” a few days ago. If I knew there was a pattern of release dates every year, I would have postponed my C13 activation til later. Oh well, I guess we all have to pay to learn from our mistakes, eventually.
It happens. I buy things all the time that go on sale shortly after.
Many folks out there have picked up a habit of milking demo periods for all they are worth before activating keys. Sometimes that’s enough to get you into a ‘grace period’, but under normal circumstances, that wouldn’t be the case.
Had the old Software distributor Steinberg was using not run into trouble, this possible overlap would not have occurred. It would still cost you roughly $200 to jump ahead TWO complete versions (Going rate seems to be something like $99 full retail for each major version jump…discounts for ‘upgrades’ are pretty rare?).
Tech markets can burn pretty hard anytime we look back and second guess our decisions. Get that processor now, or wait a few months and get something from the next generation at a lower price point that performs the same or better…or see if the next gen drives the prices down on older stuff, etc.
It’s a sad reality. Every thing in my build considered…I could kick myself all day, every day, for a year that I didn’t just ‘wait a few weeks’ and do something different. I could have saved $130 for the same level of performance had I waited! Or, paid the same and gotten %30 better performance!
On and on it goes…
For me, the Anniversary sale didn’t mean much since I already have everything I really want anyway. I picked up WaveLab Pro for the heck of it because it was such a good deal, and I don’t mind sending Steinberg a little money since I ‘hope’ that they thrive. In theory, some money coming in should help them keep their best talent around, and perhaps afford to find and make use of even more talent (be it through direct employees, or contracts with third parties).
COVID related inflation is still kicking the world pretty hard. It’s hard on consumers, but it’s been hard on producers too. I can still get along fine with Cubase 11! I simply choose to set aside a little money to support these rock-star developers. If they can’t show a little profit margin for their efforts, then investors who put the ‘money’ up front to develop this stuff will go away.
So yeah, if I were trying hard to keep a studio on the bleeding edge with a tight budget, I’d feel BURNED too.
Instead, I look at this way…
I don’t try to implement the latest version right away. Some years I might be two versions behind on the main ‘working’ rig!
If I can afford it, I go ahead and buy the upgrades as they come out. I pull the system drive and prepare a brand new one to test out the ‘latest and greatest’. Once I’m happy with how that works (if it takes a while, who cares?) I shift over to using it full time, and then start another ‘test lab’ system drive to piddle with newer stuff again.
Some years I can’t afford to jump on every paid upgrade out there right away. No big deal. I just wait until I can.
System Drive swaps make it easy for me to test out the entire rig before I commit to using things. Granted it’s easy enough to install many versions of Cubase on the same setup and bounce around as needed…but managing the state/version of all the plugins and drivers can get crazy pretty quickly.
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Ohhhh so its not a mac thing?
Your reply was like a cure 
I appreciate it. I might edit my post later to add more.
It never was.