Ok, well yeah there a many possibilities. I use FL studio for beatmaking and Cubase for the rest of the process but my experience is that Cubase is leader in the market in term of capabilities. the life time free update of FL studio is a winner also, but its a drag to mix something on there. Cubase now is stealing/using ideas of other DAW’s which i think is very smart. Maybe its time for Steinberg to look at image line how they make use of their user community and build on that.
They can start fixing the portico plugin issue and give it free to people that already have a license and a big discount when it drops. (With oversampling please)
The update is dirt cheap. A lot of you would have totally freaked out over the cost of tape and an engineer to keep everything in sync back in the day.
Cheap or not, some like to get value for their money. And that “value” is different for all of us.
I shall upgrade in the summer sales, if any, then use the grace period, if any to get Cubase 16.
I’ve paid for every update/upgrade since Cubase 8.5 and that is still less money than just the 2” tape for a few songs even back in the day. If cost is such an issue I suggest Reaper.
x2 Googly. I skip an update now, as they’ve been disappointing [for me/ my workflow] the last few years. I love Cubase, but I’m using other tools more & more & those tools make much more sense than what Steinberg are shoe-horning into Cubase of late.
Maybe some of the ‘improvements’ don’t impinge on your workflow, but there are plenty of long-term customers out there that can’t take advantage of the new features because things are broken/ need fixing. I can use Cubase 5 to get things done- so what? It’s not about that, it’s about the cash-grab/ forced subscription-model Steinberg is forcing upon us, whilst not listening to us. That’s why I’m here- this forum is about Steinberg’s software [spec. Cubase 15], not a platform for us to act superior to anybody else.
I use most of the very welcome new functionality of versions 13-15 without any problems, and if Steinberg didn’t listen to you, they certainly listened to many others! And if you are an electronic musician, as you say, I wonder all the more, how some great new functions are not for you.
It also is just plain bs to talk of a forced subscription model, and much of your unspecific ranting sounds like some grumpy old man in bad mood at best.
I can appreciate concrete and constructive criticism, but a certain kind of entitled and condescending blame game attitude isn’t worth much to me and to many others.
I mean if you’re coming back to a thread that’s been dead for a couple weeks just to cherry pick quotes to start arguing about, its nothing but ‘grumpy old man with no life’ syndrome.
Then I guess we’re both guilty of that. I’m happy someone’s getting some use out of the ‘improvements’- I’m not. You’re making this personal, which it isn’t.
“Yeah because music itself has advanced so much, its no longer the same old crap recycled over and over for 100 years..
What exactly do you think is going to come from some magic update? Some new form of expression or what? If DAWs by this point don’t have the ‘tools’ you need to simply make music, either pick a new DAW or pick a new field to play in cause audio isnt for you. Anything not already included in the box comes from your ability and talent, get off the crutches and learn to be creative.” THAT sounds like grumpy old man syndrome!
