You are correct… the jogwheel has indeed gone from the Transport Bar (I guess one baby got thrown out with the bathwater! ). However, the Key Commands (and corresponding Generic Remote options) are still there and working.
One possibly important observation as regards the Generic Remote and the Transport Controls…
There’s a new GRD command for “sync Punch to Cycle”. It is placed in the middle of the transport GRD commands… and therefore all further GRD Transport commands are offset by 1 (so if you use the GRD for Transport, you should double-check that you don’t need to edit the settings, to compensate )
Im not spending $80AUD to get more bug’s and pay for 1 or 2 fixes that I should of gotten for free for v8. I have no need for most of the new features of 8.5. I only reinstalled v8 2 weeks ago after a PC crash. If this upgraded my version of 8 to 8.5 I might think about it. But installing side by side with v8 is crap(size limited SSD) and im not messing around reinstalling everything again.
I can pay $100 AUD and get protool’s 12 and free upgrades.
Still heaps of bugs and no fixes to the main v8 bugs. Im seriously loosing faith. WTF SB!!!
Could anybody post a screenshot of the Key Editor in a track with a Drum Map to see how it blends (piano keys with map names)? This is one major point to me before buying, believe it or not. Thanks.
After a day of working in it it’s become more of a PITA to me.
Tiny buttons to open fx on the insert list, when you’re using narrow track lanes as I do. Now I’ve got to spend more time fiddling around to hit the exact spot(Just like when trying to set the L and R in the pan section to Mono, can we have a mono button already?). The hover buttons at the side actually worked just fine.
Crap looking Crosshair on the ruler, what’s that all about and the floating white line that appers when hovering over… this just doesn’t look good at all IMO.
New bug introduced causing control room to hide track furthest to left in the left zone of the mixer, basically the stereo output channel keeps getting hidden intermittently, pretty bad.
Feels like a step back in some ways but I’ll just adapt as usual.
I’m sure Steinberg have all the bugs fixed and just F up the program and release it, they’re sitting there laughing ‘We’ll just create the problems and ‘fix’ them over time’ … someone should do a risitas video of this.
Not used it extensively yet but I really don’t like the cross hair on the ruler at all. I would prefer a highlighter line.
I do however think the import track feature is a god send when wishing to work on smaller detailed sections in a cleaner, new project.
EDIT
Oh there’s my first crash on a simple midi project using PLAY east west orchestra
I also don’t like the cross hair on the ruler. But for me Cubase 8.5 is running very fine (and the installer took all my configurations and preferences from Cubase 8)
The VST Performance meter is mostly around 50% or less at all buffers… Is that the performance improvements they were talking about? Overall 8.5 is an amazing DAW. Reading the operation manual I see a lot of advanced features
some I might never use but others might use. Cubase is extremely advanced
I Like everything I’ve tried so far.
The edge of screen check box pop ups are nice but should be on a timer or mouse over focus.
If you don’t click on it after a few seconds it should auto retract.
Having to click somewhere else to make it retract is definitely annoying.
Yes Microsoft did.
That was due to the fundamental disconnect with what users wanted when they crafted their redesign.
Dumb dumb and dumber it was.
A tablet os (windoze 8) on the desktop was dumb. That’s also why Microsoft fired so many people…
In my option they should have gone further and also removed their fingers so they could never touch a computer again! (Too harsh… Nah!)
If I woke one morning to find Cubase had changed for the much worse, like what happened with win8 debacle…
Then I would expect a compensatory (free) version update. Not quite the same case here.
Cubase is still rockin and getting better all the time ~ though at some point they really do have to address the long-term bugs that are getting carried forward from version to version.
Crap looking Crosshair on the ruler, what’s that all about and the floating white line that appers when hovering over… this just doesn’t look good at all IMO.
Yep…what’s the point of that? Don’t like it (maybe I need to read the new manual).
The rest is fine,great update.
I removed 8.0.3 before the install and everything worked perfect and C8.5 roll back all my preferences correctly!
What I still miss is more cc’s for generic control (filters,gain & filter types in eq) and control panel improvements.
(sorry about my english)
Cubase 8.5 on El Capitan is very slow response. everything feel heavy.
And I do not think that the cause of my computer (My computer is top of the line setting iMac late 2015 4 GHz Intel Core i7, 32 GB ram, AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4GB).
compared with my slower macbook pro with Yosemite, the cubase 8.5 is very faster in every way.
i wish it will be better on the next minor update soon.
). However, the Key Commands (and corresponding Generic Remote options) are still there and working.
