I personally find it extremely frustrating and annoying beyond any reason that I have to “hunt” for the bar every few seconds when I’m working with the manager, especially since it’s so thin and requires a little bit of precision to grab (like everything else in Cubase)
Does anyone know what is the reasoning behind it? Is there a way it’s supposed to make the workflow better? Is it saving some prescious space for something else? Am I missing something?
A scroll wheel on your mouse? 
p.s. I’m only half joking. I find working without a (real or virtual) mouse wheel on a modern computer very frustrating. And when having to use a touch pad, I always enable two finger swiping as a scrolling gesture.
Doing that spares me the frustration of having to get involved in the battle with hiding scroll bars.
I find these disappearing scroll bars extremely annoying throughout Cubase. In the inspectors, there’s often not even a need for a scroll bar, but they’ve shoved one of these things in just for the hell of it.
They should stick to OS built in controls, but we’re shouting at walls.
Disappearing scroll bars is a modern UI disease, it’s not just Cubase, unfortunately. I guess they don’t teach about affordances in UI school anymore 
Is this still a problem in C14?
Here’s my penny’s worth:
I’m finding the Cubase GUI increasingly frustrating to use with each so-called ‘upgrade’. The font size, the font clarity, the colour scheme, the lack of differentiation between areas, the cramped working environment, the insistence on far too much information being presented at one time, the inability to set up truly personalised working spaces, the overall darkness of the underlying schemes and, of course, the disappearing scroll bars!
I’ve a 32" monitor and STILL I have to squint at the interface, actively search for certain areas I need to work with, and ensure I’m inside an active window before scrolling because it remains abysmally unclear.
I know there’ll be the Cubase fan-boys out there who won’t have a thing said against the tool - and will make excuse after excuse for Steinberg - but I’ve been using it since the Pro 12 days on the Atari and, while I still rate it highly as one of the best tools out there, I have twice almost moved away from it solely because of this worsening of the GUI.
To be honest, the only reason I’ve never been a fan of Halion is because of the GUI … and I’ve spent small fortunes on third-party plugins simply because they more closely represent what a musician wants from a creative environment. Halion is not musician-friendly, IMHO: it’s like a science lab for a mad coder, IMHO!
The Cubase workspace is fast-becoming a laboratory to be used and explored by specialists, whereas many of their competitors are actively making their software appeal to ‘creatives’, as opposed to tech nerds.
I think Steinberg could vastly increase Cubase’s market share if it threw away the hubris and intransigence and, instead, actively listened to its users on improving the GUI. Now THAT is something I would willingly pay for.
