Guilty as charged.
I’ve seen so many of these “I’m leaving” posts over the years that I rarely take the time to read them any more. I just skimmed the thread.
Full disclosure, I wish Steinberg would return the “Export Audio” back to a hot button so I can hit enter for exporting many audio tracks during mastering sessions. It used to be there. We lost that ability a long time ago, I think Cubase SX.
THAT omission really did slow down some of my workflow.
Anyway. Onward 
The grass isn’t always greener on the other side.
In the grand scheme of things, focus is a small thing. I can think of dozens of improvements that are more important to me.
However, since the OP mentioned this, I also like to mention focus issues so if anyone has any ideas, shortcuts, macros it might be beneficial.
100% correct. I worked with all sorts of programs, and they all had their flaws, crashes, burned and died.
At the moment, I am maybe in the minority, but I am really enjoying Cubase (on 11)
-Audio editor always opens far too zoomed in and often at the very end of the sample. I need to then spin my scroll wheel and orientate myself. Extra friction I don’t need,.
This one drives me nuts. Anybody have ideas for a workaround?
No more work arounds! Demand change!
Reason i left ? Completely unreliable going from update to update . That’s it , no other reason !
You left?
Left Chicago
I use this setting
and never have the sensation of being desorientated. However, the zoom setting is then always the entire event and you might have to zoom in manually.
Same.
i always use the mousewheel and the keys Ctrl or Shift to scroll fast.
CRTL = zoom in and out via the mousewheel when you push Ctrl while scrolling.
SHIFT + mousewheel moves to the right and the left, and the mousewheel alone is up and down.
Sigh, except that doesn’t work where it matters most: in the lower zone mix console.
Ah indeed, i was writting about the sections where we write notes.
Well, I learned something new today after all these years…
I just recently replaced my MX Master 3 mouse with a Logitech MX Ergo trackball, and the one thing I am REALLY missing from the Master 3 is the little thumb wheel for side scrolling! I’ve been using the mouse wheel to jump left and right but that thing really JUMPS. Now I can go back to smooth scrolling left and right in the arrangement!!!
Yes, many different mouses.
I use just a simple mouse from trust.
Good luck.
@Erik8, Hat’s off to you for keeping your legacy hardware alive for so long. I used to have a stack of MacBooks for the sake of revisiting old projects. I still have at least two partitions on my newer laptops for the sake of moving forward without letting go of the past. It just got too hard to keep that old gear alive. These days it’s “eyes forward”. If anything I’m working on seems especially precious I just export stems every which way. But that old software sure was perdy 
Thanks stevont, in 2004 i used a pentium 4 and 4 GB with Cubase SX, and on my old laptop, i can use it whit a dongle, memory is full with track 4.
But that old laptop is from 2009, and is slow.
That is why i can use that for fun today.
And i planned a new system when it is over with the old hardware, and calculate is so that i can use it for the next 10 years, i hope.
My previous PC, the harddrive was just like the DVD player defect.
after 9 years, that is normal.
I know then that the processor, an i7 from the year 2009, in Windows 11 no longer works.
So i have no enough RAM en processor speed to use Cubase 13 full.
In the year 2004, my PC with 4GB and that pentium 4 processor, had a limit reached sometimes, by the many sounds tracks with the many effects.
So this year i build my system, with i9 32GB RAM.
And a creative soundcard.
So planning, i think as you want to buy or build a computer, and choose a OS, in that market is Microsoft a big boss just like Apple, and now the Linux kernel in phones to.
And old software sometimes can still work, in 1996, when i start with a PC, i got Soundsforge 4.0 and some other stuff.
But Soundforge 4.0 still works, i realy do not need that so much, but it is a advanced wav editor.
So hardware must be renewed so now and then, most MAC users are used to mac, so starting with another system then you are used is not always easy, en can cost time.
Offcourse we can help eachother here, if someone need some info about what to do and where to look.
So now everything is more advanced, but as concept under the hood the same.
Just like an interface. 
Occasional Cubase 10 user here. I did switch to Studio One 4 years ago and I still look back haha hoping they will make Cubase more stable 
. When I see the devs greater involvement in the forum it gives me some hope. It wasn’t the case 4 years ago.
I’ll add another issue that has been documented for years which is also a deal breaker for me (I also edit video):
I can only recommend Studio One. With it I can just concentrate on the music. For live situations where I can’t afford the DAW to crash it has become my goto option. It has fewer features but you can rely on them. Just look at the frequency of their updates and you will be blown away.
You never took the time to share this on this forum, dropping it while leaving? That’s allright. Thanks for your thoughts anyway.
