I love how daws like ableton seem so less cluttered with plugins integrated into the Ui

Cubase
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#1

Like Cubase’s lower zone. Maybe there could be an extra zone alongside mixer sampler etc for plugins. It’s so much neater and less cluttered.

#2

I (and many others) think that tabbed windows for VSTs would even be better than Ableton’s approach:
https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=285&t=147855&p=947072#p947072

#3

Thanks for linking me to that - I commented on there. :smiley: