That definitely is not a groundless conclusion. It is based on years of experience. Back in the day when Cubase went from 4 to 5 there were so many huge new things that I was dying to get them. In the last 15 years I could easy skip an update based on the fact that there was nothing really important for me and update some years later. That was no big problem when I was on Windows cause old versions of windows got security fixes for many years.
And as I said there are a few other companies that adopt a similar tactic, still donāt like it and I guess there are are lot of people that have voted with their money and gone over to Reaper or something.
I have never liked this pracise and that is why I vote with my wallet and never upgrade for full price and skip a version or two and update when it is on sale. Unless there is something I really like in the new features.
As for the future. If the leaks are correct about Cubase13 there is nothing in it that I am dying to get.
ācaveat emptorā . This fanboy approach baffles me. What we are talking about here is the fact that software gets broken so what you bought and like often gets broken.
I doubt it will help, I am pretty sure this was an Apple issue. If people can just be patient and wait a week or so, itās fixed in 14.1., Steinberg doesnāt need to do anything so far.
Interesting. I have graphics problems - I have to make windows small and then big again so that they can be drawn. But this only works to a limited extent.
It may depend on whether youāre using a Macbook or Mini, as I had some graphical issues last year with C12 and a 16" M1 Pro, it only occurred when pro-motion was enabled, which is obviously part of the macbooks built in display.
Running via external screen was fine.
Certain elements within Cubase would flicker and disappear until I resized them.
I think it also might depend on WHAT you are using. As far as Cubase goes, I thought everything was perfect here. Iāve opened up existing projects and actually finished (WHOA a first) a couple in the past week BUTā¦ I also didnt have any need to open things like my Halion instruments or GA stuff. While working on a new one Tuesday, I added a Halion track and opened one of my old presets converted from an Akai discā¦ To start, the envelopes are not even close to usable graphically, its missing all of the pop-up hints that show up when you hover over a control, and the standalone is even better. Its missing ALL the graphics in the Settings window, its entirely blank, and when you close the app, its missing the text and buttons for saving/quitting. You canāt close Halion without force quitting it because the window is completely empty.
Groove Agent seems a bit better, but Iāve noticed spots where graphics dont show up until you hover your mouse over it .The entire Settings page was invisible until I wiped my mouse over itā¦
I gave in and installed the beta yesterday afternoon and everything is back to normal from what I can tell so far. Iām on the M2 Pro Mini if that mattersā¦
I am a curious reader of this thread since a week ago. I have switched to mac just 1 month ago and I jumped the Sonoma 14 upgrade when I was looking for information about possible bugs with cubase 12.07 before upgrading. I have a 14 inch mac book pro m2 from 2023. And despite what I have been reading and that my common sense told me to wait a while for the problems to be solved, I have updated today because I am impatient and I like all the possible changes and have new features that I will not use later, I have no choice.
Tell you that in my case everything goes perfect, the little Iāve tried has not given me any problem, in fact, before updating I had the small problem that using groove agent one next to the sidebar media search, I blinked the screen to black. That problem is gone and I am enjoying the update without any terrible bugs that make me regret the update. I donāt know if itās luck or how current my macbook version is, but thatās my experience so far.
I take this opportunity to thank you all and hope that the problems are solved soon for those of you who are having them.
Hello guys. I was working in C pro 12 on an orchestral project (a huge deal to me, and with a deadline!) on my mac mini (m2 / 32gb ram / 12c / plenty of gpu and cpu) and it was doing okay for days (just some lagging), but suddenly it was no longer possible to open it. I get the error message āinvalid project file (ā¦)ā. When I called customer support they say they cannot help me since I am on OS 14, however I am not so sure that is the problem since when googling the issue I find many threads on the same problem which are not related to OS 14. And in any case being on an M2 chip there is no way to revert back to OS 13, sadly (WARNING!).
I store my projects in Dropbox so was able to try and access it from my Hp laptop (win10 / 64bit / 16gb ram). I encounter the same problem there. I tried to use a backup on the laptop, but had to go back several versions to find one that did not simply yield the same error message, meaning if I revert I will lose work. (curiously the newer .baks were suddenly double the size, so perhaps that suggests some file corruption?). On the mac mini I also tried creating a new project and importing tracks, but nothing happened!
Does anyone know a way to recover my project? Or at least the MIDI files? How do I best work safely now that I am stuck with OS 14?
AND: There is an audio folder in every project folder, could Steinberg consider making a MIDI folder too, for easy access? It would really be great for me as Id always be able to quickly get to the core of my work and reuse melodic ideas, and it would not rely entirely on the whole system always working.
I have been using cubase since Cubase VST version. I tried switching to Presonus Studio One and Logic, but unfortunately Iām too used to cubase key commands and the way it works and knowing workarounds in it. In others DAWs itās big learning curve for me
Logicās arenāt too bad, some are fairly similar too. I actually switched from VST to Logic Platinum back when SX was released. Just came back to Cubase at 11 when they announced the free update to 12ā¦ I picked up a lot of the Cubase ones right away, and forced myself to get familiar with them this time (didnāt use ANY of them in VST 24/32). Itās been awhile since Iāve even opened Logic Pro, but using some of them seemed more āklunkyā than in Cubase for whatever reason. Cubase just seems to āflowā when using them.
@mondrul - the Audio folder is for your imported/recorded audio files. MIDI is data entered into the project and stored there. There is no point of a MIDI folder as it does not use āMIDI clipsā or files the way it uses audioā¦ If you want your MIDI saved as files, you need to export those once youāve written them in the arranger.
Key comands are just small part of it, besides you can make the same key commands in Studio One that is not a bidg deal. However, the advantage Cubase has over other DAWs is really good built in plugins and great way to apply FX, monitor and mix your sounds! I think that is why a lot of users stick to Cubase depite the annoying bugsā¦ I also found Cubase to be more bugy after you install multiple DAWs and funny enough other DAWs donāt show this behavior. But that is maybe just my system though! I look forward to see what the upcoming version of Cubase will have in its package! But while others ask whats new, I will ask whatās broken. lol
There was no free update from Cubase 11 to Cubase 12 in fact there was no free updates at all as far as I remeber there are maintance updates but nothing comes with them. You might have bought during the grace perioid but they do it every year.
The only daws that do free updates is Logic and FL Studio hence it is the most owned DAW! lol And Studio One did the latest one as a free update this actually got my attention and I installed it to check it out- everybody else charges money!