I would like to say that Cubase 15 is a stable release, but I keep seeing bugs in several places. Not showstopper ones luckily, but bugs regardless.
For example, I wanted to move a bunch of selected notes using Ctrl+left arrow key, and this is what happens:
Then we keep on having gigantic key editor windows when clicking and dragging down the title bar from a maximized state to move the editor to another monitor. These are full screen screenshots with the Windows snip tool, and it shows the space of four monitors, but because I have three actual monitors, one of them shows in black unless you see the actual key editor window taking up the size of 4 monitors together:
You can tell that this is four monitors together by the size of the spacebar. But this screenshot is before I moved that giant window to see what were its dimensions:
This doesn’t happen in any other app that I have installed, and that’s quite a lot. It’s obvious Cubase still has some bugs in the way it communicates with the part of Windows that deals with the GUI (sorry if I can’t explain this with more appropriate terms, I just don’t know much about coding), and it’s not just Cubase. One day I closed Cubase and opened Wavelab Pro 12. Before opening it, I turned off the 2nd and 3rd monitor since I didn’t need them.
In Wavelab Pro 12, I have a default filter setup. I wanted to adjust one of the filters, and I kept clicking on it, but nothing would happen. It occurred to me to turn on the second monitor, and this is what I see:
Another example that doesn’t seem like much but it gets on your nerves after a while. When you open a key editor window, the tracks area has an offset when it comes to the grid and playhead:
Which goes away if you click and drag the divider between the tracks and the notes area:
But having to do that every time is rather annoying. But we also have things that should show inside the screen, and don’t:
Or things that are shortened to just one letter for no reason because there is plenty of space to show the full words:
And finally, more puzzling stuff like this:
No, that is not my color palette. This one is:
Now, I have no clue what could’ve caused that weird sepia palette to show like that, but at that point, no other colors in the interface looked as weird as that.
So it seems to me that Cubase 15 was pushed out the door before it was ready, and I think Steinberg needs to rethink the October or November deadline they seem to have each year for a new Cubase release, which helps nobody, because why rush it out the door with so many bugs when they could wait a few months and release a well polished DAW that will just work.
