Yep, exactly !
How many times did I criticize their focus narrowing and shifting …
Good move !
On the other hand, the new folder-grouping is advertised as a few different new features.
The actual count of new features is definitely not ground shaking …
( So there’s still the issue with few resources against high product count. )
But it’s enough for me 
Will hopefully get my update on monday.
bye, Jan
The “problem” with this update is it seems to have so many features that should really be considered a given in todays’ DAW world.
By the time the first update occurs, I will be expecting even more from Steiny crew.
Personally,
Im upgrading from 4.It sure feels like some great big , mother mahoooousive strides are being taken from where im looking at things. I guess i did a lot of these, ‘is it worth it??’ debates back when 5 was released. And i have been faithful to 4 as it seemed worth it at the time. but by now…well frankly i cant wait to get 6. It all seems amazing and im gonna love this. that im now sure of!
I guess you gotta go with what feels right for you. But i for one am impressed with what ive seen.
Well for me of course I will upgrade at some point as I need to in order to remain compatible with what Microsoft are doing at windows update.
I can only hope of course for a price drop along the way!
Anyhow the feature set looks good so all I can hope for is more of the same, re-introducing old features, eg from VST5 and introducing “new” ones that as I say should be a given in todays’ DAW market.
Suspiciously like Pro Tools 9’s “new feature” of the ability to use any audio interface. 
Exactly.
No wonder we have people asking for downloadable updates!
Cheers
I understand your point and don’t think you deserve some of the snarky comments left here, but I disagree.
If you ever need to fix multi-track drums you’ll either go to pro tools or you’ll finally appreciate the cubase 6 update!
Like orchetect implied the Pro Tools update really is a complete joke. The only thing new is they’ve unlocked it for other interfaces. Some of us have to have it though just to please certain clients.
I’m happy for the updates, most courageous on Steinberg part particularly “re-introducing” long missed features.
One can only hope that more of this will be the case, at least at a conceptual level because for many “proof of concept” is already there (VST5) and they now want implementation.
I dunno , but I think it looks amazing so far !
And the core stuff at the audio engine level, windows level and stuff like that has not been altered very much at all it seem so if you had a stable C5 then C6 should work too, even though it’s a x.0 version?
What HAS been added looks GREAT, and what HAS NOT been added … well, business as usual haha? It’s a great program, it’s not Cubase 17 so in the mean time learn to work around it and marvel at the new shiny tools
Well, its the truth that early adopters are free beta testers. But it shouldn’t be that way in the first place. The solution is to have a public beta where thousands of testers can join. Just look at Propellerheads or Native Instruments.
How it works is you buy into the product life cycle and as it matures and stabilizes your experience continues on from there until the Operating System undergoes some change that causes an incompatibility that cannot be addressed in the previous life cycle.
Life isn’t perfect and neither is the software development process.
Thousands of testers that require a Syncrosoft dongle to just to get a temporary license (like the Cubase 5 Trial), and many of whom probably don’t have one and would complain to no end about it.
Indeed. I feel that C6 is not only an update. It is also a statement in practice.
+1
Now C6 is on top level of features. Others improvments and finish will give more fat.
Hoping C7 will focus on tracks routings improvements. …Chris, it’s true? 
…love.
Do you mean for example, routing audio from a VST directly to an audio track?
My request is one of those written in many posts and Chris will be sick…
I mean that would be very convenient to group the tracks on the fly, simply by selecting them and specifying “new group” and voila, the group is automatically created (stereo or mono optional).
It would be convenient if new GrTrack stayed close to the single tracks grupped. (Often i’m working on a mix with more than 50 tracks, and many groups).
Then there’s the whole question of being able to route tracks for side chains and others, and is a reason that is not detailed as already covered by other.
My hope was to see this in C6, but obviously there is much work to do to implement this and then I hope in C7.
To use sidechains you must use Auxillary Sends is that right?
Yes it’s right. Only for plugs that provide this. Not all plugs have this feature, but maybe it’s an issue for developers of third-party plugs. Internal Cubase plugs and some other third-party allow this and work great.
I haven’t seen it in action yet but the new features appear very attractive to me. I work mainly with audio and musicians playing instruments, both electronic instruments and traditional. It looks as if this update will be a significant enhancement for me.
overall, C6 does look like an improvement, especially in the audio side of things. i mainly hope that optimization of computer resources (multiple cores, ram, compatibility, vstbridge, etc) was a primary focus. the forseeable future is 64 bit. i for one am looking forward to being in the 64bit environment and utilizing that power but in a way where it works and i am not nervous my system may crash at any second. C4.5 on XP has been a rock for me. extremely stable. i want C6 64 bit to be that with my current 32 bit plugins. that is FAR more important to me than any possible new feature (except maybe audio drum editing 
). if this happens, this is a HUGE step forward. i could run soft synths and plugins galor to my hearts content with no hicups what so ever. that would be amazing.
i am trying to look forward and not backwards. i want to embrace C6 and Win7. Its hard to leave XP because it worked so well for me. i don’t want to be that guy that is ‘stuck in his old ways.’
its inevitable that bugs will arise. way to many third party companies and hardware manufactures. hopefully bugs, if any, will be minor.
cheers,
dean