I have not taken a moral high ground. I have maintained a tongue in cheek, tom foolery approach to this ridiculous thread from the beginning.
…I’ve made that insulted you. I’m quite curious.Thank you.
I didn’t say that you insulted me. I said that the concepts developed in this thread are insulting to me … and by that I mean to my alleged intelligence. The arguments are silly.
Hopefully, I have not insulted you personally even though you may find my posts insulting. There is a difference. When shown that you misread the post, you kept insisting that a borg step out of the cube and tell you personally! I found that funny. That’s why I had some fun in that thread. But, please don’t take it personally. You’re probably not a bad guy for a Mac user (<- it’s a joke … com’on lighten up), and I’m probably just barely above a jerk for a PC user.
I didn’t misread the thread. I sought further clarification, as did other members of the old Cubase Mac forum. I received it, for which I expressed my thanks to Georg.
Did you find it equally funny when I received a response from “the 'Borg”?
At the risk of repeating myself ad nauseum, I don’t find any of this spy vs spy, Mac vs PC crap funny or light. I use this place as a friendly professional forum. I could not care less what your preferences are in hardware, nor anyone else’s for that matter, and anyone who fuels these imbecilic debates earns my disrespect, which I will express periodically.
Point of fact: I suggest that my younger musician friends start out on PC, as I consider it is a less expensive platform for more power and a lot more free software. That said, the fact that I am on the Mac platform and have been recording on it professionally since '89 is MY choice. My respectful request for clarification to the MODERATORS of this forum (yes, I believe it is actually moderated by Steinberg) was MY choice, as is my polite request for separation of the forums, and how that is a concern of yours or should be a target for your derision is something that absolutely and completely escapes me.
As I’ve already mentioned previously, I think the ability to filter threads is the best compromise.
Include an optional button inside the NEWTOPIC pane that would put a mac or PC icon in the heading. And then the ability to view or organize posts by date or relevance.
It seems that would satisfy everyone.
Or, we could keep going in this direction and just put everything into one big forum. Then we could all co-exist as one big happy Steinberg family! Nuendos helping Cubes helping wavelabs !!! It would be a forum orgy nirvana!!! Let’s DO IT!!!
Has anyone thought that perhaps Steinberg merged the two BECAUSE they found that they kept getting the SAME Cubase problems in both forums?
After all, the forums are not necessarily just for users to get what they want, but for Steinberg to get what they want with the least amount of work for them.
They know how much common code exists between the two platform versions and a lot of their platform-specific stuff (like which button is the Cancel in message boxes) may be handled by compiler variables settings.
Perhaps Windows-specific stuff in the PC version (like Windows-only video formats and Direct-X plugins) have been dropped over time to facilitate such a merging of the code base.
Personally, I would like to keep a unified Cubase section, as it will facilitate focussing on Cubase in its own right and may just help Steinberg better debug the product.
I suggest that the unified Cubase section be given a few months to let Steinberg see how well it works for their support processes. And the process may be helped if moderators were more rigorous in moving platform-specific stuff not related to Cubase to more relevant sections.
Eastwest’s forum does not have separate sections for the mac and pc versions of their products, nor is their hardware section split, though they do have a section for each where users can list their working setups. Their assumption may be that once setup and working, there shouldn’t be much difference between how their products work on either platform, and the discussions tend to benefit from the cross-comparison of issues on either platform to help isolate whether issues are platform-specific or not. Perhaps Steinberg wants to get to that place as well!
I did notice in the last forum that lately there were a lot of posts in the PC section that listed a Mac in their gearlist sigs. It was going that way anyways. I doubt if there was two way traffic.
And there’s still no Atari section.
I am so sick about all those posts I look into, only for realising its a discussion about some issues on PC. All this talking about that most problems are the same on PC and Mac is completley nonsense and not reflecting my experience, using Cubase since Atari times. Just one example, 64bit. 64 bit on a mac and 64 bit on PC are 2 completly different stories.
Just posting out of frustration about this new concept here in the forum.
