I’ll tell you mine without controversy. I would be much happier if C12 was enhanced in those parts strictly related to recording / editing. I prefer the development team’s efforts to focus on this, on fixing bugs.
I wouldn’t want to see Cubase change to a DJ style app/culture.
Both valid point! But as I said above, this isn’t that big of a feature request. The guts are all there in Cubase alone, with Groove Agent in the mix, it’s really all there, mostly just a UI task.
And as far as a DJ style culture goes, I know what you are getting at. But in a day when Glenn Fricker is recording Metal in Fruity Loops, I think the genera culture per DAW thing is over. The Berklee and Juliard crowds are all on Ableton.
It’s hard to get most anyone under 20 interested in making music with Cubase, they all want these features that are in Ableton, and now Logic. Cubase is seen as seriously limiting creativity. And I’m not talking about techno loop DJs. I mean serious musicians. And if Cubase hopes to continue to compete in any genre of pop and country music, other than maybe Christian, it’s going to have to step up it’s game.
I see it more as survival rather than loosing the culture to one group that is going to make their style of noise one way or another. I love grooving. That’s why I spent a lot of ridiculous time and energy into continuing to do my thing with my DAW of choice. But realistically, learning and using Live is now a necessity to be able to interact with younger musicians, and you can bet that Ableton isn’t going to never step up to be a competitive mixing platform. Logic already is. As far as composing goes, many film scores already incorporate Live in the process, and sooner or later non-linear techniques are going to become integral to getting the feel directors are looking for.
Being worried about the culture of the app changing is like a composer wanting to stick to a piano and pen and paper because “those pesky new wave techno punks” are into komplete kontrol and MIDI, and Cubase… like when MIDI was all it did.
I’m sure there were composers who wanted to stick to engraving because they didn’t want the culture of scoring to be flooded with the likes of ABBA and the Bank Street Music Writer. Now we have Dorico,
What has the world come to? What could be worse. If they put non-linear songwriting tools in to Cubase, the next thing you know even Dub FX, Ladytron , or, shudder, Infected Mushroom will be using it!
Oh wait… 