In C13 when I select a template to create a new project, I can see whether “Use default location” is turned on and if so what it is set to. That way I know what will happen when I press the “Create” button.
In C15, those settings are hidden. What will happen when I press the “Create” button depends on settings that I can no longer see. I find I need to open the hub settings and examine what is there before I press the Create button. That really slows down the creation of a new project.
I understand there are more hub settings now, but surely the Project Location is so important to see when you are creating a project that it should be presented in the same window as the Create button.
Yes, I notice problems with that. I was using Cubase 13 before (I never used version 14), and in 13 was working fine. I think it is a bug. I created a topic with another problem regarding the hub:
Yes, I saw that, but I believe this is something different. What you’re describing seems to be a bug. I tried following what you’re saying, but didn’t quite understand your description well enough to be able to reproduce it.
However, I’m describing something different. I understand what it is doing, but I’m saying it’s a design flaw because it makes project creation more difficult than it used to be.
Oh I see the problem! In Cubase 13 both fields are in plain view (not behind a configuration section). It was much better before. And I agree my explanation is confusing! Hahah!
if you press “create empty” it will prompt you to pick your location. much better than the previous way. I have seen enough users with 20 projects in the same location.
“Create Empty” works the same way it always has…it creates an empty project with no template according to the Location settings. The difference is in C15 you can no longer see the Location settings, so you can’t tell if you’ll get a prompt to pick a location or not. You have to first open the hub settings to see what will happen when you press “Create Empty”.
Sure - keep those other options as you like; the topic’s about moving just the Project Location selector (‘Use Default Location’) back to the front UI. Needed particularly when you press ‘Create Empty’, as described by others above.
My point is keeping it where it is because there are a lot of options under that menu. Bringing it to the front would just not make sense. You set your options, locations etc for the main UI.
Yes - I get you; though, it’s not an ‘all-or-nothing’ request here.
Those options can all stay there under that menu EXCEPT for the Project Location selector. As it was previously, this specific item was more convenient and useful visually and for the UX, when placed on the front window. You could see (and access) info at a glance, etc…
Exactly. The Hub settings can remain for things other than Location.
However, you generally need to see the Location information before you press the Create button, so it makes sense to move the Location information to the main Hub window.
I answered already in another similar thread, but this is really annoying. This is the first and most important step when you create a project. And it has nothing to do with a hub setting. And it does not even create the folder when you don’t use the default and get the standard explorer. Who approved this? It was still fine in Cubase 14.
I’m sure this was done in a sincere effort to improve the hub, but moving the Location information does seem to be an error in judgment. I’m confident Steinberg will put it back where it belongs.
True, I’m struggling to understand why one would need to see the default location more than once if you never change it. Like if I create a project once, noting whatever is set as the default location and then come back to cubase 15 and create another project a month later, I need to check that it hasn’t magically changed since then? Has that ever happened to people? It has never happened to me in 20+ years. Is there more to this that I am glossing over or missing?
Yes you can set the default location in the Hub Settings, but part of the issue is that when you “Create Empty” it doesn’t give you an option to create the folder name, which means you have to click into the “Hub Settings” every single time anyway to give the folder a name which defeats the entire purpose of having the “Create Empty” button on the main page. It simply does not make sense hiding this functionality and it doesn’t improve anything.
The new hub could definitely use some polishing up.
