OK, small suggestion: I find I’m having to shut Cubase all the way down, install something or a group of things, fire Cubase back up, load the project, test, sometimes shut it all the way back down, tweak, repeat.
Sure would be nice if there was an option when Cubase is running to get it to scan only newly added plugins rather than the whole folder in depth. Just compare the current text list of plugins Cubase has to what’s currently in the folder(s): if there’s a delta, scan only the newly added plugin (or plugins).
This could be almost instant and we wouldn’t have to go through the whole process above so often. Just give us the option in the plugin manager for this lite scan, or the deep scan.
It’s these quality-of-life improvements that could easily take Cubase from an 8/10 (when it’s behaving itself, don’t get me started) to a 10/10. It already does so many things so, so well, but it’s rounding off these edges that would make all the difference. Completing features like MIDI Remote (see my other recent thread), relaxing arbitrary limitations (MIDI insert plugins), and generally ensuring that every feature is thoroughly tested and bug-free before releasing new versions that never feel complete would change everything.
Great example: in MIDI Remote, I can’t even reliably add a new page! This little bug is really quite frustrating. I’ll usually just create a new page called “a” (which it usually takes for some unknown reason) and then rename it once it’s created.
How on Earth was this not caught?
Allowing users to create a bug report with the click of a button (literally, make it possible to open the form with a key command) that automatically loads and submits any relevant files and asks the user’s approval to send would be fantastic.
Further, if the user could demonstrate the action being attempted and have that recorded, packaged, and (upon approval) sent to Steinberg all within Cubase, then have a multimodal LLM linking all similar cases in your system automatically, that would be an absolute game changer for quality. And we all want QUALITY.