Forgive the click bait title I was just interested in what you guys thought.
I myself hardly ever use any Cubase stock insert plugins. As there are a lot of us requesting improvements to the DAW so we can work faster and more efficiently, does it make sense for them to spend valuable time working on there new Eq and the like, when they could be implementing many of our requests.
Don’t most of us use third party plugins anyway?
After all we are the guys that use this DAW every day, and a lot of the requests I see would make my life so much easier! Why don’t we have a voting process on which new features the community wants, and lets get some of these features actioned!
Rather than just requesting new features over and over again and them ignoring us, can we all agree to ask Steinberg to implement a voting system so that they can really get a better idea what new features everyone would benefit from?
What do you guys think?
I love this DAW and have been using it since it was called Pro 12 and don’t want to change but I feel the improvements could come faster.
Having said that, I do believe that some of their plugins are made by outside ‘3rd party’ companies so whilst your point is completely valid, its more of a falling down of allocation of funds for development than allocation of programmers/resources that $teinberg is failing with.
They believe that a new plugin will entice new buyers ($400) over fixing the actual damn program that only might entice existing customers to upgrade ($100).
Basicially , its only about a money grab and their priorities are completely up the river. Just a shame that we were lead to believe that things would be truely different ‘this time’ when the clear evidence from the release of c9 is that its ‘business as usual’.
I think a lot of people likely do use the stock plugins. Also, whenever I hear Logic users talk about how awesome Logic is, they usually mention the included plugins. But a lot of Logic users are becoming fed up with the direction the program has gone, so Steinberg is likely trying to capture some of that market.
I really didn’t start this to create animosity towards you guys but more to open a dialogue between us and you.
I’m sure we all appreciate the work you do, but at the same time what I’m asking for is a way that we can submit our requests to Steinberg and feel like you guys hear what your users really would like to see.
I can only see some kind of rating or voting system would really identify the most important requests of the community. Which then you could let us know how feasible they are to implement.
I think Steinberg’s ability to bring on new users is important and a full price rather than an upgrade fee is more beneficial to all of us in the long run. Having said that, making your DAW stand out from the crowd because of the far superior Feature list would surely be a big draw for any people wanting to change DAW.
Cubase plugins are for people who can’t afford third party plugins. I assume there are a lot of those people. Unfortunately, they are holding us back but from a financial standpoint, I understand why it’s this way.
totally agree! i mostly use 3rd party plugins too, as i believe most people do. I mean, I use some steinberg plug ins, sure… but if anyone really needs an improvement to a plugin, they can always just use a 3rd party plugin that does it better. With your DAW though, it’s not so easy.
no worries at all. I think that raising your FR on the forum is just fine of course. Keep it up!
We do hear, but besides the constraits, please understand that the forum is not the whole of the userbase nor the only place we get FR from. The new features were voted for 9 as well, and there is a new survey online already, in order to collect feedback for the coming 12 months.
I do see the point of having new features, especially for a major version, but the problem is that resources are not unlimited. It has been requested by a large part of the users to concentrate on stability, workflow and performance. Just look at the 8.5 (or 7.5) forum and see how many ‘no features, only improvements’ requests.
A lot of work went in Cubase 9 in this respect, less on new features, but this was also a feature request. And I honestly think it was the best thing to do right now.
My previous point was simply: the plug-in set guys work on the plug-ins in any case, without taking away resources from Cubase. The EQ was also another FR, including M/S and Linear Phase capability.
Fabio. I agree that it’s a difficult balance. But there are tons of little requests that I’ve seen on the forum that really didn’t seem technically difficult or would take much time/resources to implement and yet were ignored.
If you guys don’t get your feature request ideas from the forum, where do you get your feature requests from? I hope it’s not the survey… because just how the forum doesn’t represent the whole of the cubase users, I would argue that the survey makes up even a smaller niche than the forum. I’m not on the forum all the time, but I get on every now and then. I completely missed this last survey to vote up feature requests, as I’m sure a ton of other people did.
Steinberg is not my full time job (or part time job), yet I somehow find time to read through lots of feature requests that other people make on the forum. I feel like Steinberg should be paying at least as much attention to them as I do, since that’s where they are getting their money from. A lot of people have switched away to other DAWs because Cubase is so far behind in automation and curves. There’s a lot of people who are still considering switching (myself included). The automation feature request is all over the place, I don’t understand how anyone can miss it. It’s the number one complaint I see on youtube, facebook, etc… and yet I’m told that Steinberg STILL has no plans on improving it. It just feels like you don’t care about us.
I personally appreciate useful built-in plugins like Frequency. I do hope these features will integrate back into the DAW in the future, like making Frequency integrate with the channel strip EQ.
If they are completely seperate then there’s no real benefit over a third-party plugin, but the moment where you can edit the Frequency bands in the MixConsole, or you can even just convert the channel strip EQ to a Frequency instance, then it becomes a real enhancement.
Yeah, it’s true. Everyone always says their system is faster, more stable, etc… it’s the same thing with each release, but there’s always more bugs popping up. I mean, it’s to be expected, but a smart person doesn’t just assume it’s more stable unless theirs actual evidence.
I just upgraded to 9 so I could just test things for myself and stop having to ask so many questions… and NONE of my native instruments plugins will load, even after I try to “reactivate them” at my own risk. But these are not 32 bit plugins, these are 64 bit plugins!!!
WTF? That doesn’t seem like an improvement, I use so much native instruments stuff, I literally can’t load maybe 75-90% of my projects. I don’t remember anyone asking for a feature to ban all the 3rd party plugins you use >:(
I was just interested in what you guys thought.