Yes, thank you PG, and it is usable the way it is, but I wasn’t clear and maybe I’m a bit greedy and dreaming of UI and workflow nirvana, lol – I was hoping for full ARA support by now or some other kind of even closer integration, which I didn’t see in the update.
Honestly, I think that all the tools and workflows and GUIs across Nuendo, WL, SL, Dorico, etc., need to be better integrated at Steinberg in general, better than what Steinberg is currently doing, and better than ARA TBH, since each app has different roots/development teams, but still not a single cohesive and consistent design language and UI paradigm. It’s been improving, but we’re not there yet. And yes, it’s good they work together to the extent that they do, but it would be GREAT if Steinberg had a unifying design specification that brought them all into better alignment with a unified user experience, and allowed a level of integration and usability standard at a minimum of ARA 2 and hopefully better across all these products. But that’s just the ideal, and obviously you’ve all been working toward better integration. I wish there was a guy at Steinberg who would internally champion better unification and build out a detailed roadmap of agreed standardized user experience and integration goals across all products. And if that guy already exists, I wish all the various teams would listen to him and get on board with everything.
I understand there’s enormous complexity with that, massive legacy code and probably very different frameworks behind the development of each app, not to mention totally different teams with different trajectories and business plans, and probably different kinds of contracts in place (i.e. SL seems “distributed” or “published” by Steinberg vs. the in-house team of Nuendo, for example). I should be grateful the apps work together as well as they do, right?
And while you’re at it, Linux support would be nice too. (I mean I can dream, right?)
But anyway, congrats again and I will absolutely be upgrading after the first patch. Thank you for your excellent work and please do keep up with the “casting” market needs. Pro-level “casting” projects have exploded in recent years and Wavelab looks like it’s got some great tools now in that area, yes even the RSS feed generation stuff IMO!