As someone who absolutely wants to see them succeed and remain top of the tree - indeed I’d love to see them really start to encroach on Pro Tools’ territory - there needs to be a better plan of how to get there. What I think is essential is that some serious head scratching goes on at Steinberg. I somehow doubt its absolutely necessary though. I really don’t know if subs would honestly help this issue. At the other end of the scale we have Avid, a company who relocated to Mordor a number of years ago and who seem hellbent on discovering new and innovative ways to wave goodbye to loyal customers at great personal cost. Sonar customers seem very happy with their subscription model, crucially you can opt in and out any time without penalty, and you keep a permanent license. Actually, maybe it would help, but only if done absolutely right. Reading through the replies, I have an uncomfortable feeling that Steinberg might deduce that Subscription is the answer. It was remarkably civil, forum conversation doesn’t have to be a bear pit. And don’t laugh ye cynics - Microsoft engaged actively on Gearslutz for many months ahead of W10, personally replying to queries, taking suggestions and so on.
Getting some of the software folks to visit here once in a while could be transformative. Here’s hoping that, if nothing else, this gets a dialogue going. Cubase does some stuff better than any other DAW on the market, and I want to see it improve rather than look elsewhere. Personally I’m not looking elsewhere - I’m welded to Cubase for better or worse until any other competitor offers midi CC control over EuCon, which none do (and this has been the case for many years).
Just to be clear - I think Cubase is a great program. I haven’t found any alternatives because Cubase is still the best for what I do. I would guess active participants here represent maybe 1% of total users.īut at the end of the day what are you going to do? For myself I simply lower my expectations of Steinberg.
And they want it now…screw the manual or even video tutorials. It’s coming from kids who want that “make me a hit” preset. Some of them morph into fanboys, then wars start, then most silently slip away or re-invent themselves under a new name, and come back with a bit more experience. But to offset this, new users think everything is almost perfect. However since Cubase 6.5 I think the cycle has become increasingly vicious because as more users become experienced over time, the Cubase faults shine brighter. I should accuse you of plagiarism since I wrote this…back when Cubase SX was released. Noiseboyuk, your letter has been written so many times in the past. Then Steinberg would recoup their temporary losses from doing this, by attracting newer users all the time, and also prevent their existing user base from shopping elsewhere,, since most, if not all, would then be quite happy and productive as designed. Then, before long, Steinberg would have a ‘top notch, stellar, no bugs, works excellent’ DAW that others would migrate to, which would also be supported and boasted about here, there and everywhere from Cubase users all over the globe. I’d also announce that this was in the works, so as to inform the current user base,, and also prevent most from being tempted to look elsewhere while they patiently wait for ‘said promises’.
The bug has been fixed and today’s update addresses the stability of Lightroom 6. The scope of that bug was unclear and we made the incorrect decision to ship with the bug while we continued to search for a reproducible case(Reproducible cases are essential for allowing an engineer to solve a problem). In our efforts to simplify the import experience we introduced instability that resulted in a significant crashing bug. The team cares passionately about our product and our customers and we failed on multiple fronts with this release. I’d like to personally apologize for the quality of the Lightroom 6.2 release we shipped on Monday. If I were Steinberg’s head of the decision committee, I’d post the following statement : If new users coming in happen to read reviews in and outside of this forum, won’t they be tempted to go elsewhere when they see a whole bunch of complaints and unhappy existing users here who are growing increasingly tired and frustrated from release to release?įor instance I did just that before I came here from Sonar when I jumped in at 7.0. Ok, but in essence you’re singing the exact same tune. They don’t care about our 50 bucks for upgrade, they careĪbout 300-400-500$ new users coming in. They got us stuck with them…all they look at is new features (of course non working) Steinberg’s marketing and plans…they do not care about existing users…they know NoiseBoyuk, you sing good but your voice is very bad…i don’t think you understand