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Does Cubase still suck?

anonymous
Submitted by anonymous on

Greets all,



I'm a Studio Vision (Opcode) orphan and thought I'd found a replacement with Cubase SX (v2.2.35 win), but then I suddenly realized it: Cubase SX sucks.



I bought the damn thing so I should be biased in its favor, maybe thats why my denial lasted so long ;)



I would have upgraded to SX 3 but the asking price is not reasonable (over $200 for 2.2 owners?), but I'd like to know just a few things about SX3...



* Can you have Inserts, Sends, and I/O open all at once within the track inspector? (in 2.x you can only have one open! Even though there's plenty of room for more)



* Is send sync to external [MIDI clock based] devices fixed/functional yet?



* Is there any way to see almost everything at once like you can with Sonar? (main window, per track: vol, pan, ins, sends and audio/midi image)



Sonar has its own deficiencies otherwise I'd switch over, but its strength is its GUI so if only SX could allow the same kind of streamlined interface I'd finally be happy again.



Thanks for any comments

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gdoubleyou

I used to be a long time cubaseVST user, I couldn't get SX2 to work properly on my current hardware. It has the highest system requirements of all the Mac DAWs. Only dual G5 owners have enough juice to run it.



I ended up Putting SX2 on my PC, to transfer my Cubase5 sessions. After the transfer I sold my license.



I'm now using Logic7, and DP4 on my Powerbook and I'm able to do sessions of 32-48 stereo tracks no Problem.



From the comparisons I have seen, Logic and DP can get 40%-60% more instances of effects and virtual instruments when compared to SX.



They even run fine on my ancient G4/400. it's obvious that SX is not optimized for the Mac platform.



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Mon, 05/23/2005 - 14:50 Permalink