Something interesting happening at Access Music

[TweakHead]

I'm mainly working on the mac now, but used Cubase 5 some time ago and would like to jump at it again 'cause apple seems to have some agenda of their own, concerning pro audio - which envolves ditching the cd, making the interface on Logic X look clumsy on "non retina" screens, forcing everyone to move to 64 bit, having to ditch some of their favourite plug-ins along the way, so forth and so on. Seems like Steinberg is actually focused on improving things for the musician, and I've always felt that Cubase is way better then the competition when it comes to performance and stability to. But I'd have to pay the big buck for it, but have this on the back of my mind after reading it's actually improved performance from earlier version to a newer one - something you can only dream about when talking about Logic, even for the legacy plug-ins.

Performance matters a lot to me, and the fact it's not a "mac only" thing, that I could finally share projects (mainly psytrance) with other people without having to worry about getting a new OS installed on another partition is another big point to make! Thanks for the reply!

[MBTC]

Originally Posted by TweakHead

I'm mainly working on the mac now, but used Cubase 5 some time ago and would like to jump at it again 'cause apple seems to have some agenda of their own, concerning pro audio - which envolves ditching the cd, making the interface on Logic X look clumsy on "non retina" screens, forcing everyone to move to 64 bit, having to ditch some of their favourite plug-ins along the way, so forth and so on. Seems like Steinberg is actually focused on improving things for the musician, and I've always felt that Cubase is way better then the competition when it comes to performance and stability to. But I'd have to pay the big buck for it, but have this on the back of my mind after reading it's actually improved performance from earlier version to a newer one - something you can only dream about when talking about Logic, even for the legacy plug-ins.

Performance matters a lot to me, and the fact it's not a "mac only" thing, that I could finally share projects (mainly psytrance) with other people without having to worry about getting a new OS installed on another partition is another big point to make! Thanks for the reply!

Some of your concerns are exactly while I bailed on Logic Pro as a DAW and even on Mac for hardware. Everything Apple has an agenda, like you said, which results in a never ending purchase cycle of expensive hardware from them. Using Windows is much more liberating IMO and provides more bang for the buck. That said, I still wanted to start getting used to a DAW that was committed to being available on both platforms, which was mostly narrowing it down to Cubase or Ableton.

[MBTC]

Also earlier when I mentioned Padshop I was assuming you were already a Cubase 7.x user Tweak. For those completely unfamiliar with it -- Padshop is included with Cubase (I'm not sure which version they started including it with, maybe 6.5). There are a lot of other good high quality plugins that come with Cubase but Padshop really stands out IMO. The upgrade to the pro version is only $10, but for the longest time I didn't know the upgrade was even an option - it seems stupid that they don't just include Pro with Cubase or raise the price by $10.

You can create way more than just pads with it, too. Highly recommended. I think its $80 if purchased without Cubase, but requires a USB dongle (something Cubase owners already have anyway).