+1. For some people (like me), Cubase is the DAW (especially if you are in media composing) you don't know that you need it yet. Once you set up your own workflow, shortcuts and know it well (with muscle memory), it really is a truly comprehensive piece of software that I find one can grow with it. But instant gratification is probably not its strongest suite, despite the payoff being rewarding. Different DAW for different purposes and people I guess.
More than meets the eye
I tried it and I only could record MIDI CC from this device to a hardware synth (Virus TI) and it's limited to only a few knobs/parameters. But I spent about 5 minutes only on this yesterday in Live 12 Demo.
Once you go drag and drop, you'll never stop! That's one of the first things you learn when leaving Cubase. Of course, you can do just about everything in Cubase (and a lot of other DAWs as well) but it is how fast and efficient that really matters in the long run. After running Cubase for 30 years I tried the demos of most of the alternatives about six months ago, and finally settled on Studio One because for me (for some reason) it was the most Cubase-like in its architecture and approach, so I found it to be the easiest to switch. Maybe S1 kind of modeled Cubase in a more up-to-date interface and architecture, I don't know, but I think it's the most intuitive for switchers from Cubase. If you're starting from scratch perhaps others will be just as good, or even better, but once you know certain ways of thinking and doing things you need to find the one which is most comfortable. A Japanese speaker may say his language is better than English, because for him it certainly is, but only because he knows it and was brought up with it. DAW's are kind of like that.
Studio One gives you drag ‘n’ drop AND infinitely flexible, customisable and searchable keyboard commands and macros.
If I had a Mac, I'd give Logic a shot. Tried Studio One but really disliked the feel of the program, maybe I need to give it another shot. Digital Performer looks great on paper, but people still report that it's unusable on PC.It’s really unfortunate and doesn’t inspire long-term confidence in the use of the software. What if there’s a “feature” I’m currently using frequently that’s going to be “removed” in a future update?
Actually I found that one the whole DP is quite stable on Windows. Fortunately Motu keeps an archive of various versions, so if the latest update doesn't work as expected you can always rollback to another version.
I'm trying the trial of DP 11.31 on Windows 11 and it's stable enough...the problem that I encoutered is an examination failure of some plugins...
