Cubase 7.5 official announcement!

[Gambapaketera]

Im in

[budweiser]

+1. Bought and downloading !

[fgimian]

Yep, that's the page I saw when I posted earlier. Seems that the site is going up and down a lot at the moment, I can no longer load it.

[SJ_Digriz]

lol, still not accessible here

[kd8t23]

Im in

Oh, cool, so now you know that it is "Now available". Great...

[kd8t23]

+1. Bought and downloading !

Good luck with the downloading

[mkdr]

* F3 key sometimes doesn't open the mixer (you have to hit it twice)

I think it's the same in C6(and 6.5)? If you have it open behind other windows the first F3 key press closes it, second one opens it. Same exact behavior is on plugin guis. Could be better, true. But no biggie. Certainly not something to bitch about on every Cubase thread (not that You would do so.. but some)

It seems as if the New thing, the mixer, gets all the bashing even though things haven't changed that much.. and indeed are the same elsewhere. It's just because it's new. This is a very classic "change resistance" phenomenon, which is quite common the older you get. I'm sure none of the people who have problems are under 40.

And btw. I hardly ever open or close the mixer as I've assigned a Workspace for this. If Workspaces are a new thing to someone in Cubase, you have to check them out! Those solve most of the problems people tend to have with Cubases open Gui windowing system. Use them!

* Mixer is slow to open and laggy when scrolling through on bigger projects (v6 is much faster)

Haven't noticed this, but does make sense. More to draw takes more time to draw. No surprises there. Haven't had any lags myself though.

* Mixer interface (GUI) is not at all consistent with the arrange page (e.g. mute, solo, record and monitor buttons .etc)

Really hope that we see a lot more refinement in 7.5, but it doesn't appear that much work has gone into improving the mixer in the videos posted so far.

Totally agree. Some things could be more inline with the rest of the look. I just think that Steinberg didn't wan't to change too much at the same time. Most of the things you usually use should anyway be assigned to keyboard commands you can quickly use, so this isn't that big of an issue for professionals, or semi-pros. When you learn to use the whole system efficiently some of the GUI inefficiencies don't matter that much. It's a tool, not a piece of art or demonstration of perfect GUI-design. Just like some plugins that look ugly(krhm.. Sylenth..) are still very useful because of what they sound like. But sure, improvement could be made, it's just not something in my opinion that Steinberg should waste their time on, when they can create something as great as Asio Guard or Chord tracks instead.

[Gambapaketera]

Im in

Oh, cool, so now you know that it is "Now available". Great...

Well, im refreshing the page because i want to buy their product...why are you refreshing it if you dont like what they sell??

Its not an attempt at trolling or to begin an argument with you, i am genuinely interested.

[fgimian]

mkdr thanks for your feedback. The F3 bug in Cubase 7 is not quite what you're thinking. There are times that the mixer was closed while I was using the Trial where F3 simply didn't respond the first time and I had to hit it a second time. This happened to me a number of times. I have never once seen this happen in Cubase 6.

But as you said, my gripes were not big ones and if Cubase 7.x offered something I really wanted (e.g. bounce in place), I think I would be upgrading. As I mentioned above, it's really hard to move to a new version when v6.5 is by far the most bug-free DAW I have ever used!

[kd8t23]

Its not an attempt at trolling or to begin an argument with you, i am genuinely interested.

No, the irony was directed at Stonebergh, not you. Its ironic that they announce that it is "available", while we cant get to the page.

[mkdr]

mkdr thanks for your feedback. The F3 bug in Cubase 7 is not quite what you're thinking. There are times that the mixer was closed while I was using the Trial where F3 simply didn't respond the first time and I had to hit it a second time. This happened to me a number of times. I have never once seen this happen in Cubase 6.

Ah, sorry. I misunderstood. Count that as my gui improvement idea then

But as you said, my gripes were not big ones and if Cubase 7.x offered something I really wanted (e.g. bounce in place), I think I would be upgrading. As I mentioned above, it's really hard to move to a new version when v6.5 is by far the most bug-free DAW I have ever used!

Yes, of course. Something that i live by too. If it's not broken(and you are happy with how it works) don't fix it! I've updated to C7 because of the new features i wanted, but C6.5 was great too. Until you see the same need, stick with what works the best for you!

Now that Steinberg has evaluation versions it's even easier to decide if you want to update. I'd suggest using that option to everyone who has doubts about new versions. I'm off to buy the update now though

[JonSolo]

Hammered site, whew! Slow...might wait till this afternoon. Anyone got it yet?

[Gambapaketera]

Hammered site, whew! Slow...might wait till this afternoon. Anyone got it yet?

Aye, downloading HS se right now, the update is downloaded but ill apply it later because i need to get something to eat first

[Guillermo Navarrete]

Hello all,

Unfortunately due to the huge demand and visits to our website some of you might experience delays accessing the online shop and the Cubase 7.5 website.

We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patient.

Best regards,
GN

[VitaminD]

Updated my license splendidly !

Will likely get to the download later in the week.. as Guillermo says.. their site is getting hammered at the moment!