Cubase 9 coming in December according to Guitar Center

[JonSolo]

Which means it will likely be announced in the next few days officially. We will see.

By the way I think I might have a sibling that I was separated from at birth, but I have no further information, and I have been looking for Jimmy Hoffa...maybe you sleuths can drag up some info.

And no...my sibling is not Han.

[ghettosynth]

Here's someone's submitted idea for the "Sampler Track."

https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewto ... 28&t=92453

[ghettosynth]

https://www.woodbrass.com/en-dz/steinbe ... 34330.html
Availability Online : Available from 16/12/2016



Another one https://reverb.com/fr/item/3306011-stei ... 2240463641

Looks like next Monday then. I suppose I could activate my upgrade safely, but I have enough work to do as it is.

Friday, not Monday.

Doh! Of course you're right. I looked at the date and thought, ok, yeah, european dating, swap the day and month, totally in december. Then looked at the calendar and thought, the 12th, that's Monday.

[Robert Randolph]

https://www.woodbrass.com/en-dz/steinbe ... 34330.html
Availability Online : Available from 16/12/2016



Another one https://reverb.com/fr/item/3306011-stei ... 2240463641

This may simply be when they get stock in, not when it's released.

[Xtigma]

There is no chance that that date is accurate.. Steinberg said on their facebook page (comment reply) that there will be no pre-announcement, they will just launch and it will be available to buy.

all of these sites are updating at the same time.. it's coming Wed 7th 110%.. 1st Wed of December, it has been for the past 4 years

[koolkeys]

https://www.woodbrass.com/en-dz/steinbe ... 34330.html
Availability Online : Available from 16/12/2016



Another one https://reverb.com/fr/item/3306011-stei ... 2240463641

Looks like next Monday then. I suppose I could activate my upgrade safely, but I have enough work to do as it is.

But again, it says available ONLINE on that date. It says in store is "on demand". Not sure if that means right away or not? It could mean that they won't get any until then, while upgrades and online orders at Steinberg will be available right away. It is quite common for retailers to not get a product until days after release. Happens all the time.

Regardless, the release that has been announced at places like KVR has always come after the grace period upgrade period's listed date. So who knows. We'll know soon enough, I guess. I am guessing that stores wouldn't be allowed to have it for sale yet if it wasn't technically available to them, but at this point, I don't know what to believe except for that it is coming, lol. The stores where it is appearing all seem to be smaller stores that might be trying to get a jump on the big retailers, and Steinberg doesn't monitor those smaller stores as much. But that is all just theory. None of them really have any solid details of the release yet either.

Yes, I'm mildly trying to convince myself it will be available when I wake up tomorrow, lolol. But I still honestly believe it will be. The info on those pages just doesn't inspire any thoughts in me to think otherwise.

Brent

[zyguli]

I am also convinced it's going to be released tomorrow.

[igoramos]

darn, I might not make the grace period since I activated on Nov. 9th! going to be a close call...

[koolkeys]

darn, I might not make the grace period since I activated on Nov. 9th! going to be a close call...

The last 4 (at least) releases have had a grace period that started on October 15th. See the links I posted above to the individual grace period pages. If the release is indeed in the next few days, you should be fine as long as they don't shorten the grace period timing.

Brent

[LawrenceF]

I am also convinced it's going to be released tomorrow.

Nein!

[igoramos]

darn, I might not make the grace period since I activated on Nov. 9th! going to be a close call...

The last 4 (at least) releases have had a grace period that started on October 15th. See the links I posted above to the individual grace period pages. If the release is indeed in the next few days, you should be fine as long as they don't shorten the grace period timing.

Brent

phew! thanks!!

[incubus]

They are also notorious for introducing new features that don't work. I've thought about getting a steiny key (they have them at GC) and demoing cubuse again many many times. But I read more about horror stories than people stating how much they like it.

Seems they are a relic from the past that doesn't listen to their customers, can't beta test their own product, and expect people to be perfectly happy with that (like cakewalk)

While I don't disagree. I will say this, 7.5 is pretty stable on my system. I also like the songwriting features that a lot of people disapprove of. I've just not felt it for the last two releases so I haven't upgraded.

What I really like in Cubase is mixing and it's become important enough that I find that I'm spending too much time trying to find workarounds for missing features in Reaper.

My multi-DAW paradise is becoming more stable and my music production is getting faster. I need to spend some time with the cubase manual to revisit some ways of doing things. A lot of the reasons that I didn't like Cubase in the past have become irrelevant for me owing to new workflow.

I won't give up Reaper or Live just yet. Live is just too useful for certain genres and Reaper gets installed on every computer I have so it becomes my default DAW for just doing something wherever. I am moving back to Cubase as my main compositional DAW though, probably because what I'm doing has changed and now the features in Cubase are more important to me.

Haven't felt any love for Cakewalk since Cakewalk for DOS version 2.0.

W/o beating a dead horse, there is no right or wrong answer. Using an older version is always a good idea. But I really like the idea of being able to get the latest and greatest. Frankly, if it can't work (and 8 8.5 were fairly borked when they came out, as was 5, 5.5 when I had it) then why release it?

Either you get "I'd rather wait until it's finished" (which doesn't mean it will be ) or "you knew it would have issues" which doesn't help anyone. If the task of making something that works is too tall an order, people shouldn't support it and thus they should just stop making it. So many bloated hosts that have every conceivable feature, that doesn't work for a good lot

I'll bow out now, because it's disappointing. My wallet is ready/willing and able but past experiences and what will surely be current stumbles has even me.....the great gaser of gasers.....being skeptical.

[Kalamata Kid]

I am also convinced it's going to be released tomorrow.

Tamorrow!
Tamorrow!
it's only a day away.

And

it is forever a day away!

So

One can never be wrong
with
Tamorrow!

[koolkeys]

They are also notorious for introducing new features that don't work. I've thought about getting a steiny key (they have them at GC) and demoing cubuse again many many times. But I read more about horror stories than people stating how much they like it.

Seems they are a relic from the past that doesn't listen to their customers, can't beta test their own product, and expect people to be perfectly happy with that (like cakewalk)

While I don't disagree. I will say this, 7.5 is pretty stable on my system. I also like the songwriting features that a lot of people disapprove of. I've just not felt it for the last two releases so I haven't upgraded.

What I really like in Cubase is mixing and it's become important enough that I find that I'm spending too much time trying to find workarounds for missing features in Reaper.

My multi-DAW paradise is becoming more stable and my music production is getting faster. I need to spend some time with the cubase manual to revisit some ways of doing things. A lot of the reasons that I didn't like Cubase in the past have become irrelevant for me owing to new workflow.

I won't give up Reaper or Live just yet. Live is just too useful for certain genres and Reaper gets installed on every computer I have so it becomes my default DAW for just doing something wherever. I am moving back to Cubase as my main compositional DAW though, probably because what I'm doing has changed and now the features in Cubase are more important to me.

Haven't felt any love for Cakewalk since Cakewalk for DOS version 2.0.

W/o beating a dead horse, there is no right or wrong answer. Using an older version is always a good idea. But I really like the idea of being able to get the latest and greatest. Frankly, if it can't work (and 8 8.5 were fairly borked when they came out, as was 5, 5.5 when I had it) then why release it?

Either you get "I'd rather wait until it's finished" (which doesn't mean it will be ) or "you knew it would have issues" which doesn't help anyone. If the task of making something that works is too tall an order, people shouldn't support it and thus they should just stop making it. So many bloated hosts that have every conceivable feature, that doesn't work for a good lot

I'll bow out now, because it's disappointing. My wallet is ready/willing and able but past experiences and what will surely be current stumbles has even me.....the great gaser of gasers.....being skeptical.

But I know a lot of people who had zero problems with 8 or 8.5 right when they came out. Now, with a user base as large as somebody like Steinberg or Cakewalk or Apple, etc., you're bound to have issues with some users. But that doesn't mean it doesn't work. Your experience may not be great, but that and a limited number of posts on the web certainly don't represent the reality of the whole necessarily.

I for one am hopeful. I've always had a pretty stable system and have rarely had host stability issues. Call me lucky, call me overprotective of my system, whatever. But whatever I'm doing seems to have worked for me all these years

And just for fun, I just finished upgrading my system today with a new motherboard, Skylake CPU and 32GB of fresh DDR4 3200 RAM, among other things. I'm ready to test something new on it, lol. So bring on Cubase 9!

Brent

[ghettosynth]

They are also notorious for introducing new features that don't work. I've thought about getting a steiny key (they have them at GC) and demoing cubuse again many many times. But I read more about horror stories than people stating how much they like it.

Seems they are a relic from the past that doesn't listen to their customers, can't beta test their own product, and expect people to be perfectly happy with that (like cakewalk)

While I don't disagree. I will say this, 7.5 is pretty stable on my system. I also like the songwriting features that a lot of people disapprove of. I've just not felt it for the last two releases so I haven't upgraded.

What I really like in Cubase is mixing and it's become important enough that I find that I'm spending too much time trying to find workarounds for missing features in Reaper.

My multi-DAW paradise is becoming more stable and my music production is getting faster. I need to spend some time with the cubase manual to revisit some ways of doing things. A lot of the reasons that I didn't like Cubase in the past have become irrelevant for me owing to new workflow.

I won't give up Reaper or Live just yet. Live is just too useful for certain genres and Reaper gets installed on every computer I have so it becomes my default DAW for just doing something wherever. I am moving back to Cubase as my main compositional DAW though, probably because what I'm doing has changed and now the features in Cubase are more important to me.

Haven't felt any love for Cakewalk since Cakewalk for DOS version 2.0.

W/o beating a dead horse, there is no right or wrong answer. Using an older version is always a good idea. But I really like the idea of being able to get the latest and greatest. Frankly, if it can't work (and 8 8.5 were fairly borked when they came out, as was 5, 5.5 when I had it) then why release it?

Either you get "I'd rather wait until it's finished" (which doesn't mean it will be ) or "you knew it would have issues" which doesn't help anyone. If the task of making something that works is too tall an order, people shouldn't support it and thus they should just stop making it. So many bloated hosts that have every conceivable feature, that doesn't work for a good lot

I'll bow out now, because it's disappointing. My wallet is ready/willing and able but past experiences and what will surely be current stumbles has even me.....the great gaser of gasers.....being skeptical.

I get it man, 5.x pissed me off enough to switch to Reason. I wasn't getting any music done because Cubase just wasn't stable at all. Even through 5.5 it was shit for me. 7.5 has been stable, what can I say. If 9 is too flakey I'll reconsider and go back to 7.5 until 9.5 comes out.

All software has bugs. Every DAW I use, even Reason, has crashed on me at some point. Reaper has become weird lately and since it's displaying the same weirdness across multiple machines I'm assuming that it's some incompatibility with new plugins. The plugins stay though, so reaper has to take a sideline until that's sorted.