thank you for your comments. I have been reading through the presonus forums along with anything else I could find online. I realize cubase pro is a much deeper program, at least it looks like that from what I’ve seen so far. But in my case that is probably a good thing. Personally, I probably only use about 40% of the features in cubase pro. I know that logic would dictate I should get one of the more remedial programs from cubase. But I’ve always found that knowing there is always more to grow into gives me a good feeling. Still, after using cubase for years I don’t think I’m ever going to graduate to a pro level user. Right now S1 seems to be more in line with my needs. But as I believe I said earlier, I do not take this change lightly. I’ve grown up with cubase and I feel a certain affection towards it. Moving to something else is more than just changing software it’s putting part of my past up on the shelf.