lordExtra:
I’ve been a Cubase user for almost 20 years now.
Cubase workflow is awesome for me. However, the GUI needs some love. With each update, Steinberg has definitely changed the look. But I feel like the designers think that we want flashy looks—very childish, consumer hifi, crammed, 3D, need for speed luxury car interior, etc. An example is right here in the forum. Look up. The shocking, bright-red Steinberg logo on top of a sky-blue gradient banner. My eyes hurt.
We are after all artists. Aesthetic sensibility matters: the way text is formatted, colors, events/regions, waveforms, analysis tools embedded logically, visual feedback, smoothness, etc. Things can look beautiful/inviting and be functional. Ableton does it well—they care. Logic is cognizant of this. Pro Tools has its own charm. But all these DAWs lack Cubase’s workflow and power for me.
Please lets make Cubase more beautiful.
Steinberg lives off that. They deliberately mess with the GUI in every update so as to sell you the fix in the next one, in turn introducing more braindead and annoying crap as they go along. There simply is no other explanation for this. They have the poison, they have the remedy.
Do not expect this behaviour to change anytime soon, it makes them money.
That’s sad. I really hope that is not the case. Also, when users here say that GUI doesn’t matter, and that Steinberg should focus on bug fixes etc., I’m really shocked. I mean, the graphics team doesn’t have much to do with bug fixes–they have their own job. And I’m sure there are various teams for different features and operations.