For now, I’m choosing not to update - because Direct Offline processing is broken.
That means that I can’t actually mix my tracks! DOP often spits back the audio it processes off-time and even causes Cubase to become unresponsive.
I use the CPU-intensive Acustica N4 - because I have some great-sounding libraries. Since I can’t freeze my tracks anymore, and because DOP is unreliable, it’s pointless to upgrade. Actually, it would be a sidegrade, because there would be no vertical movement. (Unless DOP has been totally fixed in 10.5.) Now, I’ve been “updating” for years (from version 6), hoping that Cubase would get better and more convenient. I make very little money. But, I paid to ‘update’ to Cubase 9 and 10, too.
Why should I purchase 10.5 when I can’t even use it to make music?
I posted about this in the ‘Issues’ section, but haven’t even received so much as an acknowledgment that this is an issue.
EDIT: I was wrong. Freezing is still here, even in Cubase 10!