Every year it is half off twice in the year.

 

Too much for making music

 

Thats quite common with the Steinis. 13 was 12.2 and 11 was 10.2

 

They FINALLY revamped expression maps. For me it's worth the upgrade alone. The vocal synth looks interesting too.

 

I've been a Studio One user since v3, but I'm honestly pretty impressed with some of the stuff Steinberg added in the last few versions. Before that they added the audio blobs that essentially streamline clip gain (wish we had that on S1), and now they essentially ported Vocaloid into the DAW. Even though both software come from the same company (Yamaha), I never thought they would just go ahead and do it. What I hope is that they expand it further by allowing Vocaloid libraries to be imported into it, and then also go ahead and allow you to import your own models. I haven't looked deep into it since I have no plans of leaving Studio One for the time being, so maybe it's already there or not, I don't know.

 

you can have both. i like studio one because it reminds of logic x but the windows version. also studio one is very fast to work in.. its easy.. its kinda easy to understand and the interface is spot on.. in cubase it takes a bit longer to do the same task but cubase sounds amazing, too.

 

Yeah, less is more.
Too much stuff will fuck you up. Same as analog gear. The more you hoard the more you bloat.

 

On paper "one stop solution to all"
In MY reality: "jack of all trades, master of none"
Idk but when I open Cubase, it feels like "rushed".

 

Pinch-to-zoom in macOS, finally. Although, I'm pretty used to G and H shortcuts now (sometimes I catch myself using G and H instead of R and T in Pro Tools)

 

Bullshit. I don't need to have used Dolby Atmos or Surround mixing or the modulators to make use of the new Expression Map fix that is extremely useful for composers, or any other new feature that's unrelated to the ones I mentioned, like DAW Project, etc...

Steinberg usually releases one post-release update for the latest legacy version. It should theoretically get fixed in that update, but there's no guarantee that it will.

 

I learned a long time ago that the only limitations we have are those we place upon ourselves. It is fine to like what you like and not use that which does not suit you. "I can't" is a negative mental prompt, reading some of the posts. It all comes down to what works best for the individual. As you all were.

 

Well people that actually compose music of their own still use daws like Cubase 15! Unlike people that glue samples together of others and then call this their own music, like users of for instance FL-Studio?

 

Cubase is as easy or complicated as you want or need. For me it's dead simple, before I had Cubase i used to play guitar/keys into a 4 track recorder.

Then MIDI Sequencers came along and i recorded my synth parts to midi that could also play back programmed beats etc, and i could edit my playing, Samples were triggered by midi from hardware. Now you dont even need a sampler. Still needed to rec onto tape though.

Decades later my method today is just same as when i started, only now I play and record in Cubase.

It's not wot you got, it's wot you do wiv wot you got innit.

Literally, i dont use all the thousands of posibilities Cubase offers in those pull down menus, all i know is, cut copy paste und how to put inserts on tracks, dat's it.

My music regularly joins Kylie Calvin Guetta etc in top ten charts, so my advice would be, if you wanna write songs, keep it simple and if you wanna produce engineer and then master, it'll never happen, as all the plugs in da world world will never make you the Head engineer of a top studio, that's who mixes my stems, how about you? how about your stems?

All you need is an instrument to make great music.

 

May be bit off topic but curious if you ever transferred Atari files to PC, and if did, how?

 

If you have a cubase dongle from C11 or earlier, you can use Cubase SX3 or SE3 for that. If your floppies are dos formatted that is. Otherwise you can not read the Atari files. Instructions and download are somewhere in the Steiny knowledge base.

 

People still use FL Studio in 2025? If you need to glue samples together in your spare time, you are of course free to do so. We only release prog-rock originals since 20 years back, unfortunately.

 

a bit weird but my audio stutters with asio4all in cubase 15... when i use sound interface no issues.. this is so weird..

 

That's not weird at all. You should simply not use ASIO4ALL since it is merely a generic audio driver that functions as a wrapper for WDM (Windows Driver Model). Use the ASIO driver that the manufacturer of your audio interface provides.

 

No, I never transfered any ATARI Midi files to PC later when x86 PC appeared. i know there are or were converters.
I still have the old Atari Disks in my basement and so the DAT cassettes with all my 90is productions.
somehow the old 90is Eurodance music tracks were so simple that i could have re-made them in a few hours on PC anyway.


additional off topic info >

I have all self recorded Vocals from that time off my Akai S1000, Ensoniq ASR-10 sleeping on my SSD and external HDD.(who knows)
Later i used an Commodore Amiga 500 with a midi interface but went back to Atari for productions.

~1993 i bought my 1st PC x86 with Emagic Logic but still also used the Atari for productions because some music partners had no clue about X86... i also had buy STEINBERG CUBASE for other projects.. which i stopped upgrading at version 10 which is still perfect for 2025.


additional Info of these times > the income me and my partner had with Vinyl sales, CD´s sales and Guest- DJ stuff was not that great since we werent very successful compared to the Sony, Virgin, Zyx etc hyped projects but we had a lot fun.

i was poor at the end of 1998 and had to go to do real work again
We had endless fun and met cool people from 1993 to 1998 and some hope to become famous which feels good as motivator.

i dont know how often such experiences happen today to young people, but if then enjoy the time as long as it lasts!!