And all those tiles are gone, at least for the casual user. The START stuff is still accessible but no longer dominates the experience. They have settled on a clean look that is similar to the minimalist Chromebook. They finally seem to have found themselves with the desktop view. I’m sure there are significant foundations under the covers, but mostly that is unremarkable at least for the moment. ![]() And of course, each PC that is replaces will generate a new license fee for Windows. They intentionally restricted it to the most recent CPU generations in order to get strong buy-in from the hardware makers and retailers. Win11 is a fresh start from a marketing standpoint. They have put their recent focus on the Surface and the app layer, but never really came to grips with the desktop itself. They have tried a bunch of different approaches to the Start button, none of them very well liked. Microsoft has been fighting internally for 15 years about whether the laptop/desktop should act like a cell phone. This worked to a reasonable degree, but wasn’t really contributing as much as they would have liked. The idea was that they could generate revenues through OEM sales of Win 10 and monetized sales leads that the OS and browser would kick off. Microsoft created a marketing challenge when they positioned Win 10 as “free for life”. It is a non-critical device I use mainly for web browsing. I have converted a low end laptop to Win 11. There are no real advantages, but also no real disadvantages Yahama should have redisigned the 02R 96 with led scribble strip and surrounds panned for around 2k maximum, the DM200 was a dream machine but cost to much, it’s all there and they will not bring it back, Roland are with their hardware so come on Yamaha give cubase users a reinvented up to date 02R 96 a fully integrated control surface with bespoke os, midi 2 to make it fly, it would be glorious with long lifespan and upgrade path to Nuendo and Nuage. Even an entry level nuage, way to costly be to buy and cumbersome and out of reach financially for 95 % of your users. Also hoping that if Cubase 12 has atmos built in you have the relevant (and accsssible) hardware to run it! Cubase is just about the only mainstream daw that does not have an accessible and bespoke controller. Cubase 11.5 should have been released on time, people could have upgraded knowing that next year your were moving to a different dongle free licensing model and I’m sure there would have been a much better reaction, support and excitement.to have Cubase 11.5 for Christmas along with a good buzz and build-up campaign for a dongle free Cubase 12. ![]() I always said that when Steinberg got the Eucon adapter working with the avid control surface I’d crossgrade to Nuendo but that will be put on hold for the foreseeable future, I’m not going to give Steinberg another 800 bucks for something which by the looks of it I’ll be able rent at some point in the future, so, thank you for that Steinberg I have to say again, there’s no support for your plans from these quarters on this move at this point of time for sure. I’ve been using Steinberg software since Pro 24 on Atari and apart from pulling hair out over long running bugs have generally supported them all the way but on this I cant, it’s ill concieved, it’s been launched at the wrong time of the year the PR and loyalty of steinberg staff are swimming in whitewash. All of these plans should have been made public at the middle of the year and implemented in the middle of next year, not dropped on people with no notice in the few weeks run up Christmas. ![]() I think this is a huge mistake, Steinbergs timing couldn’t be worse, ovr it could be quite deliberate, who’s to know. Black Friday has already started, Christmas is a few weeks away, peak sales time for most hardware/software companies, a lot of people (with limited finances) will go above and beyond to get their kids what they want for presents, for many that will be a daw or virtual instrument which needs a dongle items that,in a lot of cases have already been purchased, which from the 1st January is in no man’s land and could potentially cause a lot of issues for a lot of people who are currently unaware of such huge changes. You know nothing about me either, so let’s not get personal aye? The fact is, as of the new year, an elicencer, holding substantial financial investment becomes more of less valueless and will deter a lot of people who are now wondering at the cost of becoming a member of the cubase family.
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