First Cubase SX4 screenshots

Thanks to Kirke for passing along this set of early/leaked images from Cubase SX4, showing a distinctly Ableton LIve - inspired look, a useful-looking 'Control Room' routing matrix, and various new plugins. The ever-loyal cubase.net official forums already has 11 pages of people saying how much it's going to suck... UPDATE: Here are the images without any hosting BS: 'Mystic' plugin, 'Control Room' patching, something boring, 'Prologue' plugin, 'Spector' plugin, a channel strip, main screen.

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

Maybe 'Zee Churmunzz' ver not so happy with the early release ?

It appears the Shots have been pulled from that site.

Grrrrrrr

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:02 pm

You can find the pictures in this topic here:

http://www.audioninjahz.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1840

I'm not sure what I think about the look, but I won't be using it anyway.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:38 pm

Yep, they surely borrowed some interface clues from Ableton. 2d controls are the way to go for legibility, IMO.

# posted by

FZero : 4:56 pm

Yeah, I started routing a long time ago.

matrix

# posted by

matrix : 5:52 pm

The synth plug-ins look more like Logic's ES2 to me. The interface is almost a direct rip.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:01 pm

every single one of those places, the audioninjahz page, and the musiciansfriend page, wrapped the jpegs in some stupid bit of software that made it less convenient to view, musiciansfriend as java new windows, and audioninjahz in some weird bit of java. both slower than holding down control to open in new window in mozilla, which lets pics load in the background. i absolutely hate stupid design fetishism and bad programming that gets in the way of nippy browsing. and now i've wasted two minutes ranting about it here. sheesh.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:02 pm

wow, the cubase forum seems full of dinks...

what are you people using these days for a daw?

# posted by

Anonymous : 11:43 pm

I always liked Cubase's latest look. This look is pretty good. 1/3 old look, 1/3 Logic, 1/3 Abelton.

I'd have bought it, but it ran ass-slow on the mac, and crashed a lot on the PC.

Looked good tho. This new version looks pretty good tho.

# posted by

Doktor Future : 11:47 pm

always preferred Nuendo over Cubase as my fav DAW

but my fav sequencer is still Ab Live

# posted by

Awakened Yeti : 3:35 am

Yeah, but can I use a side-chain input on a compressor VST without having to use some surround-sound multichannel trick?

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:22 pm

seriously, how is this even a product that attempts to capture real sound via mics. It's as if Neve asked Picasso to design a mixing desk.

What's wrong with a fader? it's too simple?

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:57 pm

Well, interface appeal is as important as audio quality today. Just look at those beautiful Native Instruments interfaces, and you'll know one of the reasons why they're so popular.

On the long run, however, quality, ease of use, and other important qualities will decide if these products are really good and the users will finally choose to stick to them or not.

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:44 am

wow...shut up people...go out and do something

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:17 pm

"always preferred Nuendo over Cubase as my fav DAW"

Always? Must have been tough before Nuendo came out.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:48 am

i agree with bengoldacre

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:25 pm

LOL I remember Cubase so old hat now, was good in the early 90's on the Atari though - where it looked its best IMHO. Do people actually still use Cubase? Music software is so boring and "me too" isn't it? Maybe thats why 99% of modern music is shite.

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:36 pm