this. looks wonderful.....

[arctic ranger]

Then why don't you get cubase?

Because I dont want to learn a new daw

if you have any semblance of a brain, you will pick up cubase in a couple of days....its dead easy
in a wierd sort of way...its much easier than live

[leedsquietman]

The best thing about Cubase - dual monitor support, arrange on one page, mixer view on second screen.

Screen 1 put your arrange page


Screen 2 put one of your mixer configurations
Config 1 - extended mixer with EQ curves


Config 2 - Extended Mixer with extended metering


Config 3 - 2 mixers - 1st mixer = audio channels. 2nd mixer = MIDI, VST and Group channels.

[esky]

Cubase has good features, but it looks so damn ugly, incedibly tasteless...

[oneummon]

Cubase looks delicious. All those colours are inspiring. Live's GUI looks just fine, where's the better skin editor?

[crofter]

I've used Cubase for years, long before Live, it's excellent at what it does and looks great too, Live's a different kettle of fish, excellent at what it does and looks great too, horses for courses.

[Short Scope Boy]

Studio One - written by 2 ex Steinberg employees (who mostly worked on Nuendo, which is a very similar GUI to Cubase). Studio One is promising but still lacks some of the functionality of more developed DAWS, I expect as it evolves to about version 3 that it will be a killer DAW.

This DAW is an awful lot of bang for your buck, and offers great integration with Presonus hardware.

Cubase has always been pretty, I even recall the Atari version being pretty cool to look at, all be it monochrome and midi only. Although I preferred Midi Studio Master; that program kicked arse in the Atari( imagine one day if we could record audio using just a computer ) days.