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flowdesigner wrote:

abluesky wrote: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

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.

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

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

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.

leedsquietman wrote: 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.