Cubase SX for Mac OS X is Shipping

An anonymous reader writes "Steinberg's flagship Cubase SX is shipping now, with support for CoreAudio, CoreMidi, VST Plugin support, Rewire, and REXort.
Now only ProTools and Digital Performer are left on the Mac OS 9 side. When do they follow?" Well, ProTools for Mac OS X has already been announced.

Comments

Re:Needs Jaguar, unfortunately

[Twirlip of the Mists]

I think you're extrapolating from a sample set that's too small to support your conclusions.

If you look at the real guts of 10.1 versus the real guts of 10.2, you'll see that 10.2 was a substantial feature upgrade. Lots of new stuff came with 10.2, while 10.1 was mostly a performance upgrade with a few new features. If you ever used 10.0, you'll agree, I imagine, that a performance upgrade was really welcome when 10.1 came out.

But Mac OS X is not Linux; they don't use an odd-number, even-number release gimmick. They have never used such a gimmick. Some releases are minor feature releases and are available for free or only a little cost. Some releases are major ones for which Apple charges a reasonable, not nontrivial, fee.

So when you say, "10.3 will almost certainly be a free... upgrade..." I really think you're kind of talking out of your ear. No offense.

And the thing about "Steve gets what Steve wants?" What's that all about? Are you just grumpy today, or is it your usual thing?

Re:Needs Jaguar, unfortunately

[derch]

I'm pulling much of this from memory of the flames over the 10.2 upgrade price. I'm relatively new to the Mac world (since Jan '02) so I can't speak from personal experience.

Many people pointed out that:

- 10.0 was a full price product.
- 10.1 was a free upgrade ($20 for shipping) to 10.0
- 10.2 was a full price product.

They pointed out that Apple has a history of charging for every other point one upgrade. They speculated 10.3 would follow the pattern and be a free upgrade. Of course the question is, do you have to have 10.2 installed for the upgrade version to work?

As a user of 10.2, it's worth it. It's smoother, faster. Quartz Extreme greatly lessened the load on my TiBook. The anti-spam support in Mail is easily worth $40 (119 messages filtered in the past four days). Other updates and additions to Terminal, Finder, and the OS in general quickly make up for the other $90.

Re:No no no no!

[usr122122121]

I waited for almost a year for Coda to at least post a notice as to when they were going to port Finale to OS X. They eventually said "Finale 2003." When I heard that the 2003 version was still not OS X compatible, I went and bought Sibelius.

As it turns out, Sibelius, which I avoided for almost a year, is a FAR better program. It, like all pro apps, takes some getting used to, but it is a very powerful app.

Re:Complex tools better?

[usr122122121]

Is there a Sound Recorder equivalent for OSX?

While I'm not familiar with Sound Recorder, I have to recommend Felt Tip Sound Studio. It is an amazingly simple and powerful audio tool that I think would fit your needs nicely.