Hosts & Applications (Sequencers, DAWs, Audio Editors, etc.) • Re: Its over for Bitwig--CUBASE WON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I find that philosophy leads to very cluttered work environments. Sometimes you have to cut legacy stuff loose if you find a way to implement something in a better way.

The real power of Cubase lies in it's ability to be extremely customizable

Once you wrap your head around how to customize it, you can make it exactly how you want to do whatever you want. This becomes incredible as you can make it bend to your will

So you don't ultimately have a cluttered work environment, you end up with the exact work environment you want/need

Or you can create multiple task specific work environments. Say one for your work projects and another for your personal projects

Or one for your hardware and another for software, or one for recording microphones and guitars, and another for virtual instruments

It seems overwhelming at first but when you stick with it, it will click and start to make sense. Then the five ways to do something starts to make sense as one of those ways will incorporate itself better into whatever workflow you want to design

In a lot of ways you can consider it a modular environment

.. and I thought this was the excuse Reaper users always had? Looks like Cubase is the new "UI sucks, so lets just blame it on customization flexibility".

To be fair, Reaper runs absolute rings around Cubase when it comes to customization (and in my opinion, still manages to be way easier and quicker to use).

As a current Cubase user who has also tried Reaper, I'd say there can be too much of a good thing. Reaper is so customizable that it's easy to feel completely lost, especially if you're fairly new to DAWs and don't know exactly how to work efficiently. Cubase is always going to look and feel like Cubase so it forces you into a basic workflow that's going to work for most people out of the box. Then it gives you plenty of options to customize and tweak this basic workflow as you get more used to the program. Reaper out of the box is like a cross between Microsoft Excel 95 and Visual Studio 6.0.

You can't have too much of a good thing. You just need to know what you want. Once you do, Reaper will do it - you only need to remember two things: right click, and custom actions. Anything can be done via these two. You want a track? You double click in the track panel and you have a track. You can put anything in that track, no matter if its midi, wav, rex, flac, whatever. You want to route? Right click. You want to put effects on one specific sound in a track with other sounds? Right click. You want to normalize one sound, then add a specific comp with specific settings and routings? Create a custom action. Everything you create once, and have it forever. You. Just. Need. To. Know. What. You. Want. And in a few weeks you will be able to do in 3min what others do in 1 hour.

What you said about reaper looking like excel? Maybe, if you haven't opened it in the last 14 years.

Statistics: Posted by twal — Mon Nov 11, 2024 7:37 pm