Man!

I just saw the videos of the new Cubase 7... I am a huge fan of Steinberg's DAW but, I have to admit, I got very very disapointed... They changed the mixer window in such a ugly way... And they are offering a "mix" of Reason's and Sonar's solution in it... Now they have a kind of prochannel, a very ugly one, with the appereance of an ugly reason mixer... Plus, they are highlighting a "auto-arranger" function, to promote musicians creativity... Different than Cakewalk, when They introduce Skylight interface, with all the beauty (at least), Cubase is now uglier...

Holy ugliness

Oh man!!!!!I'm with you 100%!!!Sonar GUI and console are almost real.Best.Roby

I have noticed that many Sonar competitors are coping the Cake solutions.New Cubase channel strip (Pro Channel) and the Protools 10 well publicized (Tony Maserati!!!!) news of "Per Clip effect" that Sonar had already for a long time.

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Man!

I just saw the videos of the new Cubase 7... I am a huge fan of Steinberg's DAW but, I have to admit, I got very very disapointed... They changed the mixer window in such a ugly way... And they are offering a "mix" of Reason's and Sonar's solution in it... Now they have a kind of prochannel, a very ugly one, with the appereance of an ugly reason mixer... Plus, they are highlighting a "auto-arranger" function, to promote musicians creativity... Different than Cakewalk, when They introduce Skylight interface, with all the beauty (at least), Cubase is now uglier...

Holy ugliness

I agree, the mixer is indeed ugly.
 
I think the Band in a Box type features are actually great.
 
It has a more robust notation editor (which should get better once the the former Sibelius devs have their way with it - could be a couple of years though).
 
It doesnt' have a Matrix View.
 
BUT - I think where they really dropped the ball, was not having dockable windows.  I can just picture it now: windows spewing out everywhere.  This seems like a bonehead move.  I think Cube-heads were almost positive that there would be dockable windows.
 
 

Yep!! Ugly as an ugly thing!

Looks like a beginners Reaper skin.

It reminded me of Orion, back in the days... Only uglier. 





For a company usually as strong on the graphic side, the new mixer sure comes as a surprise. The rest of Cubase/Nuendo since version 6 is eye-candy, though it's not always the most ergonomic - something which the new miser addresses in part.

I don't get the "ugly?" The X() scheme is ugly but nobody seems to care about that. What's worse about the X() theme? It's painful to the eyes.

I like the Har Bal type function that lets you match an eq curve of a recording of your choice.

Not good. We're now in the war of ugly grey and blue GUIs. I think prochannel looks kind of tacky, so for Cubase to outdo that is only going to make the whole market start parroting ugly interfaces.

Don't like the new GUI of Cubase 7. Too crowded and small!
If I ever leave Sonar I would rather go with Logic.