For those of us who have or are thinking about Cubase, 7.5 is coming on Dec. 4.
 
I bought Cubase 6.5 in July, which gave me an auto-update to 7.0, followed by 6 - yep, count 'em - 6 updates to 7.0.6.
 
Now 7.5 is out in just a few days - gotta like that!
 
No pricing structure that I can see as of yet, though.
 
But one cool feature that I see already is that if you start a recording and just don't like how it's going, you just hit record again, and it starts a new recording back where you started from - including pre-roll & count in settings.
 
Before, you had to stop it, hit delete, & then hit record again.
 
Not no more!   
 
 http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/cubase/start.html
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If that's not enough, never mind touch surfaces - check this out!
 
Controlling Cubase just with hand gestures! Are you f'n kidding me?
 
I'm gonna keep my eye on this one for sure! Just might have to try it one day - hopefully sooner than later.
 
http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/accessories/cubase_ic_air.html?et_cid=15&et_lid=21&et_sub=Cubase%20iC%20Air

There are lot of very useful new features...

They've also given a Tape Emulator, ala Sonar...

Yes, I see that - 

• Magneto 2: Adding warmth to your tracks. Seems like they've brought it back after removing it.

jimusic
Yes, I see that - 

• Magneto 2: Adding warmth to your tracks. Seems like they've brought it back after removing it.

They probably didn't want to compete with themselves over their own Tape Emu VST...
But when Sonar put one in that probably felt compelled to add it back in....

cclarry
...But when Sonar put one in that probably felt compelled to add it back in....

I was thinking that too.

nah, I think the main players go thru fads ..e.g. the black / white FET stuff a while back...
 
was a bit miffed at their marketing..got an email, saying to upgrade as the price was going up... so I did.. then see an email "if you activated 7 on 15th oct onward you get 7.5 free"... I bought it on the 8th, so the charge will be £40.. which I think is another case of "off" marketing..
 
hopefully they will offer something nice in the update besides the update.. e.g. retrologe / padshop...
 
tape emu's are fine.. but... I bought u-he satin, so not overly bothered about tape emu's
 
 
 

Yeah - I also have one - the Waves Kramer Tape, Tubes & Transistors.
 
What would be ideal is if they did the same integration with Melodyne as Cake & Presonus did.
 
Now THAT would be ideal. 

And they've add a great upgrade for notation also.   Just sayin'...

vintagevibe
And they've add a great upgrade for notation also.   Just sayin'...

Oh the humanity...

vintagevibe
And they've add a great upgrade for notation also.   Just sayin'...

 
handy when you hire the ex-staff of a certain well known notation software... and YEP I hope it crushes the rival that was so quick to dump the staff.