[George Necola]

I forwarded your complaints to the Steinberg headquarter (Sales department). waiting for answer, and maybe they join in here themselve.

Originally Posted by Sascha Franck

I guess all you have to do is to read my previous posts. Performance is just extremely lousy and there's graphic glitches all over the place (these apparently started with C5, but I can't tell personally because the last version I used before was SX3/Win).
At 64 samples it's almost impossible to do any serious work on my Macbook 2.4 (4GB RAM).
I know, a comparison with Logic isn't all too fair because the Logic programmers have a certain advantage (being a division of Apple), but still, I can't see how the differences could be that dramatic. Also, from my brief tests with Reaper and Energy XT (both of which are quite lagging behind their Windows versions), they seem to perform better under low latencies as well.

Even back then under Windows, the differences in terms of low latency performance between Logic and Cubase SX (of course measured on a single core machine as Logic/Win can't take advance of multiple cores) were quite noticeable already (I'd say something like around 30% better performance), but very often that was quite fine as Cubase offered some nice features, so there's been a good reason to use it occasionally (apart from the fact that I had to do so because I was teaching it at the local music university).
But what I'm experiencing now is quite something different - it's really like night and day. And I really doubt that it has much to do with my setup (if at all), as Logic is performing very well - plus, as said, within their own limitations also Reaper and Energy XT (plus something else I can't talk about here) are doing fine. It's really just Cubase behaving that bad.
I already checked with 4 different audio interfaces, too, doesn't make any difference.

And believe me, I *wish* this would be any different. Right now I'm looking for a true alternative to Logic (Reaper simply doesn't fit the bill at all yet), preferably one that is x-platform, so I could already start using it today and continue with it once I'm ready to purchase my next music laptop (which would probably be a Windows one again). Theoretically Cubase could be perfect for this, I could start to transfer my older but still active Logic projects, replace plugins with x-platform stuff, etc.
But with that bad performance figures, I really hate to even open it. Too bad.

- Sascha