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LQM · 3rd August 2009

I upgraded from SX3 to C5 and am finding it very stable for an early release and enjoying the many upgraded features it offers. I am not a SB fanboy (have had 'overly negative' posts deleted or threads locked and one warning about conduct on the forum, which put me off using Cubase and posting there for a while), indeed I often use Ableton Live 7 Suite for composing and arrangement, but have really grown into liking C5 a lot. I am running it on a Windows Vista 32 laptop with Core2Duo and 4 GB ram and it is running very nicely. I first tried it on my older P4 3.2 Ghz laptop w/ 2GB ram and it ran OK, except for stuff like Reverence which is to be expected (offline processing and.or freezing helped here). That machine has since died unfortunately.

In my experience, Cubase runs better on PC than Mac, which we use at work, and has for a long time. Not to say the mac version is bad, it's just not quite as slick. Logic does feel more in groove with the Mac OSX systems than Cubase if I'm honest.

I will give SB kudos though for C5, which I feel is their best sequencer yet and as time goes by, some glitches will be fixed and maybe some more functionality might be included as was the case in C4. Either way, it's a really good, solid app on my computer.

3rd August 2009	#393
LQM Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2009 Location: GTA - Canada Posts: 725	I upgraded from SX3 to C5 and am finding it very stable for an early release and enjoying the many upgraded features it offers. I am not a SB fanboy (have had 'overly negative' posts deleted or threads locked and one warning about conduct on the forum, which put me off using Cubase and posting there for a while), indeed I often use Ableton Live 7 Suite for composing and arrangement, but have really grown into liking C5 a lot. I am running it on a Windows Vista 32 laptop with Core2Duo and 4 GB ram and it is running very nicely. I first tried it on my older P4 3.2 Ghz laptop w/ 2GB ram and it ran OK, except for stuff like Reverence which is to be expected (offline processing and.or freezing helped here). That machine has since died unfortunately. In my experience, Cubase runs better on PC than Mac, which we use at work, and has for a long time. Not to say the mac version is bad, it's just not quite as slick. Logic does feel more in groove with the Mac OSX systems than Cubase if I'm honest. I will give SB kudos though for C5, which I feel is their best sequencer yet and as time goes by, some glitches will be fixed and maybe some more functionality might be included as was the case in C4. Either way, it's a really good, solid app on my computer.