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I know it's a bit tacky, but I just felt like ranting a bit about Cubase 4.

I've used Cubase since 1991 (on the Atari), and with the exception of a few years with a PowerMac 9500 running Opcode StudioVision, it's been my choice of musical composition tool ever since. Granted - had StudioVision still been around, I'd most likely still be using that. What a sad story that was, btw. What's wrong with those people over at Gibson anyway?

Sorry - lost the plot there for a moment.

C4 is the bomb! It still has a few flaws, and I still get the occasional "serious error - please save your work under a new name", but it's never thrown away work or not been able to proceed. It's streamlined, easy to use, and extremely powerful. And best of all - it really sounds fabulous. The new plugin set deserves a blog of its own, but I can't be bothered. If you haven't alreday, buy it!

There are so many good things to be said about C4, I hardly know where to start. I'll just say this: ProTools is great, Live is funky, Logic is geeky, Sonar is cool, DP is mindboggeling, ACID is groovy, but Cubase 4 is all of the above. And then some. I am falling in love all over again.

I just wish Manfred and Charlie would pick up the pace a little and finally give us side chaining (it's coming, they say), free Group Track Routing, and release the goddam VST 3 SDK already!

Other than that, I am one happy camper.