Cubase

What works

I installed this on a whim because I had the disk OEM from a bit of hardware that I purchased. The program installs and runs right out of the box. The update installs fine too. I tested the included VSTi instruments and VST plugins and they seem to work. I tried the default trial projects, and I sequenced a few drum loops, recorded a snippit and imported some audio, and there were no crashes.

What does not

The playback is quirky with the stock setup, which is not surprising considering how twitchy Steinberg's DAWs are in terms of hardware support and drivers. Juggling some settings cleared things up.

Workarounds

What was not tested

I have not tried the wine ASIO driver yet, nor have I tried JACK, but i expect that would smooth out the performance over the stock settings. I also have not tried ReWire.

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

Perhaps I should have given it a Platinum rating, because the program functions under WINE about on-par with running it under MS Windows... but it is a bit quirky regardless. I also Imagine that installing ASIO and JACK would help as well, but it is not a prerequisite. There is a much more modern version out that I do not own, but I may contact the distributer about an upgrade so that I can test it out.