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Article: Cubase SX 1.0: OS X-native version of venerable music-production application needs minor tune-up.(Steinberg)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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If you bemoan the absence of a Mac OS X-native version of QuarkXPress within earshot of a Mac musician, be prepared for a chorus of abuse. Such Mac users have waited nearly two years for the tools they primarily rely on--software-based digital-audio-production applications (once known as sequencers)--to appear in OS X-compatible form. With the release of OS X 10.2 and its underlying audio and MIDI components, modern-day professional music applications are finally making their way to OS X. First out of the gate was Emagic's Logic Platinum 5 (Reviews, January 2003), a highly capable (and rather complicated) application. Not long thereafter, Steinberg released Cubase SX--a ...