It’s not easy to go to your bosses and tell them a big priority like this won’t be ready in time for a planned target date (10.0), then have to do that again (Q1) and again (May). I’m also speculating here, but I’m sure Steinberg would LOVED to have gotten ARA implemented in time for the 30th Anniversary sale to help sell more licenses, and I’m sure there’s a lot of stress and effort going into getting a working ARA implementation together.

We also have no idea how long, and how many development hours went into each DAW’s implementation. Sonar just got it (not sure how flawlessly it’s implemented). Reaper had lots of ARA fixes along the way if that’s what you’re talking about. Is it due to cubase software code being troublesome to implement it, management at steinberg, or programmers stumbling into issues coding it, or what can it be ?

How come other DAW (that cost much less than cubase or nuendo) companies implemented ARA2 long time ago and it’s working flawlessly in those DAWs, but Steinberg has such delay ? Just wondering ( because I worked with automotive hsoftware programing ) Not trying to be negative or rush steinberg team,

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