In the 90s I spent a lot of time with Cubase on my 1040STFM alongside other MIDI sequencers on the Amiga. I found both Cubase v2.xx and v3.10 (which I think was

In the 90s I spent a lot of time with Cubase on my 1040STFM alongside other MIDI sequencers on the Amiga. I found both Cubase v2.xx and v3.10 (which I think was the last Atari version Steinberg released) to be somewhat clumsy and slow to work with due to plenty of editing operations, even some basic such, having to be performed in roundabout ways, and because of Cubase being sluggish UI-wise. The sluggishness was in some part owed to the ST/STF/STFM being lesser hardware on the graphics side. The STe and of course the Mega offered a better experience. Both v2 and v3 also suffered from the problem that, while they did run on an Atari with 1 MB of RAM, they every so often crashed from memory leaks/shortage. RAM expansions for the Atari 520/1040 were unfortunately a complicated topic compared to the cheap and ubiquitous peripheral they were for the Amigas. In contrast, all the MIDI sequencers I used on the Amiga were even on just 1 MB of available RAM fast, smooth and efficient tools to work with. Though none of them had the... how to put it... last pinch of "fancy features" that Cubase offered. Nor did the Amigas have a built-in MIDI interface, but such cost only $30 - or $10 in components if you were handy enough to build your own.