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We have been using it for over a year and it's a pain. Lots of extra work for staff. Buttons such as "upload an excel file" cost more money etc. As we didn't pay for these upload buttons, it takes an age to upload housepoints / detentions. In short: Lots of clicks to do very simple things. They're still quite new to the MIS market and are constantly improving their product, but to be honest anything that creates so much extra workload for staff probably isn't worth it yet. The way the data is downloaded is not particularly useful either. I'm not sure how great the in-built analytics are, we download the excel sheets and do our own data analysis. Hope that helps.

Thanks for your replies. Forgot to mention the context: We're a new school with only Year 7 and 8. The music teacher has requested Cubase to start with, I assume he may choose Protools/Logic/Ableton at a later date for GCSE/A-level. Have PM'd you for further advice on the matter.

We're building a mac suite with 10-15 iMacs and we want to run Cubase 7.5 Artist. Our outsourced IT contractor have suggested a Mac Mini Server with integration to our existing Windows Active Directory. I know the benefits are logging on, saving and printing to a central server. However, I fear Cubase just won't run on the network especially if there is an integration to Windows AD for login. Does anyone know if: a) Cubase 7.5 will run on a mac network with a mac mini server. It would be a quad core i7 with 4GB RAM and 2x 1TB drives? b) If there are known issues when integrating with Windows AD? c) If we'd be better off just running standalone machines with External HDD's? Thanks in advance for any advice and support.