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[Chris Rossi <rossi AT webslingerZ.com>]

Tim Harper wrote:
> FYI - bad experiences with old, old versions of cubase. Never had a bad time
> with Nuendo, yet. 
 >
It's actually funny that SX/SL are even called Cubase as it really has 
little to do with any version of Cubase that preceded it.  It really is 
just Nuendo under the hood.  At least the audio portion of it.  I'm 
using 1.0 and it's rock solid.  I have the 2.0 upgrade (I bought late 
enough that I got it for free) but haven't installed it yet.  I saw some 
posts on rec.audio.pro with people having some performance problems with 
it, so I'm waiting for a maintenance/bugfix release or two before 
actually trying it out.

Before Cubase I had been using Nuendo 1.5--the transition to Cubase was 
nothing.  The interface looked a little prettier, but basically 
everything I used was the same.  And it ran a little faster, and lacked 
some of the bugs of Nuendo 1.5.  I haven't used the newer Nuendo.  The 
project files for both Cubase/Nuendo are compatible with each other and 
can open in either program.

> Never tried cubase again. There is an SL version of Cubase
> that is even cheaper, isn't there?
> 
Yes.  It's basically just SX minus some features.  The biggest is they 
get rid of the automation.  Which for me is one of the big reasons to 
use a computer in the first place, so it wasn't really an option for me. 
  Can't remember what else they took out.  Definitely worth looking at 
the features of both and deciding if you really need what SX has that SL 
doesn't.

Oh, and incicentally, while I can't say from first hand experience, 
having used ProTools myself only a handful of times in unfamiliar 
listening environments, a lot of folks say the Cubase/Nuendo audio 
engine sounds better.  Steinberg says it's because they use 32bit floats 
for everything internally.  I have a hard time imagining any serious 
program doesn't use floats, though, so I don't know if that's really a 
difference or not.

Oh, and for those looking for a very economical option I used to play 
with N-track which was pretty good when it wasn't having stability 
problems.  And I could never get the midi to work without locking up the 
computer.  But it may have just not liked my hardware.  Anyway it could 
be worth looking at:

http://www.fasoft.com/

rossi
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