alanb
Senior Member
I'm living a relatively happy and stable life with Cubase Pro 9.5.41 on a Win 10 (x64) PC, i7-3930K and 16GB RAM.
I want to cross-grade to Nuendo, to take advantage of its post-pro features, its more robust surround sound capabilities, etc.
. . . but the requirement that I relinquish my Cubase license has me worried, and raises a number of questions.
If any of you have already made the switch from Cubase to Nuendo, I would greatly appreciate your insight re some of these questions:
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I've used Cubase exclusively since the days when I had to have this little bugger connected to my printer's parallel port:
I have some very old projects, which I still reference with some regularity.
Will Nuendo be able to open and play Cubase project files dating back to Cubase VST/32?
If not that far back... does anyone know how many versions back it will open?
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It says on the Steinberg website that "Nuendo 8 will include 'out-of-the-box' all-musical features from Cubase, previously available in the Nuendo Expansion Kit (NEK)." Does that really mean ALL of Cubase 10's 'musical features', or does the NEK only contain a subset of Cubase's 'musical features', and Nuendo only has that subset??
Are there any 'non-musical' Cubase features that are either absent from, or handled differently in, Nuendo?
I'm breaking out in a cold sweat just imagining opening up a 50-track project and discovering that (for example) the instrument/plugin automation is all screwy, or missing entirely.....
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Will all of my hand-made drum maps, expression maps and project templates work in Nuendo, right out of the box, or will they need tweaking/reformatting/re-assigning?
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What (if anything) will I no longer be able to do in Nuendo that I can currently do in Cubase Pro?
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On a Win 10 (x64) PC, running on an i7-3930K and 16GB RAM, would Nuendo 8's CPU/RAM usage be greater than/less than/generally comparable to that of Cubase Pro 9.5?
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Thank you for any and all advice, guidance, URLs, etc.!!
— Alan
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I want to cross-grade to Nuendo, to take advantage of its post-pro features, its more robust surround sound capabilities, etc.
. . . but the requirement that I relinquish my Cubase license has me worried, and raises a number of questions.
If any of you have already made the switch from Cubase to Nuendo, I would greatly appreciate your insight re some of these questions:
- - - - - - - - - -
I've used Cubase exclusively since the days when I had to have this little bugger connected to my printer's parallel port:
I have some very old projects, which I still reference with some regularity.
Will Nuendo be able to open and play Cubase project files dating back to Cubase VST/32?
If not that far back... does anyone know how many versions back it will open?
- - - - - - - - - -
It says on the Steinberg website that "Nuendo 8 will include 'out-of-the-box' all-musical features from Cubase, previously available in the Nuendo Expansion Kit (NEK)." Does that really mean ALL of Cubase 10's 'musical features', or does the NEK only contain a subset of Cubase's 'musical features', and Nuendo only has that subset??
Are there any 'non-musical' Cubase features that are either absent from, or handled differently in, Nuendo?
I'm breaking out in a cold sweat just imagining opening up a 50-track project and discovering that (for example) the instrument/plugin automation is all screwy, or missing entirely.....
- - - - - - - - - -
Will all of my hand-made drum maps, expression maps and project templates work in Nuendo, right out of the box, or will they need tweaking/reformatting/re-assigning?
- - - - - - - - - -
What (if anything) will I no longer be able to do in Nuendo that I can currently do in Cubase Pro?
- - - - - - - - - -
On a Win 10 (x64) PC, running on an i7-3930K and 16GB RAM, would Nuendo 8's CPU/RAM usage be greater than/less than/generally comparable to that of Cubase Pro 9.5?
- - - - - - - - - -
Thank you for any and all advice, guidance, URLs, etc.!!
— Alan
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