Today, Nuendo seems to be almost a perfect superset of Cubase, which would be the ideal time to unify the marketing. Or more accurately, many features were released under Cubase before they reached Cubase. When I first started looking at this about 5 years ago, my recollection is that there were more than a few things in Cubase that were not in Nuendo. My comment about 3 years was about the feature list, not the shared code. it appears Steinberg has been moving in that direction with code consolidation behind the scenes, and maybe we will see that before 2030.Ĭubase has been based on Nuendo’s source code since it was rebranded as Cubase SX back in like 2001 Personally, I’d like to see Cubase and Nuendo become a single product line, with Nuendo being the top tier. (That doesn’t count all the programs like Dorico, PowerDirector (movie editors in general), and Band In A Box that have some DAW-like capabilities.) By 2030, I bet that list will be down to 5 or 6. Today, I think we could mostly agree on a list of about 10 DAWs that are widely used and all actively being developed. As time passes, I think we will see the list of “serious DAWs” grow shorter. Many of these DAWs were a flight of fancy and never really good business. That surely wasn’t driven by StudioOne, but that move makes it more likely that StudioOne will be one of the survivor DAWs. We have seen Presonus merge with Fender recently. We have already seen that Dorico is having to operate on a very lean staff and I bet the same is true of Cubase. However, I also use Stidio One for some projects, so whatever I buy would need to work acceptably on S1. In the future, I hope that leading controller makers partner with Steinberg to offer “Cubase-ready” products. Is there another DAW that makes it easier for a user to develop their own support for their controller? I think Steinberg has chosen a pretty good strategy for the time being. The world really doesn’t need all these DAWs, and probably doesn’t need so many controllers either. They might be looking at 15 or more DAWs to support. The same situation exists for the suppliers of controllers. Once a vendor puts out a feature like that, they have an obligation to support it at the same level as they support the base product, and that’s a big step nobody wants to take. Making scripts by a company is not some kind of ‘mission impossible’.īut SUPPORTING users of 100 different controllers, none of which were really designed with Cubase in mind, would be enormously expensive.
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