I do not want to make a bunch of Cubase videos, as I don’t work for Steinberg. Warning: This preview will contain ongoing appearances of a man with a ponytail in a studio somewhere. It’s still what you do before the underlying hardware architecture you do it on. That’s not a low sticker price, but you get a hell of a lot of DAW for your money there, and could easily wind up spending more with a competitor by the time you add in plug-ins.Īnd while I realized I hadn’t said anything about Apple’s laptops yet – I mean, I think Cubase (like Live 11 yesterday) is more relevant news this week. So this is all both good and bad news for Avid. Plus, there’s Avid Eucon support for their latest consoles.
Pro tools vs cubase full#
Pro tools vs cubase pro#
For DAWs that do everything, including real multichannel support and features necessary to tasks like video scoring, the big rivals are Cubase, DP, Pro Tools, and Logic. So funny enough – everything old is new again. And now having seen Live 11, we know that won’t change any time soon. On the flipside, Ableton continue to stay away from anything like real multichannel panning support or surround, asset management that would work for gaming or more complex film/TV projects, or more advanced editing. Logic Pro X 10.5 and DP 10 both introduced not only Live-style clips and nonlinear editing, but a number of features that suggest Live is now setting the agenda for the biggest DAWs. Rivals Apple and even MOTU in this generation of DAW have veered more to the kind of music production tools in Ableton Live. In short, this is Steinberg firing on all cylinders.Īnd it’s an important moment to do that. They also have some audio processing tools that look less like DAW add-ons and more like something that can go toe-to-toe with high-end third party offerings. But this year, they’re also adding the powerful visual audio editing tools of SpectraLayers and the typography from their excellent Dorico score engraving tool. They’ve always been “the VST company,” with various instrument and plug-in integrations.
Part of that is, Steinberg is finally bringing together a lot of their tools.
Cubase 11 is looking like a landmark update. In the midst of the 2020 DAW updates, Steinberg appears to be uniquely focused on pro workflows and precise editing and sound processing tools.