whats the difference?

between Nuendo and Cubase? The steinberg website pretty much described them both as music production centers/daws but Cubase is 599$ and Nuendo is 1,799$ if you buy them online from steinberg. Why the extreme price difference?

Isn't Nuendo for video too?

i was thinking that too

Yeah Nuendo is sort of a post production based program where as cubase is more of a production program. That seems to be how they market it anyway, pratically there isn't a huge amount of difference. Cubase is missing a few things like 192khz support and high end (for a music based ap) video editing, as well as a whole host of very small but quite useful 'extra buttons'.

But Nuendo lacks (I think) a score editor and a few of the more creation based tools.

I think that if you are in a post production facility where the difference of a few hundred quid between programs is not an issue then nuendo is the obvious choice, for video syncing and super accurate arranging the nuendo tools are indispensible. If you make music, in a commercial recording studio or otherwise, then cubase makes more sense.

Nuendo does have one cool feature which may appeal to anyone and thats the facility to link sessions so you can have two people on two computers working on the same session at the same time. Great for collabs etc, but probably not worth the 2x price tag!

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I wish that cubase was quick and easy to use. I had cubase at one stage and couldn't even figure out how to add sound files and use them in the timeline or whatever it is called.

  meneedit said:

I wish that cubase was quick and easy to use. I had cubase at one stage and couldn't even figure out how to add sound files and use them in the timeline or whatever it is called.

the simplest way to do that is drag an audio file into the big blank white space and drop it, or go to file>import and then open the 'pool' (second from right button on the top left or from the pool menu) and drag it from there.

read the manual! Cubase is very very easy to use and as quick as any other daw on the market for getting ideas down once you know a few simple things about how it works.