I own Nuendo and Cubase and think about selling the Cubase-License. But the comparison-chart for Nuendo vs Cubase is irritating. Differences are:
Virtual Instruments and Effects: Nuendo has only 4 … Cubase has 11.
A closer look shows, that Nuendo only has Halion SE and Cubase has the full version. Are these differences true or not? I can’t figure it out any other way but with the comparison chart, as both licenses are installed on the same machine…
Thanks for your help
If you go to the Steinberg Download Manager under Nuendo 15 you should find everything your missing. They have to be installed individually.
That’s an easy one: You have to buy the full Halion version in order to own/use it. It doesn’t come for free with Cubase. Halion SE Sonic is the only free version.
If you sell your Cubase license and you bought Halion at one point (separatly or via the Absolute package) you can still use it within Nuendo.
Do you use customized plugin and VSTi collections by any chance? In that case try to check if you have moved all available VST and VSTis accordingly. You might also want to do a rescan in Mediabay.
First: Nuendo has Halion Sonic 7, so does Cubase. Same same.
Then, I also already wondered why Steinberg writes a different amount of instruments into the feature list.
When it comes to real virtual instruments (plugins) Cubase and Nuendo should have the same:
I put the last two in parantheses as they are not plugins but still virtual instruments.
Maybe Steinberg is counting the instrument libraries for Halion Sonic additional to the listed instruments. But even then I would expect Nuendo to have the same as Cubase Pro does.
I’m a little bit irritated too, because the following instruments are listed at cubase:
But strange, they are 9…
Perhaps deactivate your Cubase license and see if you miss anything in Nuendo?
Okay, I have just checked, item by item. Everything that comes with Cubase 15 is also part of the Nuendo 15 package. See for yourself by unfolding
Thanks everyone, this was really helpful…
By this comparison of the items listed, I resume, that Nuendo contains everything, Cubase has, but Nuendo has the following features, that Cubase doesn’t have:
-Dialog Transcription AI Model
-Game Sound FX
-Pro Sound Effects
-WaveLab 13
Hope, my post could help others a bit too 
Does anyone know, if it’s possible to use older VST-instruments from steinberg whose are discontinued?
I use Model-E and VB-1 on Windows.
Have you only copied the files to VST folder?
Flux, Trip & Verve are components within HALion.
Retrologue, Padshop, Groove Agent are Instruments.
Drum Machine & Sampler Track are Track instruments built within Cubase system.
