Does this mean that both Cubase and Nuendo are now on an even keel?
I want/need to use the ADR features of Nuendo but not at the expense of poor ASIO performance, which was the case with Nuendo 8 and Cubase 9, hence the statement “roughly comparable”.
Cheers and thanks for always listening to the end users!
Both Cubase and Nuendo now share the same development branch. Nuendo 10 will use the same code basis that has been introduced with Cubase 10.
Thanks
Timo
This sounds like a great offer, and the fact I have until Q2 means I can ready my projects for Nuendo.
Agreed.
I did purchase the upgrade.
I will almost certainly, however, wait for Nuendo 10 to use my Activation code.
It should be noted, though, that the announced price of Nuendo 10, as well as the current “Sale” on full copies of Nuendo 8, is roughly $999 US.
Given the almost $600 price for Cubase, this “Special Upgrade Offer” at $390 US (which was $413 after taxes in my area of the US) is really more or less just the difference in the retail prices. Remember that you do lose your Cubase license.
It becomes more of a bargain if you’re on Cubase 4 or 5 or something.
Hugh
This logic only makes sense if you can convince people that these are two different products. For many, Nuendo has always been Cubase+PostExtensions, despite all the marketing efforts to brand it as something in its own right. In fact, Nuendo users would sleep much better if a Nuendo license could open Cubase. So yes, Nuendo has been lagging behind new Cubase sequencer features for years.
I bit the bullet and purchased the cross-grade. However, I have not downloaded or installed or activated Nuendo yet as I’ve been archiving Cubase projects in preparation for the changeover. Since the purchase, I’ve been getting a LOT of eLicensor errors which never ever happened before… Rebooting Cubase and/or my mac seems to clear things up for a little while, and I also updated the eLicensor software, but this is getting nerve-racking, to say the least. I hope I made the right decision here…
I think it would be nice if the Nuendo license could open Cubase, but from what Timo is saying, it appears this is no longer going to be an issue for those that have been dealing with this, since the Cubase/Nuendo release cycles are getting better synchronized, and the lag time between releases will be reduced to a few months (or hopefully less!), as opposed to many many months.
And I think with this merging of development calendars, Steinberg is sort of conceding what you were saying, that indeed the products are linked at the hip, built on the same core sequencer code, now on the same development calendar, and that basically Nuendo = Cubase + Post + Game. And going forward, people won’t need to maintain both licenses, as long as they can handle waiting for a couple of months.
The eLicenser errors are coincidence, and have nothing to do with your license purchase. As long as you don’t put the activation code in yet, then nothing on that end has changed… other than the usual periodic OS/patch/update issues. And yes, you probably made the right decision to crossgrade if you wanted any of those Nuendo-related post- and game- features!
Had the same but not after cross grade, but after installing Halion SE again. I also updated elicensor SW, but that doesn’t fix it. At the end I downloaded the complete installer of 10 Pro again and installed over. Now its all fine.
I really wish that there was some kind of a discount for Cubase users who do not want to relinquish their Cubase license for Nuendo.
I will be interested to see what happens to this “special” cross-grade price after Nuendo 10 is released since, as I pointed out in my earlier post, $390 is essentially just the difference in the retail price for Cubase vs Nuendo 10. Maybe a couple dollars less . . .
Hugh
Will Nuendo ever have features that are useful for Music Production that won’t be in Cubase?
That depends on what is considered „useful“ for whom. And might be answered as soon as my crystal ball is back from repair…
I don’t think so.