that’s my position too on this. I just accept things change and move on. It is perfectly feasable though to lock in your working system and carry on until something breaks and you have to update.
I must say N14/15 has been rock solid here on my windows 11 AMD 9950x machine, so much so I got rid of my Mac Studio Ultra M3 a few months ago.
M
For clarity, I’m not trying to sound judgmental, patronizing, or pedantic.
But anyone working in Audio Post is trained to solve problems and constantly ask whether something can be done more easily, quickly, or efficiently.
Dealing with technical issues and limitations is part of our everyday work.
We receive material from Media Composer, Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, DaVinci, and a bunch of exotic applications—and it never works exactly as expected.
If something doesn’t work, we look for ways to make it work regardless.
Personally, I’ve changed my workflow countless times—whether because of technical challenges, collaboration needs, or simply to avoid getting stuck in a “this is how I’ve always done it” mindset.
In Audio Post, adaptability isn’t optional; it’s essential for staying effective and relevant.
It’s the only way to survive in this field.
That said, I understand the music industry often moves at a different pace, and not everyone uses their DAW in a professional context. For many users, the need to constantly adapt workflows may not feel as immediate or necessary.
But it’s essential for long-term survival.
Fredo
Fredo, you make a lot of good points! For me, if I can get the same results in a better way and be comfortable doing so I will. At the end of the day a wave file is a wave file 
Just thought about this some more…I’ve had 12 installed since Day 1, I installed 13 right before 15 came out but never opened it, then installed 15…I’m wondering what will happen if I uninstall 13 and 15 and then reinstall 15 and use preferences from 12? It might get me closer to stability…then I can tackle trying to get the interface to look better
Nuendo 15 is stable, on Windows at least, as the OS has matured to such an extent that the DAW now runs very well, in terms of loading and unloading projects but also memory management, has vastly improved.
In addition, sleep stabiliy has increased as well and the program is less inclined to crash the audio driver on resume.
Hi, maybe you can try this,
I am on N12, downloaded and installed 15 trial, somehow found out that 15 doesn’t copy all the preferences from 12, i noticed some of the settings/shortcut created in 12 were missing.
This is what i did:
To me this is the closest i can get to look as N12.
Hope this helps ,Good Luck
Better, to start fresh with NO preferences with new version updates.
So here’s what I did…uninstalled N15 and N13, then reinstalled 15. 15 crashed once but I think it had more to do with Kontakt 7 than Nuendo. Other than that one time 15 ran steady for hours! It did carry over what preferences it could from 12, for instance my tracks have the usual Arm, Solo, Mute, Edit Instrument, etc. and no volume slider on the track the way I like it, I use the Mixer!
I’m running 96k at 64 bit precision and 256 samples…I’ve never had a latency issue…I could run at 128 or 2048, no difference…I’ve never had latency issues so maybe I’m doing something wrong( or right 
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A fresh install without preferences is a train wreck from what I’ve seen…at least till you spend a lot of time setting everything up and if I wanted that I would be using a build-a-Daw like Reaper My N12 is rock solid and I expect the same from newer versions
Keyplayer, As an older than life Audio Engineer & Producer, I am very glad to see others that often feel ‘left behind’ on usage at the many different ‘next versions’. Thanks!
I have always recorded in a higher version because more often than not, a newer version is more efficient at recording but I always used an earlier version to mix, however that often introduced problems such as the last track, automation is always behind on the timeline.
I recently upgraded to 15, and I am on the latest iternation, however for mixing I was using 13, until I got tired of deleting .bak files and decided to upgrade via the SDA.
Saying that, there was some delay happening on one of my groups and sure enough, I routed the audio to another group and it was all back in time, similar to having unminimised files in a mix.
Suffice to say, that being on V15, for mixing has removed the delay on the group, and all VST3 plug-in’s scanned, as they would have under VST2.4 (Steinberg have implemented a new plug-in scanner).
I am very happy with version 15 and I would not go back, simply due to the optimisations that now exist, since I am pretty sure Windows 11, will become EOL and I wouldn’t want to be on anything less than version 15, of the DAW.
Also for clarity’s sake. I’m sure that you’re not implying that Music Engineers aren’t professional, right?
A professional is an individual who earns their living by engaging in a specific activity.
Fredo
I get quarterly checks from CDBaby(for streaming) and BMI…what does that make me
Exactly 
It’s also who gets the most likes, 13 for one post in this thread.
Ran 15 for a while today working on some Nuendo 12 projects and it ran well…no crashes! That’s the main thing I’m looking for
Now I need to find the adult version of the GUI
I like the GUI direction apart from all the menu design problems - menus all over the place are too narrow, too narrow and non-resizable, not the right type of menu, etc, etc. (many should be multiple choice when they aren’t, many should stay open when they don’t, many should have search filter when they don’t, etc, etc)
Other than that, I like the UI direction and aesthetic - way better than 12. I just redid all my project colours - and the new nested folder/track colour headers are REAL nice.
Nuendo 12 might not have been pretty but it is faster to use in practice. Whoever did the new interface doesn’t seem to understand basic UX concepts.
New forum user so reply allowed me to add multiple snips to post and then when I went to post reply, it tells me new users are only allowed one media upload per post. Rather than delete and forget about it. I snipped all of the images in the post with text inbetween. So apologies in advance!
So I was confused as to where the monitor/record buttons had gone and after searching for answers found this thread. Selected Track Control Settings. I have never used this option and it looks like this for me:-
Layout is what I had. But I was actually missing the Lane Display Type to the same out of view bug. UI Sucked in 14 too.
Question is why is my layout so different in 15 or is it trashed settings?
Cheers
Phil
Hope this helps someone with same issue!
For me to get back to normal I had to uninstall 15 and 13(I never installed 14) and leave 12 installed, then reinstalled 15 and tracks went back to normal as well as the mixer wasn’t a big empty screen with only track headers and a huge routing section!
I think my problem was I installed 13 but never ran it so when I installed 15 it looked to 13 for preferences and there weren’t any so it messed up the install of 15.
I could have spent a lot of time fixing things but this worked out better! I’ve still got to figure out how to color the GUI to make it tolerable, but on the operational side it runs very well once you kick the tires!
