It has, but it also reminds me of waiting in line to get into a Pat Metheny concert. 
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Four weeks. So it’s going to be 25-Mar.
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As someone who uses ARA for Spectralayers and Auto-Align a 100 times a day, not having a shortcut to launch it is a crime at this stage! 
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LOL, you probably knew all along ever since Timo officially announced the start of the grace period nine days ago, didn’t you? And yet, you decided to sit back and enjoy how this discussion unfolds… 
Oh, reminds me that April Fools Day is coming up. Last year, I almost fell for your prank…
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i brought a copy of nuendo 14 but not registered it awaiting nuendo 15 but i want to wait till i get my new computer as current one is iMac running os Monterey ,how long can i hold on to this copy as brought it last year . is there a time frame b4 i need to register as taking apple long time to release new studio machine either buy or bye current unit cheaper . my main concern with apple products is it only offering 512gb hard drive .how well will mini work ,as £2000 for 512gb version expensive for studio and then add 1tb put it out of my price range ,
I don’t know it. But with each release there is an ample amount of people who are generous enough to inform us about the length of the grace period, mostly because they just landed outside of it.
Then I look at what happened last year… and here we go.
If you mean that you haven’t entered the Download Access Code yet - you can hold on to it for several years. Don’t worry, be happy.
Why, would anyone want to do that?
I activated my DAC, after the grace period started since I wasn’t able to start using Nuendo until recently, due to scoring issues.
Saying that, version 14 of Nuendo, is really stable and quite pleasant to use, even on an underpowered machine, running many instrument plugins (no effects) at once, utilising both sample playback, and synthesis technology.
While it’s true that the low budget sync work [tv.’s, movies etc.] will use AI music. The middle and higher end sync work want authenticity and will not accept AI music. Part of the reason for that is because the legalities of who owns the AI music is murky. In the latest Spotify agreement, they specify that your music can be used to train AI with NO compensation. I got out of it a while back.
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Imititation, is a form of flattery.
Not when it is done by a machine.
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I see AI shining in the realm of AI sound libraries and virtual performances. I honestly can’t wait to be able to upload a score pdf and get it virtually performed!
Isn’t that sort of what scoring software like Dorico and Sibelius already does?
What I’ve heard of AI performances of string arrangements do indeed sound impressive, but how much control did they have over the “performance” itself? As of right now, I can’t get myself to fully trust that it will work like an actual usable tool in that way.
Dorico with NotePerformer, on the other hand, play back exactly what you have written down. Because it works like an advanced sample library designed to do just that. Sure, it doesn’t sound as good as a real orchestra. Nor should it, as that is why we still want to have real orchestras, and we want musicians to have jobs..? Perhaps I’m getting old. 
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These discussions are popping up everywhere: does AI hinder or promote creativity? I am increasingly staying out of this discussion, as it seems to me that hostile camps have formed. It’s like either life or AI.
It doesn’t matter what I, as a former systems analyst, have to say about it; the topic is running amok. So I’ll just say that there is life after the invention of the telephone, the computer, the cell phone, and the internet and the AI; there’s probably just no life after death.
One could argue about this point too, but then we’re REALLY going off topic!
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Show us all the greatest piece of AI music created in 2025.
Just bring back the Project Browser Page or at least some kind of equivalent!
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS!!!
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The reason for Pro Tools being so entrenched is because it was there first, and had hardware accelerated use of plug-ins when machines were too weak to handle all of this on their own. Additionally, Digidesign also like any company would have done, made you dependent on their hardware/software setup. Today, you have machines that can handle this. I have a Intel CoreI9-9900K with 64GB of RAM running Windows 11 Pro with Nuendo 14 and I create some really intensive projects, usually running over 200 tracks, with multiple plugins on each track, and I rarely push the CPU past 50%, but I have also really tweaked the OS, since this is something I have very familiar with doing. Remember, the processor I speak of is quite old by todays’ standards so you can imagine what I might be able to achieve with a newer processor, etc. I am looking forward to the Nuendo 15 update. I have used Pro Tools but gave up on it after version 12.X. Nowhere near the league of Nuendo in my humble opinion.
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Hmmmmm. Even as a self-confessed Nuendo evangelist since its very first hour I have to say that ProTools has caught up significantly in many areas over the past few years. In particular, it has left Nuendo far behind in terms of GUI consistency and efficiency.