If you have Nuendo 13, is there much to gain by getting Wavelab Pro 12? I mean, it’s on sale for $250 for most people, and if you got the email with the vouchers it’s $150, so that’s a very tempting price.
But aside from an important feature, which is CD authoring and burning (for those much younger than me, it was this shiny disc that you would put in a big machine and play 74 minutes of music, some even 80! Yes, I know. Old people and their physical media. So annoying, right?), when I scroll down the list of features I see a lot of things that can be done with Nuendo.
Nuendo can do waveform as well as MIDI, and it works perfectly fine with audio files. And I didn’t go through each and every item on the list, but most of it seems to me that it can be done with Nuendo, and Wavelab Pro is mostly for people who don’t have Nuendo and only want to do mastering, is that take more or less correct, or am I way off?
Because for the CD burning part, the Elements version has it, and that one is $50, so I wouldn’t spend an additional $100 for things that Nuendo can give me.
The entire premise of the apps are different, so you can’t really compare them directly. One is a powerhouse multitrack DAW, while the other is a workplace where the wave file itself is the main environment, and things like analysis, mastering, metadata and batch processing is the focus. Sure you can use Nuendo for more WaveLab-esque operations like mastering, just like you can use InDesign for writing letters, even though there might be a more dedicated tool for that. Nothing wrong with any of that as long as you can work with it.
