Though, he famously doesn’t upgrade that often - the system’s working, he’s happy so don’t touch it.! I’d put money on him (or his production company) not being at C14 yet…
He’s still using C11 or C12 isn’t he.? Maybe C13 at a push. And as we all know, he has ‘experts’ to settle his system singing sweetly, exactly how he likes it - whatever that may take (huge amounts of RAM, more cooling, more load distribution, very high end, networked machines, etc, etc…).
Yes, he also uses Ableton and ProTools; but that’s been the case for years. What he ALWAYS uses for composing though, is Cubase. So I’d say performance ‘issues’ are of no concern for him…
But, I suppose now you’re going to make me eat humble pie and prove me completely wrong..!
AFAIK Hans Zimmer uses PT for audio mixing/editing/final polish, not composing. And I’ve read he plays around with Ableton as a sketch tool. But he uses Cubase on a very powerful rig as his main DAW for composition – he’s not using those other DAWs to get away from Cubase for reasons of poor performance as suggested.
Also as a composer myself (though not nearly on his level), I’ve used numerous DAWs over the years, also including Ableton, PT, and Logic. They all have performance issues and love to crash. Since coming over to Cubase for composing, I would not say it’s better or worse in this regard, although I would say it handles really large templates better than my experiences with Logic and Ableton, specifically.
I’m not saying Cubase couldn’t improve performance, though. But it’s not necessarily worse off than other DAWs I’ve used. And I wouldn’t describe its performance comparatively as “insane.” Grass is always greener, bla bla bla.
I think it would be cool if they looked at the Bitwig approach with sandboxing plugins. I haven’t used it, but that seems pretty helpful.
You know Interviews often are for advertisements right? Not to mention that when the system works and is probably crafted for him. Of course its nice. But the matter of the fact is that thousands of people have trouble Look over the Forums cross board. Take a look at what his colleagues using in his company. No more to say…i will not repeat over and over again. waste of time.
i think the biggest issue is that Cubase is not able to outsource VSTs to different processes. In Cubase you run into major trouble having 10 Air Studios Reverb - an example which is for me a benchmark, because its the most CPU intensive Reverb caused by 67000 response signals. try to apply it to an entire orchestra to have a natural sound. …
easily possible in Dorico Pro. In Reaper even with a highend GUI such as the Logic Pro Interface its even possible to run over 80 of it on the same machine. Take a look at Logic there you can run over 80 of these. In Ableton in my latest tests somewhat 30-40…
In reaper you can click on each VST in the VST Manager and with a right click you can setup how the plugin is loaded, how it is processed, and how many cores it will consume by the Process. Not possible in Cubase.
Cubase 13 and 14 is starting to struggle even with one of these.
What about Ample Guitar? Like a Band Setup combined with Steinbergs own Groove Tools. ???You need to Freeze stuff…
In 2025 Freezing Tracks is somewhat totally outdated even on a 10 Minute Track.
Everything should stay alive and smooth no matter what. all Other daws can do this. Logic is Famous for it.
Out of the discussion. Happy 4th of July everyone.
I’ll ask again for what’s been requested a number of times by multiple users: can we please be able to reorder instruments in the rack? Lack of this does not inhibit any musical capabilities, but it would help significantly to keep projects organized in a logical fashion.
What about it? I don’t find it to be CPU intensive at all.
Being VST3, it is very reliable, however the format used for samples means that it is never a good idea to open an interface, while the DAW is in playback mode but on the whole, besides a guitar sound which is, in my opinion, second to none, these plug-in’s from a Chinese/Malay developer, provide the most natural virtual guitar composition tools available, in terms of their usage, in place of real instruments. and for me are an essential part of my music composition.
I like ample guitars a lot have the Martin and the TC but they are heavy in Cubase 14 pro… almost unsuable on windows11 with vst3. In Reaper one ample guitar vst3 don’t even requires 1 percent of cpu..in Cubase 14 the Martin requires 12% of CPU the TC even 16%. I agree on the plugin they are really good. But the daw is the problem. I seriously agree ample guitars are the best sounding guitar VSTs you can purchase. Also because of how you can use the riffer to write ultra complex patterns of strumming and picking and mixing muting etc
The ability to run any plug-in in either mid or side. Also a recover sides feature in the Steinberg Imager plug-in would be great. Both of the features, especially the ability to run plug-ins in either mid or side, would go a long way when using Cubase for mastering duties.
I could not agree, more. The rack concept needs to be outmoded by a streamlined track management framework and interface, that encompasses all track types and configurations, both with respect to MIDI, /O, automation and associated track data.
