Worth Upgrading from Cubase 12 Pro to Nuendo?

As it should be but structural changes should be coordinated between the applications, regardless of the underlying technology such as the audio engine, which is why versioning is now more or less the same for both programs.

The only thing I would suggest is to bring WaveLab into the fold since it has much better file handling and project management options than either DAW.

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Are those vocals made by AI in Riverbed song? Strange Flanger-effect. Or maybe it is just YouTube’s poor quality or my ears.

In Nuendo 13 the [Automation Panel] contains [Preview] & [Punch Log].

These are advanced functions suited for people working with long project times, where they may need to create 20+ automation moves in various sections of there project.

Cubase 13, being aimed at people primarily working on short time based audio 1 minute - 15 minutes, these features are missing.

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Of course it’s best to look at Nuendo from the lens of Storytelling involving Dialogue, Scenes and Mood.with cutting edge sounddesign tools.
And once you enter Nuendo it will become progressively difficult to return back to Cubase.
I wonder how many do.

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You cant just rely on Pop music making today, Audio work has a vast field now,

  1. Audiobook creation.
  2. Film/TV audio.
  3. Video game creation.

There are people making $millions from designing 2 hour uploads of rain and atmosphere, whereas people struggling to make a living just focused on trying to make a 3 minute pop song.

Nuendo makes you think outside the box of Music/songs and more toward Audio/Sound.

Nuendo is niche, therefore these areas in Audio are not over saturated, over populated.

It seems today everyone and there grandmother is a producer, making beats, trying to be a famous person, but i rarely meet dedicated lovers of audio engineering.

Yes using REPLAY. Its a very promising tool for Dialogue replacement. Seems its not fully there yes.

Seriously :anguished: , I mean I have lots of Stock Footage of rain and atmosphere. Mostly recorded using MS on Sound device. Using MKH 50 and TLM 107

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I ran the Nuendo 13 trial. I have taken the crossgrade C13 offer. I used Nuendo for a while, way back. It feels good to be back on it. Feels industrial. I never had any issues in C13. But the price was too good to pass up.

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Be crazy to stay on Cubase when Nuendo is being offered for hardly any difference in price, both for the crossgrade and future upgrades, which I think is fairly safe to assume.

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Absolutely. It’s best to test the demo first. Then open Cubase projects with the demo. Works without any problems. Settings can also be copied over. See also here,

I can only confirm what others have described here several times. Nuendo can do everything Cubase can do, no difference. And if you need more than that, Nuendo delivers that too.
What else Nuendo can do is more than adequately described by Steinberg. There are also numerous video tutorials available.
On the subject of licenses, I would like to confirm that you can continue to use Nuendo and Cubase in parallel. However, once you have set up Cubase in Nuendo, this is completely superfluous.
Also important. Nuendo continues to save Cubase projects as “.cpr”.
But this makes no difference in relation to Nuendo.
But you should hurry, ends next week.

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I propose Nubase or Cuendo

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“Nubase” sounds more like a 90s boyband with eurodance elements.

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I highly doubt it since Cubase has been around for 40plus years and Nuendo for 25 years.

Interesting, I like to know that too.

Cubendo is one I have seen online.

Why stay on an earlier version, when you can try a new version on your current system, and get all the optimisations (and potential bugs), that come with being on the latest version.

Why not, help with the development effort by testing the latest release on your hardware, to see how optimally it can perform and report on performance by sending bug reports?

This is not to mention, new features which are either a selling point at the moment of release, that make sense because we all have to upgrade over time or just wait until a mega special comes along (I am most likely to choose this option).

I can only speak for myself, but I think Nuendo 14 raises the bar even further with simple yet powerful features like the brilliantly crafted Adaptive Background Attenuation, which enhances dialogue clarity, along with various AI-driven improvements from Nuendo 13. The ADR Dialogue Transcription is a valuable addition, but without search functionality and South Asian language support, @TimoWildenhain is not something I can integrate into my daily workflow—unlike Pro Tools, which handles these aspects better.

On the other hand, Anymix Pro as a surround panner is simply incredible. It’s not just about distance aware precise spatial positioning—it also excels at upmixing stereo clips to full surround while maintaining spatial integrity. It’s a core part of my workflow and one of Nuendo’s standout features for surround mixing.

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