cubase or cakewalk...or neither?

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cubase?cakewalk?neither?

  • cubase

    Votes: 81 36.5%

  • cakewalk

    Votes: 86 38.7%

  • neither...something else!

    Votes: 55 24.8%
  • Total voters
    222
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smythology

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age old question?...well, I've been curious fer a while...

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Well, I've been using Cakewalk since DOS-version 2. So guess what I'm voting for...

I used to think that Cubase had more features but was harder to use (for me) and had more bugs and worse support. That's an acceptable trade off for some people probably. But nowadays I think the "more features" part is nonexistant - and they are both more than capable to do what I would need.

I also don't like Cubase copy protection, I never buy anything with copy protection if I can help it. I want to have a safety copy because things break all the time. Why would I pay for having a product crippled on me?
 
Smyth,

I'm with Beltron. I wouldn't buy Cubase even if it were better than Sonar, which it's not, because of the copy protection.

--Ethan
 
I've used Cubase for several years now -- copy protection was never ever an issue...

Both SX and SX 2 are extremely stable, with a great interface and powerful features.............
 
I've gone through about every DAW worth mentioning at one point or another - Especially recently, when I upgraded basically everything in my mastering room.

I'm now officially a hardcore Steinbergian. Although I personally use Nuendo, I understand Cubase is basically the same audio engine, interface, etc.

John Scrip - www.massivemastering.com

P.S. What does copy protection have to do with anything? Did I miss something?
 
I guess they want to copy their software to back it up right?? I don't know how they can make it so you can't copy it. Theirs gotta be a way if that's what your talking about. I use cubase SX and it's pretty sweet. I don't think sonar supports ASIO. So my Q10 with cubase is allll good for me. :)
 
Ford or Chevy...

Taylor or Martin...

Fender or Gibson...

Test drive them all, and buy the one YOU like.
 
There's also the open source option if you want the best bang for your buck.

Linux and Ardour is a killer combination that you can legally download and use without having to pay a penny to anyone.
 
I've tried both and i like cubase much better. It's really simple to use. I havent looked at the manual once, but for Sonar i was totally lost and looking through the manual constantly. I was also getting latency problems with sonar, then i tried cubase and my problems were gone.

Cubase has quite a few bugs and stuff that in my mind could have been designed better, but i like the interface much more and i can live with the little problems.

T
 
fldrummer said:
I guess they want to copy their software to back it up right??
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Yep...
I've used plenty of software that had dongles or didn't allow me to make a backup (actually I bought one last year unknowingly, that was the one thing I was stupid enough not to check out). I have been into computers for a long time both as a hobby and as a professional, so sometimes there wasn't a choice. But it's always been unpleasent in one way or another. With Cakewalk I just make one or two backups, and put away the original. No dongles, no nothing that can break. Basically to me the copy protection shows the wrong mentality, they're using my money to work against me. The funny thing is it seems that Cubase is easier to get on the warez-scene anyway. And I even know of a few legit VST-users who used cracked versions because of less problems. With sx I don't know - I heard some rumble on a Swedish forum, but nothing to scare anyone off. So if it's trouble free I'm happy for all Cubase users, but to me it's close to a no go when shopping...

I do wish someone could come up with a system that didn't interfere with legit users...


fldrummer said:
I don't think sonar supports ASIO. So my Q10 with cubase is allll good for me. :)
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It does...
But I use wdm...

I agree that it's down to personal taste. Try out the demos before buying.
 
fldrummer said:
I don't think sonar supports ASIO. So my Q10 with cubase is allll good for me. :)
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Sonar absolutely does support ASIO. You may be thinking VST because
Sonar uses a wrapper that wraps VST/VSTi to appear as DX/DXi to run in Sonar.
I wish Sonar had direct compatibility with VST, instead of using the wrapper. This is probably my biggest criticism. On the other hand, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Cubase can host DX/DXi without any wrapper.
My biggest beef about Cubase is CPU usuage. It's always been a bigger CPU
hog than Sonar on my computer.
 
If you can't make decent near or fully album quality with either program, it's not the software, so it shouldn't matter which one you get. They both do almost EXACTYLY the same thing, the same ways, I just happen to use Sonar, better support, cheaper but I could have easily started with Cubase or Nuendo.
 
So the consensus is that there is essentially no difference between the two's audio engines?
 
whats up with the throwback threads...cakewalk got me early on in the game so it was an easy switch from guitar tracks to sonar
 
I like Cakewalk, but never used Cubase.

Also Samplitud is nice or their inexpensive version which I got at home (90% of samplitud) which is Magic's Audio Studio 7 (now Audio Studio 2005).
 
I have been using Cakewalk Sonar since v 1.00 and pretty much love it. I believe it may be appraoching 'state of the art' status ----- I approached several studios recently about recording a band demo. I was expecting Pro Tools, but at least 2 studios in my area seem to think Cakewalk does the trick and have converted to Sonar. The major Cake upgrades seem to pack a pretty decent punch and bang for the buck as well.

All that said, it does depend what you want to do and what app fills those needs the best.
 
typi said:
Wow! - Just noticed this IS an older thread.
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One year is *nothing* here - we've people in other forums relying to threads that have been dead for 2-3 years easy! ;)
 
Fraser,

It's OK by me --- I frequently spend time going WAY back to read threads of interest. AFAIC, the Sonar vs Cubase vs whatever is still relevant, among many others.
 
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