cubase sound?

[hansgauffin]

Hi there. I´m kind of new to Cubase, been working mostly in making waves since 1998. It seems to me that cubase makes everything sound a little brigther than making waves. I think I´ve read somewhere that Cubase adds it´s own touch to the sound, is this true? Is there a difference in sound between different software? How come?
I´m mostly transferring analog tracks to cubase to do the editing, and I don´t like the thought that Cubase adds color to the sound, as I want them to sound as "analog" as possible.
Any comments on this?
Regards
/Hans

 

[altitude909]

cubase most definitely does not color the sound. Who ever told you/wrote that really has no clue about what they are talking about. If you change the pan law to be the same as making waves, i bet you wont be able to tell which is which

 

[dementedchord]

"you must spread some love before...."

+1

 

[Farview]

No, unless you are using cubases EQ or compression, etc... Cubase will not have a 'sound'.

 

[TimOBrien]

Big studios have done A/B tests for years. Not even guys with 'golden ears' on multi-jillion dollar equipment could tell one from another with any certanty.

Sequencers do not have a 'sound'. They start an audio file playing at a particular time and apply what effect you choose to it. That's all....

 

[hansgauffin]

from wikipedia

this is from wikipedia.com, keyword "cubase".



.....One notable improvement of Cubase SX was its sound. The sound of Cubase VST was considered inferior to its competitors and Cubase SX corrected this with its inheritance of Nuendo's audio engine.

what do they mean?, are hey talking about the sound of the built in processors??

thank you and have a great day
Hans

 

[Farview]

First off, Cubase SX came out 7 or 8 years ago. Your question in the context of 'now' has been answered.

The other thing is that wiki's can be altered by anyone, even someone who doesn't really know what they are talking about and is just putting up rumours and such.

Cubase VST was a piece of crap for a lot of reasons compared to Cubase SX, the sound was the least of the problems...


The 'audio engine' is the part of the program that works with the audio directly, applying plugins and summing tracks. You will find a difference between applications when you start using their built-in plugins and other stuff, but just playing tracks and mixing them together there will not be any difference.

 

[noisewreck]

The main difference between VST and SX is that with SX you got 32bit floating point tracks which make it really hard to clip. VST didn't have such safeguards so idiots that like to ride their faders into the red were mashing everything into oblivion.

That's the difference. However, at reasonable levels, when taking care not to clip your tracks, there is no difference when it comes to audio quality. The only other difference that may have an audible difference is that Pan law in VST was set to -6db by default and in SX it's -3dB.