What should I get: Cubase or Wavelab?

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So um, should I get Cubase or Wavelab? My computer had 512mb RAM, and that's how much Cubase SE3 needs... but if that takes up all the RAM there'd be none left for anything else!!

What's the difference between them? I mean, Wavelab is an audio editor, Cubase is an audio editor, masterer, blah blah blah, loads of things. but what should I get?

I want to mix tracks, edit them and save them as WAV and perhaps MP3s, and burn them to discs, probably. But why should I get Cubase just to burn it to a disc? I could use other programs couldn't I?

Please help... sorry for rambling on.
 
Maybe I'm missing something but I have both. Grant they are older versions I.E. Cubase VST 3.7r2, and wavelab 4.... bu unless I'm mistaken, and wavelab has changed, its just that. It's a audio eding tool. Cubase - my version and all newer versions edit audio and sequence? Sequencing? Isn't that the main function of Cubase these days?

Someone enlighten me. I'm using a version that is about 10 years old.
I was thinking about upgrading myself but think I'll decline.

I will be building a new DAW and putting protools LE DIGI 002 or 003 on it soon.
 
yep you got it right for the most part anppilot... cubase is multi track... audio and/or midi... wave lab on the otherhand is really geared specificlly to cd preparation and burning...
 
Cubase is a multi-track recording software with midi.

Wavelab is a two-track editor. Two separate things.
 
no but with my PC's RAM... is that how much Cubase needs to run, or what the computer needs to run properly with Cubase. I mean, does Cubase take up like 256mb while the rest is used for other things, or does it take up 512mb?

Ah, I'm being confusing. Does anyone here have Cubase running on a PC with only 512mb?
 
li10 said:
no but with my PC's RAM... is that how much Cubase needs to run, or what the computer needs to run properly with Cubase. I mean, does Cubase take up like 256mb while the rest is used for other things, or does it take up 512mb?

Ah, I'm being confusing. Does anyone here have Cubase running on a PC with only 512mb?
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Cubase will run on 512mb, but it just depends on how many tracks and plugins you need to run.

The main question is: are you multi-tracking or just editing mixes?
 
multi-tracking. Sorry to be a 'noob' but my that you mean mixing tracks together?

I want to record one track at a time and then mix them on the computer. That's not what multi-tracking is, is it? Argh!! I probably won't be using many (or no) plugins, probably only virtual instruments or something.
 
If you are recording and guitar part, then recording a bass part, then recording a vocal part....That's multi-tracking. Wavelab is useless for that.

Wavelab is what you edit your mixes in. Once you have recorded all the tracks, then mixed them together, you edit them in something like wavelab. You don't mix in wavelab.
 
right, thanks, I'm gonna go for Cubase then.

Thanks again! Plus, my recording knowledge is growing...
 
ok. heres the deal, (my deal)

I have vst 3.7r2.

I get 12-16 decent audio tracks with efx

But I have a MUCH MUCH different way of doing things than the average studio

Cubase does 3 things for me

record audio, record midi, and heres the weird thing...

the cubase environment is ONE BIG mixing board for me

I mean, I do my whole recording - audio/midi. mix the volumes on everything, apply efx to the audio trax, use the efx in my keyboards/synths along with external efx. i get my mix where i want it, and i dump the whole mix "live" into the inputs of another computer ... its one big "play on one and recoed on the other" like a old dual cassette deck but with 2 computers.


oh btw, the other computer im dumping a track into, im dumping it into Wavelab.


Peace
 
Q: What should I get: Cubase or Wavelab?

Get both LOL!!

Because they serve different purposes:
- Cubase is for multi-track and midi recording.
- WaveLab is for CD Mastering.
 
But I have a MUCH MUCH different way of doing things than the average studio
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That's not any different than a huge number of studios. On top of that, if you're summing digitally and transferring digitally to WaveLab, you aren't doing anything different than just bouncing to another track or rendering the file in place.

In any case, it's not at all unusual (it's S.O.P. in many, many cases) to sum out of the program or go through an outboard chain while dumping to another media.
 
anppilot said:
ok. heres the deal, (my deal)

I have vst 3.7r2.

I get 12-16 decent audio tracks with efx

But I have a MUCH MUCH different way of doing things than the average studio

Cubase does 3 things for me

record audio, record midi, and heres the weird thing...

the cubase environment is ONE BIG mixing board for me

I mean, I do my whole recording - audio/midi. mix the volumes on everything, apply efx to the audio trax, use the efx in my keyboards/synths along with external efx. i get my mix where i want it, and i dump the whole mix "live" into the inputs of another computer ... its one big "play on one and recoed on the other" like a old dual cassette deck but with 2 computers.


oh btw, the other computer im dumping a track into, im dumping it into Wavelab.


Peace
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pft.. everyone wants to think they're original ;)

It's a pretty common thing. Not all studios have a nice mixing board to do all the mixes on. Even when they do, a lot of people still just mix in the box. Then you're just dumping the final mix onto another track. I'm not sure why you're not just exporting the wav file but to each his own.
 
li10 said:
no but with my PC's RAM... is that how much Cubase needs to run, or what the computer needs to run properly with Cubase. I mean, does Cubase take up like 256mb while the rest is used for other things, or does it take up 512mb?

Ah, I'm being confusing. Does anyone here have Cubase running on a PC with only 512mb?
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Wavelab, and Cubase running at the same time should have no problem running on your comp
 
MadHatterTCM said:
pft.. everyone wants to think they're original ;)

It's a pretty common thing. Not all studios have a nice mixing board to do all the mixes on. Even when they do, a lot of people still just mix in the box. Then you're just dumping the final mix onto another track. I'm not sure why you're not just exporting the wav file but to each his own.
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Maybe he wants to degrade the audio?
 
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