A look at the posts in the user forums shows a continual pattern of strange inconsistant bugs and errors that appear for no apparent reason. A 2nd generation port.to any computer programmer, that immediately raises red flags with regard to reliability. It's well known that VST for the PC is a port from the Atari to the Mac, and from the Mac to the PC. And this may well have been the plan all a long. It certainly wouldn't be hard for them to add the extra midi functionality of VST to Nuendo in the next 9 months or so. bleh! :/Īlthough Steinberg currently pitch Nuendo as audio + midi and Cubase as their midi + audio solution, there is a fair amount of overlap between the two programs. Oh yes, you get a lovely white dongle for your parallel port too. VST instrument support has not yet been implemented, but has been promised as an update before the end of the year. Which is all I used to used in Cubase on the Atari anyway.)

(Assuming you can live with the sparce midi editing features. So when Steinberg finally gets around to releasing the Midex, you can get ulta-accurate midi timing too. Something you won't see in the literature is that it supports LTB for accurate MIDI timing, just like VST 5. You basically get the 'piano roll' editor, some note quantization and that's about it.

The MIDI side is underdeveloped compared to VST because the program is pitched towards audio/video editing and film post-production (at least for now). However, the audio editing side is more mature than VST, allowing for 5.1 channel surround mixing and some other really nice features missing from Cubase. If you've used Cubase, Nuendo will look quite familiar, with it's VST mixer and editing tools. (All native windows coding - not a port job.) It was then completely rewritten for Windows and released in early 2000. Nuendo was initally made for Silicon Graphics workstations as a high end audio mixing program.

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