

So just looking at the two companies, especially with near-zero communication as usual here on the forum I’m not really sure I trust Steinberg to ‘deliver’ over Avid. If anything I’d say that there seems to be more issues with the recent releases of Nuendo than with Pro Tools, and Avid has over the past few years gradually included a ton of features that made Nuendo unique before. But it could also be the opposite of course.

If you’re fast on Cubase you might get off the ground faster in Nuendo and might be able to do more work in less time using that compared to PT, at least until you’ve got PT down to the same degree. Some are faster in one DAW than the other. In addition you’re more likely to find good engineers on PT in the US since it’s more common.

“Long-term profit” could increase if you’re in the US and expect more work interacting with people that either deliver PT sessions, expect to get PT sessions back, or demand you work in PT. Since Nuendo doesn’t, it’s possible that “advanced automation” or whatever only exists in the more expensive PT version.īut - if you don’t actually need the above features then you can just ignore the above and in that case I think the decision probably comes down to a) short-term cash flow, b) long-term profit, and c) efficiency (in a different sense than “b”). In addition to that Pro Tools exists in different versions, and some have limitations.

I produce music for Films and all kind of media in my studio, as well as audio post production jobs.
