I'm long time cubase/nuendo user... 20 years? 🙈
But all the daws are good these days, it's just a personal preference and muscle memory.
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I used to be, about twenty years ago, and back then waves bundles were the what I presume to be equivalent of fabfilters bundles.
Always adored steinbergs summing compared to LPX or Ableton which are all good for their own purposes presuming.
You record acoustic music or electronic?
Some friends tell me how good steinberg summing sounds compared to ableton or logic. All I can say is I've heard great sounding stuff mixed in logic and bad ones out of nuendo.
Yep, I get what you say about waves in the 2000s.
I'm mostly mixing and mastering. Mixing any genres except for extreme metal. Mastering anything that comes my way. Some recording too, but fading that lately because I prefer to work alone.
Oh and a few years back I started working on game sound design. Learning new stuff. It's like creating sampler instruments, with various conditions, parameters... and building "worlds" out of them.
Yeah no, totally.
Although running the same tracks (buses) through different daws does make a good reference to compare them.
There are differences for sure, but unless we are talking about some very pure acoustic music session with a few tracks, where you feel any degradation quite quickly... you're always optimizing your work so it sounds good within your daw, so...
Anyway, what is your audio history? Are you in it professionally?
Audio history of about 5 albums 2 double album complications about 300+ songs and singles, three world tours, a few movie scorers and foley and some game sound design and system intelligent audio design. Still taking on some sound design and movie game score composition when not working with system, but the touring and production work not so much anymore.
Some demos and sketches can be found in my channel:
Wow, nice. Will check it out.
Btw, I never heard of intelligent audio design, what is that?
Intelligent audio design is the process of intelligence synthesis wave shaping shaping, and sound design for contextual intelligence.