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Pros
Pro Powerful range of audio editing tools
Pro All takes can be shown in a single track
When in stacked mode, all of your takes can be shown in a single track side by side. You can then select what parts of which take you need. If you are recording MIDI, the Cubase DAW allows creating a pattern that can overlap and be re-used as many times as needed.
Pro Supports chord tracks
Pro Large selection of time stretching methods
The Cubase DAW offers 11 different kinds of time stretching methods.
Pro Great summing engine
The summing engine is responsible for processing tracks and combining them into the correct output. In comparison to other DAWs, Cubase's summing engine is excellent.
Pro Great MIDI editing options
Pro Pro edition is also excellent for audio mixing
It provides all the industry requirements and features an optimized workflow for mixing.
Pro Incredible and well integrated EQ
Pro Recent updates have added some great features
Pro Batch export
You can pick separate tracks to export in one pass. You can even have them open up a new project or drop in the same project automatically. Huge time saver and DSP Saver.
Pro Sampler track
Has an awesome and easy to use sampler.
Pro Quantize can automatically tighten MIDI inputs
Automatically tightens your MIDI inputs to be on time. Quantize has two modes. Hard Quantize will adjust based on strict settings (precisely on beat by default) and Iterative Quantize will adjust in increments. Excellent for keeping the human element in recordings.
Pro The industry standard for MIDI sequencing and arranging
Pro Superior sample editing
Lot's of options to edit samples on the fly with direct offline processing you can apply effects without sacrificing performance. You can even use Wavelab as an external wave editor.
Pro Great for Sound Design
Excellent time stretching , editing and bundled plug ins as well as powerful software instruments for creative synthesis.
Pro Allows changing a pattern in one place to effect each instance of it
Using Parts, the Cubase DAW allows creating patterns that can be re-used as many times as needed, and can be edited in a single place.
Pro Powerful, time-saving Logical Editor
Logical Editor allows customizing MIDI data according, in order to set rules to save time.
Pro Supervision
All in one plugin for advance audio analysis.
Pro Scale assistant
Great for those who are not piano players or just for quick ideas.
Pro Best stock plug-ins
Best stock plug-ins in any DAW. Powerful yet easy to work with.
Pro Direct offline processing
Apply any kind of process offline for selected single or multiple events . Without CPU load great for sound Design.
Pro Vari Audio better than Melodyne
Pro Control room
A unique recording and monitoring for personal or studio use.
Pro Latency monitor
Great for tracking latency for each channel and plug-in.
Pro SpectraLayers one
Great visual editing and audio separation source.
Pro ARA2 implementation of plugins
Plugins that use the ARA2 technology can be implemented into the DAW for seamless and "native" like editing.
Pro MPE support
Compatible with the various MIDI controllers.
Pro AAF support
Great for those who collaborate with pro tool users.
Pro Eucon support
Avid console compatibility.
Pro Apple metal acceleration
Maximum performance for macOS users.
Pro intuitive layout, faster workflow
Prefer Cubase over Pro Tools and it's much less money, and you won't get gouged down the road.
Pro More features than any other DAW
Cons
Con Quite expensive
This costs significantly more compared to other DAWs.
Con Installs third-party software on your computer (e-licenser)
But needs no dongle.
Con Closed source
Con Not the most stable of DAWs; crashes relatively often
Software is relatively unstable. It is quite temperamental and can crash at times, especially when you're working on big projects.
Con Lack of built-in noise reduction
There's no built-in noise reduction FFT profiler like you might see in some other DAWs. There's noise gate but it's not the same. If you're on Windows, then you can get around this by downloading ReaFir.
Con A small number of slots for effects in the channel (max 16)
Con Confusing pages
The Cubase DAW displays pages that tend to confuse users.
Con Poor sample editing
The sample editor isn't too great and there's no option to launch external sample editors.
Con Not what it used to be
The new updates kind of ruin the old classy feel.
Con Runs poorly
Con Not the DAW for tech savvy users
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