Cubase vs Ardour

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.

All in one plugin for advance audio analysis.

It provides all the industry requirements and features an optimized workflow for mixing.

Has an awesome and easy to use sampler.

Logical Editor allows customizing MIDI data according, in order to set rules to save time.

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.

The Cubase DAW offers 11 different kinds of time stretching methods.

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.

Apply any kind of process offline for selected single or multiple events . Without CPU load great for sound Design.

A unique recording and monitoring for personal or studio use.

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.

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.

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.

Great for those who are not piano players or just for quick ideas.

Great visual editing and audio separation source.

Great for those who collaborate with pro tool users.

Excellent time stretching , editing and bundled plug ins as well as powerful software instruments for creative synthesis.

Best stock plug-ins in any DAW. Powerful yet easy to work with.

Compatible with the various MIDI controllers.

Great for tracking latency for each channel and plug-in.

Plugins that use the ARA2 technology can be implemented into the DAW for seamless and "native" like editing.

Maximum performance for macOS users.

Avid console compatibility.

Prefer Cubase over Pro Tools and it's much less money, and you won't get gouged down the road.

With one click it creates up to 4 voices to harmonised your voice. Following your chords and scales with your chord track.

If you find a person that their way of explaining things makes your life easier to understand what you are doing, you should keep going that way. That's what Dom Sigalas and Mixdown Online do on Youtube.

Cubase with Reaper are the only DAWs fully optimised and use all the cores (performance and efficientcy) with apple silicon MACs. See here.

They have Audio Alignment Panel, works pretty much as Vocaling. Included in the pro version.

Ardour is cross-platform and works on Windows & macOS.

Ardour is open source, so it can be downloaded and modified without restriction.

Unlike some other DAW's which often limit saving, exporting, or advanced features, Ardour permits you to try all the features for free, with the only limitation being ten minutes of project length maximum.

Demo.

On Linux, you can use JACK to freely route audio and MIDI to and from other software as hardware.

You can view and edit plugins directly from the console's mixing channels.

Thanks to JACK support, and the inclusion of built in tools, the routing options of Ardour are limitless.