The other thing I have noticed is the record armed performance of S1 with low latency enabled (which from everything I can tell is the only way to play using the buffer setting instead of the process buffer size) is quite a bit worse than C/LPX on many instruments I have tried. So if you are not testing until failure, you may well think S1 is doing better than Cubase/Logic based on the meters. I will cruise along with an indicated 50-60% CPU load and then, bam!, a spike that causes overload. you are good until the meter bar gets very close to, or reaches the 100% limit (and then you get crackles or error messages). In the case of Cubase and Logic, the CPU performance meters are reasonably accurate, i.e. One thing to careful of is the CPU metering on S1. I have a few torture test projects that I have run until audible overload, and S1 5.1 always craps out quite a bit sooner than Cubase (or Logic in the case of MacOS). I keep reading comments that S1 is CPU efficient but my experiments on both MacOS and Windows 10 indicate otherwise.

I recon a few more updates this will be a very viable alternative. Yet to dive deeper, but already really enjoying the workflow. I prefer the chord track in Cubase as it has more options. You can disable tracks like cubase, but there doesn't appear to be a freeze function, (will need to check the manuel). Apparently there's a script users have made but I have no idea how you I install it.Īlso I can't find a way to batch save multiple channels as a preset in S1. Something I do miss is pressing the middle mouse button to scroll around like youre using photoshop. You can create some seriously complex signal chains that would take ages to setup in cubase. The mixer is also has a far better workflow, no clutter and the signal splitter is an absolute game changer for mixing. Appose to manually draging MIDI or trying to use quantisation to humanise a performance. Much more intuitive and allows for more realistic patterns. The step beat designer is also a blessing for percussion because you have control over the midi offset using velocity layers. The only thing I'd like to see is the switches displayed in the lane (like Cubase) and also options for program changes.ĭrum map editor is also way better and super simple to create maps quickly. So easy to set up maps and save them to the instrument. So far the keyswitch manager is way better than the expression map editor. Already a couple things I prefer from a workflow point of view, but there are also a couple things I'd like to see.

Cubase 11 vs nuendo 11