john12ax7 said:
What do you guys use Cubase for?
Well, where to start.....
Obviously, recording. Everything from solo vocals to hundreds of orchestra channels. Mixing - the same range: from vocals with playback to rock bands with symphony orchestra with tons of automation.
Full-blown TV post-production with multiple people working on one project (and then combining our individual sessions into one single full session). We don't use OMF, we recreate edits from video peoples EDL using our multitrack that was recorded in the venue. We even edit video (for in-house purposes, when video master is not ready, but we have audio EDL from video guys).
But we're probably some of the very few people who do this crazy post-pro stuff. Not for faint-hearted, beleive me. After such work, normal work in Cubase is just a child game.
I don't like Pro Tools that much. First, it doesn't have normal file management ("Pool" in Cubase) - you can't create folders and your audio pool quickly becomes a bloody mess. No folder tracks (until recently), clip gain is a joke (and was introduced just recently). There was no offline mixdown for a long time. It was hardware dependent for a long time. I find it inconvenient to edit automation, and I hate its crossfade editor. And it calculates crossfades as physical files.
Although I know PT and had it in the studio for a long time, I much prefer Cubase. But I'm obviously biased by tens of years of work in Cubase and Nuendo.
And yes, I absolutely LOVE sequoia for source-destination editing and brilliant crossfade editor. But I wouldn't mix a rock or pop song in sequoia/samplitude though. For me the only thing that's worse to that is mixing rock/pop in Pyramix. Don't even get me started on that....