Considering Cubase, any Thoughts?

Cubase is excellent.
It is just that ableton s workflow caters more to some DJs and hence it is used a lot by them.
I personally also prefer Logic and do most of my production work there…

NietzSKY, post: 33129, member: 4553 wrote: Hey guys, I hear a great deal of hype about Ableton (after watching various tutorial videos it seems the hype is legit) and FL Studio, but I don’t hear too much these days about Reaper, Cubase, etc. While I have composed music (my “production” software was Sibelius 5, and I only used it in a strict notation-composition sense, with traditional instruments), I know very little about the electronic aspects of composition.

While I anticipate a great deal of relativist answers (use the software you feel comfortable with, it’s the creativity that matters, etc.) I’m curious as to where, in terms of software, Cubase succeeds or fails in comparison with Ableton. The reason I ask is that I was offered a copy of Cubase for a steal, and was curious as to whether it will only be a temporary investment while I save for Ableton or whether it has the capacity to make me “feel at home” in terms of production. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Nietzsky

yeah Cusbase is excellent but its not for newbies… its by far got the steepest learning curve. Personal i would recommend fruit loops or reason if your starting out. They are such creative programs… you can get ideas out really quickly and start developing ure style. Making music is about having fun and enjoying it.

I’ll agree to the opinions implied – You cant go wrong with Cubase (and I dont even use it so dont count me as a “fanboy”). Its a proper DAW – not that Live isnt, but anyways its more production-centric than Live will ever be! 😉

And generally speaking, I do not agree with the idea that a noob-beginner should start on FL Studio or Live or whatever the “easier” choice “seems” to be. My logic is different: learn a proper, fully-fledged DAW and you ‘ll never have to re-learn anything or adopt your workflow. If you learn your way around on any of the “majors” (Cubase, Sonar, Samplitude, Logic, Pro-Tools) then ANY DAW on the market will be easy for you to pick up.
Trying it the other way around (starting from a “user-friendly” DAW), when time comes to move on you ‘ll have hard time to adjust to the new worklfows.
And frankly, I really dont believe FL Studio or Ableton Live are anymore user friendly than other DAWs – they just have a different workflow and they just make that initial “how do I make a sound with this” step easier – the rest is still as hard as any other DAW.

softcore, post: 33193, member: 243 wrote: I’ll agree to the opinions implied – You cant go wrong with Cubase (and I dont even use it so dont count me as a “fanboy”). Its a proper DAW – not that Live isnt, but anyways its more production-centric than Live will ever be! 😉

And generally speaking, I do not agree with the idea that a noob-beginner should start on FL Studio or Live or whatever the “easier” choice “seems” to be. My logic is different: learn a proper, fully-fledged DAW and you ‘ll never have to re-learn anything or adopt your workflow. If you learn your way around on any of the “majors” (Cubase, Sonar, Samplitude, Logic, Pro-Tools) then ANY DAW on the market will be easy for you to pick up.
Trying it the other way around (starting from a “user-friendly” DAW), when time comes to move on you ‘ll have hard time to adjust to the new worklfows.
And frankly, I really dont believe FL Studio or Ableton Live are anymore user friendly than other DAWs – they just have a different workflow and they just make that initial “how do I make a sound with this” step easier – the rest is still as hard as any other DAW.

alot good points as usually softcore…. but there is no question that cubase is nails to a beginner. i bet you if you put two people that had never made music. one in front of cubase and the other reason…by the end of day the reason user would have something 10times better than cubase user.

Usually if it’s easy to make music the result is boring music. I could easily make 20+ tracks an evening in Ableton Live but it does not mean that the result is interesting.