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Originally Posted by shanabit  Smoke, its been like that for YEARS. It aint gonna change either. Same old song and dance. I could post you all the promises to optimize Cubase on the Mac but I threw them away KNOWING it wasnt ever gonna happen. Cubase Mac sucking my CPU since 2003 LOL |
I just read through the Cubase.net thread you posted and what's written in there plus your statement above are 100% what I'm experiencing since a number of years.
Unfortunately, C5 seems to even make things a little worse. I remember running a Cubase vs. Logic comparison back some time, using a G5, SX3 and Logic 7. Logic was already winning hands down but as said before, there were some situations when it actually made sense to use Cubase instead. On my current system (which actually outperforms that said G5 in most aspects, using Logic, even if it's only a Macbook), I fail to see how I would ever open it to get any work done.
As said, I want to work at the lowest possible latencies my system is able to deliver without choking. With Logic, 64 samples is just working great all throughout a project (yes, even when doing my lousy mixing attempts), to get a remotely similar performance with Cubase, I'd probably have to switch to 512 or so. No thanks.
Is there a bunch of freely available plugins in both VST and AU format that we could use for some reallife tests? Preferably, they should also be available for Windows.
Of course these tests wouldn't be exactly scientific as comparing VSTs vs AUs might not be too fair sometimes, but I think that at least some coders do a great job for either format.
Perhaps Crystal and Smartelectronix' Ambience would be a good start - from what I know, both of them come in all three plugin formats.
- Sascha