In my last post I was telling you that I had switched DAW's to Auria because of the problems that I was encountering with Cubasis. Well I've switched back! The reason being that although Auria offers many more options and is head and shoulders above Cubasis as a proffesional (whatever that means!) DAW , the sound of it was troubling me. The mixes I was doing on Cubasis were far superior to those done on Auria. This could have been because the sound files I was transfering to Auria from Garageband were being squashed as the dynamic range was too great for Auria and there was no way that I could see to truncate that. So I made the decision to switch back hoping that Cubase would release an upgrade that dealt with the problems I was experiencing and they did!
All of the previous problems I had encountered seem to have been sorted which is a bit of a miracle really. We have just completed and mixed a song with 28 tracks running, each with individual eq and effects-some of them with individual compression and two effects simultaneously-plus master compression and eq. All of this with no glitching.
Also what I have experienced with Cubasis is something that I have mentioned previously which is the freedom and intentionality limited options can give you. Cubasis has a very clear and understandable eq. The display really assists the way I process information which is in an abstract non linear way. Well that's my story.
