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Just wondering, is anyonne successfully using the Pulsar and Nuendo?

If so, what are your impressions? Is it worth the purchase?

Thanks,
interloper

Hi
I've been using Nuendo for some time with my Pulsar II with good results. I've been using it both Pulsar as an a/d interface as well as ADAT through ligthpipes. It has some problems though with the samplerate settings, but I have found a way to bypass it.

Sorry but I don't agree, I have Nuendo 1.5 (original) and is completely unestable.

Many times it lose comunication with Pulsar II and also don't recognize MIDI drivers of other MIDI interface boards.

In general it has many of the problems that everybody criticize of Cubase 5.0.

Many of this problems are recognized by Steinberg , in particular those related with sample rates.

I think that it's designed for to be used with Hammerfall (with this board don't fails) but not with other DSP based boards like Pulsar.

Well as I said there are known bugs, like the samplerate problems. Another thing I should have mentioned is that the ASIO2 drivers don't work well at least not in Pulsar 2.01. BUT - there is no problem fixing the samplerate issue and I have not had any problems using it exept from these I mentioned plus the classical sequenser remote problem that seems to be the case in Cuase 5 as well. I use it alot to transfer music from ADAT XT through lightpipe both 48KHz and 44 KHz data without problems!

More about Nuendo 1.5:

If you need to combine ASIO II with Wave drivers in a Pulsar Project (or in using other hardware that support this type of combination) you can't use 88.2 or 96 khz sampling rates.

This is a common case, because many of us use it combined with Wavelab 3 or Sound Forge 5 , that work with Wave drivers.

Although the EQs have been enhaced a little, it is nothing compared with STW EQs or the standard CW EQs quality.

The digital audio mixing engine continue giving this methalic and disagreable sound when you use multiple audio tracks.

Is impossible to get the warm and transparent sound that you get with Wavelab 3 Audio Montage, Samplitude 26/96 or Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.03.

For me the main benefit is that you can use VST instruments, but for the price of the bundle (Nuendo+Hammerfall)it's a very expensive benefit.

It also has not score editor like Cubase VST32.

Must be clear that for me the problem is Nuendo and Cubase, not Pulsar, that with many other programs that use ASIO work fine.

have you been using samplitude 24/96 succsessfully? I like the program but when I was trying to use it the lack of ASIO drivers were very frustrating and latency far to great to be of use. About the sound quality, well it's matter of taste - but I can not complain about it in Nuendo.

Thanks for all the feedback from everyone. I had two additional questions and was wondering if anyone would care to comment on the following:

First, from the yahoo forum I read that Samplitude really thrashes the hard disk during multitrack playback. Anyone experience this? What about Nuendo?

Also, what about the editing capabilities for real time effect parameters and midi? Is it easy to edit these over time? I give Cubase an average rating on this, wondering if Nuendo is better. Some people told me that Nuendo approaches Pro Tools, as far as these items are concerned...

Thanks,
interloper

well..I didn´t experience any harddisk trashing using samplitude or sequoia...I like to recommend this software for harddiskrecording...it´s simple to use and doesn´t need much ressources...

i use the red roaster version of samplitude and it seems very nice. i've seen no hd probs.

Thorkell,
Use 24bitWAV drivers for Samplitude, not ASIO. I just learned how to record on multiple tracks at once with Samplitude. The Sekd forum is very helpful and profesional.Plus there is a nice CD burning wizard.
Chuck