Software :: Cubase 64

With more and more computers are sold with 64-bit operating systems, and the musicians' demands increase because of the desire to run more plug-ins and libraries ever-larger sample, a 64-bit applications of this music becomes very important. Although Steinberg has available 64-bit version of Cubase 4 (and Nuendo 4) for some time, Cubase 5 marks the first release is fully supported 64-bit release of Cubase in 64-bit (x64) versions of Windows Vista. This is a great thing, especially for those who work with large projects, although there are some points to remember if you are considering to run 64-bit version of Cubase 5.

The most important consideration is that there should be 64-bit drivers for all hardware that you need on your system. Most computer components must be covered, including most of the audio hardware, but some special musicians 64-bit hardware does not have support at this time, including the DSP card and instruments such as the Virus TI's access. While the plug-in is technically should also specifically formulated to work in 64-bit applications, supply Steinberg Cubase with a technology called VST Bridge, allows 32-bit your existing plug-ins to run with 64-bit versions of Cubase. For more information about this, check out our review Nuendo 4 in December 2007 issue of SOS (www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec07/articles/nuendo4.htm).

In addition to hardware and plug-ins, Propellerhead's ReWire and the REX file technology is not currently supported in 64-bit operating systems, and users who work with video in Cubase should be noted that support QuickTime is also not available at this time. If you use one of the other player Cubase, you need to make sure that you have 64-bit video codec that supports video files you will use.
A 64-bit release of Cubase for Mac users is also being prepared, however, that this becomes possible, Steinberg needed to port all applications framework Cubase's code for using Apple's Cocoa framework instead of the old Carbon API, which originally slip transition for developers of Mac OS 9 to X. So now Cubase 5 to make full use Cocoa frameworks, making 64-bit Mac release possible, though it appears that Steinberg may be introduced following the release of Apple's next major version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard (10.6).