STEINBERG Nuendo 10 £841

EXCELLENCE AWARD 10/10

In the years leading up to the Millennium, DSP-accelerated Pro Tools systems dominated the DAW market for high-end music studios and TV/film post-production studios. There were good reasons for this: rock-solid stability, high I/O channel counts, very low-latency monitoring with effects on monitored signals and a wide range of peripherals that supported professional music, broadcast and film production workflows. In 2000, though, a challenger to Pro Tools’ dominance arrived in the form of Nuendo, a new DAW and range of accompanying pro-grade hardware from audio software behemoth, Steinberg.

At the time, Steinberg’s flagship product, Cubase, had become somewhat bloated and cumbersome as a result of all the extra features that had been added to it in response to the rapid advances in computer-based recording technology: it needed a major overhaul. So