Survey on the Performance of Steinberg DAWs

Oliver.Lucas · December 4, 2017, 9:23am

ChrisPolus:

I found one source of extreme sluggishness in the Nuendo GUI. It has to do with folders.

When I have 200 tracks without folders, the arrangement window works OK. Scrolling is still very imprecise and annoying but performance at least is usable. But when I start putting only a couple of tracks into a folder and collapse the folder so the lanes are displayed in this “Event Data” that appears, it gets veeeeery slow very very quickly. I have 10 tracks each in 8 folders and zooming comes down to a crawl. It’s completely unusable that way. I hope this is another hint to help you find the right spot for further optimization.

As a workaround I can hide the Event Data, but I think that’s not the point. If I cannot display Event Data from a couple of tracks in folders, then why is this feature even there as it makes no sense at all.

Unfortunately this can only be part of the problem, I have seen the problem in a session with only 15 audio tracks and no automation/plugins at all.