I don’t think it’s a choice. Maybe Nuendo does more than Cubase, so they have to handle more stuff. Nuendo seems to be more different than we think (or another reason of internal release process).
given ARA V1 was released in 2011, and “Version 2 of ARA was announced in January 2018” and the API open sourced in 2021, why more DAW and plugin vendors don’t properly implement it? (mostly issues with OS and DAW as proper full implementation in the OS /
DAW allow probably 99% of ARA enabled plugins in to work. Cakewalk was one of the first to implement ARA back in 2014 or so, and ARA for all plugins (that i have using ARA, and it’s more than a few) work seamlessly in CbB and Sonar on Windows. Cakewalk Next does not support it on Apple OS… given the sheer volume of complaints about ARA on the Logic, Cubase, Live, and Studio One (and not to mention ProTools), and most of them on Mac OS - it’s paints a picture of Apple needs to support it natively (or least not block it), and the DAW folks need to get onboard.
as a note, i almost never use the ARA for Synth V, it works perfectly in Sonar, but my composition and “recording” workflow says - record the stuff, then add it to a mix, not try to record and mix at the same time. and composition in a DAW (to me) seems very limiting versus other options to create… IMHO.
I’m sure they had their reasons, but it could also be a misunderstanding.
I don’t work at Steinberg, so I can’t say for sure, but I think Nuendo is an extended version of Cubase the same way, Studio One Pro was an extended version of Studio One Artist. It would be weird to support only Artist and not Pro.
I know what a “single project” is, I’ve seen many projects like that in my very long experience… One project but maybe several different source codes. And if Cubase 14 came out and not Nuendo 14… well let’s say that maybe it’s just a proof…