That’s definitely an exaggeration, and absolutely not my experience and I’ve been using Cubase (and other DAWs) for years. The difference is not big, and Cubase is not the only DAW that has look-ahead or PreGen (Digital Performer PreGen, Samplitude Pro X’s Hybrid Engine, etc.).

No, it’s not. I don’t know about other daws - but I literally did the same mix with the same plugins when I tried out cubase, and it all went to the buffer and barely touched the CPU while FL was floating around 65-75% - NOT an exaggeration at all. I can only compare what I know. FL def does not have that tech, and it’s def no way near as efficient.

Performance is awesome in Cubase due to something called Asio Guard. It’s really clever, it’s basically a buffer that looks ahead and preprocesses stuff. So your CPU load goes down - a lot.

What had my com at 65-75% CPU in FL Studio barely registers a blip of CPU in Cubase 13 - it’s a huge difference. It’s really stable for me, haven’t had any issues at all. Super smooth and stable.

Bitwig is totally aimed at electronic music, while Cubase is a kind of all in one and often used in recording. I don’t make Psytrance, I used to produce old school boombap hiphop but I’m also a funk/metal guitarist recording for my band.

You can only try it and see if you gel with it. Someone can tell you it’s awesome, but you just might not gel with it - just download a trial of Cubase 13 and test it out. All that said - Cubase is an excellent piece of software. It’s not an industry leader for nothing. No software is perfect, they all have some strengths and weaknesses, so you’ll just have to test it and see if it gels with you - but there’s no question it’s very, very good.

I have snap to zero crossing off. Where would I find this cross fade setting? It’s not in the cross fade parameters when I double click the crossfade, and it’s not in the auto crossfade settings. I just want to learn cubase better and know this.