Many DAWs, including Cubase, are now available on Snapdragon X-based Copilot+ PCs

Qualcomm has revealed that several content creation apps for Windows 11 will now natively support its Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite and chips. The new apps include Blender, CaptureOne, Moises, Steinberg Cubase, and Nuendo.

Windows 11 PCs sporting the new Snapdragon chips will also be getting a new free NPU-based plugin for Blender that “will simulate rendering on the NPU using a neural network at warp speed” and “reduce the time it takes to enhance your early 3D object file into a higher-quality 2D image with text-to-image AI,” Qualcomm said in a blog post.

Qualcomm said Blender’s new plugin will soon be available and will work with the Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chips inside HP, Lenovo, and Samsung Copilot+ PCs.

Alongside Blender, several other software will soon be available on Snapdragon-based Copilot+ PCs, including Affinity Photo 2, and Capture One. But the most exciting reveal is that several DAWs (Digital Audio Workstation) will finally be available on these devices.

Qualcomm announced that Snapdragon Elite and Plus can now support Moises and several other DAWs, such as Cubase, Nuendo, Cockos Reaper, and Reason from Reason Studio. Additionally, Steinberg and Focusrite will release their own drivers for Copilot+ PCs, making these devices ready for producing music.

Snapdragon-based Copilot+ PCs also support MIDI for electronic instruments and the much-needed ASIO driver for low-latency audio—a must for every musician/producer.

There is no word on whether the other more popular DAWs on the market, specifically Ableton, will be available on Copilot+ PCs, but there are huge possibilities for it. Ableton is already on Apple’s M processors. These processors have an ARM architecture, so it wouldn’t take much for Ableton and other similar DAWs to be adapted for Copilot+ PCs.

Qualcomm mentions that most of these DAWs are entering a preview phase this month, while others will be available starting in 2025.