Studio Recording and Mixing
Nuendo 4 is a first-class production system for studio recording, audio editing and mixing. The next-generation Nuendo 4 production environment features the unqiue Control Room functionality, intuitive editing tools, an advanced new automation system and the well-known crystal-clear Nuendo audio engine to surpass the expectations of even the most experienced audio production professionals. That’s why renowned producers and engineers such as Alan Meyerson, Elliot Scheiner and Frank Fillipetti have been relying on Nuendo and its outstanding capabilities for years.
Quality, Quantity and Flexibility
- Opt for Nuendo and you may use any ASIO/Core Audio-compatible hardware.
- Nuendo supports all analog and digital formats (S/PDIF, AES, ADAT, TDIF, MADI).
- Many pro audio equipment vendors - Apogee, Digital Audio Denmark, Prism Sound, DCS, Euphonix or RME, to mention just a few - offer high-quality converters that harmonize perfectly with Nuendo.
- Seamless integration with analog and digital consoles is assured, courtesy of up to 192 simultaneously employable inputs and outputs.
- And with sampling rates ranging up to 192 kHz and 24-bit resolution, alongside the Nuendo Audio Engine’s internal 32-bit floating point performance, exceptional recording quality is also assured.
Network Integration and Data Security
- Record to local hard disks or any hard disk in the connected network Easy integration into legacy backup and archiving systems
- Individual destinations may be defined for each track of a recording
- Simultaneous recording to different hard disks for automatic backup
- Automatic buffer storage during recording to protect against data loss
- Pre-record buffering of up to 60 seconds prior to recording start
The Recording Environment in the Nuendo Mixer
- Control room section with separate output busses for headphones, control room, 4 studios and main mix
- Four freely configurable speaker setups including solo and fold-back functionality
- Up to six switchable external inputs for DAT, CD, DVD and so forth
- Up to four separate studio mixes, with every audio, group and effect channel in the Nuendo Mixer offering separate studio sends
- Talkback function with automatic and manual dimming
- Separate Click bus
- Instant access to all vital channel settings such as AFL/PFL, Mute, SIP, Gain, Phase, EQ, Sends, Inserts and Record Enable
- Professional metering with user-configurable parameters
- Full automatic latency compensation throughout the signal chain
Integrating Effect Plug-ins and External Hardware
- Nuendo 4 contains 38 new VST-3 Plug-Ins, beneath the new Channel EQ, and comes with totally more than 60 high-quality Plug-Ins.
- Side-Chaining is now available for a large number of VST-3 Plug-Ins, drag & drop functionality for insert-effects.
- Numerous first-class native and DSP-based effects are available from third-party-providers such as Waves, URS, Universal Audio, Sonnox or TC Electronics.
- You can seamlessly integrate external effect processors and MIDI instruments via the audio hardware’s inputs/outputs and use them as Plug-ins. Latencies are automatically compensated.
Recording Workflow
- Intuitive, fast and precise handling
- Utmost flexibility for importing existing projects, for example, in OMF, OpenTL, AES-31 or AAF formats
- Easy exchange of projects with other Nuendo and Cubase systems
- Various recording modes for optimizing the recording workflow: Normal, Merge, Replace and Keep Last
- Stacked Recording view shows all takes of a track in stacked array
- Effects such as pre-compression or EQ may be written into files while recording
- All routine tasks may be executed via key commands
- And if you wish to work at an even faster pace, you can opt to handle Nuendo via one of the many external hardware controllers offered by companies such as Yamaha, Euphonix, SmartAV, JL Cooper, Mackie or Tascam
Preparing the Mix
- Preparing the Mix
- You can opt to process files with effects and so forth directly in the Pool or in the Project window, while a batch processing option lets you speed things up.
- A set of tools is available for processing audio events - Range, Pointer, Stretch and Timewarp.
- Integrated Sample editor featuring special functions such as hit-point recognition.
- Nondestructive real time calculation of fade-ins, fade-outs and cross-fades.
- Flexible (Cross) Fade editors and Auto Fade function.
- New Instrument Tracks: a combination of MIDI Input and Audio Output enables flexible working processes with VST-instruments
- Offline process history for deleting, swapping and reconfiguring individual editing steps for each audio event (for example, normalizing, stretching and pitch-shifting).
- Common applications such as Autotune or Melodyne for ironing out musical problems in audio files integrate directly into Nuendo
Mixing and Automating
- Easy integration of Nuendo and external mixing consoles via analog or any digital circuits (AES, ADAT, TDIF, MADI)
- New automation-system: the comfortable „Touch Collect Assistant”, fill commands for writing automation and the optional “Virgin Territories” ensuring fully control of all automation parameters.
- New global track transpose: this new feature allows you to easy sketch out arrangements, without having to edit each part on each track individually.
- End-to-end multi-channel audio signal path for inputs, outputs, FX returns and groups
- Direct integration of MIDI, ReWire and VSTi tracks
- Clear view of all crucial mixer parameters, including Mute, SIP, AFL/PFL, Panning, Level, Gain, Phase Inversion, Inserts, EQs, Send Level and Automation Status
- Automation of all mixer parameters, Plug-in effects and VST instruments via individual or global Read/Write buttons
- Audio Warp: a MPEX-3 based, high quality time-stretching and pitch-shifting algorithm, which enables a real-time transposition – without undesirably artefacts.
Remote Control
- Nuendo 4 supports numerous hardware-controllers, like WK Audio ID Controller, Yamaha DM2000, Steinberg Houston etc.
- Seamless integration of Euphonix MC and System 5 MC
- Generic Remote function allows any MIDI controller to be set up as a dedicated control device for Nuendo