Hi!
I am a long-time user of Nuendo (since V2), and during that time I have mostly worked with sound for feature films, mainly focusing on dialogue edit and re-recording mixing. Through the years, I have noted some feature requests that would help immensely with everyday sound work. I have highlighted the requests that I believe are the most needed improvements.
Autoplay option in DOP, or the possibility to Audition with a key command.
-I use DOP at least a thousand times every day. I always want to listen to the clip I am processing anyway. Having this option would save a lot of time!
DOP auditioning post track inserts.
-I would love to have an option to listen to the event I am processing in DOP through the inserts chain on the track it is placed on. Maybe you could add a toggle button for that.
Routing of the DOP signal.
-When working with theatrical surround mixes, I need to know how the processed clip will sound in the speaker where it is supposed to be played back. When adjusting an EQ on a dialogue clip, it sounds different when it is auditioned in L/R speakers instead of the center.
Yes YES. The countless times my ears have been murdered after auditioning a clip-gained clip in DOP. I agree with all of these, but especially number 4 and 1. I can not understand why this is something you still have to be careful of when working with DOP.
It seems like many of you agree with request number one.
I wonder what the Steinberg team thinks? I really hope that this can be implemented sooner than later! Our poor ears will definitely thank you in the long run!
Yeah, its another issue here. Steinberg people are rarely here. Not a good comunication going here between us and developers/people in charge of feature decisions.
I mean nuendo is a beast of a product, pt is years behind. We just need some basic post stuff sorted out (aaf, mxf metadata, dop).
Please steinberg, communicate with us here.
Maybe option to route it through the mixer channel settings is an interesting idea that I like, so in essence you are hearing your source processing and how it sounds through the chain at the same time, but this needs to be an option only, because there will be times that we need to hear what its doing to the source only, it is a clip even processor not an INSERT>.
There is also separate fader for media bay to keep that volume softer if needed also.
I dont get your question btw. I mean, if you are going to listen to a super low recording, you would still like to hear it at the same volum in DOP as in the sequencer, am I not right? And yeah, going from super low recording to a mastered SFX file has nearly killed my ears plenty of times. I have spent the last week mixing a film at the dubbing stage, and it has happened at least 20 times in one week. My ears are so tired right now. Steinberg, please do something about this soon!
We probably all use Nuendo in different ways.
I work mostly with feature documentary films, where extensive offline processing is needed on almost every clips. The raw material varies a lot in volume, and that is why a consistent auditioning in DOP is so important for me. Efficiency and predictability are two factors that are important for my work. In the heat of the moment, I cant be bothered with having to check either audition level in the DOP window, or the listen level in control room. I do not think that having a physical fader assigned to either of those volume controls will help with efficiency or predictability. Most of the time, I just want to apply DOP with the same volume as it will be presented when pressing play in the sequencer.
However, when you have a physical controller attached to the listen slider in control room, you would still have the same flexibility to turn the volume up or down, only with more predictability of the volume in the first place.
Sends have a variable level and can be switched pre or post fader, direct routing not
direct routing is able to route a signal to up to 8 destinations without the need to setup their levels, for quick summing
like the routing in an analog mixing desk.
In addition to the main output, the Direct Routing rack allows you to set up 7 routing destinations that are positioned post-fader and post-panner in the signal path. This way, you can switch the destination of channels and create different mix...
Sometimes using Direct Routing is more convenient for various reasons, such as setting up templates with fixed stems assigned etc. and sometimes you really need a send, i.e. when you need to change the level of the signal and/or set it to pre-fader.
is anyone having issues with direct offline process where after you render a file the waveform changes drastically and so does the sync of the audio file?
for now to fix this I have to undo and then redo the process
I use rx and acon. I did not notice this problem. On the other hand, I notice a sluggishness as I use and grow the project as I apply the permanent offline render command.
Same problem with using extensions. spectralayer example. sometimes listening is no longer possible. you have to undo the editing work and then start all over again. I also note that the selection of a sample or part of a track does not necessarily select this sample even if in spectralayer 9, which requires you to do it manually. sometimes this sample selected in the arrange window is not selectable in spectralayer. however, no lag.
But yesterday I noticed something that made me question that idea: With direct monitoring on, the panning of the live tracked vocals followed the pan control of the audio channel in Cubase it was routed to.
Yes, it is used for outboard summing device or mixer, them you bring back the stereo audio inside the computer, you can use your AD converter for limiting too. This is the most preferred practice for summing all tracks to stereo.
So, bear with me, if you have a Stereo main out this is where eventually all channels will go (either directly or via group channels)
You can also defne additional outs, which you can connect to an external summing device (I use a SSL SIGMA)
Selecting any OUT 1-16 removes the output from stereo to that individual out
With summing mode ON it keeps the signal mirrored on both the stereo and individual out.
You will still have to define an external in, in order to monitor and print the external mix
This external summed mix will still bypass the master section (which is ONLY available for the stereo master bus)
Live multitrack recording used to be a complicated task, relying on 2- or 3-way splitters and racks of mic preamps and A/D converters. With the advent of digital mixing consoles and digital audio networking protocols (like Dante), much of this process has been simplified.
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In Dante Controller, be sure to subscribe (check mark) so that the inputs from the RIO (transmitters) are going to the Dante channels of your DVS Computer (Receivers). You can also record the direct outs of the console. Just be sure to turn those on! But usually you will want to record directly off of the pre-amps of the RIO.
In order to allow the channel names and colors to transfer over to Nuendo, you will need to connect the computer to the Nuendo Live recording module on the CL/QL. This is why you need the Yamaha Console Extension installed on the computer.
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What I want to do is to be able to hear the effects of my Cubase plugins in real time as I play/sign. Everything gets recorded as it sould and I can listen to it from Cubase with the effects when I play it after being recorded.
I was not completely correct - the grayed out box means - it does not support ASIO direct monitoring
Your interface does support direct monitoring, but not ASIO Direct monitoring. And I think, youre confusing direct monitoring with input monitoring.
Direct monitoring is normally a knob on your interface. Direct monitoring because the input is sent directly to the output, bypassing the computer and the latency involved to give you zero latency.
This has nothing to do with Cubase.
How are your preferences set, Tape Machine style monitoring ?
DM enabled in the preferences ?
Tried to reset TotalMix ? (yes it can get confused, resetting or calling up a snapshot usually clears that up for me)
Tried disabling any WDM connections in the RME driver ? (can really mess things up, might be Win10 related)
Yes there is something with how win10 handles wdm that must have changed.
I suddenly could not go below 512 buffers, anything lower and I got no sound or only static.
Disabled wdm in the RME driver setting, fired up Cubase again and now I could go 32 buffers without problems.
I have later enabled wdm again, and it is now working fine and can use all buffer settings.
Completely uninstalled all drivers and semblance of my rme driver software from my computer (including old driver references from registry). Even removed the hardware. Reinstalled. No difference
Direct monitoring works at manual level if I use totalmix on the rme to configure channels manually. This is not auto monitoring though and is very cumbersome.