Free Selection of Audio Hardware
Nuendo grants you the freedom to choose whatever audio hardware you wish to use. You can select the hardware that is right for you in terms of quality, functionality and price.
Supported File Formats
Nuendo records audio signals in all industry-standard audio file formats and lets you import and export additional formats. And with that, Nuendo offers you far greater flexibility than other systems that work with proprietary formats or support just a few standard formats.
File Management in the Nuendo Pool
The Nuendo Pool is a powerful administrative tool that helps you keep on top of all media files in even very complex projects. It lets you swiftly locate files, create your own sound libraries, and take advantage of timesaving batch processing options for your audio files.
Audio Editing
Though Nuendo performs all tasks exceptionally well, one of its strongest suites is its capacity to help you quickly post process audio material and efficiently conjure impressive sound designs. To this end, the software offers a rich set of audio processing tools for, a full-featured Sample editor, a process history, Elastic Audio features, versatile Fade editors, and many more powerful functions.
Transfer Formats
Nuendo is remarkably flexible when it comes to communicating with other audio and video workstations. Designed to support standard transfer formats, Nuendo dovetails seamlessly into every workflow and studio environment.
The Nuendo Mixer
The Nuendo Mixer ships with all the functions found on big studio consoles, including a front-to-end multi-channel audio signal path and a powerful control room section.
Automation
You may automate nearly every parameter on the Nuendo Mixer, including effect plug-ins and virtual instruments. With various procedures for recording automation data and a rich selection of editing options to choose from, you’ll be delighted to discover how very convenient and productive the automation workflow can be.
Remote Control
Courtesy of superb remote-control capability, you can trigger all crucial functions of Nuendo via any MIDI controller, via external hardware controllers and even via control systems developed especially for Nuendo and marketed by manufacturers such as Euphonix and WK Audio.
Effect Plug-ins and VST Instruments
Nuendo 3 ships with a full set of high-quality VST plug-ins. What’s more, you are free to extend its arsenal with the countless native and DSP-based effects and instruments offered by third-party providers as you see fit.
Integrating External Hardware
Nuendo 3 offers innovative options for integrating your studio hardware. It even lets you use your external effect devices and instruments as plug-ins, with graphical user panels and automatic latency compensation thrown in for good measure.
Optimizing Workflows
Nuendo 3 offers numerous freely definable presets for tweaking tools, commands and functions to suit your style and approach. It goes without saying but for the record, you are free to personalize the graphical user interface, menu structure and handling via user-defined key commands as you see fit. Nuendo adapts perfectly to your working method rather than vice versa.
Video
Nuendo offers a very flexible integrated Video Engine featuring a Video Thumbnail track and Video window for sound-tracking videos. Additionally, it outputs images to external video monitors and enables external video playback devices to be controlled via SONY 9-Pin.
Synchronization and Machine Control
Nuendo supports industry-standard synchronization procedures via SMPTE time code. It syncs up to external audio and video devices as the master or the slave.
Network Integration
Nuendo integrates seamlessly into any LAN or WAN without entailing additional costs. Its unique Network Collaboration capabilities entail an extensive access rights management system enabling multiple users to work jointly on a network project. Every user can contribute and simultaneously receive update from others collaborators within the net.
MIDI Functions
Nuendo offers you one of the most extensive MIDI feature sets available for sequencing and composition. Steinberg has more than 20 years rich experience in this field, and all of it flowed into Nuendo. When it comes to creative musical powers, Nuendo offers you more options than comparable competing products.
Surround Sound
The signal path in Nuendo is laid out for multi-channel audio from front to end and supports all standard Surround formats. Mono and stereo formats are readily mixed in Nuendo with LCRS, 5.1 and any other formats, and converted from one to other. Handling multi-channel sound doesn’t get any easier than this.