VST Sound™ – Universal Sound Manager
VST Sound™ is the collective name for a number of features that form a breathtakingly powerful system that manages all your sounds, presets and media files in one centralized database. Thanks to the excellent integration within the creative production processes, VST Sound™ has the power to revolutionize your workflow. The heart of VST Sound™ is MediaBay, a high-performance media database with outstanding search and categorization features. The powerful MediaBay functionality makes FX audio such as, say, a gunshot or car door instantly available, regardless of the location of the library on your system. Track Presets can also save huge amounts of time – importing, say, a dialog track loads EQ and your favorite compressor with all settings. And these are just several of the ways that the new sound management features can radically speed up your workflow: once it’s a part of your production process, you’ll wonder how you managed without…
MediaBay
MediaBay is the central Media Management system of Nuendo 4, and sets new standards in convenient, easy handling of FX sounds und samples, plug-in and instrument presets, MIDI files, Track Presets, videos and even entire Nuendo project files. MediaBay is so much more than traditional file browsers because it binds all media resources on your system directly into your workflow and production processes.
MediaBay searches your hard drives automatically for media files and gives direct access through a clearly laid out file browser. User-definable search locations and a powerful filter section and category search functions make finding exactly the right sound easier than ever before, regardless of where the sound is located. The search results can be sorted by category, file type or any user-defined attribute. The desired sound is then simply pulled into the project using drag & drop drop or any of the predefined insert options. MediaBay even offers file organization capabilities such as cut, copy, paste, delete and rename, allowing you to manage and organize your media files directly within Nuendo.
The Scope section shows a preview of the selected file; MediaBay then allows you to instantly preview audio and MIDI files as well as Instrument presets – even in the context of the project if desired. With the Tag Editor you can give any media file either your own attributes or use the range of predefined labels. These form the basis for the powerful category search and filter functionality that quickly becomes indispensable.
Nuendo 4 also offers countless predefined Track Presets – stored ‘patches’ containing all track information – that reveal the depth of the MediaBay concept.
The Pool
The Pool serves not only as a list of all audio and video clips used by a project, but also offers many processing tools for audio files shown there, including file format conversion and effect rendering. And the Pool’s batch processing facility lets you quickly convert and process many files simultaneously. The entire Pool can also be archived and imported to another project – a boon for transferring projects to another Mac or PC.
You are free to define the folder structure as you see to tidy up even the most extensive projects.
Files are inserted automatically at the desired position via the context menu or freely definable key commands (cursor, Time code position or the time position of the original recording). Useful features as Convert, Conform, Batch Rename, Automatic Minimize and Remove Unused File/File Parts, alongside audio CD import and an archiving option, round out the wide range of functions found in the Nuendo pool.
Meta Data
Nuendo supports metadata in accordance with EBU specifications for BWF (Broadcast Wave) files. On demand, Nuendo will write these data into WAV, WAV64 and files AIFF. In addition, user-defined metadata may be added every audio file within a project, say to document the name of the artist, the role number or the number of takes. BMF metadata are displayed as soon as audio files are import and are also viewable in the pool. Unless you edit metadata when exporting files from Nuendo, the original metadata record is written into the files in order to assure metadata consistency, which is vital for many production processes.