Live Recording
The Nuendo Engine was developed specifically to rise to the singular challenges of live recording. You may be tasked to track an hour’s worth of improv in a jazz club or record a full-blown three-day rock festival. But regardless of the recording task at hand, Nuendo lets you get the job done intuitively, reliably and in excellent sound quality. World-class events such as Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Festival and Joe Cocker’s 2005 tour were recorded with Nuendo. So, why are growing numbers of professional audio engineers opting for Nuendo as their live recording system?
Quality and Flexibility
Without a doubt, sound quality is the top priority in recording. And A/D converters are among the most vital components in determining a recording’s sound quality of. Nuendo runs impeccably with high-end converters offered by distinguished manufacturers such as Apogee, Digital Audio Denmark, Prism Sound, DCS, Euphonix or RME.
- Nuendo affords you freedom of choice when it comes to audio interfaces’ appointments, price and quality. Every piece of ASIO/Core Audio-compatible audio hardware available on the market integrates directly into Nuendo.
- All the audio inputs you need are yours for the asking. Case in point: In combination with three RME MADI cards, a single Nuendo workstation offers 192 inputs and outputs. And if your recording mission calls for fewer inputs, you can choose from a wide range of interfaces offering 8, 16 and 24 inputs.
- Nuendo lets you capture great-sounding tracks that shine in up to 192-KHz and 24-bit quality. Internally, the Nuendo Audio Engine works with even higher 32-bit floating point resolution.
Security
Every performance is unique and can never be repeated, particularly if it’s a live event. This is why the engineers who developed Nuendo put a premium on stability and data security. What’s more, the data storage system used by Nuendo delivers the performance, flexibility and cost-efficiency discerning users have come to expect from Steinberg.
- Temporary buffering protects against data loss during recording. Nuendo writes important information into the audio file as it records to ensure that the recording can be restored virtually in its entirety in the event of an unforeseen interruption (for example, a power failure).
- Pre-record Buffering automatically buffers up to 60 seconds prior to the start of recording. This ensures that the beginning of a recording is not lost if you engage the record button just a little late.
- What’s more, you can create an individual folder for every track to archive data. This option provides the best data throughput, enabling you to record simultaneously to different hard disks. Nuendo also offers the option of recording incoming signals to multiple tracks simultaneously. Again, this enhances data security because it allows a signal to be recorded simultaneously to different hard disks.
- Nuendo is designed to integrate readily into network environments, allowing you to use fast, secure RAID systems for backing up your tracks, as well as to easily employ any archiving and backup systems you have available for Nuendo.
Recordings for Several Hours
At some point you may wish to record a rock festival in its entirety. Nuendo affords you the peace of mind that comes with knowing that file size constraints will not impede your recording efforts. While standard audio formats are limited to files no larger than two GB, Nuendo and the WAV64 format let you circumvent this constraint. Nuendo leverages the WAV64 format to accommodate all the factors that typically push other systems over the two-GB size limit - high sampling rates, high bit rates, multi-channel recordings and, particularly, long recording times.
- With the benefit of WAV64 support, you can generate very large audio files beyond the typical two-GB limit.
- What’s more, the Nuendo 24/7 Timeline enables recordings to continue from one day to the next on the Timeline without the technical problems encountered with other systems when the 00:00 hours threshold is crossed.
Synchronization and Machine Control
Occasionally, a recording situation in a studio or a live event with a simultaneous video taping may compel you to operate the audio workstation from another device and synch the two up. Whatever the remote control demands may entail, Nuendo lets you get the job done with confidence and convenience.
- In addition, you can arm tracks and control transport functions via MMC or SONY 9-Pin, and synchronize via time code and clock to external (video) signals.
- No worries, if a scenario mandates more performance than your system can deliver - simply solve the problem by networking several Nuendo systems via VST System Link. This technology serves to send transport commands and synchronization data via a conventional digital audio circuit.
Mix and Deliver
To save precious production time, Nuendo lets you prepare for mixing while you’re recording. If tracks are destined for further processing on a system other than Nuendo, it provides all the transfer formats required to hand over files to other digital audio workstations.
- The Nuendo Mixer lets you assign effect plug-ins such as EQs and dynamic effects to incoming signals during recording.
- Automated processes may also be captured while Nuendo records.
- With any number of freely definable markers at your disposal, you can structure the project while recording. The waveforms of all tracks currently in record mode may be displayed instantly to afford you a good view of the process.
- Nuendo lets you hand over recordings in the form of Nuendo projects, as well as in all standard transfer formats, including OMF, AES-31 OpenTL and AAF.
