Freedom of Choice in Audio Hardware
Nuendo 3 not only leaves the choice of computer platform up to you, it also affords you the freedom to choose the audio hardware. This empowers you to put together a setup tailored to your needs and working method.
Nuendo runs with nearly every audio interface available on the market, regardless of whether it is connected via PCI, USB, Firewire or PC bus cards on a laptop. What’s more, Nuendo detects every piece of ASIO-, Core Audio- and MME-compatible audio hardware without further ado, enabling it for immediate use. The audio ports built-in into notebook computers support normally support one of the aforementioned standards, which lets you work outside the familiar studio environment.
Untold professional audio vendors offer interfaces in every price range and with different I/O options. Whatever you wish to add to your rig - analog and digital connection options (AES, S/PDIF, ADAT, TDIF, MADI) as well as additional options such as microphone preamplifiers, DB25 connectors or separate inputs/outputs, MIDI and time code I/O – these accessories are available in a dizzying array of combinations. Steinberg developed the ASIO standard to accelerate input-to-output communication in peripheral audio devices to let you monitor live signals at very low latencies, irrespective of the of the given computer’s performance capacity.