Nuendo 5 Expansion Kit: Cubase Music Tools for Nuendo
The Nuendo 5 Expansion Kit (NEK) is a part of the Nuendo product range and brings the music tools of Cubase to the Nuendo media production platform. NEK means complete compatibility with all Cubase music creation features and import functionality for Cubase projects. With world-class instruments, innovative sound design tools and advanced technologies for composers, the NEK transforms Nuendo into a professional, all-in-one solution for music, live and post-production.
Beat-based sound design tools
The NEK features outstanding tools for creating beats, generating exciting new rhythms and working with loops.
LoopMash 2
LoopMash is a revolutionary virtual instrument that offers a unique and innovative way of working with loops and beats to create stunning new rhythms and grooves. Seamlessly blendable variations of both the included loops and any loop from your library open up myriad new creative possibilities. LoopMash is based on a new audio analysis/synthesis engine, developed in collaboration with Yamaha, that matches similar elements across loops and beats, generating fresh and inspiring “mash-ups” from any rhythmic audio material.
NEW IN NEK 5.5: LoopMash 2 introduces 20 new MIDI-controllable live and slice-based effects, such as scratches, stutters and tape stops. LoopMash 2 also sports twice the amount of scenes — a total of 24 — and comes with full undo/redo support. Plus, you can drag-and-drop slices from one LoopMash 2 track to another, or even into Groove Agent ONE.
- LoopMash 2: first-of-its-kind interactive loop synthesizer
- Groove Agent ONE: the perfect fusion of functionality and simplicity
Groove Agent ONE
Groove Agent ONE pairs powerful drum sampling with detailed sound shaping — seamlessly integrated into Nuendo. Not only does it boast sliced loop and MPC-import but rocks right out of the box with its own custom library of only the finest acoustic, urban, hip hop and dance drum kits! Each of its virtual pads features a complete sound processing section that gives full control of textures, timbres and expressive qualities of each drum sound. Creation of custom kits with drag-and-drop from the MediaBay allows an extremely fluid and easy workflow.
NEW IN NEK 5.5: Groove Agent 1.2 introduces several enhancements, such as solo and mute function for individual pads, multi-pad editing, and more.
Beat Designer
Beat Designer is a hot beat construction plug-in that allows you to get hands-on with beats for step programming and designing drum patterns in an easy yet powerful way, working hand in hand with Groove Agent ONE. Getting really interactive with different grooves and variations has never been easier: Beat Designer organizes several patterns at once in customizable banks and can trigger each of them in real time and synced to Nuendo with a MIDI keyboard.
Drum Editor
- The powerful Drum Editor
The Drum Editor is a highly intuitive yet powerful window for constructing and reworking beats, rhythms and grooves, offering a plethora of features to let you come up with the perfect groove.
Express creative visions
With the NEK, Steinberg has innovated even further to offer even more creative tools for composers.
VST Expression
VST Expression provides an ultra-intuitive new way of working with multiple instrument articulations, for example of huge orchestra libraries and introduces an editing concept that is not only user-customizable but also fully integrated with the Key and Score Editors. Instead of handling all those MIDI controllers for switching articulations, VST Expression allows seamlessly and transparently integrated editing as well as full control over multiple articulations in the Key and Score Editors. Articulations noted in the Score Editor can be played back immediately in real time by orchestra or any other sample-based libraries like the all-new HALion Sonic SE.
NEW IN NEK 5.5: VST Expression 2 is taking MIDI editing to a whole new level. Comprising three innovative technologies — Note Expression, Expression Maps and VST Dynamics — the latest VST Expression standard is the composer's choice for creating dynamic arrangements and unheard-of effects.
Professional music notation
The Score Editor is a full notation environment completely integrated after installing the Nuendo 5 NEK lets you view your music in the form of scores, with full support for just about all symbol, display and editing options that this entails. With support for lyrics and remarks as well as drum notes, guitar tablature and lead sheets, the Nuendo 5 Score Editor includes hundreds of professional notation symbols: simply select the tools needed to create fully professional score layouts for others including soloists, orchestras and choirs.
Thanks to the full Music XML Import/Export support, even exchanging scores with other notation packages is only a matter of seconds. Adding to the stunning MIDI Meaning feature, the new VST Expressions capability has been engineered to offer a new level of speed and intuitiveness when working with large sample libraries by introducing dynamic support for articulations and expressive notation that is automatically interpreted by a VST instrument. Nuendo 5 NEK features an unparalleled combination of a fully featured composition, recording and mixing environment with comprehensive scoring features — ideal for composers.
- Ideal for composers — the Score Editor
- Smart and effective: the List Editor
List Editor
The List Editor is a powerful MIDI editing tool that gives fast access to every single aspect of a MIDI note, and can be a huge timesaver in complex projects.
Premium instruments
NEK delivers superior virtual instruments — right out of the box. Next to LoopMash 2 and Groove Agent ONE, further exceptional plug-ins make up the impressive arsenal.
NEW IN NEK 5.5: HALion Sonic SE
HALion Sonic SE is a streamlined version of HALion Sonic, Steinberg’s premier VST workstation. Incorporating the same pristine audio and synth engine as its award-winning brother, HALion Sonic SE offers tight integration with Nuendo 5.5 and more than 900 production-ready sounds and instruments. Intuitive handling, instant playability and VST 3.5 support make this new instrument the perfect choice for creative songwriting or just playing along. HALion Sonic SE supports VST 3.5, being among the first to benefit from the revolutionary VST Expression 2 technology.
Prologue
Prologue is a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer with great sounding multi-mode variable resonance filters, powerful modulation capabilities and cranking onboard effects. Powered by VirSyn technology, this punchy virtual analog synthesizer is fed by hundreds of great sounding presets covering a wide range of sounds reaching from traditional analog to indescribable. Prologue’s intuitive user interface provides full editing capabilities with access to its three oscillators, powerful multi-mode filter, four envelopes, two LFOs, a powerful modulation matrix, and on-board effects.
Spector
This unique instrument is based on two extremely colorful and versatile spectrum filters and can utilize up to six oscillators per voice with two different waveforms each. Separate independent spectrum filters process each of the two waveforms. Creating new, unique sounds by simply drawing new filter curves and then shifting or morphing the two filter’s spectrums is as much fun as browsing through the included showcasing presets. Identical to Prologue, Spector offers four envelope generators, two LFOs, a powerful modulation matrix and on-board effects. With access to all sound parameters, Spector provides full editing capabilities.
Mystic
Mystic is a very unusual but inspiring instrument with lots of personality, making it the perfect complement to NEK 5’s other integrated instruments. Its synthesis uses a combination of physical modeling and comb filtering to generate unique and colorful sounds and is based on three parallel comb filters with feedback. The sound source is an “impulse sound” based on physical modeling technology. The harmonic spectrum of this sound is based on one of six waveforms and a set of two spectrum filters. The sound can be shaped with a filter (damping), by adding an offset to the comb filters (detune), or by adding a noise component (crackle).
HALion ONE
HALion ONE ist eine spezielle Player Version des preisgekrönten Software-Samplers HALion mit über 600 Sounds. Das riesige Arsenal akustischer und elektronischer Instrumente basiert auf dem erstklassigen Sample-Content der Yamaha Motif Serie und bietet einen perfekten Grundstock für nahezu jeden Musikstil. Die Sound- und Effekt-Parameter jedes einzelnen Presets können über acht Quick Control Regler schnell und einfach editiert werden. Die Sound Library enthält auch ein GM Soundset zum Abspielen von General MIDI Files, die per Drag&Drop importiert werden können.
Monologue
Monologue is a monophonic analog synthesizer based on physical modeling technology. It offers full, rich and colorful sounds without consuming a lot of CPU power. The Monologue synthesizer is the perfect tool for bass, lead and sequenced sounds.
Please note that Monologue is not available under Mac OS X Lion.
Embracer
Embracer is a simple but powerful polyphonic synthesizer designed entirely for producing pads and accompaniment sounds. With its easy-to-use envelope and tone controls, it gives fast access to the sounds needed without having to search through thousands of presets. However, the most powerful feature of Embracer is its surround output. With a single switch, the instrument can be turned from stereo to surround and the width control allows spreading its pad sound anywhere from mono to stereo to full 360° surround.
Please note that Embracer is not available under Mac OS X Lion.
VST Sound Collection Vol. I
The VST Sound Collection Vol. I offers over 1.5 GB of new content, sounds and loops produced by top producers, including Yamaha, Sonic Reality and Big Fish Audio. It can be used royalty free by all Cubase/Nuendo customers.
Original Yamaha S90ES Grand for HALion ONE
The famous Yamaha S90ES Grand is one of the most sought-after sampled stage piano sounds around. This outstanding piano sound is now integrated directly into HALion ONE! Using the original samples, captured with care and outstanding precision by the Yamaha content experts, the S90ES Grand for HALion ONE delivers a truly beautiful expressive timbre, suitable for all styles of piano playing.
250 new and fresh drum loops by Big Fish Audio
Red-hot drum beats and scorching loops — all of them ready to use and optimized for variety and creative usage with the excellent beat mangling and manipulation tools in Cubase/Nuendo. And because they’re all ready for the MediaBay, finding the right loop for a song takes only a few seconds.
45 instruments for HALion ONE by Sonic Reality
Produced by the experts at Sonic Reality, this library delivers crisp guitars, warm bass sounds and cutting-edge acoustic and electronic drum kits — suited for a variety of music genres.
Trial version: HALion Symphonic Orchestra VST Sound Instrument Set
The NEK 5.5 contains a 60-day fully functional trial version of the HALion Symphonic Orchestra VST Sound Instrument Set. Evocative scores, exquisite arrangements and emotive accompaniments: HSO VST Sound Instrument Set for HALion Sonic SE and HALion Sonic is the ideal, symphonic library for composition, production and pre-production in music, TV, film scoring and game sound.
Existing HSO users will be excited to find out that they can use HSO VST Sound Instrument Set with their existing license as a free update right away! For all others, the trial version of the HSO VST Sound Instrument Set can be upgraded online to a permanent license at a very special price.
The license upgrade is only available online and enables the permanent use of the HSO VST Sound Instrument Set included in Nuendo 5.5.
