Fredo, perhaps my english is not so clear.
Can you get input monitoring and tape playback (mixed) together for the same channel ??
You could read this thread for a better english and perhaps better understanding :
Actually Nuendo does not allow this. The 4 available monitoring modes do not propose this :
- manual
- while record enabled
- while record running
- tape machine style
Tape machine style is almost here, but the vocalist does not hear himself when playing back the previous take. He does hear only the previous recording until the punch in is trigged. He does hear himself only during the punch in !
This monitoring capability is important as well for instruments, specially for fast guitar songs.
This capability is something very easy to do on a studio recording console since decades. And it is used very commonly during recording sessions.
For SSL 4000G or 9000K recording consoles for example, the “ready group” and “ready tape” buttons on each channel are doing what i’m describing here.
They do allow to listen for the channel input during record, or for the tape machine, or both if the two buttons are pushed.
Perhaps i’m missing something here but according to me there isn’t a simply way to do that inside Nuendo without one of the workarounds described in my previous post and other threads.
I remember we were playing with that (often to explain to beginners how digital audio did change things in our work) when the digital tape machines did enter the market : because of there AD and DA converters, they were adding some latency to the signal path in input mode, causing signal phasing if both ready group and ready tape were pushed simultaneously when the machine was in stop, effectively mixing the input signal with the delayed output of the AD-DA tape machine converters 