I just looked at some videos of the Nuage system and kept looking at the monitors mounted above the Master and Fader Sections. This looks pretty great. I wish there was a mode for Nuendo to handle a second and third monitor like that!
As you donāt move windows on a Nuage system, Nuage manages windows for you. If you use the EQ, it only shows the EQ on screen and then closes it again to show the mixer. If you open a plugin, it opens that plugin, puts it front and center and maps all controls to rotary encoders. Itās really cool. You donāt have to open windows, find a spot, move them somewhere and they constantly hide something or are under other windows that have āalways on topā configured. So the screen always looks tidy and clean. If we could enable such a mode for a second monitor to only show relevant stuff and let Nuendo auto-manage them, I think this would be sweet.
Also, I noticed configurable buttons on the Master Section. You can configure buttons that replace keyboard shortcuts and name them. You donāt have to remember shortcuts you have buttons on a screen you can quickly access and do complex stuff easily. It looked a bit like the PT Control app in Softkeys mode. To have an app where you could just place your excessive key commands in the form of a button and trigger it without having to remember the menu itās in or shortcut would be really nice too.
Maybe, but I heard IC Pro is quite a bad app, so Iām hesitant to get it for that price.
On the other hand, PT Control works great with iPad and Nuendo, but customizing the shortcuts and layout is a nightmare. Itās so convoluted and complicated that I just gave up. Itās like sucking raw eggs through a very thin straw. And it only works with things present in the EuCon protocol, not with Nuendo macros.
I see. I at one point installed the Android version while it was in beta, and of course they killed that app pretty shortly after it was released Iād hope theyād do a Win 10 Universal app instead, but Iām sure theyād kill that one as well.
Either way I support your goal of having a better touch-app, although I think the more effective way of doing so would be to get them to change the current app to make it better. Iām pretty sure they wonāt develop a second iPad app any time soon.
In the mean time, you could consider getting a programmable keyboard/pad with legendable buttons. Iāve had one thatās been partially used for years, and there are some benefits to it. I chose a āPreh Keytech MCI 84ā, which I believe is German. Not sure if they make them any longer. At any rate, itāll do key presses and macros, and has a layer functionality that allows multiple functions on one key depending on the layer.
I think other point-of-sale keyboards are similarly programmable with legendable buttons, as are some gaming keyboards. The key (pun intended) to it is having the keyboards contain memory that is non-volatile so they hold the macros internally and not in software. That makes them transportable between systems (assuming your Nuendo key commands are the same).
The one drawback with this approach is that itās a two-piece āsystemā, where you on the one hand have this external keyboard and your programming, and on the other Steinberg. You can of course control what you do, but not what Steinberg does. So thereās the possibility that you set it up and it works one version and the next youāll lose some of what youāve programmed. I had some semi-elaborate macros stop working because of the way they decided to do the window layouts in the recent versions, and I just couldnāt get it to work the same way again.
Thanks! Hardware keyboards are something I havenāt yet explored. Didnāt know such special keyboards even existed. As long as you can put labels on the keys itās cool. The whole point being not having to remember all the shortcuts and coming up with new ones for some other task you do in editing a lot. So a shortcut keyboard could better be labelled
Does anybody know of a software solution? A simple window where you could draw your buttons and tell the software what shortcuts to trigger when pressed? I think I would not even need a hardware piece (my space is quite limited). Iād just like something to click directly rather than wading through menus or remembering the shortcut. Iāll have a look around.
Check if Devil Technologies have ported ādToolsā to Cubase/Nuendo. I think it may have been in the works, but Iām not sure. The ādTouchā software is out as far as I knowā¦
For now I actually but the bullet and bought IC Pro. Itās maybe the cheapest of all options (buying hardware, etc) and it integrates well with Nuendo. I feared it would be a bad choice as Iāve read lots of not so positive things about the app.
But I have to say, for what Iād like to use the app (i.e. surfacing shortcuts as buttons on a screen), itās the perfect solution that works well. You can search by menu item name and quickly color them. Only drag and drop for re-arrangement is missing, but configuration of shortcuts is SO much easier than in EuControl. Yeah you donāt have control over the channel strip, cannot load plugins into inserts or control the EQ with a graphical interface but again thatās not what I was looking for. Itās an expensive solution for what I wanted it to so (having some buttons instead of shortcuts) but it works and Iām happy for now
If only this app was updated more frequently with new features. In the forums thereās no shortage on ideas. Android was abandoned, iOS is still sold but updates are far and few between. A shame.
Iād hope theyād do a Win 10 Universal app instead, but Iām sure theyād kill that one as well.
