When I look at the mixer and its channel strip - which I really like the functionality of btw - I have a bit of a hard time reading the knob positions at times. I realize that I can’t fully tell what this will be like until I have the software sitting in front of me, but the question seems pertinent since people have different tastes and quality eyesight:
To what extent will we be able to change the colors / saturation etc?
Is it possible to NOT have knobs but some other visual feedback?
and, specifically:
Does the Brickwall Limiter show absolute numerical values so we can set it to limit hard at, say, -10dbFS?
My next comment and question is about the Control Room mixer. It doesn’t look anything like a mixer in the shots I’ve seen so far.
What I love about the “old” control room mixer is that it looks like a regular mixer with some stuff added to it. It’s pretty clean looking. This new “sidebar” that can be engaged in a regular mixer window is something I hate right now. It’s very cluttered looking to me. I get the intent of it and it’s a good one, but again the graphics of it just bother me like nothing else. It is, for example, a bit hard to see where the “line” is on the bar that indicates level, if that bar is under the text/name of that channel. So again it begs the question of whether we can properly adjust this so that those with poor color perception or just not great vision can see this more clearly? And of course:
Will we be able to have “the old view” of the control room mixer?
despite the many great additions, i would also rather not have this virtual knob array, or at the very least, be able to toggle between this new configuration and the one we currently have, but I guess that not going to be an option.
This fixed channel strip concept is retrogressive, the only reason I can see for this is the Yamaha Nuage tie in, what we are getting is a UI that looks more like the preconfigured front-end of a digital console rather a forward thinking DAW mixer.
I have Cubase 7, and the knobs on the Limiter will show the numerical value when you hover over them, if you double click in the pane, you can type in any numerical value you like. So if the Nuendo 6 mixer is like C7 , then yes.
Maybe it’s touchscreen friendly (I agree that it shouldn’t be the only option), but why it’s that ugly?
If you look the new plugins and the mixer, they look like, and let me say in this way, they were cheap. I know it’s just a graphic layer, but it looks unprofessional, and it’s hard enough to convince your clients about why you are not using Pro Tools.
mmmh, remember the age where u had to put ur ass off and shake a leg to go tweak a knob at the upper right corner of the 64channel SSL mixer
sometimes, i use to put som plugins GUI on my third 24’monitor witch is a touchsceen ,
and it’s just more efficient to tweak sound this way than with the mouse , specially with some plug with a good GUI like UAD lexicon 224 or some Arturias (SEM V) for example.
just regret that multitouch hasn’t yet implemented.
seems Nuendo 6gui will allows this kind of thing to be done more efficienly, and it’s good for lot of people who need more nomad solutions. as take the laptop and just an external touchscreen as a controller.
why not?
Not sure, but seems that we will have the old control room mixer.
Copied from the cubase forum:
“Will the control room window still be available as a smaller floating window or is it only available on the mixer now?
Yes, you can open it MixConsole or as separate window on its own.”
The new mixer takes some time to get used to.
Most of us betatesters had doubts about the new mixer, but as it turns out, most of the comments boil down to the fact that we are old farts and we don’t want anything to change to what we are used to, even if the change is for the better. It’s new, it’s different, and that scrares people off. But it will grow on you. That is if you are open minded and are willing to put a little effort into it. There are things in there which I think are amazing, while others feel the opposite way. There are thing of which I think are a step backwards, but that others seem to love very much.
I’ve done one feature movie in Nuendo6 by now, and can honestly say that the “old” mixer feels like a thing of the past by now. Outdated, not flexible and short of features.
I’m testing Cubase 7 along Nuendo 5.5 and it needs a 30% more CPU for the SAME task, with the same plugins, even with the ASIO Guard off. The demo project uses most of the resources available for Nuendo but it works well in Cubase 7, even needing a lot of more CPU resources, so it seems like it’s more efficient.
C7 isn’t the disaster some of those threads would seem to imply. C7 is working well here.
Not perfect in every area, but seems as stable as C6.5.
Ditto on the insert look change - it’s very hard to read now. Same with the channel strip - could be useful from time to time, but it’s too hard to read as well.
No this time Fredo: I’m using the Mac OS Activity Monitor. I realized long time ago that I can’t trust to the CPU meter
So when I say that it’s over a 30% more, I’m measuring it with a trustable tool.
I agree with the complaints about N6’s new looks.
I don’t see any point in having knobs and LEDs in a 21st century DAW GUI - as far as professional workflow is in mind.
True, we are in the middle of this touch-screen insanity, and if Steinberg sees the urge to become compatible, do so. I absolutely understand these efforts. But please let us go on using professional tools for our work.
Mixing on an analogue desk is totally different than mixing in a DAW. Mixing in a DAW with imitated analog interface is time-consuming, inaccurate, and unprofessional. And in my opinion, getting used to it is possible, but must be avoided.
It’s not about taste, I bet most of us simply need instant numeric values to be able to work efficiently, and to be able to trust the daw, to be sure what we’re doing. Please take these complaits seriously, as we are the purchasers of your products.
