Hi folks, I haven’t needed this for a long time, but is there a simple way to just engage 1.5x or 2x playback speed for things like QC’ing dialog. Not trying to match any video, just faster while editing/ QCing and then back to normal?
Thanks!
Thank you! I’ll take a look
This is the only way to do it, it seems. And those steps are rather coarse. Usually you’d want to set the playback speed to 1,5x - 1,8x as 2x can be too fast. Also there’s no simple way to preserve the pitch when shuttle playing. I’ve found this workaround (which still is nowhere near the flexibility of for example REAPER with a simple knob for the playback speed setting and also a setting for pitch preservation on/off):
In Nuendo:
- Enable “Use Inserts while scrubbing” in Preferences → Transport → Scrub
- Hook up a key command to “Shuttle Play 2x” (for example Ctrl+ Num Enter)
- Add a Pitch Driver plugin to the track or master bus and set Detune to -50%
- Play by holding down the key command above. You’ll now hear the audio with the correct pitch, but played twice as fast.
Maybe try putting the dialogue track into musical mode and increasing the tempo of the session.
Won’t work if you do QC work and want to be able to highlight issues on a track by placing markers on the fly while you listen. The markers will be misplaced when you set the tempo back to normal again.
I would love a proper varispeed implementation (albeit for different reasons"). Right now I have to hijack the converter’s clock with an external clock generator with a variable clock speed, but it’s cumbersome and sometimes Nuendo fights back.
If you’re not going to fix the problems on the fly you can use color coding on the audio track and come back to them later.
I do that and to me, it’s easy. Primarily because it’s just like spinning the varispeed on my 24trk machines up/down.
Doesn’t neundo fight back sometimes and try to change the sample rate of the session on you? That happens here if I stray to far from the project sample rate…
It can’t.
Nuendo & slaves are all in ext transport sync, interface clocks are ext sync, the external master clock synchronizer (which has the varispeed control) controls all the clocking of the interfaces & Cubendo transports.
Cubendo obediently follows. The moment I click back to int sync on the daw master and synchronizer, system is back to fixed sample rate. Which for me , is always 48.