We’d like to invite you to participate in the official Nuendo Survey 2024! We would greatly appreciate your time for completing this 8-9 minute survey. This survey is very important for Nuendo’s future: for the further development of new features, improvement of existing functions as well as for maintenance updates.
You’ll be asked questions about your satisfaction with Nuendo, features and maintenance updates, and you’ll have the chance to add your most important feature-wish.
The request to add one thing doesnt cover these maintenance issues, which are my top 2:
Allocate resources more evenly to each core like Reaper does then we’ll have less of this spikey and inefficient use of the new hybrid cpu cores.
Expression Maps are unfinished. The window should be dockable, sizable, and remote screen friendly, articulations selectable and with their own unique delay value, the editor redone - its much less efficient compared to making them in the soundsinabox web app for example. EMaps savable with Track archives, bulk loadable and exportable to text from the editor.
Response in survey: Add - Track notepads searchable, for selecting tracks.
Since I use Nuendo 13 more as a glorified version of Cubase, I don’t think my responses would matter so much to development. I would not want to say that certain aspects of the program don’t matter to me just because I’m not in a field where they are important. In short, I don’t want Nuendo to LOSE features based on this survey, which kinda seems where this is headed, IMO. In other words, if a lot of people don’t use a feature, Steinberg may think: “well, that’s a waste of our coding time then” when it’s not. I’m just speculating, of course.
I like new features. What I don’t like is losing old ones. Hopefully that won’t be the case here.
No, it’s not about loosing features at all. It’s about setting dev focus for future development - feature and maintenance - and alignment with internal resources.
Yes, please. It’s about time. I know it’s a huge request in terms of the back-end programming, but this would be a HUGE improvement for dialog-heavy projects, radio, broadcast, podcast, sound design and frankly many other kinds of projects.
WaveLab has decent ripple editing in the montage mode, but Reaper sets the standard for ripple editing, with perfect smooth click and drag workflow that moves all track data/objects and automation quickly back and forth on the timeline on a track-by-track mode or a complete project mode. Even the way it handles automation truncation and overlap is excellent. Start with WaveLab’s ripple editing, but study Reaper’s ripple editing for how a complex project can have such a seamless click and drag ripple workflow. It’s a massive time-saver, and a truly great workflow.
If @PG1 could do this for WaveLab, I hope the rest of the Steinberg team can finally do this for Nuendo/Cubase. I realize it’s a huge request due to the complexity of Cubendo track data compared to WaveLab’s montage, but a seamless ripple editing mode would be a dream come true TBH. And some of us have been asking for it for many years.
I’m also a huge fan of real, beautiful, wonderful, proper clip gain! Please see the various discussions in the forum for what we are talking about. Real clip gain plus real ripple editing would be the two most powerful workflow improvements for MANY kinds of projects. The two features would level up Nuendo’s editing significantly, and it would single-handedly reduce reliance on other DAWs.
Basically these two features are DAW-killers… in other words, these two features would kill other DAWs IMO. If Nuendo/Cubase were to implement proper clip gain and proper ripple editing, it would be a game-changer. I could literally shut down other DAWs and not need to use them any more.
and why not Pitch and Formant Envelopes on Events too! (think about us sounddesigners!)
Improvements Media Bay (also Right Zone Browser!)
file playback half / double speed (see Reaper)
with switchable stretch/pitch algorithm.
last used area (maybe 10 or so)
faster response
possibility to dragdrop files into Media Bay browser / Right Zone (faster preset creation)
eliminate Media Bay clunkyness and simplify the visuals
Media Bay could also save “complete folders” from arrange with all the associated tracks/events.
adding Marker window and the Pool in Right Zone AND Lower Zone
(everyone works differently!)
adding the new very fast “draw-tool thingy” for all automation curves
taken from Steinberg´s Halion and SamplerTrack (!)
That would be wonderful to have this for normal track automation too.
If Steinberg actually just did both #1 and #2 (Reaper-level click-and-drag ripple editing plus really great event/clip gain/volume automation), I’d have an embarrassingly enthusiastic outburst of amazement, start singing uncontrollably, and probably dance around the studio for 15 minutes, then immediately call some friends and take them out to a nice restaurant (all on me), and raise a glass to then eloquently toast Steinberg. I’m not kidding, I would literally do that.
If they also did #3 (pitch and formant envelopes on events), I’d almost certainly attempt to spontaneously do backflips, and then start breakdancing with a few power moves, including a headspin, which would be physically dangerous for my back, but I’d do it anyway, and then I’d post a video of me falling on my face here in this forum, and still smiling as an ambulance arrived, with paramedics putting me on a gurney and taking me to the ER to get x-rays.
I’m glad to hear that. Also, being Nuendo, I think there will be a slightly different focus overall than on Cubase. Hopefully both programs will always share the same great features. I really love this software, having graduated from Studio One (versions 1 to 5). Keep up the great work.
There are two features I really want but forgot to write:
Display the waveform of all waveforms in the sub-tracks stacked together in the group track or folder track. Now the folder track only displays the length shadow of the sub-track event, which is actually meaningless.
More processing and preset functions based on audio events (audio blocks in audio tracks).
In fact, you can refer to reaper for these.
I hope Nuendo will get better and better, thank Steinberg!
