Some of us in the audio post production industry have to change the studio. Everyone of us has its own prefered workflow with its own settings.
Therefore, it would be a big advantage to have a “USB user profile dongle” or something similiar. It should be including the following things:
Own / preferred OS key command settings.
Own / preferred Nuendo key command settings.
Own / preferred OS settings regarding mouse control.
Own / preferred Nuendo settings.
It would be great if this “USB user profile dongle” could be plugged anywhere in any other studios that have the same OS, where you just need to plug it in the PC and then you can work anywhere in any recording studio with your own preferred settings. After you unplug it the system should “jump” back to its previous settings.
Well, assuming that all those settings are stored somewhere as user-accessible files it would be easy enough to just push that to the cloud and then it’d be available anywhere at any time. Or just manually copy to/from a USB key.
I also have to say that intuitively having a software override OS settings for mouse/keyboard control feels… “iffy”… at the very least…
No, if it we keep the ability to copy our profiles on an USB key. But when we (as I do) work on two computers at home and a third one in the studio, that will be very convenient. Imagine an option at start : “Would you want to use a profile from the e-licenser, or keep the last used ?”.
Yes, indeed. That’s exactly the same I thought of today to put the user profiles in a “cloud”, so that I just need to enter a password in the other recording studio I have to do the job. The problem is that of course the most recording studios doesn’t accept USB sticks with the profiles on it because an IT admin always would have to check the USB sticks before you will be allowed to plug it in their system. Sending a file to the recording studio you have to do the job is also the same.
All the recording studios have got an Internet connection. So I think so too that the best solution would be an integrated user profile solution in the new Nuendo version where every audio engineer can log in to his / her “user profile account”. A GUI would be great with the names of the users, where you just need to click on the profiles to change the user after logging in the respective account.
I have never been in a recording studio where plugging in a USB stick wasn’t allowed. I’ve also never been in a audio post studio where it wasn’t allowed or where we didn’t have internet access.
Actually I wonder how they can even work efficiently and cost-effectively in the year 2020 with such measures. In my experience it’s enough to just block the ability to install new software and to tell the engineer to not mess around with software.
Obviously if you’re doing work for Disney/Marvel it’s a different matter.