Variable Time-Stretch Envelope + “Follow Main Pan” for Sends

Hi Steinberg Team,

I’d love to suggest two small but powerful workflow improvements for Nuendo, inspired by Logic and Pro Tools.

In Logic Pro, you can create a smooth slow-down or speed-up just by drawing a fade with “Speed Up / Slow Down” mode.
:movie_camera: Example: https://youtu.be/K2NiQ7xssi8?si=cYF1eTDX8hFSFE4t&t=23

In Nuendo, we can only use static Time Stretch or Free Warp, which makes this simple task more complicated.
A time-stretch curve or “Speed Fade” directly on the event would make slow-down effects fast, musical, and non-destructive.

Pro Tools also offers a Follow Main Pan (FMP) toggle so each send automatically mirrors the channel’s pan.
:movie_camera: Example: https://youtu.be/yEAK6Ze-6eA?si=LtRC3fihqLeqXjUa&t=370

This would be incredibly useful for stereo reverbs and delays, especially in surround and Atmos sessions.

Nuendo is already an industry leader in precision and power.
These two workflow touches would make it even smoother for composers, mixers, and sound designers alike.

Thanks!

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I was looking at this the other day as well, as I couldn’t find any way to variabley slow down audio files without changing the BPM, which is not helpful at all for Cinematic Sound Design. Is there amy way to do it without time stretching the entire event.

Thanks in advance

It’s there:

… it’s just implemented poorly, as you have to move the channel’s main panning device after adding a new Send to make its panner taking over the settings. It won’t follow just by adding it.

What’s more, there’s a bug that prevents random panning devices from following at all for no apparent reason (… click Play to see the animated GIF):

PanningBug

HTH!

Hi Dietz! Thanks for jumping in.

The current Link Panner behavior ties the main pan to all send pans at once. That’s useful, but it doesn’t cover the Pro Tools–style workflow where you can decide per send whether it should follow the main pan or not.

That’s absolutely true, of course. I also miss the the option to invert the send’s panning behaviour, which makes it easy to have a signal’s echoes always coming from the opposite direction, for example.

yes and I have to chime in and mention that we don’t really have a way to properly adjust both of these pan parameters in the automation lane together easily. It definitely encourages only writing and performing pan moves (with sends following) and to chose your best pass. However there are times when fine tuning with drawing is needed. Nuendo needs to implement a better way to handle that. Like a link automation lanes or at least when they share the same type of automation data. Its gotten a bit better with range tool but still a bit limited.

Do you perhaps mean, ‘pitch down audio files …’?

I use a plugin for this:


kiloHearts Tape Stop is a free plugin.

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Thanks Johnny for posting this alternative! Ιt’s definitely useful too! I love kilohearts plugins, but it would be even better if Nuendo had this natively.
Since it’s such a serious and professional DAW for post production, having built-in tools for this kind of workflow would make things much smoother and faster for everyday use.

They should look at all the free kilohearts plugins and add the ones Nuendo miss. Frequency shift is an important one for me!