After investing in Nuendo 13 for the almost prime reason of cleaning up background noise, I now find that it clips the first word of the text in the clip. Is there a way to stop this from happening? For this reason the Voice Separator is unusable after all the hype. VERY disappointed.
I canāt seem to find the thread, but I believe there was another post about this where someone noticed clipping, and said that the solution was to select more time before the dialogue starts to avoid clipping the first word.
Hi,
Did you find solution already?
I am also dissapointed this issue.
As every clip begins I hear click/pop on beggining and first 1 second has wrong EQ. Then is ok.
I am still working on trial version of Nuendo 13.0.41 so my wallet is safe for now. Maybe is better to buy 3rd party plugin instead.
But It seems there is no working solution.
I was hoping that applying āoffline direct processingā would prevent from clipping and EQuing. But not. EQ for first 1 second is very bad.
Looks like for filmmakers it is useless plugin.
Much better algorithm is build-in in Davinci Resolve Studio
Regards.
Edit:
I found ssolution for this issue!!!
Stay on Cubase, invest your money to
Supertone Clear Voice Separator. Works like a charm.
You can find still free beta called GOYO v0.9.4 BETA VST3
Hi radwoc,
Thank you for suggesting Supertone Clear.
At last a plugin that actually DOES what is claims. Brilliant!!!
Still very disappointed that Steinberg hasnāt bothered to meet the standard expected of it by all who use their product.
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just an additional question here
I was actually surpised, that other DAW already implemented Audio Stems separation, but Nuendo still not yet ā¦
Nuendo is thought of and marketed as a post-production DAW, sound-to-picture. In that context āstemsā have a specific meaning that is different from what āmusic peopleā use.
Assuming you are talking about music and separating different instruments you can use Spectrlayers for that.
It is a funny coincidence,
when I realised that all the āimportant featuresā between Cubase and Nuendo are easily (and cheaply) interchangeable by 3rd party plugins, Nuendo started with 50% discount for crossgrade.
Nuendo is as buggy as Cubase and does not have all the important (and well working) tools that should have been implemented 2-3 years ago.
So, after almost 2 months of daily use, I cannot imagine anyone using Nuendo for any professional post-production work with modern movies.
Because my 2-month trial of Nuendo is coming to an end this month I decided to stay with Cubase and wait for the day when someone from Steinberg starts working 10 hours a day with Cubase to realise how buggy and unstable this software is.
The only thing I will miss is the Loundness Track 
(meh, without possibility to change red line different than -23 LUFS)
Someone should let Johnnie Burn know that if he used another DAW he could have done better than an Oscar for āBest Soundā! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wACDjZPwK3M 
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Hah,
thanks for video. Great guy.
I believe he is more endorser of Nuendo than āhardcoreā user.
Funny thing is, his project name is called ā146 ignore jb interviewā (1:21)
I suppose he is very disapointed, that TonalMatch works only in offline mode (4:51).
And I suppose that he have never used buggy Voice Separator in professional production (as shown 5:09). With click on beginning and wrong EQ during first second.
But still, great guy.
How does a person who wins an Oscar end up not being āhardcoreā enough? You think at that level of production you mess around with software that isnāt good enough? Seriously?
I donāt know that much about him, I donāt know how consistent his work is and I havenāt watched the movie because I hate the topic, but you can take a look here and see if he seems like a trustworthy person: āThe Zone of Interestā Sound Designer ā Johnnie Burn Interview (youtube.com)
You donāt think some of us do 10-hr days with Nuendo for a living?
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No problem. Though itās tough to think of him as just an endorser when the caption of the video says āMeet Academy Award winner Johnnie Burn, founder and chief sound designer at Wave Studios, which has 14 studios in London, New York and Amsterdam, all using only Nuendo for their work on commercials, pop promos, online streaming content and feature films.ā
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I am not denying that it is impossible to use Nuendo at all, but in this topic we are discussing the Voice Separator function, which is considered crucial for post-production, but in the meantime is useless.
Probably the only noteworthy feature for post-production studios is ADR in Nuendo, which I donāt exactly need.
I need TonalMatch as an insert and a working Voice Separator. This is not available in Nuendo.
I used to work on Cubase back in the days of the Atari ST, so I can see how the software developed and how, at the same time, the quality of successive versions of the program dropped. And to make matters worse, successive versions spoiled well-functioning features and worsened stability.
ācrucialā is an odd description for this tool, considering its somewhat new technology that people have been fine without in the post production world for years, but to each their own I guess!
Seriously, I donāt see any other way to use TonalMatch than in a offline process;
I use it every day 'cause it works way better than Chameleon, which is regarded as the āindustry standardā.
Fredo
And reconform.
And media bay.
Video Cut Detection.
Spectralayers One.
and Iām sure moreā¦
Well fortunately the same isnāt true for Nuendo.
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