What are your favorite new N15 features for Music Production?

Nuendo
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I’ve just upgraded. There’s always a process of slowly appreciating all the little improvements, but I’m not feeling like much was fundamentally changed in N15. I tried using the quick export feature and it was clearly taking 10x as long to export so I aborted it and used the standard method.

My 2 big issues are

1. I wish they would port over some of the best features in Wavelab - I know it’s a different architecture, but particularly favorites/recently used in the insert menu and the ability to route any individual plug-in as M/S (or whatever you need). I can imagine the routing being a little difficult to implement but the favorites/recently used shouldn’t be (I know you can save channel templates).

  1. Support for hybrid mixing in the form of a simple record/playback plug-in. I made as much noise as I could about this leading up to this release. Everyone doing hybrid mixing could benefit from this. Your analog chain is on an external plug-in. The next plugin records the analog processed signal. This could be implemented in a variety of ways. Put an option in the Freeze function (forces real time freeze). Then yes we can still take pictures of console/outboard settings if we need to re-send that channel, but for the rest we have instant recall of our analog processed tracks. There is such a clear need for this feature. You could use Melodyne to do it, but then it messes up actual melodyne tracks. If anyone knows of a third party plug that can do this, please share?

    I could and probably will ask this in the cubase forum as well.

Thanks for your feedback.

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Nuendo is not where it’s at. I’m a Reason user since day 1 of it. Nuendo = Innuendo. To me, anyways,

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That’s a genre-specific choice. Reason’s great for what it does. Still looking for N15 feedback.

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For me the more advanced/deeper automation features, advanced/deeper editing features, deeper video export features, and the new Groups/Folder feature (which I’m sure will make it to Cubase) are worth it. I don’t have time to write them all out there, though.

The music part is no different from Cubase, so there are no new features there, but for me these other features make the experience noticeable better, both for scoring and song production. They make it faster and easier to do what I want.

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Thanks! I appreciate it

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Now Cubase has almost all of the features I wanted from Nuendo. The advantages are slim for me, aside from a few extra commands that are definitely useful for automation, and a few other things that are nice. But IMO they are not worth $400 and more expensive updates.

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I haven’t checked in on how much different the cost would be lately but it was never enough to make me do it.

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I went to Nuendo from Cubase, since you can use the Dialog feature to show song lyrics on a video display, whilst a song is playing.

Now days, I am just glad Nuendo comes after Cubase, since the experience is far more stable and satisfying.