Hello,
May be I should post this topic in an other part of the forum… anyway if moderators find the better place they will move it in.
I think it is not bad idea to help the Nuendo developers to understand difference needs of Nuendo customers. Sometime it is not easy to make something better but in the same time the obvious things are missed. Here I am starting with couple useful IMHO features.
I found not convenient that I cannot select deferent tracks which are not close with RANGE TOOL.]
May be there is some way to do it but I din’t find it after quiet long trying
It concerns RANGE TOOL too. It would be great if I could move all with in range not only by mouse but using arrows for more precise nudging. For now I can move by arrows just range itself.
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This is a bit strange proposition. It can be helpful for re-recording studios which does not have enough big screen for DAW displaying or WAVES FEATURE in mixer. Very often re-recordist should see where session is playing for the moment. NUENDO can make cursor quiet wide which is good but it could be more noticeable if timeline before and after cursor has difference color. For example like this
Wouldn’t this be possible to do also by grouping the tracks you want to use… I’m not sure I understood the question. When I do drum editing I group the tracks so I can edit all at once. I’ve been doing editing on multi-tracks without grouping for years and it sucked. I just found out that grouping is kewl… I’m a slow learner.
Things I would like to see include the following, in no particular order.
1 - independant control over every channel in a multichannel VST3 plugin as opposed to the hopeless global operation we currently have.
2 - +10dB on the faders - makes translating from Alsihad very hard with the current +6dB travel.
3 - Better metering, with the latest loudness metering as well as PPM/VU behaviour.
4 - Tab to transient.
5 - Virtual VCA groups
6 - Multiple EFX track addition please, instead of the current one at a time mode.
7 - Improved AutoSave, so that no backups ever get overwritten.
8 - Visual indication of disabled tracks in the mixer.
9 - Better restoration tools
10 - switchable pre-post insert operation on the track EQ - if I add an HPF on this, it does not get added currently until after insert #6 - hopeless. Forces use of a valuable insert slot for an EQ plugin that should be unnecessary.
11 - Whilst we are there, unlimited inserts please.
12 - still with EQ, 5 bands plus HPF/LPF. Think UAD Cambridge.
More as I remember the things that I feel are missing…
Rustami, thanks a lot. It works and very useful.
Did anyone use Aphex Aural Exciter? I know that it does’t concern Nuendo developing but it would be great to see this plug-in not only in PT TDM.
I agree with
2 - +10dB on the faders - makes translating from Alsihad very hard with the current +6dB travel.
3 - Better metering, with the latest loudness metering as well as PPM/VU behaviour.
I would prefer even +12db to avoid problem with PT to Nuendo converting. And good metering eliminate the need for
using third part plug-ins like IXL metering which is very good but it useful on master track and not convenient as ordinary track metering.
Yes, I have tried but in small studios. I like how Ahex Exciter sounds in big a re-recording studio and it’s way to increase and control harmonics, some time it really saves dialogs or makes ambience transparent and wide. Probably be iZotope can to compete with Aphex… I should test it.
Thanks again for the advice.
By the way yesterday I was discussing with my friend (he is a PT user) about future of DAWs and he said that it would great if a DAW can have several interface for difference tasks: usual for editing, big symbols for re-recoding, simplified for demonstrating and etc. Somehow I think it reasonable (hope I used right word ).
Like I suggested several times already, my biggest wish for a completely new Nuendo-feature would be the possibility to switch the conventional waveform-display in one or several tracks to an FFT-based sonogram (a.k.a spectrogram). Computers are fast enough nowadays. There’s so much more information available with this kind of displaying audio, especially during heavy edits: You can easily spot clicks, noise, hum, melodic and/or harmonic progressions, any kind of spectral changes, etc. etc.
… ideally, we would even get some kind of spectral editing, like in Algorithmix’ “ReNOVAtor” or "iZotope’s “RX”.
Absolutely … there’s no question that many audio problems are much easier to spot and correct in a frequency domain editor. Just had one today … a noise was being complained about but not everyone in the room could hear it! (old ears…). Had to drop out to Sound Track Pro (Apple … nice interface for Post but hideously unstable) and there in it’s Spectral display was the culprit up high but gone in a flash with no affect on the rest of the spectrum. It was very easy and very impressive.
After all Wavelab has had it for ages … so even a way to round trip to the WaveLab editor like we used to be able to do…
Maybe I’m a special case (it’s been said before…LOL) but I’d really appreciate some tools to help arrange and ‘collect’ tracks prior to tweaking and mixing. Almost like giving the Project window some “database” flavor!
Why?
Most of our stuff comes from editors working in Final Cut Pro via OMF. With FCP’s audio capacity (99 tracks) we often get a lot of tracks. This week we had 17 tracks of a door closing! … admittedly it was a big door, but there were so many options … spread far and wide amongst all the other FX, Room Tone, Footsteps … with hardly any logic to it at all. So it’s a big job to sort though all the material and get it arranged for a sensible mix pass.
So it occurred to me that it would be great to be able to go through all these tracks and regions and have Nuendo help sort them out. Things like this:
Perhaps preparing some empty “Receiving” tracks Named Dialog, EFX, Foley, Footsteps, Music, etc at the start of the mix … then Audition a clip and right clicking on it to see a “Move to Track…” and select a "Receiving " track name. The region would then pop up to an empty space on an appropriate track. This would get similar clips grouped much quicker than Cut/Paste or Dragging with less chance of sync slip.
Perhaps being able to sort tracks by Name would at least bring similar elements together quickly.
If the editor has prepared say 15 tracks of room tone on 15 different tracks, it would be nice to select them all and have Nuendo “condense” then into the smallest number of tracks without overlaps.
Plus I’d really like a visual indicator (red flag?) if a clip gets moved away from it’s absolute time position at import!
It would be great to reorganize automation list on track on a different way. For the moment I can see only several parameters which is not necessary useful in current moment and I have to open additional window and search in exposed tree desired parameter to display its automation. It would be more convenient if automation list on track displays plugins and sends I use on the track and if to click mouse on it displays me parameters of the plugin without any extra windows. As far as I remember in Pro Tools and Logic it works like this.
Either you end up showing too much information with a single click, or you end up showing less information with several clicks.
Maybe the things I’d like to see are first of all a “bigger” area to hit with the mouse to choose lanes. I can’t be bothered with a small area when I’m working fast. I need to get things to open up quickly. Doesn’t matter that much to me in this case if it’s one click or three - as long as it’s easy to do (and fast). The second thing I think would be nice is what’s done in Pro Tools: With a key combination (I believe it’s control+command) when you click on a parameter in an open plug-in window that parameter is shown on its track. That’s actually quite useful.
Time to time I have to minimize files in session or during saving project to a new folder. In that moment I remember about missing possibilities of choosing of handle length. It could be very useful.
About this one… I think the idea that in order to control automation data of x amounts of track (say volume curve) you have to ctrl click every second lane is completely BS. Think about it; say you have 120 tracks most of them panned in 5.1 and some of them with a static assignment. First, you can’t even see them all on your screen because you also always have the original track view in between. Then selecting is of course even worse - you can’t use the range tool effectively without a modifier and a lot of “sub selecting”.
Bottomline - no matter how “profoolish” some may think this is, to alt-click a certain parameter in PT displays this lane type on all tracks. Which in turn makes selecting and editing 1000 times faster.
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