Nuendo5: High-End, High-Priced DAW
From Steinberg Media Technologies comes one of the most loaded and elegant software audio production environments you will see: Nuendo5 (Windows, Mac), designed for the video post-production industry but with features and operation of interest to radio production folks.
Get ready for a little sticker shock, however: Nuendo5 is priced at $1,800 MSRP, and this is for the software alone (no audio interface hardware).
Much of the expense of Nuendo 5 can be justified in one line from the manual: “Nuendo has been designed from the ground up as a production tool with features that are catered to working with video and film,” and provides numerous features (such as 5.1 surround sound) that position the program well for audio sweetening in a video production house.
As such, many of these features might go unused in the radio studio, making it hard to justify the cost of the software.
However, independent production people will be interested in these features as they find themselves stretching beyond radio and branching more into multimedia.
Setting up
Should video actually be part of your plans, you will likely need a synchronizer between your computer and any tape transports in your shop.
Otherwise, an installation for radio and audio production only is pretty straightforward: connect the computer’s audio interface together with your studio mixer (perhaps a MIDI box if music production is also your specialty), run the Device Setup window and go.
If you are doing video, note that Nuendo5 requires Quicktime on both the PC and Mac platforms. System requirements are available at the Steinberg website.
Once installed, you will likely be visiting the Steinberg website anyway to check for updates. At the time of this writing,a patch came available that updated Nuendo 5 to the current version Nuendo 5.1.1.
Among the improvements are elimination of some odd crash behavior and screen stutter. The entire version history can be seen in a PDF on the Steinberg website.
Roll up the sleeves
Be ready to spend a little time learning Nuendo. The PDF operations manual runs a staggering 608 pages.
The Project Window presents an overview of an entire production. The elements used in the window consist of “Events” and “Parts.” An Event can be a block of audio, video, MIDI data or automation data. A Part is an assembled block of smaller Events that need to be treated as one unit in the Project.
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I use the free MediaCoder program from the Internet for those files that make my computer go, “huh?” Check with Steinberg support if your needs are a little more esoteric. Final mixes can be exported as WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG and Windows Media.
Although we were able to play MP3, WAV, and Ogg Vorbis music files, WMA and Apple Lossless .m4a files didn't play. JPEG and GIF photos were viewable, but Photoshop PSD files, TIF, JPEG2, and TGA weren't. And the only movie files that played were MP4
MP3 files etc. Make sure you select the option called 'Numbering before label/track name'. Audacity can export .wav and .flac (lossless compressed audio) out of the box. To export to MP3 or AAC format for use with Windows Media Player or iTunes,
This open-source program doesn't just run on Windows XP, for instance, it acts as a front end for several encoders. So it's able to import AC3, MP4/ AAC, ALAC, AIFF, DTS, FLAC, ADPCM, APE, MP1/ MP2/ MP3, Musepack, Shorten, Speex, Au, TTA, WAV/RIFF,
Now you're ready to rip, so click the 'WAV' button for perfect .wav files without tags. Alternatively, click the 'CMP' button for .MP3 files with tags. If all goes well, you'll see messages like this when the rip has finished .
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Want to seriously improve your listening skills? Here is a great exercise that you can easily set-up in your home recording studio.
1.) First, prepare some audio files you are currently working with. Any complete song will do whether it is already mastered or not. Open it with your favorite recording software or DAW.
2.) Now that you can see the audio wave, select at most 15 seconds of audio from it typically starting at the chorus section of the song.
3.) Copy that 15 seconds audio as another wav file, then save it as original.wav. Make sure to save it at highest resolution as possible: 24-bit, 96Khz. Q=0.7
So you have 9 audio files with different audio file name and 9 distinct EQ settings applied to it.
5.) Put these 9 files in a Windows media player or any wav player that you use. Enable shuffle for playback. Include original.wav in the playlist which are not applied with any EQ. Listen to the original.wav very carefully until you fully understand how it really sounds like. Remove original.wav in the playlist after listening to it.
6.) Start the test by listening to each audio files and guess the file name based on the EQ adjustments applied (without looking at filename in the playlist). For example if the bass sounds too much as compared to the original. Then it must be original_3.wav.
Just before completing the 15 seconds clip, take a look at the file name being played and check if you correctly guess it.
What you will learn from this exercise?
This is to check how accurate are your ears in perceiving small changes in the frequency response which are important in becoming a successful mixing or mastering engineer.
The most difficult test are those that have only +1dB adjustments. Do this everyday and you will be amazed how this will contribute in improving your listening skills.
You can even re-do the test by creating new set of audio files now implemented with cutting instead of boosting.
Guest post by Emerson Maningo . Find out more about how Emerson plans to rule the world through music at his site AudioRecording.me .
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