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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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