Post-production Power — Elevated
Steinberg Nuendo remains the go-to DAW for engineers, artists, and sound designers, spanning music-making, post-production, composition, video game audio, and further specializations within the industry. Nuendo 15 arrives to transform your aural arsenal with production possibilities that are more potent than ever. Alongside your favorite returning features, Nuendo 15 adds a wealth of capabilities to its sonic suite, offering precise analysis, expanded control, and lightning-quick workflow improvements. For starters, the Analyzer Track provides you with dialogue-intelligibility metering, while MXF video import accommodates modern editorial and broadcast pipelines. Next, Nuendo 15’s overhauled automation system certifies a smoother film-mixing experience. Additionally, you get updated workflow features, including flexible channel conversion, improved video export options, Group Channels for Folder Tracks, and a redesigned Hub. Finally, a slew of new Sound Design tools, additional Modulators, and Sampler Track updates expand your artistry without compromising your vision. The future of post-production starts right now, and that future will be built on Steinberg Nuendo 15.
Intelligible dialogue meets streamlined workflows
Dialogue intelligibility is crucial in post-production applications, ensuring that spoken content is clear and easily understood. Nuendo 15’s Analyzer Track offers an industry-leading solution, enabling precise dialogue-intelligibility measurement and metering to certify an optimal viewer experience and maximize engagement. Additionally, Nuendo 15 supports a range of AVC Intra and MPEG-2 formats — a must-have feature for modern editorial and broadcast pipelines. Beyond that, Nuendo 15’s film-mixing automation system includes powerful new features and a scalable user interface that seamlessly integrates into the window layout.
More powerful workflow enhancements
Nuendo 15 includes additional workflow enhancements, such as flexible channel conversion, which allows you to quickly break down surround clips into structured stems or combine mono files into stereo pairs. Next, the video export function has been expanded to include flexible resolution and encoding options, as well as GPU encoding. At Sweetwater, we found the improvements to Group Channels and Folder Tracks to be among Nuendo 15’s most exciting new features; you can now assign any Folder Track to its own Group Channel. You’ll also benefit from a redesigned ADR Panel with a clearer structure and an exceptionally streamlined visual layout, and from refined Volume and Pan controls, now available directly within the Track Controls area with a customizable layout.
Exciting new Sound Design tools
Replete with inspiring Sound Design tools, Nuendo 15 includes new plugins, such as UltraShaper and PitchShifter, enabling you to harness dynamics and pitch in myriad creative ways. New Modulators allow you to add compelling variation and tension curves to your static sounds. Beyond that, you get revised WaveLab Go and SpectraLayers Go software. Lastly, you can now use the Sampler Track for instant sample replacement via MediaBay Hot Swap.
Steinberg Nuendo 15 Features:
- An all-in-one DAW that brings pro-grade power to music making, post-production, ADR work, sound design, video game audio, and beyond
- Analyzer Track enables precise dialogue-intelligibility measurement and metering to certify an optimal viewer experience
- MXF video import accommodates modern editorial and broadcast pipelines
- Film-mixing automation system includes powerful new features and a scalable user interface for seamless integration into the window layout
- Flexible channel conversion quickly breaks down surround clips into structured stems or combines mono files into stereo pairs
- Expanded video export function includes flexible resolution and encoding options, along with GPU encoding
- Assign any Folder Track to its own Group Channel
- Redesigned ADR Panel with a clearer structure and an exceptionally streamlined visual layout
- Refined Volume and Pan controls available directly within the Track Controls area with a customizable layout
- UltraShaper and PitchShifter enable you to harness dynamics and pitch in myriad creative ways
- New Modulators supply extensive automation possibilities and dynamic parameter control, generating lifelike movement, tension, and depth that tracks with your project’s material
- Revised WaveLab Go and SpectraLayers Go software separate, modify, and merge audio stems with exacting AI-fueled accuracy
- MediaBay preview lets you modify pitch, speed, and time-stretching while you preview a sound, then drop it into your project with the changes intact
- Use the Sampler Track for instant sample replacement via MediaBay Hot Swap
- ABA lets you automate the balance of background and foreground noise, independent of your mixer, in your projects, including MPEG-H content
- Volume plugin gives you the ability to make volume adjustments to tracks, sub-channels, and automation processes without touching the fader for each respective part
- Enhanced Dolby Atmos renderer includes Stereo Direct, 7.1.2, 9.1.4, and 9.1.6 formats
- Manual trimming and adjustments can be made using the Dolby Atmos ADM Trim and Downmix Editor to hone your Stereo Direct and 5.1.4 projects
- Support for up to 4th-order Ambisonics supercharges your sound-design capabilities for unrivaled immersion
- MixConsole and its Visibility List can be displayed, in full, in Nuendo’s Lower Zone, allowing you to directly re-order tracks from within MixConsole
- State-of-the-art speech-to-text feature uses advanced AI and machine-learning modeling to swiftly transcribe dialogue with ADR cycle markers, saving immense time
- Event Volume Curves transform Nuendo’s gain staging capacities via event-specific audio adjustments that don’t require switching between tools
- Audio Segment Automatic Detection automatically recognizes and groups audio by phrases, words, or speakers that belong together, managed with the Range Selection tool
- Game Audio Connect 3 introduces Live Preview, enabling direct audition of sound FX from Audiokinetic Wwise without the need to render or bounce the audio beforehand
- Shimmer effect gives you full control to create atmospheric and ambient reverb FX
- Underwater plugin provides a straightforward 1-control way to instantly create space or layer with FX or dialogue for the “next-door” muffling effect
- Accommodation of CSV files without time code expands your production palette and automatically assigns markers that you can easily edit, adjust, and move to suit your timeline
- Video engine supports resolutions up to 4K and 8K while faithfully reproducing and scaling down higher-resolution files to fit your window
- ADR Video Overlay displays all available ADR information for each session, including modifying text, font size and color, alignment, word wrapping, and more
- DAWproject ensures seamless project-data exchanges between numerous DAWs
- Dedicated Auto Save folder mitigates time-wasting backtracking to manage and revert to previous versions of your projects — even better with 64-bit format support of 2GB+ files
- Pattern Sequencer gives you the tools to weave together grooves and rhythms and introduce elements of randomization
- Drum Track includes Drum Machine to build beats with bespoke drums imported straight from your MediaBay samples
- Score Editor utilizes the latest advancements of Steinberg’s Dorico technology for unrivaled synergy between audio, video, and compositional power
- Key Editor lets you modify the play-probability, velocity, variance, and unpredictability of each note for lifelike and charismatic progressions
