Nuendo 11 Professional Audio Production

Steinberg is closing the year 2020 with an update on Nuendo 11. With ADM authoring for Dolby® Atmos®, Netflix® Loudness Meter, plus many other feature additions and workflow enhancements, the latest version sees Nuendo strengthening its status as the gold standard for professional audio production. First revealed in November, Steinberg today announces the immediate availability of its much-anticipated premium media production system, Nuendo 11.

At the heart of Nuendo is two decades of technological advancements, which make it the outstanding DAW it is today. At the turn of the millennium, the first version introduced native technologies with peerless audio and surround sound tools to the pro audio industry. Now, Nuendo is at the heart of countless audio production facilities, delivering dedicated workflows and features to professionals around the world.

Nuendo 11 Gold Standard

Nuendo 11 delivers new and enhanced features, including dedicated tools for Dolby Atmos and Netflix productions along with new design tools and exclusive content. A major update on this scale confirms Steinberg’s commitment to keeping advancing Nuendo’s status as the gold standard for professional audio production.

ADM authoring for Dolby Atmos is one of the highlights included in Nuendo 11. With this module and its integrated Renderer for Dolby Atmos, content can easily be created according to Dolby Atmos specifications, allowing producers to work within Nuendo while eliminating the need for further software or external hardware.

Nuendo now includes an entire metering plug-in suite with SuperVision. Providing more than 20 different display modules for level metering, loudness measurement and analysis, SuperVision is extremely flexible and offers customizable settings and layouts for up to nine module slots.

More metering options are integrated with the Netflix Loudness Meter and Intelligibility Meter. To ensure consistency of content production, the Netflix Loudness Meter in Nuendo 11 is calibrated to the official Sound Mix Specifications and Best Practices, measuring the dialog-gated loudness as required by Netflix. Based on algorithms developed by the Oldenburg branch of the Fraunhofer IDMT in Germany, the new AI-powered Intelligibility Meter indicates in real time the effort of the listener to understand speech in the mix.

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Job Queues is a tremendous time-saver, allowing engineers to enter up to 20 different tasks in a list. This means that stems are individually exported together with all the settings available in the Export Audio Mixdown dialog, but the tasks are processed in one single action.

Nuendo 11 New features

• Dolby Atmos production workflow for authoring content to Dolby Atmos specifications
• within Nuendo
• SuperVision metering plug-in suite with customizable settings for the most accurate
• view of your sound
• Netflix Loudness Meter for ensuring your streamed content is compliant to Netflix
• specifications
• Intelligibility Meter for making sure dialog is both audible and intelligible to the listener
• Job Queues for queueing multiple jobs with different export requirements and
• processing all at once
• Sound design tools and content for creating enhanced sonic experiences in any genre
• Soundly Cloud Services support for sending files from Soundly into Nuendo 11
• SpectraLayers One for surgically editing sound in the spectral domain
• Sampler Track including slicing, LFOs and legato glide
• Scale Assistant allows you to follow, quantize and play live to a set scale
• Advanced Key Editor for creating perfect pitch bends and more
• Global Tracks lets you stay in sync more easily
• Frequency 2 is an amazingly precise dynamic EQ for better mixing
• Imager for placing up to four bands of different frequencies in independent locations in
• the stereo field
• Squasher lets you improve leads, tame bass and enhance reverb
• Score Editor featuring new workflow improvements and beautiful new fonts
• New samples including six fresh, exclusive sound and loop sets
• Enhanced workflow and performance including ARA improvements, variable DPI for
• Windows and Marker Lines
• VST Connect SE 5 for remote recording over the Internet
• Eucon integration for compatibility with the newest Avid consoles
• DOP Pin Process for a smoother workflow
• Apple Metal Acceleration for maximum performance by communicating directly with the
• GPU
• New Track pictures for visually identifying different track types
• OSC Renderer for the creation and mix of object-based content using the OSC network
• protocol
• Various workflow and user interface improvements

Nuendo 11 also adds many enhancements to its sound design tools. The MultiTap Delay now supports up to 7.1 surround sound. Frequency 2 offers dynamic EQ, with the filter nodes of the eight available bands responding to the input signal and also offering independent side-chaining. The new Multiband Imager places up to four bands in different locations within the stereo image. The new Squasher compresses the input signal in up to three bands, with an individual gate, saturation effect and independent side-chaining. The enhanced Sampler Track now slices samples and includes two global LFOs.

SpectraLayers One is a simplified version of the acclaimed spectral editing software SpectraLayers Pro 7. SpectraLayers One offers a spectrogram view of the audio tracks in Nuendo, including selection, editing and display tools that allow intricate editing to improve dialog and location audio.

VST Connect SE 5, the remote recording plug-in already included in Nuendo, now supports HiDPI and offers a redesigned interface with scalable window. Nuendo 11 also has several new tools for musicians. The Scale Assistant lets users set the scale of the music, which is then adjusted accordingly within the newly enhanced Key Editor, which now displays Global Tracks. Along with other improvements, the Score Editor includes Note Length and Velocity Overlays to edit notes, the new Property tab for easy access to notation settings and support for Dorico’s beautiful Bravura and Petaluma fonts.

Nuendo 11 Enhancements

• ARA improvements
• Variable DPI on Windows 10 computers
• Optimized GUI on macOS computers
• Extended Eucon integration
• Marker lines for an improved display of marker events
• Further refinements to continue to facilitate working with Nuendo

Rounding out the extended feature set, Nuendo 11 comes with a wealth of new sound content: over 750 game sound effects by Soundbits, six loop and sound sets, more than 200 plug-in and track presets, and the seamless integration with the Soundly cloud library of sound effects, allowing users to tap into a variety of premium sounds.

Pricing and Availability

Nuendo 11 is available from resellers and through the Steinberg Online Shop. The suggested retail price for the boxed version of Nuendo 11 is 999 euros; download only is available for 977 euros.

Please note that download orders are exclusive of USB-eLicensers and that all prices include German VAT.
Various downloadable updates and upgrades, crossgrades, and education versions are exclusively available through the Steinberg Online Shop. Customers who have activated Nuendo 10 or earlier versions since November 11, 2020, are
eligible for a free, downloadable grace period update to the latest version.

Nuendo 11 Demo

With an array of new and improved features, including the ability to produce Dolby Atmos* content entirely within Nuendo, professional metering including a Netflix Loudness Meter and Intelligibility Meter, SpectraLayers One, enhanced sound design tools, exclusive sound effects content, and much more, Nuendo 11 is the gold standard for professional audio production. *Certification pending.

Nuendo 11 Preview Streamed Event November 24, 2020, 17:30 CET

Streamed directly from Steinberg’s Hamburg headquarters at 17:30 CET (11:30 EST, 08:30 PST), it will include demonstrations of the new features as well as full details of availability and pricing.

Touch controller for CUBASE and NUENDO SHERLOCK & WATSON

SHERLOCK & WATSON are VST plugins in the form of a VST Instrument and can be loaded into your session like any other virtual instrument. They will not create any sounds since they deal with MIDI data only and their purpose is to trigger and control commands and some other parameters in your DAW (CUBASE / NUENDO).

SHERLOCK vs. WATSON

SHERLOCK and WATSON are almost alike, they differ in the size of the GUI, in the number of buttons they use and some other minor features.

Since this is a plugin and not a 3rd-party software running next to your DAW, it will be saved and loaded with your session. Once installed properly, all you need to do in order to use it is just load SHERLOCK/WATSON from your list of available VST Instruments.

WATSON

1920×420 pixels in size, 48 assignable buttons x 18 pages, 16 faders, 2 XY-pads

SHERLOCK and WATSON are almost alike, they differ in the size of the GUI, in the number of buttons they use and some other minor features. WATSON is a VST plugin originally built for CUBASE® and NUENDO®. It can be loaded into your DAW session like any other virtual instrument, you can save presets and it will automatically load with your session.

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The size of WATSON is 1920 x 450 px. and the idea behind is to give the user plenty of buttons but to leave some real estate on a 1920 x 1080 touch screen for a mixer or other plugin windows.

If you need 192 buttons and the whole 1920 x 1080 space occupied you should look into SHERLOCK as it is made exactly for that.

• Every command available in CUBASE®/NUENDO® is already available in the Menu and with each DAW update new commands are being added soon after the official release
• Supports CUBASE® ver. 8-10.5 and NUENDO® ver. 7-10
• Besides the built-in DAW commands there are many special commands added by 14bitMIDI – generic MIDI events, custom Logical Editors, custom Project Logical Editors, 256 empty LEs, PLEs and MACROS to be populated by the user
• From a list of over 3000 commands with only a few clicks/taps, you decide what the 192 buttons will do!
• No need for any coding or scripting – just assign a command to an empty button and save – done!
• User can tweak the look of a button and even add own PNG files if needed
• 16 CC faders for controlling Quick Controls or any other parameter reacting to incoming CC data
• 4 XY-Pads
• Unique TRACK SLIDER and TIME SLIDER function
• 18 PAGES with 48 buttons on each PAGE
• 20 SPOTS and 20 SELECTIONS
• Dynamic button assignment depending on the selected track
• Supports multi-touch

SHERLOCK

1920×1080 pixels in size, 192 assignable buttons x 18 pages, 16 faders, 4 XY-pads

SHERLOCK is a VST plugin originally built for CUBASE® and NUENDO®.

It can be loaded into your DAW session like any other virtual instrument, you can save presets and it will automatically load with your session.

• Every command available in CUBASE®/NUENDO® is already available in the Menu and with each DAW update new commands are being added soon after the official release
• Supports CUBASE® ver. 8-10.5 and NUENDO® ver. 7-10
• Besides the built-in DAW commands there are many special commands added by 14bitMIDI – generic MIDI events, custom Logical Editors, custom Project Logical Editors, 256 empty LEs, PLEs and MACROS to be populated by the user
• From a list of over 3000 commands with only a few clicks/taps, you decide what the 48 buttons will do!
• No need for any coding or scripting – just assign a command to an empty button and save – done!
• User can tweak the look of a button and even add own PNG files if needed
• 16 CC faders for controlling Quick Controls or any other parameter reacting to incoming CC data
• 4 XY-Pads

• Unique TRACK SLIDER and TIME SLIDER function
• 18 PAGES with 192 buttons on each PAGE
• 20 SPOTS and  20 SELECTIONS
• Dynamic button assignment depending on the selected track
• Supports multi-touch

Please check the FREE, fully functional demo versions, read the Manuals on the website