However, while I don't want to grumble too much on this subject, I really wish Steinberg could provide some useful starting points, maybe with a separate 'preset palette' facility. This is mostly a good thing, in that you can now pick any colour scheme of which your interior decorator might approve for the Project window and other editors, leaving only a few traces of blue darkness. Those sliders have finally been eliminated and replaced by a more standard colour picker. In Cubase 7, and previous versions of Nuendo, you could struggle to tame the colour scheme with a variety of faders, in a process that resembled the experience of trying to balance separate hot and cold water taps in a shower. And this time, as with Cubase 7, there's a bit of a Miles Davis influence as well. As with every major new version, Nuendo 7 has once again got a little darker by default, to point where you wonder if the designers have those three words emblazoned on the office's favourite poster. The Track List isn't the only place in the program where the use of colour has been enhanced. Simply open up the Event Display-Track Preference page and drag the Colorize Track Controls fader to taste. It's surprising how much easier this makes navigating the Track List, and a nice touch here is that it's not simply a switch: you can set the amount of colour that should be applied.
Speaking of the Track List, a useful visual change that's implemented in Nuendo 6 (and the latest Cubase 7 revision) is the ability for track headers to be coloured according to a track's assigned colour. Another welcome workflow improvement is the Find Tracks command, which makes it easy to find a track in the Project's Track List (or on the mixer), although there's still no key command to bring up the search field. Instead, depending on your On Startup preference, our old friend the Open Document Options dialogue remains, and the Help menu has become a little plumper, offering easy access to Web pages for community, support, products and more.Ĭubase 7 features that are certainly not out of place in Nuendo 6 include MemZap, which enables you to store a zoom factor and location and quickly switch between that arrangement and the current editing configuration. It is annoying in Cubase 7, and would have been out of place in the professionally oriented Nuendo.
When I first launched Nuendo 6, I felt an immediate sense of relief that Steinberg had decided not to include Cubase 7's Steinberg Hub, the full-screen view that provides the latest news, tutorial videos and new project options. Given that Cubase 7 was covered in some detail in the February issue earlier this year ( /sos/feb13/articles/cubase-7.htm), this review will mostly focus on Nuendo 6-specific features, along with some of the general improvements that have been made since the Cubase 7 review was published. And although Nuendo 6 wasn't scheduled to ship until some months after the release of Cubase 7 - presumably to help prevent a division of resources for testing and marketing - the two applications are noticeably more in sync with each other than ever before. Previously, despite their shared heritage, major new releases of Cubase and Nuendo had always been staggered, often by as much as a year. When Steinberg announced a new version of Cubase last November, the company did something they had never done before, by simultaneously announcing a new version of Nuendo as well. In the latest version of their flagship post-production software, Steinberg have applied some clever lateral thinking to loudness metering and ADR recording.
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