Extend your creative possibilities with robust, upgraded Dolby Atmos, Ambisonics, Score Editor SpectraLayers Go, Game Audio Connect, video-engine support, and AI-fueled smart features that turbocharge existing capabilities while introducing plenty of additional possibilities. Nuendo 14 streamlines countless aspects of your workflow, offering myriad UI/UX customization options, while automatic processing for background noise, dialogue transcription, audio-grouping detection, and more expedite your artistry without compromising your vision. The future of post-production starts right now — and that future will be built upon Steinberg Nuendo 14.

Kill the noise, keep the dialogue

Nuendo 14 includes a bevy of timesaving enhancements for dialogue editors and ADR recording engineers, upgrading existing tools and adding new ones, like Adaptive Background Attenuation (ABA). This cutting-edge addition seeks to rectify speech intelligibility issues in TV and film. ABA works by automatically detecting and adjusting the levels of background noises relative to the dB value of a dialogue reference stem, keeping foreground sounds and dialogue clear, articulate, and consistent. Once implemented, you retain full control of your mix, while additional adjustments retain the mitigating ratio of background-to-foreground levels. What’s more, Steinberg’s ABA is also available with MPEG-H content, rendering automatically. Attenuation goes even further, however, as Nuendo 14 introduces the Volume plug-in, which lets you adjust the volume of individual tracks or sub-channels and introduce specific automation. This effectively allows you to fine-tune your mix independent of the fader for that track or part.

Immersive sound: updated and expanded

Steinberg’s inclusion of a Dolby Atmos renderer and Ambisonics support have been game changers for the Nuendo creative ecosystem, and Nuendo 14 ups the ante. Dolby Atmos support now includes Stereo Direct, 7.1.2, 9.1.4, and 9.1.6 formats, with manual trimming options available inside Nuendo 14’s Dolby Atmos ADM Trim and Downmix Editor for Stereo Direct 5.1.4 projects. Additionally, Nuendo 14 expands its Ambisonics support to accommodate mixes up to fourth-order Ambisonics, giving you total control over the full-sphere surround sound format. Plus, the MixConsole has been updated; Nuendo 14 allows you to display it, in full, in your Lower Zone, including the Visibility List, and re-order tracks from inside MixConsole.

AI-powered pliability: audio editing, transcribing, ADR, and more

As the multimedia landscape evolves, so does the technology we use to shape our creative visions, and Nuendo 14 masterfully streamlines the modern-day post-production experience with Steinberg’s AI at its center. Thanks to the state-of-the-art machine-learning model powering Steinberg’s text-to-speech AI, Nuendo 14 debuts a groundbreaking leap in ADR and dialogue transcription, which instantly cleaves hours off your post-production time. Dialogue tracks across multiple languages can be immediately transcribed into ADR cycle markers, discerning speakers, transitions, and articulation with exacting precision. With the ability to write the original soundtrack’s transcription right into existing markers and generate new markers that feature the transcribed dialogue, time is always on your side.

Automatic audio detection and advanced gain staging curves

Continuing Steinberg’s AI innovations, Nuendo 14 introduces another post-production game changer: Audio Segment Automatic Detection. From individual words to entire phrases, Nuendo 14 identifies audio portions as belonging together with just the press of a user-assigned button. Then, with the revamped and improved Range Selection tool, one mouse click is all it takes to gather the like segments and adjust their levels — an ability that is another byproduct of Nuendo 14’s new capabilities. These are Event Volume Curves. Gain staging is more powerful and intuitive than ever, as these curves give you flexible access to change and refine levels within specific pieces of audio without the need to switch tools.

Game changers: Game Audio Connect 3 and sound design galore

Whether you’re designing sound for RPGs, MMOs, first-person shooters, or Souls-like action titles, Steinberg’s Game Audio Connect 3 brings effects and textures to your sonic palette straight from Audiokinetic Wwise. While the sounds bring a wealth of creative possibilities, the most impactful workflow hack is the ability to audition sounds directly inside Nuendo 14 — Live Preview. This allows you to wield the entirety of Audiokinetic’s Wwise sound effect library without the need to export your audio — it renders in real time, triggered manually or by a game event, saving immense time and hassle that was previously unavoidable. Plus, those working with video game sound design will mitigate mountains of effort with Nuendo 14’s newly outfitted capacity to import CSV files without time code information. This accommodation not only expands your creative capabilities and saves time, but Nuendo automatically assigns time code markers to the project window once your CSV file is imported, which you can then adjust, place, and tailor to your timeline.