Nuendo 4 - Absolute Beginner

kaaliz

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Hi, I've been trying to record using the stereo jack at the front of my computer. I have a little mixing desk hooked up to it so I can record all my instruments this way (except drums which I've programmed).

Problem is, I can't get it to record. The sound is going in to my computer and coming out of the speakers, but Nuendo isn't hearing it. When I click the channel tab the level meters are dead. I'm not even sure what I should be trying to record as; Audio, Instrument or MIDI. I've tried all three and got nowhere.

I've been in the VST Connections tab and tried all sorts of things, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to be set at.

I've read the manual and as far as the setup goes, I think I've followed it to the letter, so why isn't it recording? I'm probably doing something (or not doing something) really obvious. Please can someone give me a step by step guide to recording vocals/instruments in this way from the moment you start the program until you hear it played back.

I'm using Win7 64.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Read the sticky threads at the top of the forum and you'll understand a lot more. Your PC, as is, won't be suitable for doing recordings of any quality as its sound card isn't designed for that purpose
 
Thanks, Armistice, the sticky threads did help. Basically I need an interface, then. I never needed one years ago when I recorded through the mic socket straight into Cool Edit Pro, but the quality was never that good.

I think I should be able to figure it out once I have an interface hooked up, but if not, I'll be back. :-) Thanks again.
 
Technically, you should be able to use whatever I/O the machine has. But to spend $2400 on a program that does relatively little of anything to the sound and then use the crappy $3.95 interface built in to the computer...? It's just not --- It's just not.
 
Technically, you should be able to use whatever I/O the machine has. But to spend $2400 on a program that does relatively little of anything to the sound and then use the crappy $3.95 interface built in to the computer...? It's just not --- It's just not.

One would think he would have set aside some of that cash for a decent interface... ;)

:facepalm:
 
Technically, you should be able to use whatever I/O the machine has. But to spend $2400 on a program that does relatively little of anything to the sound and then use the crappy $3.95 interface built in to the computer...? It's just not --- It's just not.

# ....an a bottle 'o' rum #

Dave.
 
Like I said, I never needed an interface before, so I didn't know I needed one now. I thought as computers improved (faster, more memory) sound cards would have done as well.

Live and learn. :D
 
I thought as computers improved (faster, more memory) sound cards would have done as well.

You thought correctly. As computers improved, so have soundcards.

But, audio work requires more than a soundcard designed for gaming, playing general audio or for skype. It is a specialist niche, and that's why you are better off getting an interface designed for that purpose.
 
All you need to do is use the right driver.

What everyone else is getting at is the strangeness of you being new, with no real equipment or experience, going out and buying the most expensive DAW on the planet (a version behind) to do your work. Maybe you should start out with something like Reaper ($50) that is a little easier to navigate and has an online community willing to help.

Of course, if you are a legitimate user of nuendo, you could go to the nuendo forums and get all kinds of questions answered...
 
In all fairness Nuendo is much more than a DAW - maybe he's doing video post production :-)

All you need to do is use the right driver.

What everyone else is getting at is the strangeness of you being new, with no real equipment or experience, going out and buying the most expensive DAW on the planet (a version behind) to do your work. Maybe you should start out with something like Reaper ($50) that is a little easier to navigate and has an online community willing to help.

Of course, if you are a legitimate user of nuendo, you could go to the nuendo forums and get all kinds of questions answered...
 
I would like to be able to score films in the future, but for now I just want to get the album of songs I have written recorded.

I got my copy of N4 off a friend who has just about every DAW out there. I asked him for the best and it seems that's what he gave me, but now I'm thinking Reaper might not be such a steep learning curve.

Thanks everyone.
 
I'm only going to say that when someone gives you something that is expensive for free, kittens drown, and babies are shaken...
 
Despite my bit of "rum fun" I am glad to see that HR.com does not resort to the lashing given out, often with no valid evidence, to those who have "aquired" shall we say certain software.

Software and any other piracy of intellectual property is of course theft and should never be condoned but I would say that very few people* involved with computers can, hand on heart, "cast the first stone".

8 years or so ago I was a total computer dunce (yeah! MUCH worse than now) and I had a PC built by a local repair shop (I had been pestering the guy with questions for 12 months or more and felt I should spend some money with him!) 3.2G 1Gram P4 XPpro. Modest by todays' standards but no slouch back then. Cost me in excess of £700 and the guy, knowing son's and my interest in music recording, gave me a CD. "Might find this handy". "This" turned out to be Adobe Audition 1.5. I ran the CD but could not get anywhere with the program and promptly went back to MAGIX Studio Generation 6 and later Audacity.

It was only some 3 years later that I read about AA and being a wee bit more clued tried it out again. Very powerful and has a very handy MP3 converter in it, in fact that is about all we do do with it now, since I have 4 other DAWs bought and paid for. But if there was a "lite" version of AA that would run in W7 for about 100quid I would buy it in a heartbeat.

*Magazine reviewers don't buy software. Radio DJs don't buy CDs Always been "toys and perks for the boys"!
Dave.
 
I got my copy of N4 off a friend who has just about every DAW out there. I asked him for the best and it seems that's what he gave me, but now I'm thinking Reaper might not be such a steep learning curve.
That, and it's about $2300 cheaper. And (assuming you purchase the license at some point) won't make you a "user of stolen software" (putting it as nicely as I can).

No doubt - Few can "hand on heart" make the claim -- But stepping out and making it really, really obvious on a public forum... Don't expect a lot of sympathy from a lot of people when it isn't running right.
 
Whatever my status is here, it does not give me a right to judge. But, I however have my own opinion. This, I will just keep to myself this time.

Good luck to you kaaliz. You will get no advice from me. Ever....
 
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