Johnnie Burn at Wave Studios on Why Nuendo is the Best DAW for Audio Post | Nuendo 13 Interview

Meet Academy Award winner Johnnie Burn, founder and chief sound designer at Wave Studios, which has 14 studios in London, New York and Amsterdam, all using only Nuendo for their work on commercials, pop promos, online streaming content and feature films. With movie credits including Under the Skin, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer and 2023’s award-winning The Zone of Interest and Poor Things, Johnnie relies on Nuendo's power to handle huge amounts of audio data and real-time processing, as well as the MediaBay, for sharing share Wave’s massive sound effects library between locations. Nuendo's integrated Dolby Atmos authoring tools help him work on sound design or Atmos mix issues before going to a large mixing stage, while the new tools in Nuendo 13 - including the ADR Script Reader, TonalMatch and AI-powered Voice Separator - are huge assets for Johnnie on future projects.
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[@jcp1984again]

One of my favorite sound designers working today! It makes me so happy to see Nuendo users right up the top.

[@Byron101_]

former hardcore Pro Tools user here. Now on N. I´m in post pro, sounddesign and ADR. composer also. Nuendo = best daw. No doubt. Great N13 release!

[@RadiAsian]

Fascinating. The sound in 'Nope' was brilliantly done. Enjoyed it at the cinema. I'll check out a few of the other films mentioned.

[@maxjohnson808]

The Zone of Interest and Poor Things were two of my favorite films from last year. Congrats on the deserved Oscar win!

[@paulcarden5885]

Bravo on Zone of Interest. Hands down winner. If you attend the Bake Off in LA on the 14th I would love to meet you. Transitioning myself from PT to N for Smile 2 in May.

[@johnnie9337]

c u there Paul

[@SoundandMelodies]

I started with Cubase 5 about a decade ago, then upgraded to Nuendo and Pro Tools (university requirement) in 2020. Having worked with both Nuendo and Pro Tools, I have felt that Nuendo offers so many things that we seriously lack in Pro Tools. So many plugins in Pro Tools that require a third party developers, or only available on subscription basis, Nuendo has it all. Pro Tools has its back with the hardware that it develops, but with Eucon, I've had much more flexibility working with Avid's new S6. I hope Steinberg updates working flexibility with Eucon and more features of the S6 can be used with Nuendo. 💕💕

[@LuvHrtZ]

I'm now an old man, but I bought Cubase on day one, when it was called Cubit. I even talked with Charlie Steinberg on the phone a few times; I used to own a couple of DMP7 mixers and Steinberg discontinued the software for them. Charlie wrote some code, just for me to allow me to continue using them, because there were issues. A bit of personal history.

[@michaelnakabayashi5198]

really beautiful voice sound. great job whoever did it.

[@ryan_raus]

I’ve worked with many DAWs - Ableton, Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools, Reaper - and while those are all great in various aspects, Nuendo is simply the best.

[@christiannilsen2835]

Amazing I love it. What console is that?

[@EbinAugustin]

As long as Nuendo lacks a capture/punch or similar feature, it falls short of being a complete post-production DAW. Punch logs are mostly useless. There's no option to copy automation without opening the automation lane, no shortcut to copy all automation data of selected events, no option to copy the pan automation and no option to write automation in half-speed playback. Dear Steinberg, kindly consider incorporating these features for us re-recording mixers.

[@bergeronsound4197]

yes please

[@Gauravanartist]

I wanted to buy a DAW for audio post-production for films, and I bought Cubase 13 Pro. I was not aware of Nuendo, which is designed for post-production. Am I out of luck now? Can't afford the upgrade now. Any advice??

[@ryan_raus]

Dang, sorry to hear that. I don’t have a solution but you could reach out to Steinberg directly and see what they say? Otherwise you can try the cross-grade discount with greatly discounts Nuendo if you own Cubase. Cubase is also great, and while not specifically designed for post like Nuendo is still a very capable and professional daw.

[@2clau]

Cubase 13 Pro is $579, Nuendo is $999. Crossgrade to Nuendo is $449 since you own the former bringing the total cost to $1028. So you would lose $29 (one dinner basically). And if you've just bought Cubase at $405 (on promo) your total cost would be $854 which is less than the full price of Nuendo. I would contact Steinberg and see what they can do. I'm sure they wouldn't turn down a potential Nuendo adopter.

[@LuvHrtZ]

I'd love to know the model numbers of those widescreen LG monitors? Yes, it was a question. ;-) PS: What's with the Wacom tablet seen in a couple of shots? I've got one (I'm also a visual artist) But never quite got around to using it in a DAW. On closer inspection, the engineers appears to be using it to draw EQ curves,

[@marklholloway]

Looks like it could be the 29" LG 29WQ500-B. There's also a 34" version 34WQ500-B.