SAE Institute bets on Yamaha Nuage and Steinberg Nuendo to train their students

This prestigious English academic institution has selected these advanced systems as a technological basis for audio production programs, Film & Visual Effects & Video Games.

Founded 45 years, SAE Institute offers diplomas and undergraduate and postgraduate courses in a wide range of creative media industries. Your campus, located in the English city of Oxford, is the world headquarters of 54 Centers around the world, among them Spain, and leads the educational network of this institute.

Training students with the most modern and efficient systems is essential to prepare them for their future careers., as underlined by SAE Institute, And with this premise they have selected the systems Yamaha Nuage and Steinberg Nuendo as basic technological elements in the AV studies they teach.

This is explained by his audio production teacher Mike Holloway: "We teach three programs: Audio production, Film production and games/visual effects. Having them all in the same building means that there is the possibility of collaboration between students.. For example, if those of Game Art They want audio, or those in film want to edit or clean up the sound, Audio production companies have the most modern equipment to help them. It's a really creative and collaborative environment.".

The campus has five fully equipped studios that provide students with the hands-on facilities they need for their learning.. Steinberg Nuendo 11 is an integral part of the Study 5, used for recording, mix, mastering and designing Ambisonics immersive audio environments, played on a system Dolby 7.1.2.

Everything is controlled with a newly installed Yamaha Nuage system, which makes it easier for the student to handle Nuendo in a fluid and intuitive way. Virtual reality headsets and DearVR Spatial Connect control also allow you to experiment with full 3D sound for game design.

Nuendo's approach, both in music and post-production, makes it a DAW especially suitable for all the programs taught in this center, and mainly within the modules focused on multimedia sound.

"I really like features like the ADR panel., that allows you to upload a spreadsheet with all your cues and, literally, run the session, says Holloway.. It's a huge time saver, a very efficient way of working and makes the whole process more enjoyable".

In addition, This system has a native multichannel output for a wide range of formats. For Holloway, "Use the control room to effectively listen to how you want to listen, at any time, It is enormously powerful. You can configure the outputs and let the software take care of the routing. Nuendo's capacity 11 to render directly to Dolby Atmos is a big step forward.".

Thanks to the Nuage system, this teacher points out that controlling Nuendo "is like controlling the software itself. They are so tightly integrated that they feel smooth and that has changed things a lot.: You can tap the software, Have your hands on its operation, Which makes a big difference from using a mouse and keyboard. With the Nuage control surface you work much faster in Nuendo".

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