For those that are interested - I thought I'd throw over a bit of 411 I posted on the Nuendo forum...
I'm beginning to sink my teeth into a pre-release of their new firmware that allows for full programmability of the Edit Panels - along with a revamped monitor screen that I'm still getting my head/hands around. Think of a thousand virtual actuators (basically a 10X10X10 matrix) and you begin to get a drift of the type of control that's literally at your fingertips - and that's before you get into all of the commands you can put under the phyical buttons, using modifier keys to program layers of commands through many of the buttons around the jog wheel. I'm just now reading the new manual sections to get a handle on how to configure the various panels/controls, but here's a sneak peak of what the new monitor and panel/keys programming interfaces look like.
http://www.titanlinemusic.com/images/Tango/IMG_0255.JPG http://www.titanlinemusic.com/images/Tango/IMG_0256.JPG http://www.titanlinemusic.com/images/Tango/IMG_0257.JPG
(these are unedited images taken from a small handheld digital camera, so view the distorted image at your own risk.
I'm excited about not only mapping all of the "stock" Nuendo commands, but also figuring out the right places to use some KCs/macros and even some project logical editor presets. I may also work in some combinations of functions that can use the jog wheel - still investigating that bit. I hope to have something over the next week or two - but don't want to get too distracted from the project I'm working on at the moment - it's a tough balancing act with such a powerful tool in front of me.
The good news for everyone else that SmartAV will probably use some variation of the Edit Panels I build to pre-load them to work with Nuendo right out of the box, which is good for everyone else that they don't have to do that work... until they figure out their own "tweaks" and macros to roll their own panels/key assignments.