To make use of MediaBay, Steinberg have introduced Instrument Tracks, which combine MIDI tracks and VST Instruments into one convenient unit (albeit without multiple outputs). MediaBay could be a great time-saving tool in a busy broadcast or post-pro environment, but it remains to seen whether it´ll be adopted extensively by third-party developers. When MediaBay made its debut, criticisms of it centred on performance issues (which seem to have been improved with more focused scanning of existing ﬁles) and the fact that the only correctly tagged ﬁles are those that come with the software (tagging will always be a tiresome task). There are facilities for tagging ﬁles with useful descriptive information and auditioning loops and sounds. It's a media ﬁle management system that's designed to incorporate audio, MIDI, track and project data into one accessible entity. The MediaBay database environment made its debut in Cubase 4. There's a feedback loop detection system to prevent unwanted conﬁgurations.

With all this comes a much more ﬂexible routing system that enables Track, Group and FX routing in any order and to any location - even back to an input.

Nuendo 3 software