Steinberg Nuendo 3.1 User Manual

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When you select the external instrument in the VST Instruments win-
dow, the following happens:
• A parameter window for the external device is opened automatically. This may 
either be the Device window, allowing you to create a generic device panel, 
an OPT editor window or a default editor. For information about the Device 
window, the MIDI Device Manager and User device panels, see the chapter 
“MIDI devices” in the pdf document “Working with MIDI”.
• To send...

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About the “plug-in could not be found” message
When you open a project that uses an external effect/instrument, you 
may get a “plug-in could not be found” message. This will happen 
whenever you remove an external device from the VST Connections 
window although it is used in a saved project, or when transferring a 
project to another computer on which the external device is not defined. 
You may also see this message when opening a project last saved with...

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Freezing external effects/instruments
Just as when working with regular VST instruments and effects, you 
can also choose to freeze external effects and instruments. The gen-
eral procedure is described in detail in the Operation Manual chapter 
“Audio effects” and the “VST Instruments” chapter in the separate 
PDF document “Working with MIDI”.
When freezing external instruments or effects, you can adjust the re-
spective tail value in the Freeze Channel Options...

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Mixer operations
Several changes have been made to the mixer, to facilitate editing, 
navigating, etc. A whole new Mixer category has been added in the 
Key Commands dialog for example, allowing you to create keyboard 
shortcuts for the mixer functions you often work with. Several new 
functions have been added to the mixer context menu, allowing you 
e.g. to specify which channels functions should be applied to. These 
new functions are described in the following...

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The Window submenu
This submenu is handy for quickly switching to another open mixer 
window, showing/hiding the different mixer panes etc. It contains the 
following options:
•Show Routing View
Allows you to show/hide the topmost section of the mixer which contains the input/
output routing settings.
•Show Extended View
Allows you to show/hide the middle section of the mixer, where you can display differ-
ent settings for the channels (EQs, Send effects, etc.)....

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About channel/track colors
The color settings of the tracks in the track list are now also reflected 
in the mixer channel strips.
You can also change the color setting directly in the mixer. Proceed 
as follows:
1.Make sure the Show Track Colors option is activated in the Track list.
This is described in detail in the Customizing chapter in the Operation Manual.
2.Open the Mixer and click in the Color Selection section above the 
channel name for the desired...

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Copying channel settings to/from several 
tracks in one go
In the previous program version, the channel settings could be copied 
for one channel and pasted into another channel. This behavior was a 
bit cumbersome if the same settings had to be applied to several 
channels, as they had to be applied to each channel separately. In ver-
sion 3.1 of the program, it is now possible to apply the settings of one 
channel on several other channels in the mixer, or even...

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Panning Bypass
In version 3.1 of the program, it is now possible to bypass the panning 
for all track types except MIDI tracks. To do this, keep [Shift] and [Alt]/
[Option] pressed and click on the pan setting for the respective chan-
nel in the mixer (on the fader panel or in the extended mixer view). The 
Panning Bypass state is reflected in all the different pan setting sec-
tions, e.g. if you bypass a channel in the mixer, this is automatically re-
flected in...

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The Tempo Track
A very handy new feature can be found in the Tempo Track window: 
the Process Bars dialog. This dialog uses the global “Insert Silence” 
and “Delete Time” functions from the Edit menu – Range submenu, 
but uses a musical “bars+beats-based” environment for calculating 
the necessary ranges (or parameters). It also ensures that the time 
signatures stay “in sync” after these operations. This allows for a 
much more intuitive approach when inserting,...

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Bar Range – Start This is where you specify the desired start position for the 
bar range. Click on the small arrows to raise/lower the value 
by one step or click directly in the value field and enter the 
desired number manually.
Bar Range – Length This is where you specify the desired length of the bar range. 
Click on the small arrows to raise/lower the value by one 
step or click directly in the value field and enter the desired 
number manually.
Action –...