Steinberg Nuendo 3 Audio Effects And VSTi Manual

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Apogee UV 22 HR
The UV22 HR is a dithering plug-in, based on an advanced algorithm 
developed by Apogee (for an introduction to the concept of dithering, 
please refer to the chapter “Audio Effects” in the Operation Manual). 
You can use the UV22 HR plug-in for all dithering situations, except 
when working with surround audio. This is because the UV22 HR is a 
standard “stereo in” – “stereo out” plug-in (as opposed to the Sur-
roundDither plug-in, see page...

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Vocoder
The Vocoder can apply sound/voice characteristics taken from one 
signal source, called the “modulator” and apply this to another source, 
called the “carrier”. A typical application of a vocoder is to use a voice 
as a modulator and an instrument as a carrier, making the instrument 
“talk”. A vocoder works by dividing the source signal (modulator) into 
a number of frequency bands. The audio attributes of these frequency 
bands can then be used to...

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2.Select the Vocoder as an insert effect for the audio channel with the 
modulator signal.
3.Make sure that the Vocoder Mode is set to “MIDI”.
4.Select a MIDI track.
This can be an empty MIDI track, or a MIDI track containing data, it doesn’t matter. How-
ever, if you wish to play the Vocoder in real-time – as opposed to having a recorded part 
playing it – the track has to have monitoring activated (or be record enabled) for the Vo-
coder to receive the MIDI...

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To use an external carrier instead of the built-in synth (“Ext mode”), 
you set up as follows:
1.Create a Group channel from the Add Track submenu on the Project 
menu.
2.Open an audio file you wish to use as the carrier source and place it 
on an empty audio track.
3.Pan the audio channel full right in the Mixer or in the Inspector.
4.Route the output of the audio channel to the group.
5.Open an audio file you wish to use as the modulator source and place 
it...

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Vocoder parameters
The Vocoder parameters govern the general sound quality of the 
vocoded sound.
Parameter Description
Number of 
BandsThis governs how many frequency bands the modulator signal is di-
vided into (2-24). Fewer bands will provide a thinner more resonant 
sound, whereas using more bands will make the sound fuller and 
more intelligible.
Bandwidth This sets the bandwidth for the frequency bands, which affects the 
overall timbre. Very narrow...

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Vocoder synth parameters
If the built-in synthesizer is the carrier, it is the sound of this instrument 
that the modulator source is applied to. The synth is polyphonic with 
up to 8 voices and features 2 oscillators per voice. The synth has the 
following parameters:
Parameter Description
Voices This sets the number of voices for the synth (1-8).
Fine Tune Tunes the oscillators ± a semitone, in cents (100th of a semitone) steps.
Pitch Bend Sets the up/down...

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Restoration
This section contains descriptions of the plug-ins in the “Restoration” 
category.
DeClicker
The DeClicker plug-in is specifically designed to eliminate single 
“clicks” or “pops” in a recording. One typical application is to clean up 
recordings made from vinyl records, but you may also find it useful for 
removing pops from microphone switches, oxidized connector noises, 
clicks from sync problems when transferring material digitally, etc.
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•Removal – a de-click algorithm is applied to the audio, removing the clicks.
In many cases, the original audio material “hidden” underneath a click can not be re-
stored. This means there will be a gap once the click has been removed. DeClicker has 
the ability to automatically “redraw” the hence missing parts of the waveform. This fea-
ture can also be used to remove tape dropouts with a length of up to 60 samples (just 
above one millisecond at 44.1kHz).
The...

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Tips and Tricks
•By combining Vintage Mode and extreme Threshold and DePlop settings, you 
can create an interesting effect which “softens” material with particularly 
sharp attacks, e.g. percussion or brass.
•If you have material with digital distortion (clipping), try applying DeClicker. 
While it can’t do miracles, it can at least make some improvement to the over-
all “hardness” introduced by the distortion.
DePlop This setting controls a special highpass...

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DeNoiser
The DeNoiser plug-in lets you suppress noise without affecting the 
general sound quality. Or, in tech talk, the DeNoiser removes broad 
band noise from arbitrary audio material without leaving any “spectral 
finger print”. The algorithm that this plug-in is based on has the ability 
to track and adjust itself to variations in background noise. This means 
the noise can be diminished without side effects, preserving the spatial 
impression, and without...