Steinberg Nuendo 3 Getting Started Manual

 
Getting Started 

 
Original Manual: Synkron
Revision and Quality Control for Nuendo 3: 
Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Sabine Pfeifer, Claudia Schomburg
The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not rep-
resent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The soft-
ware described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be 
copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part 
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Table of Contents 

 
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4Table of Contents 
7Introduction 
8Welcome
9About the manuals and the 
Help
13How you can reach us 
15Installation and 
Requirements for  
Windows 
16About this chapter
16Requirements
20Hardware installation
22Installing Nuendo 
27Installation and 
Requirements for  
Mac OS X 
28About this chapter
28Requirements
31Hardware installation
32Installing Nuendo 
35Setting up your  
system 
36Setting up audio
47Setting up MIDI
51Connecting a synchronizer
52Setting up video
53Optimizing audio...

 
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121Tutorial 3: Mixing 
122About this tutorial
122Preparations
124Setting levels
125Setting pan
126Using Mute and Solo
127Adding EQ to an audio 
channel
131Audio effects
137Automation 
139Tutorial 4: Creating a  
surround mix 
140About this tutorial
140Preparations
140Creating a Project
144Creating a surround bus
146Setting up a surround mix
153Exporting to a surround 
audio file 
157Tutorial 5: Editing in  
the Project window 
158About this tutorial
158Preparations...

 
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213About quantize
215Editing velocity in the 
controller display 
217Tutorial 11:  
Customizing 
218About this tutorial
219Hiding menu items
221Setting preferences
224Setting up Key Commands
228Changing the look of the 
toolbar
230Changing the appearance 
of the program
231Applying track colors
235Creating a template
239Setting up Zoom presets
240Setting up workspaces 
243Shortcuts & 
key commands 
244About this chapter
244The default key commands 
253Index 

 
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Introduction 

 
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1 – 8 Introduction 
Welcome
 
Congratulations and thank you for choosing Nuendo 3. This new ver-
sion of the Media Production System continues the successful devel-
opment of the software and will further strengthen the already excellent 
reputation of Nuendo. It is this reputation that is trusted by studios for 
audio post production, surround mixing and music recording around 
the world. Nuendo 3 is built on the same concepts of platform inde-
pendence, native processing and openness that...

 
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Introduction 1 – 9 
About the manuals and the Help
 
The Nuendo documentation is divided into several sections, as listed 
below. Most of the documents are in Adobe Acrobat format (exten-
sion “.pdf”) - these can be accessed in the following ways: 
•You can open the pdf documents from the Help menu in the program.
•Under Windows you can also open these documents from the Nuendo Doc-
umentation subfolder on the Windows Start menu.
•Under Mac OS X the pdf documents are located in the folder...

 
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1 – 10 Introduction 
Working with MIDI
 
Describes MIDI editing in Nuendo, e.g. the MIDI editors, MIDI process-
ing functions and effect handling and contains descriptions of the in-
cluded MIDI effect plug-ins; how to manage MIDI Devices and device 
panels; how to work with MIDI System Exclusive messages and how to 
use the Logical Editor and Input Transformer. 
Audio Effects and VST Instruments
 
Describes the features and parameters of the included VST plug-ins 
(real-time audio effects and...