Steinberg Nuendo 3 Getting Started Manual

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•In addition there is an “Audition” output bus. This is a dedicated out-
put bus exclusively for monitoring when previewing, scrubbing or ed-
iting in the Sample editor. The Audition bus is set up on the “Studio” 
tab in the VST Connections window, and is described in the Opera-
tion Manual.
•Right now the mixer should contain one input bus, one stereo audio 
channel and one output bus (apart from the Audition bus) – just like in 
the picture...

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9.At the very top of the channel strip for the audio track, you find an In-
put Routing pop-up menu. Click this and make sure your stereo input 
bus is selected.
The input bus is now routed to the audio track.
Leave the Mixer window open for now.
Checking the input level
When you record digitally, it’s important to set the input level correctly. 
Above all, you don’t want the signal to be too loud, as this will cause 
clipping, digital...

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To check the input level, proceed as follows:
1.Locate your stereo input bus to the left in the mixer window.
2.Right-click (Win) or [Ctrl]-click (Mac) somewhere in the Mixer window 
to bring up the Mixer context menu.
3.Select the Global Meter Settings submenu and make sure “Meter In-
put” is activated.
Now the input bus meter displays the signal level coming in to your hardware – note 
that this level cannot be adjusted from within the...

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4.Play the audio source that you want to record and check the level 
meter for the input bus.
The signal should be as loud as possible without exceeding 0 dB (the Clipping indica-
tor for the input bus shouldn’t light up).
5.Adjust the output level of your audio source so that the meters go as 
high as possible without going up to 0.0 dB.
Check the numerical peak level indicator below the meter in the bus channel strip. To 
reset the Clipping...

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Making the track ready for recording
1.If the “Record Enable” button next to the fader on the mixer channel 
strip isn’t already red, click on it so that it lights up.
2.Make sure the Transport panel is visible.
If not, pull down the Transport menu and select the “Transport Panel” item at the top.   

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3.The Transport panel contains a lot of options that affect how record-
ing is done – in this example we want most of them to be turned off. 
Check that the following buttons are off (grey or unlit):
4.Click in the ruler (the time scale area above the track in the Project 
window), at the position where you want to start recording.
When you click, the project cursor (the black vertical line) is automatically moved to 
the click position. In our...

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Setting up monitoring
When you are monitoring through Nuendo, you can choose to activate 
monitoring manually or automatically, in several different ways. In this 
example we choose the “Tapemachine Style” monitoring, in which the 
input signal is automatically monitored in Stop mode and during re-
cording – but not during playback. This is convenient since it allows 
you to play back and listen to your recording without having to turn off...

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Recording
1.Start recording by clicking the Record button on the Transport panel.
The project cursor will start moving.
2.Play your instrument, etc.
During recording, a rectangle with an audio waveform will appear, covering the recorded 
area. This is the recorded audio event.
3.When you are done, click the Stop button on the Transport panel.
Recording stops and you can see the resulting audio event on the track.
4.If you are done recording,...

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Recording more events
At this point, you may want to continue recording audio, on the same 
track or on a new track.
Recording more on the same track
To record more audio on the same track, move the project cursor to a 
new start position and proceed as when you recorded the first time.
It is possible to record audio events that overlap each other, but only the 
visible events (the events on top) will be heard when you play back.
Recording a new...

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Playing back in a cycle
You could continue starting and stopping playback this way, moving 
the project cursor manually each time. However, if you want to try out 
some mixing features (see the chapter “Tutorial 3: Mixing”), it is more 
convenient to have Nuendo play back your recorded audio repeatedly, 
over and over again:
1.Click on the recorded audio event to make sure it is selected.
A selected audio event has a red border and red and blue...