Steinberg Nuendo 3 Getting Started Manual

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Audio effects
Nuendo comes with a large number of audio effect plug-ins (VST plug-
ins). These can be used as send effects, insert effects or for offline pro-
cessing (see page 206).
Adding a send effect
Send effects in Nuendo make use of FX channel tracks – “effect return” 
tracks, each holding one effect plug-in (or several, in series). Each au-
dio track has eight different effect sends, which can each be routed to 
any FX channel track. This allows for extremely...

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3.Pull down the Plugin pop-up menu.
The effects included with Nuendo are organized in subfolders according to the effect 
type. Typical send effects are reverb, delay and other effects where you want to add a 
little bit of effect to the original dry signal.
4.Select “Reverb A” from the Reverb submenu and click OK.
The control panel for the “Reverb A” effect appears. We’ll look closer at the control 
panel in a moment – first take a look at the Track list:
An FX channel...

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6.Click the “e” button for the FX channel strip.
The Channel Settings window appears.
The first insert effect slot holds the Reverb A plug-in.
7.OK, let’s look at the control panel for the effect. If it’s obscured by the 
other windows you can click the “e” button for the Reverb A slot twice 
to bring the panel to front.
8.Use the pop-up menu to select the “Large” preset.
9.Since we want to use this as a send effect we don’t want any dry (un-
processed) signal to pass...

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Setting up a send
1.Go back to the mixer and locate the channel strip for the Strings track.
2.Click the “e” button in the Strings channel strip to open its Channel 
Settings window.
The effect sends are located to the right of the EQ section – currently they are all 
unused (shown as empty slots).
3.Click in the first empty effect send slot and select your FX channel 
from the pop-up menu that appears.
4.Click the power button for the first slot to activate the send....

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Adding an insert effect
An insert effect is inserted into the signal chain of an audio channel, 
which means that the whole channel signal passes through the effect. 
This also means that only one track or channel will use the insert ef-
fect – unlike send effects, where signals from several channels can all 
be sent to the same effect.
In our tutorial, we will add some chorus to the electric piano track.
1.Click the “e” button in the “E.Piano” channel strip (or use the...

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3.Select “Chorus” from the Modulation submenu.
The effect is loaded and automatically activated, and its control panel appears.
4.Play back the project and try selecting different chorus presets.
•In this case we inserted an effect on a mono track – this means the out-
put from the effect will still be in mono.
To get a stereo chorus, we would need to add the chorus as a send effect instead.  

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Automation
All mixer parameters can be automated in Nuendo. In the final example 
in this chapter, we will do a simple fade in for the electric piano track, 
so that it starts inaudible and reaches its full level at bar 9, where the 
strings start:
1.Arrange your windows so that you can see both the events in the 
Project window and the mixer.
This is not strictly necessary but it makes it easier to see where the electric piano starts.
2.Turn off Cycle on the Transport...

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10.Click the R button for the channel.
This activates automation read mode.
11.Play back the project from the start.
You will see your automated fader movement and hear the electric piano fade in.
That concludes this tutorial! If you are happy with the result, you may 
want to save the project under a different name, by selecting “Save 
As…” from the File menu.  

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Tutorial 4: Creating a
surround mix 

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About this tutorial
This tutorial describes how to set up Nuendo for work in 5.1 surround 
format, add some audio files from a library, create a simple surround 
mix including some mixer automation and finally export this as an inter-
leaved multi-channel audio file.
For full descriptions of all the surround features in Nuendo, please see 
the Surround chapter in the Operation Manual.
•For this tutorial to be useful, you need to have audio hardware with...