Steinberg Nuendo 3 Getting Started Manual
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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 of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. All product and company names are ™ or ® trademarks of their respective owners. Windows XP is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. The Mac logo is a trademark used under license. Macintosh and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks. © Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, 2004. All rights reserved.
NUENDO 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 perfor- mance 57Basic Nuendo concepts 58About this chapter 58The project 60Audio terminology 62MIDI terminology 62Video terminology 63Basic Methods 64About this chapter 64Using menus 66Using tools 68Changing values 72Selecting objects 73Zoom and view techniques 76Window handling 79Undo 83Guided Tour 84The main windows in Nuendo 95Tutorial 1: Recording and playing back audio 96About this tutorial 97Creating a new project 99Preparing to record 108Recording 108Playing back what you just recorded 109Recording more events 110Playing back in a cycle 111Tutorial 2: Recording and playing back MIDI 112About this tutorial 113Setting up for recording MIDI 116Recording MIDI 116Playing back what you just recorded 117Playing back in a cycle 118Transposing the MIDI track
NUENDO Table of Contents 5 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 159Overview 160Moving and copying events 162Muting and erasing events 163Splitting and resizing events 165Adding a fade 167Tutorial 6: Using VST Instruments 168About this tutorial 168Preparations 169Activating a VST Instrument 171Routing 172Playing back173Adding another instrument 175Playing a VST Instrument in real time 177Recording 178Making parameter settings 180Automating the changes 181Tutorial 7: Tempo matching audio loops 182About this tutorial 183Setting up 187Activating Musical Mode 191Tutorial 8: Arranging with the play order function 192About this tutorial 193Setting up 194Creating play order parts 197Creating a play order list 201Tutorial 9: Editing audio 202About this tutorial 202The Sample Editor 205Processing audio 206Applying an effect plug-in 207Using the Offline Process History dialog 209Tutorial 10: Editing MIDI 210About this tutorial 210Opening the Key Editor 211Drawing events in the Key Editor 212Selecting and moving events
NUENDO 6Table of Contents 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
NUENDO 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 have always been the foundation of Nuendo’s success. Nuendo continues to support both Windows XP and Mac OS X, the two most important platforms for audio workstations. For both these platforms, processor manufacturers have continuously supplied more and more performance, and naturally, since the release of Nuendo 2 18 months ago, Nuendo’s performance has multiplied as a conse- quence. In terms of openness, Nuendo meets all expectations with its support of data exchange formats like AAF and X-Send, as well as the integration of Yamaha Studio Manager 2. Furthermore, external effect devices can be integrated directly into the Nuendo signal path and ed- ited via custom device panels. But these features for integration into existing studio setups are of course not all that Nuendo 3 has to offer. Managing your media data is now easier than ever thanks to enhanced search functions, freely definable user attributes in the Pool and a new time-saving dialog for renaming objects. In Nuendo 3, the auditioning path has been separated from the object that you are mixing, giving you real AFL/PFL functionality besides the existing solo-in-place method. And to meet the requirements of all those who use Nuendo for sur- round sound production, the MixConvert plug-in, a high-performance tool for multi-channel applications, has been added. MixConvert de- tects the current number of channels and provides target formats for downmixing. Conversion of 5.1 to 6.1 is handled just as efficiently as checks for mono or stereo compatibility. And finally, Nuendo 3 offers Warp to Picture – it’s probably best to simply wish you lots of fun and leave you to use these innovative new features: using the Warp tools, you can move any position within your audio material or on the timeline to the correct picture, and the Nuendo Realtime Processing functions will do the rest for you. Enjoy working with Nuendo 3. The Steinberg Nuendo Team
NUENDO 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 “/Library/Docu- mentation/Steinberg/Nuendo 3” or in the Nuendo program folder under “/Contents/Documentation/”. •To read the pdf documents you need to have the Acrobat Reader appli- cation installed on your computer. An Acrobat installer is provided on the program DVD. The Getting Started book This is the book you are reading now. The Getting Started book covers the following areas: •Computer requirements. •Installation issues. •Setting up your system for audio, MIDI and/or video work. •A guided tour of the main Nuendo windows. •Tutorials describing the most common procedures for recording, playing back, mixing and editing in Nuendo. •Basic concepts and terminology. •A description of the general methods used when working in Nuendo. In other words, this book does not go into detail on any Nuendo win- dows, functions or procedures. The Getting Started book comes as a printed book but is also available as a pdf document. The Operation Manual The Operation Manual is the main Nuendo reference documentation, with detailed descriptions of Nuendo operations, parameters, func- tions and techniques. You should be familiar with the concepts and methods described in the Getting Started book before moving on to the Operation Manual.
NUENDO 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 VST instruments). Networking This pdf document describes how you can use Nuendo’s project sharing and networking features to collaborate with other users of Nuendo (version 2.0 or later) in a TCP/IP based peer-to-peer network. Remote Control Devices This pdf document lists the supported MIDI remote control devices and describes how to set them up and use them with Nuendo. Score Layout and Printing Describes the score editing features in Nuendo. Using Nuendo with DSP Factory (Windows only) Describes how to set up and use a Yamaha DSP Factory audio card with Nuendo.