Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual

 
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Other documents
 
Apart from the Operation Manual and the help, the following docu-
ments are included with Nuendo: 
Getting Started
 
In this book (also available in Adobe Acrobat pdf format) you will find: 
• Requirements, installation and setting up your system.
• Basic concepts and terminology.
• Basic methods – e.g. how to set values, use tools and menus.
• A list of all default key commands.
• A number of tutorials, helping you get started with working in Nuendo....

 
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Remote Control Devices
 
This pdf document lists the supported MIDI remote control devices 
and describes how to set up and use them with Nuendo. 
Score Layout and Printing
 
This pdf document describes the score editing features in Nuendo. 
Using Nuendo with DSP Factory (Windows only)
 
In this pdf document you will find detailed information about Nuendo’s 
implementation for the Yamaha DSP Factory audio card. 
All pdf documents can be opened from the Help menu in the...

 
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VST Connections: Setting up
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Introduction
 
As described in the Getting Started book, Nuendo uses a system of 
input and output busses to transfer audio between the program and 
the audio hardware. 
• Input busses let you route audio from the inputs on your audio hardware into 
the program. This means that when you record audio, you will always do this 
through one or several input busses.
• Output busses let you route audio from the program to the outputs on your...

 
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Setting up busses
 
Strategies
 
You can create any number of busses in Nuendo, in virtually any chan-
nel configuration – mono, stereo or a number of surround formats.  
• The bus configuration is saved with the projects – therefore it’s a good 
idea to add and set up the busses you need and save these in a tem-
plate project (see page 641).
 
When you start working on new projects, you start from this template. That way you 
get your...

 
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Output busses
 
• You will need one or several stereo output busses for routing stereo mixes to 
master recorders or other destinations. 
• For digital transfers, you need a stereo bus assigned to a digital stereo output 
as well.
• You might also need a surround bus in the format of your speaker configura-
tion (here, 5.1) assigned to the correct outputs (which in turn are connected 
to the correct speakers). 
• You may want additional...

 
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Preparations
 
Before you set up busses, you should name the inputs and outputs on 
your audio hardware. For example, if you are using a 5.1 surround 
speaker setup, you should name the outputs according to which 
speaker they are connected to (Left, Right, Center and so on). 
The reason for this is compatibility – it makes it easier to transfer 
projects between different computers and setups. For example, if you 
move your project to...

 
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The VST Connections window
 
You add and set up busses in the VST Connections window, opened 
from the Devices menu.
There are five tabs in the window: 
• The Input and Output tabs are for viewing input busses or output busses, re-
spectively. 
• The Group/FX tab allows you to create Group and FX channels/tracks and to 
make output assignments for these. See page 28. 
• The External FX tab allows you to create effect send/return busses...

 
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Depending on which tab you have selected, Input or Output, the win-
dow lists the current input or output busses, with the following columns: 
Adding a bus
 
1. 
Click the Inputs or Outputs tab depending on which you want to add. 
2. 
Click the Add Bus button. 
A dialog appears.
 
3. 
Select the desired (channel) configuration. 
The pop-up menu contains Mono and Stereo options as well as the most common sur-
round formats. To select...

 
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Adding a child bus 
 
A surround bus is essentially a set of mono channels – 6 channels in 
the case of 5.1 format. If you have a mono track in the project, you can 
route it to a separate speaker channel in the bus (or route it to the 
whole surround bus and use the surround panner to position it in the 
surround image). But what if you have a stereo track that you simply 
want to route to a stereo channel pair within the bus (Left and...