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3.On the menu, select “Routing”.
Each send is now shown as a small routing diagram, showing (from left to right) pre/
post selector, send on/off switch, send level, pan (where applicable) and send routing. 
You can adjust all of these settings here if needed.
4.Deactivate the “Link Send Routing Panners...” button above the rout-
ing display.
When this is activated, the send panners follow the pan for the channel.
5.Click and drag the pan control for the desired send(s) in...

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Setting effect levels
After you have set up the sends as described in the previous sections, 
the following is now possible:
•You can use the send level slider in the Channel Settings, Inspector, 
or the extended part of the mixer to set the send level.
By adjusting the send level you control the amount of signal sent from the audio chan-
nel to the FX channel.
Setting the effect send level.
•In the mixer, you can use the level fader for the FX channel to set the 
effect...

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FX channels and the Solo Defeat function
When mixing, you might sometimes want to solo specific audio chan-
nels, and listen only to these while other channels are muted. How-
ever, this will mute all FX channels as well. If the soloed audio 
channels have sends routed to FX channels, this means you won’t 
hear the send effects for the channels.
To remedy this, you can use the Solo Defeat function for the FX chan-
nel:
1.First press [Alt]/[Option] and click on the Solo...

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Using external effects
Although this program comes with a top selection of VST effect plug-
ins and there’s a huge range of additional plug-ins available on the 
market, you may still have some hardware effect units that you want to 
use - valve compressors, reverb units, vintage tape echo machines, 
etc. By setting up external FX busses you can make your outboard 
equipment part of Nuendo’s virtual studio!
An external FX bus is basically a combination of outputs (sends) and...

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4.Click the External FX tab and click “Add External FX”.
5.In the dialog that appears, select Stereo on both pop-up menus 
(Send and Return configurations).
Again, this is because the hardware uses stereo connections in our example. If it uses 
mono connections, you should select Mono on the pop-ups, etc.
This adds a new External FX bus.
6.Click in the Device Port column for the Send Bus “Left” and “Right” 
ports and select the outputs on your audio hardware that you con-...

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10.When you are done, close the VST Connections window.
How to use the external effect
If you now click an insert effect slot for any channel and look at the ef-
fect pop-up menu, you will find the new external FX bus listed under 
the “External Plugins” heading.
When you select it, the following happens:
• The external FX bus is loaded into the effect slot just like a regular effect plug-in.
• The audio signal from the channel will be sent to the outputs on the audio...

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Making settings for the effects
Selecting effect presets
Most VST effect plug-ins come with a number of useful presets for in-
stant selection. You can select presets in the control panel for the ef-
fect, but they are also available for selection from the Channel 
Settings window:
1.Open the Channel Settings for the channel with the insert effects.
This means that to select presets for send effects, you should open the FX Settings 
window for the FX channel track.
2.Pull...

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Editing effects
All inserts and sends have an Edit (“e”) button. Clicking this opens the 
selected effect’s control panel in which you can make parameter set-
tings.
The contents, design and layout of the control panel depends on the 
selected effect. However, all effect control panels have a power but-
ton, a Bypass button, Read/Write automation buttons (for automating 
effect parameter changes – see page 337), a preset selection pop-up 
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Naming effects
If you edit the parameters for an effect, these settings are saved auto-
matically in the project. If you want to name the current settings, the 
following points apply:
• The basis for the current settings may have been a preset effect program, in 
which case there is a name in the preset field.
• The basis for the current settings may have been a default setting program lo-
cation in which case “Default” is displayed in the preset field.
In both cases, if...

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Installing and managing effect plug-ins
There is a wide range of additional effect plug-ins available in the two 
formats supported by Nuendo (VST and DirectX). The two formats are 
handled differently when it comes to installation and organizing:
VST plug-ins
Mac OS X
Plug-ins in Mac OS 9.X format cannot be used.
There is a large number of VST plug-ins available for purchase or 
download. To install a VST plug-in under Mac OS X, quit Nuendo and 
drag the plug-in file to one...