Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual

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Organizing VST plug-ins
If you have a large number of VST plug-ins, having them all on a single 
pop-up menu in the program may become unmanageable. For this 
reason, the plug-ins installed with Nuendo are placed in appropriate 
subfolders according to the effect type.
•Under Windows, you can rearrange this by moving, adding or renam-
ing subfolders within the Vstplugins folder if you like. 
When you launch the program and pull down an Effects pop-up menu, the subfolders...

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DirectX plug-ins (Windows only)
To be able to use DirectX plug-ins, you must have Microsoft DirectX 
installed on your computer (Version 8.1 – or later – recommended 
and included on the Nuendo DVD). 
DirectX plug-ins should not be placed in the Vstplugins folder, as 
these are installed under the operating system rather than for Nuendo 
exclusively. Rather, you should follow the installation instructions in-
cluded with the plug-ins. See also page 296.
• On the effect...

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Managing and selecting VST plug-ins
To see which VST plug-ins are available in your system, click the “VST 
Plug-ins” tab at the top of the window. The window now displays all 
plug-ins in the Nuendo and the shared Vstplugins folder. 
• The plug-ins are color-coded to help you find plug-ins of a specific type - re-
fer to the color fields at the top of the window.
• To enable a plug-in (make it available for selection), click in the left column.
Only the currently enabled...

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Update Button
Pressing this button will make Nuendo re-scan the designated Vstplu-
gins folders for updated information about the plug-ins.
Export List button
•If you click this button, a text file with the plug-in info is generated.
This document could be useful if you need to contact Steinberg Technical Support – 
or you might want to use it just as a handy reference of the installed effects.
Delay (sample) This shows the delay (in samples) that will be introduced if the...

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Changing the Shared Plug-ins Folder (Windows only)
If you like, you can change what folder is to be the “shared” Vstplugins 
folder. For example, if you have Steinberg’s Cubase installed on your 
computer, you can get access to the Cubase-specific plug-ins in Nu-
endo by switching to the Vstplugins folder within the Cubase folder.
The currently selected Shared Folder is displayed in the text field at 
the top of the window. Clicking the “Change...” button opens a file di-...

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Managing and selecting DirectX plug-ins (Windows only)
To see which DirectX plug-ins are available in your system, click the 
“DirectX Plug-ins” tab at the top of the window.
•To enable a plug-in (make it available for selection), click in the left-
most column.
Only the currently enabled plug-ins (shown with a check sign in the left column) will 
appear on the Effect menus.
The idea here is that there could be a variety of DirectX plug-ins in 
your system, many of which are...

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Surround sound 

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Background
What is Surround sound?
Surround is a common name for various techniques for positioning 
audio in reference to the listener. Whereas regular stereo is limited to 
left/right positioning, within a relatively narrow field, surround sound 
opens possibilities of positioning an audio source anywhere around 
the listener.
Surround sound comes in many flavors, from the ill-fated Quadraphonic 
format for vinyl discs launched in the 70s, to today’s more successful...

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• Nuendo is ready for surround specific plug-ins, that is plug-ins with multi 
channel support specifically designed for surround sound mixing tasks (the 
included “Mix8to2” plug-in is an example of this). 
There are also surround aware plug-ins, which are not designed specifically 
for Surround but which due to their multi-channel support work well in a 
Surround configuration. An example is the Surrounddither plug-in.
• You configure Nuendo for surround by defining input...

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About surround plug-ins
Included with the program are some specific surround plug-ins. These 
are:
•MatrixEncoder and MatrixDecoder.
These are used for working with LRCS Surround encoded material. In LRCS Sur-
round, four audio channels are converted to two channels, for distribution via regular 
video and broadcast formats. These plug-ins perform such conversions (in both ways) 
and are compatible with the LRCS Surround format.
•Mixconvert
Mixconvert gives you an easy way...