Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual

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Automatically activating recording
Nuendo can automatically switch from playback to recording at a 
given position. This is known as “automatic punch in”. A typical use for 
this would be if you need to replace a section of a recording, and want 
to listen to what is already recorded, up to the recording start position.
1.Set the left locator to the position where you want recording to start.
2.Activate the Punch In button on the Transport panel.
Punch In activated.
3.Activate...

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Cycle recording
Nuendo can record and play back in a cycle – a loop. You specify 
where the cycle starts and ends by setting the left and right locators. 
When the cycle is active, the selected section is seamlessly repeated 
until you hit Stop or deactivate cycle mode.
•To activate cycle mode, click the cycle button on the Transport panel.
If you now start playback, the section between the left and right locator is repeated in-
definitely until you stop.
Cycle activated
•To...

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4.Make sure an audio track is record enabled and receives audio from 
the signal source.
5.When you have played some audio material you want to capture (either 
in Stop mode or during playback), click the Record button.
6.After a few seconds stop the recording (unless you wish to continue 
recording).
An audio event is created, starting at where the cursor position was when you acti-
vated recording. This means that if you were in stop mode, and the cursor was at the 
beginning of...

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Audio recording specifics
Selecting a recording file format
The format of recorded files is set in the Project Setup dialog on the 
Project menu. There are three settings: sample rate, record format (bit 
depth) and record file type. While the sample rate is set once and for 
all when you start working on a new project, the bit depth and file type 
can be changed at any time.
Record file type
The Record File Type setting determines which type of files will be 
created when you...

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Record format (bit depth)
The available options are 16 bit, 24 bit and 32 bit float. Use the fol-
lowing guidelines:
• Normally, select the record format according to the bit depth delivered by 
your audio hardware.
For example, if your audio hardware has 20 bit A/D converters (inputs), you may want 
to record at 24 bit resolution, to capture the full bit depth. On the other hand, if your 
hardware has 16 bit inputs, it’s pointless to record with a higher bit depth – this will...

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Selecting an input bus for a track
Here we assume that you have added and set up the required input 
busses (see page 15). Before you record you need to specify from 
which input bus the track should record. You can do this in the In-
spector or in the mixer:
•In the Inspector you select an input bus on the “in” pop-up menu in 
the top section.
As described on page 98, the Inspector shows the settings for the selected track. You 
show or hide the Inspector using the Inspector icon...

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•In the mixer you select an input bus on the Input Routing pop-up menu 
at the top of the track’s channel strip.
If this pop-up menu isn’t shown, you need to click the Show Input and Output Settings 
field in the common panel to the left. See page 209 for more about the mixer.
Click here to 
select an input 
bus for the 
track. Click here to show 
or hide the input 
and output set-
tings.   

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Selecting a folder for the recorded audio files
As described in the Getting Started book, each Nuendo project has a 
project folder containing (among other things) an “Audio” folder. By 
default, this is where recorded audio files are stored. However, you 
can select record folders independently for each audio track if needed:
1.To select the same record folder for several audio tracks, you need to 
select them by [Shift] or [Ctrl]/[Command]-clicking in the Track list....

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Setting input levels
When recording digital sound, it’s important to set the input levels 
correctly – loud enough to ensure low noise and high audio quality, 
but not so loud that clipping (digital distortion) occurs.
Clipping typically occurs in the audio hardware, when a too loud ana-
log signal is converted to digital in the hardware’s A/D converters. 
•It is also possible to get clipping when the signal from the input bus is 
written to a file on your hard disk.
This is...

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•Use the audio hardware’s own application program to set the input 
levels, if this possibility is provided.
See the documentation for the audio hardware.
•If your audio hardware supports the ASIO Control Panel function, it 
may be possible to make input level settings.
To open the ASIO control panel, open the Device Setup dialog on the Devices menu 
and click the Control Panel button on the VST Audiobay subpage with the name of 
your hardware device.
The next step is to check the...