Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual

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Monitoring
In this context, “monitoring” means listening to the input signal during 
recording. There are three fundamentally different ways to do this: via 
Nuendo, externally (by listening to the signal before it reaches Nuendo) 
or by using ASIO Direct Monitoring (which is a combination of both of 
the other methods – see below).
Monitoring via Nuendo
If you monitor via Nuendo, the input signal is mixed in with the audio 
playback. The advantage of this is that you can adjust...

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• Manual.
This option allows you to turn input monitoring on or off by clicking the Monitor button 
in the Inspector, the Track list or in the mixer.
• While Record Enabled.
With this option you will hear the audio source connected to the channel input when-
ever the track is record enabled.
• While Record Running.
This option switches to input monitoring only during recording.
• Tapemachine Style.
This option emulates standard tapemachine behavior: input monitoring in Stop mode...

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ASIO Direct Monitoring
If your audio hardware is ASIO 2.0 compatible, it may support ASIO 
Direct Monitoring. In this mode, the actual monitoring is done in the 
audio hardware, by sending the input signal back out again. However, 
monitoring is controlled from Nuendo. This means that the audio hard-
ware’s direct monitoring feature can be turned on or off automatically 
by Nuendo, just as when using internal monitoring.
•To activate ASIO Direct Monitoring, open the Device Setup...

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Recording
Recording is done using any of the general recording methods (see 
page 49). After you finish recording, an audio file has been created in 
the Audio folder within the project folder. In the Pool, an audio clip is 
created for the audio file, and an audio event that plays the whole clip 
appears on the recording track. Finally, a waveform image is calcu-
lated for the audio event. If the recording was very long, this may take 
a while.
• If the option “Create Audio...

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Recording overlapping events
The basic rule for audio tracks is that each track can play back a sin-
gle audio event at a time. This means that if two or more events are 
overlapping, only one of them will be heard at any given time.
What happens when you record overlapping events (record in an area 
where there’s already events on the track) depends on the Linear 
Record Mode setting on the Transport panel:
•In “Normal” or “Merge” mode, recording where something has already 
been...

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Recording audio in cycle mode
If you are recording audio in cycle mode, the result depends on two 
factors:
•The Cycle Record Mode setting on the Transport panel.
•The “Audio Cycle Record Mode” setting in the Preferences dialog 
(Record page).
Cycle Record Modes on the Transport panel
There are five different modes on the Transport panel, but the differ-
ences between two of the modes only apply to MIDI recording. For 
audio cycle recording, the following applies:
•If “Keep Last”...

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Create Events mode (Preferences)
When Audio Cycle Record Mode (Preferences–Record page) is set 
to “Create Events”, the following will happen when you record audio 
in cycle mode:
• One continuous audio file is created during the entire recording process. 
• For each recorded lap of the cycle, one audio event is created.
The events will have the name of the audio file plus the text “Take *”, where “*” indi-
cates the number of the take.
• The last take (the last recorded lap) will...

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This method allows you to quickly combine the best parts of each 
take, in the following way:
1.Use the Scissors tool to split the events in several sections, one for 
each part of the take.
For example, if you recorded four lines of vocals (in each take), you can split the events 
so that each line gets a separate event.
The events after splitting. Note that since the original take events overlap each 
other, clicking with the Scissors tool will split all takes at the same...

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• The audio clip is divided into regions (called takes), one for each lap of the cy-
cle that was recorded.
If you locate the audio file you just recorded in the Pool, and click on the plus sign be-
side it, you can see the regions that have been created, one for each lap of the cycle 
that was completed during recording.
“Take” regions in the Pool window.
To play back the different “takes”, proceed as follows:
1.In the Project window, right-click (Win) or [Ctrl]-click (Mac) the...

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Create Events + Regions mode (Preferences)
In this mode, both events and regions are created. If you work with the 
takes as events in this mode, you can edit the events freely (e.g. split-
ting them as described on page 67). However, in case you want to go 
back to the original takes, they are still available as regions (on the 
“Set To Region” submenu, in the Pool or in the Sample Editor).
Recording audio in Stacked mode
When you record audio in cycle mode and the “Stacked”...