Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual
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Original Manual: Synkron Revision and Quality Control for Nuendo 3: Ashley Shepherd, Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Sabine Pfeifer, Claudia Schomburg Thanks: Bryce Atcheson, Georg Bruns The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. All product and company names are ™ or ® trademarks of their respective owners. Windows XP is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. The Mac logo is a trademark used under license. Macintosh and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks. © Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, 2004. All rights reserved.
NUENDO 4 Table of Contents 9About this manual 10Welcome! 13VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses 14Introduction 15Setting up busses 24Using the busses 28Setting up Groups and FX channels 29About the Audition bus 33Playback and the Transport panel 34Background 38Operations 43Options and Settings 47Recording 48Background 49Basic recording methods 54Audio recording specifics 75MIDI recording specifics 88Options and Settings 93The Project window 94Background 96Window Overview 111Operations 152Options 157The play order track 158Introduction 159Setting up the play order track 160Creating a play order 163Playing back the play order 164Flattening the play order 165Folder tracks 166About folder tracks 167Handling folder tracks 169Working with folder parts 173Using markers 174About markers 174The Marker window 178Using the Marker track 182Marker key commands 183Editing markers in the Project Browser 185Fades, crossfades and envelopes 186Creating fades 190The Fade dialogs 193Creating crossfades 195The Crossfade dialog 204Auto Fades and Crossfades 206Event Envelopes 207The mixer 208About this chapter 209Overview 213Configuring the mixer 220The audio channel strips 222The MIDI channel strips 223The common panel 224The input & output channels 225Basic mixing procedures 235Audio specific procedures 252MIDI specific procedures 254Utilities
NUENDO Table of Contents 5 259Audio effects 260About this chapter 260Overview 262Insert effects 273Send effects 284Using external effects 287Making settings for the effects 290Installing and managing effect plug-ins 297Surround sound 298Background 301Window overview 303Operations 321Automation 322Background 326Automation track operations 333Using Write/Read automation 339Working with automation curves 346Tips and common methods 347Options and Settings 349Remote controlling the mixer 350About this chapter 350Setting Up 352Operations 354The Generic Remote device 359Audio processing and functions 360Background 361Audio processing 384Applying plug-ins 386The Offline Process History dialog 388Batch Processing 391Freeze Edits 392Detect Silence 395The Spectrum Analyzer 398Statistics 399The Sample Editor 400Background 400Opening the Sample Editor 401Window overview 406Operations 418Options and settings 421The Audio Part Editor 422Background 422Opening the Audio Part Editor 423Window overview 426Operations 430Common methods 432Options and Settings 433Audio warp realtime processing 434Background 435Using the Audio Tempo Definition tool 442Warp tabs and the Warp Samples tool
NUENDO 6 Table of Contents 449Quantizing audio 451Realtime pitch shifting of audio events 452Freezing the realtime processing 455Working with hitpoints and slices 456Background 456Using hitpoints 460Editing hitpoints 466About Q-points 467Creating slices 468Creating groove quantize maps 469Other hitpoint functions 473The Pool 474Background 476Window Overview 481Operations 500Options and Settings 501Working with the Tempo track 502Background 503The Tempo Track Editor – overview 506Operations 512Process Tempo 513Options and settings 514The Beat Calculator 516Merge Tempo From Tapping 517The Time Warp tool 529The Project Browser 530Background 530Opening the Project Browser 530Window Overview 531Navigating in the Browser 532Customizing the View 532About the Sync Selection option 533Editing audio tracks 535Editing MIDI tracks 538Editing Automation tracks 538Editing the Video track 539Editing the Marker track 540Editing the Tempo track 540Editing Time Signatures 541Deleting Events 543The Track Sheet 544Overview 548Printing the Track Sheet 549Export Audio Mixdown 550Introduction 551Mixing down to an audio file 554File format specifics 569Synchronization 570Background 578Window Overview 579Operations 594Options 597VST System Link 598Introduction 599Preparations 604Activating VST System Link 611Application examples
NUENDO Table of Contents 7 615Video 616Background 617Operations 626Options 626The Edit Mode 629ReWire 630Introduction 631Launching and quitting 632Activating ReWire channels 633Using the transport and tempo controls 634How the ReWire channels are handled in Nuendo 635Routing MIDI via ReWire2 636Considerations and limitations 637File handling 638File Operations 668Options and Settings 671Customizing 672Background 673Workspaces 676Customizing the Transport panel 678Customizing the toolbars 680Customizing track controls 685Configuring the main menu items 687About preference presets 690Appearance 692Applying track and event colors 694Where are the settings stored? 697Key commands 698Background 699Setting up Key Commands 712Setting up tool modifier keys 713Index
NUENDO 1 – 10 About this manual Welcome! This is the Operation Manual for Steinberg’s Nuendo 3. Here you will find detailed information about virtually all features and functions in the program. How to use the manuals and the Help When it comes to manuals, different users look for information in dif- ferent ways, depending on their previous knowledge and personal preferences. You may be looking for a complete description of a pro- cedure, you may just be trying to find a certain function in the program, you may have found a function in the program and want it explained – or you may simply want to learn it all! Therefore, there are several ways to enter the documentation and get help: • Use the Table of Contents to browse the manual or the Help and find the section you need to know more about. In the pdf version of the Operation Manual (and in the help) you can click directly on a chapter or section to go there. • Use the Index to look up specific features and functions. Again, in the pdf (and the help) you can click directly on the page number for an index entry or on the help list index entry to go to there. The help also allows you to perform a free search of any term. • In the program you will find Help buttons in most dialogs – click to get information about that specific dialog. Similarly, you can press [F1] to get information about the current window. • If you want information about a specific menu item, use the Menu Reference section in the Help. All main menu items in Nuendo are listed and explained there. • Finally, you could read the manuals from start to end if you like. See below for a description of all parts of the Nuendo documentation package.