Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual
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NUENDO Surround sound 12 – 301 Window overview VST Connections In this window you can add input and output busses. There is a com- plete selection of common surround configurations available, as well as standard mono or stereo busses. The Bus Name column contains the currently configured busses as they will appear in the input and output routing pop-ups in the mixer. VST Connections showing the Outputs page. The outputs selected for the channels in the busses.Click here to add a bus. The currently configured busses.
NUENDO 12 – 302 Surround sound Surround in the mixer Surround sound is supported throughout every stage of the signal path in the Nuendo mixer, from input to output bus. Each bus or audio channel can carry up to 12 surround speaker channels. In the output channel section of the mixer you can control the master levels for configured busses. The level meter for a bus (or channel in the mixer) that carries multiple surround channels will show multiple level bars, one for each speaker channel in the surround configuration. Here, the SurroundPanner is used for positioning the sound “dynamically” in the surround field. Using the Output Routing pop-up, audio channels can be routed directly to surround channels.
NUENDO Surround sound 12 – 303 Operations Setting up the surround configuration Output bus configuration Before you can start working with surround sound, you have to config- ure a surround output bus, through which all the speaker channels of the chosen surround format are routed. How to add and set up bus- ses is described in detail on page 15. Here is a brief run through: 1.Open the VST Connections window from the Devices menu. 2.Click the “Outputs” tab. 3.Click the “Add Bus” button and select one of the preset formats from the Configuration pop-up (see below). The new bus appears with the ports visible. 4.By clicking in the Device Port column you can now route the speaker channels to the desired outputs of your audio hardware. 5.If you like, rename the output bus by clicking its name and typing in a new one. This name will appear in the mixer and on routing pop-ups.
NUENDO 12 – 304 Surround sound The following surround configurations are included: Format Description LRCS LRCS refers to Left Right Center Surround, where the surround speaker is center-rear positioned. This is the original surround format that first appeared as Dolby Stereo in cinema and later as the home cinema format Dolby ProLogic. 5.0 This is the same as 5.1 (see below) but without the LFE channel. The LFE channel is optional in 5.1 and if you don’t plan to use it, you might find this option more convenient. 5.1 This format is one of the most popular in cinema and DVD. In its various cinema and DVD encoding implementations (established by different manufacturers) it is referred to as Dolby Digital, AC-3, DTS and MPEG 2 Multichannel. 5.1 has one center speaker (mainly used for speech), main left and right speakers, and two surround speakers (mostly for sound effects). Additionally a sub- channel (LFE – Low Frequency Effects) with lower bandwidth is used for special low frequency effects. LRC Same as LRCS, but without the surround speaker channel. LRS Left-Right-Surround, with the surround speaker positioned at center-rear. LC R S LC R SR SL LCR SR SL+ L CR L R S
NUENDO Surround sound 12 – 305 LRC+Lfe Same as LRC but with an Lfe sub-channel added. LRS+Lfe Same as LRS but with an Lfe sub-channel added. Quadro The original Quadraphonic format for music, with one speaker in each corner. This format was intended for vinyl record players. LRCS+Lfe Same as LRCS but with an Lfe sub-channel added. Quadro+Lfe Same as Quadro but with an Lfe sub-channel added. Format Description L CR + L R S + LR SR SL L CR S + LR SR SL+
NUENDO 12 – 306 Surround sound 6.0 Cine A Left-Right-Center front speaker arrangement with 3 (Left-Right- Center) surround channels. 6.0 Music This uses 2 (Left/Right) front channels with Left and Right sur- round channels and Left and Right Side channels. 6.1 Cine Same as 6.0 Cine but with an Lfe sub-channel added. 6.1 Music Same as 6.1 Cine but with an Lfe sub-channel added. 7.0 Cine A Left, Mid-left, Center, Mid-right, Right front speaker arrange- ment with Left and Right surround channels. Format Description LC R SR SL S L R SR SL LS RS L CR SR SL S+ LR SR SL LSRS + LC R SR SLLC RC
NUENDO Surround sound 12 – 307 7.0 Music Same as 6.0 Music but with a Center front channel added. 7.1 Cine Same as 7.0 Cine but with an Lfe sub-channel added. 7.1 Music Same as 7.0 Music but with an Lfe sub-channel added. 8.0 Cine Same as 7.0 Cine but with the addition of a Center Surround channel. 8.0 Music Same as 7.0 Music but with the addition of a Center Surround channel. Format Description L R SR SL LS RSC LC R SR SLLC RC + L R SR SL LS RS C + LC R SR SLLC RC S LR SR SL LS RS C S
NUENDO 12 – 308 Surround sound Child busses Essentially a child bus is a bus within a (“bigger”) bus. Typically you may want stereo child busses within your surround bus – this allows you to route stereo tracks directly to a stereo speaker pair within the surround bus. You may also want to add child busses in other sur- round formats (with fewer channels than the “parent bus”). Once you have created a surround bus, you can add one or several child busses to it by right-clicking (Windows) or [Ctrl]-clicking (Mac) the bus and selecting “Add Child Bus”. This is described in detail on page 20. 8.1 Cine Same as 8.0 Cine but with an Lfe sub-channel added. 8.1 Music Same as 8.0 Music but with an Lfe sub-channel added 10.2 This is an experimental format with ten surrounding speakers and two Lfe channels (a combination of two 5.1, one at the top and one at the bottom of the room). Format Description LC R SR SLLC RC S + LR RS LS SLC SSR + L C R TRR TRLTFC TFR TFL SLSR ++
NUENDO Surround sound 12 – 309 Input bus configuration To work with surround sound in Nuendo, it is often not necessary to configure a surround format input bus. You can record audio files via standard inputs, and easily route the resulting audio channels to sur- round outputs at any stage. You can also directly import multi-channel files of specific surround format onto audio tracks of the same format. You should add a surround input bus in the following circumstances: •You have existing audio material in a specific surround format, and you wish to transfer this material into Nuendo as a single, multi-channel file. •You wish to record a surround setup “live”. In both cases, you can add and configure an input bus of the format you wish to use in the VST Connections dialog so that each input on your audio hardware is routed to the corresponding speaker channel. To add an input bus, use the same general method as described on page 303, but select the “Inputs” tab instead.
NUENDO 12 – 310 Surround sound Routing channels directly to surround channels If you want to place an audio source in one separate speaker channel only, you can route it directly to that speaker channel. This is useful for pre-mixed material or multi-channel recordings that don’t require pan- ning. 1.Open the mixer and locate the channel you wish to route. 2.From the output routing pop-up menu, select the corresponding sur- round speaker channel. •If a stereo audio channel is routed directly to speaker channel, the left/ right channels will be mixed to mono. The pan control for the audio channel governs the balance between the left and right channel in the resulting mono mix. Center pan will produce a mix of equal proportion. Routing channels using Child busses Child busses provide a way to route stereo (or multi-channel) audio channels to specific speaker channels in a surround configuration. The most obvious application of a child bus is when you wish to add a stereo channel to two specific left/right surround speaker channels. If you have added a child bus within a surround bus (see page 308), it appears as a submenu item within the surround bus on the output routing pop-up menu. Select this to route a stereo audio channel di- rectly to that stereo speaker pair in the surround bus.