Steinberg Nuendo 4 Operation Manual

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If you don’t want the plug-in control panels to open every 
time you load a plug-in, open the Preferences dialog 
(VST–Plug-ins page) and deactivate “Open Effect Editor 
After Loading it”.
You can open a plug-in panel at any time by clicking the “e” button of the 
corresponding plug-in slot.
4.If you now look in the Project window track list, you will 
find that a dedicated folder for the chosen instrument has 
been added, within a “VST Instruments” folder (where...

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The second button is used to activate or deactivate the 
VST Instrument.
When an instrument is selected from the instrument pop-up menu, it is 
activated automatically, i. e. the on/off control lights up in blue.
For some instruments you may also bypass the instrument by clicking the 
Bypass button to the right of the on/off button.
Click the Edit (“e”) button to open the control panel for 
the VST Instrument. 
Below the Edit button is a small LED that will light...

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Restrictions
Instrument tracks have no MIDI Sends.
MIDI volume and pan cannot be controlled (there is no 
“MIDI fader” tab in the Inspector); instead, the VST Instru-
ment volume and pan are used (via the “Channel” tab in the 
Inspector). This applies also to the respective automation 
parameters.
ÖDue to there being only one volume and pan control for 
the instrument track, the Mute button will mute the com-
plete track including the VST Instrument. (As opposed...

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Exporting instrument tracks as MIDI file
You can also export instrument tracks as standard MIDI 
files, see “Exporting MIDI files” on page 498.
Please note: 
As there is no MIDI patch information in an instrument 
track, this information is missing in the resulting MIDI file.
If you activate “Export Inspector Volume/Pan”, volume 
and pan information of the VST Instrument will be con-
verted and written into the MIDI file as controller data.
Comparison
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In the instrument track, however, you have one track that 
includes the MIDI data, the VST Instrument and the chan-
nel you wish to automate. Therefore, the information on 
the automation track will move with the MIDI part.
For more information on track automation, see the chapter 
“Automation” on page 213.
What do I need? Instrument channel 
or Instrument track?
If you need a particular sound without knowing which 
VST Instrument to use, create an instrument...

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3.Click the Freeze button for the VST Instrument (the 
button to the left of the VST Instrument slot), or the Freeze 
button in the Inspector for the instrument track.
The Freeze Instrument Options dialog appears with the 
following options for the Freeze operation:
Select “Freeze Instrument Only” if you don’t want to 
freeze any insert effects for the VST Instrument channels.
If you are using insert effects on the VST Instrument channel(s) and want 
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Using presets for VSTi configuration
About track presets and VST presets
Track presets and VST presets allow you to quickly set up 
tracks or instruments with all the settings required for the 
sound you want. Nuendo provides various types of pre-
sets for various purposes. Two of these are of relevance 
for VST Instruments:
Track presets for instrument tracks store the parameter 
settings of a VST Instrument together with all track/chan-
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4.The Presets browser is opened. It contains three sec-
tions (Browser, Search & Viewer and Filter). By default, only 
the Search & Viewer section is shown. Note that it may take 
a moment before all available sounds appear in the Viewer.
The Viewer section to the right displays all track presets 
for instrument tracks and all VST 3 presets.
Track presets for audio tracks, MIDI tracks or “multi” track setups are not 
displayed. The preset icon to the left of the...

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4.Click in the Programs field in the Inspector.
The Preset browser is opened.
5.Step through the presets during playback to find the 
sound you are looking for.
6.Double-click the desired preset to load it and close 
the preset browser.
You can also open the preset browser by clicking in the 
preset name field in the the control panel of a VST Instru-
ment or by clicking the SoundFrame button in the control 
panel and selecting “Load Preset…” from the pop-up...

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About earlier VST Instrument presets
You can use any VST 2.x Instrument plug-ins in Nuendo. 
Installing VST Instrument plug-ins works the same way as 
for audio effects – see “Installing additional VST plug-ins” 
on page 186.
When you install a VST 2 instrument, any previously 
stored presets for it will be of the old FX program/bank 
(.fxp/.fxb) standard. You can import such files, but the pre-
set handling will be slightly different. You will not be able 
to...