Steinberg Nuendo 4 Operation Manual

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Surround sound
Additional parameters (Standard mode)
Center Level.
This determines how center source signals should be reproduced by the 
front speakers. With a value of 100%, the center speaker will provide the 
center source. With a value of 0%, the center source will be provided by 
the ghost image created by the left and right speakers. Other values will 
produce a mix between these two methods.
Divergence Controls.
The three divergence controls determine the attenuation curves used 
when...

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Surround sound
Under Windows you can also export a 5.1 surround mix 
to a file in Windows Media Audio Pro format.
This is an encoding format tailored for 5.1 surround – see “Windows 
Media Audio Pro files (Windows only)” on page 442.
You can also export a surround mix to a Dolby Digital 
AC3 file or a DTS file, if you have the Steinberg Dolby Dig-
ital Encoder or the Steinberg DTS Encoder (both optional, 
separate plug-ins) installed in your system.
Please go to www.steinberg.net for details.
For...

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Automation 

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Automation
Introduction
In essence, automation means finding and recording, for 
each and every moment of your project, the right values for 
a particular mixer parameter. When you create your final 
mix, you won’t have to worry about having to adjust this 
particular parameter control yourself – Nuendo will do it 
for you.
Automation is a key feature when mixing audio data in 
complex, multi-track projects. Whether you want to mix a 
music project or if you are performing a feature-film re-re-...

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Automation
These buttons light up as soon as there is a single en-
abled Read or Write button on any channel/track within 
your project.
When “All Automation to Read/Write Status” is dis-
abled and you click on one of these buttons, all Read/
Write buttons on all tracks/channels are enabled.
When “All Automation to Read/Write Status” is enabled, this means that 
at least one of the Read/Write buttons on one of the channels of your 
project is enabled.
When “All Automation to Read/Write Status” is...

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Automation
Editing curves on automation tracks offers a graphical 
overview in relation to the track contents and the time po-
sition.
This makes it easy to quickly change parameter values at specific points, 
without having to activate playback. For example, this method gives you a 
good overview if you have a voice-over or a dialog on one track and a 
music bed on another track, the level of which needs to be lowered by a 
specific amount every time the dialog occurs.
By using write automation in...

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Automation
The Automation panel
The Automation panel is a floating window, similar to the 
Mixer and Transport panel. You can leave it open while 
you work – the Project window will always have the focus.
To open the Automation panel, open the Project menu and 
select the Automation Panel option or click the Automa-
tion Panel button on the Nuendo toolbar.
The Automation panel gives you access to all automation 
options in Nuendo. By default, all seven sections are dis-
played.
You can change the...

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Automation
When no automation data exists for a particular parame-
ter, and you perform an automation pass for this parame-
ter, its value at the moment when you start the automation 
pass is saved as the initial value. When you punch-out of 
the automation pass, it is this initial value to which the pa-
rameter will return.
This has one very important consequence: As soon as the 
initial value is set, the corresponding parameter is fully au-
tomated, on this track, at any given timecode position of...

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Automation
When you select one or more break-points of an auto-
mation curve with the Arrow tool and press [Delete] or 
[Backspace], no gap is created.
Instead, the selected break-points are deleted. The curve between the 
deleted points is replaced by a new line connecting the two points to the 
left and right of the deleted points.
The “Terminator” setting
You can “force” any automation track into using virgin ter-
ritory, by defining any automation break-point on the auto-
mation curve as the...

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Touch
Typically, you would use Touch mode in situations where 
you want to make a change lasting only a few seconds to 
an already set up parameter.
As the name implies, Touch will write automation data only 
for as long as you actually touch a parameter control – 
punch-out occurs as soon as you release the control.
After punch-out, the control will return to the previously 
set value. The Return Time setting (see “Return Time” on 
page 229) determines how long it takes for the parameter...