Steinberg Nuendo 4 Operation Manual

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Track Presets
The programs of VST2 plug-ins also can be converted to 
VST3 presets. For more information about plug-ins, 
please refer to the separate manual “Nuendo Expansion 
Kit – Cubase Music Tools for Nuendo 4”.
Browsing for presets
Using the Sound Browser
When browsing track presets, the quickest way is to use 
the Sound Browser, as it is set up specifically to display 
track and VST presets. 
To open this browser, select “Open Sound Browser” on 
the Media menu.
The Sound Browser.
In the Sound...

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Browser section
In addition to the Browse Presets section, you can click 
“Show Location” to open the Browser section. It is similar 
to the one in the MediaBay (see  “Browsing for media files” 
on  page 316 ), but only necessary if you want to take an 
explicit look at the contents of Presets subfolders, as you 
can’t move up to other folders.
The Add Track dialog for a MIDI track with all sections open.
When you select a MIDI or instrument track preset (or a 
VST preset), you can see...

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Creating a track preset
A track preset is created from an existing audio, MIDI or 
instrument track – or several of these tracks. Proceed as 
follows:
1.Select one or more tracks in the Project window. 
If several are selected, all of them are stored in one combined multi track 
preset, see “Multi track presets” on page 330.
2.Right-click one of the selected tracks in the track list to 
open the context menu and select “Create Track Preset”.
The Save Track Preset dialog opens. The...

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Creating one or more audio, MIDI or instrument 
tracks with the Add Track function
1.To create one or more new tracks from a track preset, 
proceed as if adding a new track by selecting the corre-
sponding option on the context menu (or by using the key 
command). 
A dialog opens, in this example the “Add Audio track” dialog:
If you want to create more than one track of this type, 
enter the number in the Count field.
2.Click “Browse Presets” to open the Browse Presets 
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3.Select a track or VST preset from the list to the right.
At this point you can preview selected presets, see “Pre-
viewing track or VST presets before applying” on page 336.
4.Click outside the browser to apply the selected preset 
or click the Reset button below the list to return to the un-
changed track.
ÖOnce the track preset is applied, you cannot undo the 
changes!
In the Inspector, you can see which preset was applied 
last, in this example “Jazz Bazz”.
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3.Select an instrument track preset or VST preset and 
click OK. 
The VST instrument and its settings (but no inserts, EQs and modifiers) 
of the existing track are overwritten with the data of the track preset. The 
previous VST instrument for this instrument track is removed and the new 
VST instrument with its settings is set up for the instrument track. Note 
that the VST instrument of an instrument track does not show up in the 
VST Instrument window but only in the Plug-In...

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Inserts and EQ settings from track 
presets
Instead of handling complete track presets, it is also pos-
sible to apply settings for Inserts or Equalizers from track 
presets.
This can be done via the Inspector or via the Channel set-
tings window.
In the Inspector, select e. g. an Instrument track and 
click the SoundFrame button on the Inserts or Equalizers 
tab to open the presets pop-up menu. There, select the 
option “From Track Preset…”.
In the Channel Settings window for a MIDI...

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Track Quick Controls 

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Track Quick Controls
Introduction
Nuendo can give you instant access to up to eight para-
meters of each audio track, MIDI track or instrument track. 
This is done with the aid of the so-called quick controls, 
set up on the Quick Controls Inspector tab for these 
tracks.
The Quick Controls tab can be used as a kind of track 
control center, an area in which your most important pa-
rameters are assembled in one place. This saves you from 
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Replacing a quick control assignment
To replace a parameter assignment with a different pa-
rameter, click on the corresponding quick control slot and 
double-click on a different parameter in the browser pop-
up menu list.
The parameter assignment in this slot is changed.
Removing a quick control assignment
To remove a parameter from a slot, you have the following 
possibilities:
Double-click the parameter name to select it and press 
the [Delete] or [Backspace] key. Confirm...