Steinberg Nuendo 4 Operation Manual

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Monitoring
In this context, “monitoring” means listening to the input 
signal during recording. There are three fundamentally dif-
ferent ways to do this: via Nuendo, externally (by listening 
to the signal before it reaches Nuendo), or by using ASIO 
Direct Monitoring (which is a combination of both other 
methods – see below).
Monitoring via Nuendo
If you monitor via Nuendo, the input signal is mixed in with 
the audio playback. The advantage of this is that you can 
adjust the monitoring...

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ASIO Direct Monitoring
If your audio hardware is ASIO 2.0 compatible, it may sup-
port ASIO Direct Monitoring. In this mode, the actual mon-
itoring is done in the audio hardware by sending the input 
signal back out again. However, monitoring is controlled 
from Nuendo. This means that the audio hardware’s direct 
monitoring feature can be turned on or off automatically by 
Nuendo, just as when using internal monitoring.
ÖIf you are using RME Audio Hammerfall DSP audio 
hardware, make sure...

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Recording overlapping events
The basic rule for audio tracks is that each track can play 
back a single audio event at a time. This means that if two 
or more events are overlapping, only one of them will be 
heard at any given time.
What happens when you record overlapping events 
(record in an area where there are already events on the 
track) depends on the Linear Record Mode setting on the 
Transport panel:
In “Normal” or “Merge” mode, recording where some-
thing has already been...

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Create Events mode (Preferences)
When “Audio Cycle Record Mode” is set to “Create 
Events” in the Preferences (Record-Audio page), the fol-
lowing will happen when you record audio in cycle mode:
One continuous audio file is created during the entire 
recording process. 
For each recorded lap of the cycle, one audio event is 
created.
The events will have the name of the audio file plus the text “Take *”, 
where “*” indicates the number of the take.
The last take (the last recorded lap) will...

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Recording “Take” regions in the Pool window.
To play back the different “takes”, proceed as follows:
1.In the Project window, right-click the event that was 
created during cycle recording.
The Quick menu appears.
2.Select the “Set To Region” menu item.
A submenu appears with the takes you recorded during cycle record.
3.Now you can select any of the takes from the submenu 
and it will replace the previous take event in the Project 
window.
Use this method to listen through the various takes. Select...

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5.To turn off the lane display mode for the track, click the 
Lane Display Type button in the track list and select “Lanes 
Off”.
If the button is hidden, you can bring it to view in the Track Controls Set-
tings dialog – see “Customizing track controls” on page 507.
The Lane Display Type button.
Recording with effects
Normally you record the audio signals “dry” and add ef-
fects non-destructively during playback as described in 
the chapter “Audio effects” on page 168. However, Nu-
endo...

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5.Pull down the View Options pop-up menu for the input 
channel and select “Inserts”.
The View Options pop-up menu is opened by clicking the arrow button 
between the fader panel and the extended panel.
Now the extended panel for the input channel shows the 
insert slots.
6.Click on an insert slot and select an effect from the 
pop-up menu that appears.
As you see, the included effects are sorted into submenus – you will find 
the SoftClipper effect on the “Distortion” submenu.
The effect is...

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Naming MIDI ports in Nuendo
MIDI inputs and outputs are often displayed with unneces-
sarily long and complicated names. However, you can re-
name your MIDI ports to more descriptive names:
1.Open the Device Setup dialog from the Devices menu.
2.Select the MIDI Port Setup item in the Device list.
The available MIDI inputs and outputs are listed. Under Windows, which 
device to choose depends on your system.
3.To change the name of a MIDI port, click in the “Show 
As” column and type in a new...

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3.Use the channel pop-up menu to select a MIDI chan-
nel for the track.
If you set the track to MIDI channel “Any”, each MIDI 
event on the track will be sent out on the channel stored in 
the event itself.
In other words, the MIDI material will be played back on the channel(s) 
used by the MIDI input device (the MIDI instrument you play during re-
cording).
Selecting a sound
You can select sounds from within Nuendo by instructing 
the program to send Program Change and Bank Select 
messages...

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Recording MIDI in cycle mode
When you record MIDI in cycle mode, the result depends 
on which Cycle Record mode is selected on the Transport 
panel:
Cycle Record mode: Mix (MIDI)
For each completed lap, everything you record is added to 
what was previously recorded in the same part. This is 
useful for building up rhythm patterns, for example. 
Record a hi-hat part on the first lap, the bass drum part on 
the second lap etc. 
Cycle Record mode: Overwrite (MIDI)
As soon as you play a MIDI...