Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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The Mixer
•The EQ section, either with value sliders (“EQs”) or as 
numerical settings with a curve display (“EQs curve”).
These two views have exactly the same controls but different graphic lay-
outs. The EQ section is also available in the Channel Settings window. 
For EQ parameter descriptions, see 
“Making EQ settings” on page 164.
•The Sends section, with 8 effect pop-up menus and 
send level value sliders.
The sends can also be found in the Inspector and the Channel Settings 
window, see...

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The Mixer
Setting pan in the Mixer
For each audio-related channel with at least a stereo out-
put configuration you will find a miniature pan control at 
the top of the channel strip. This control is different for 
stereo and surround configurations.
Panning channels with a stereo output configuration
The pan control at the top of stereo audio channel strips is 
used to position a channel in the stereo spectrum.
The stereo pan control
The following applies when using the pan control: 
•To make fine...

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The Mixer
About the “Stereo Pan Law” setting
In the Project Setup dialog you will find a pop-up menu 
named “Stereo Pan Law”, which allows you to select one 
of several pan modes. These modes are required for power 
compensation. Without power compensation, the power of 
the sum of the left and right side is higher (louder) if a 
channel is panned center than if it is panned left or right. 
To remedy this, the Stereo Pan Law setting allows you to 
attenuate signals panned center, by -6, -4.5 or -3...

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The Mixer
The Channel Settings window in its default configuration 
is used for the following operations:
• Apply equalization, see “Making EQ settings” on page 164.
• Apply send effects, see “Audio effects” on page 195.
• Apply insert effects, see “Audio effects” on page 195.
• Copy channel settings and apply them to another channel, see 
“Copying settings between audio channels” on page 166.
Changing channels in the Channel Settings window
You can view any channel’s settings from a single win-
dow....

165
The Mixer
Below we describe how to set up EQ in the Channel Set-
tings window, but the parameters are the same in the Mixer 
and Inspector (apart from the presets and reset function, 
which are not available in the Mixer).
The Equalizers + Curve pane in the Channel Settings win-
dow consists of four EQ modules with parameter sliders, 
an EQ curve display and some additional functions at the 
top.
Using the parameter controls
1.Activate an EQ module by clicking its On/Off button.
Although the modules...

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The Mixer
EQ bypass
Whenever one or several EQ modules are activated for a 
channel, the EQ button lights up in green in the Mixer 
channel strip, Inspector (Equalizer and Channel sections), 
track list, and Channel Settings window (top right corner 
of the EQ section).
You can also bypass all EQ modules. This is useful, as it 
allows you to compare the sound with and without EQ. 
Proceed as follows:
•In the Mixer, the track list and in the Channel section in 
the Inspector, click the EQs state...

167
The Mixer
Proceed as follows:
1.In the Mixer, select the channel you want to copy set-
tings from.
2.On the common panel, click the “Copy First Selected 
Channel’s Settings” button.
3.Select the channel(s) you want to copy the settings to 
and click the “Paste Settings to Selected Channels” but
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ton (below the “Copy First Selected Channel Settings” 
button).
The settings are applied to the selected channel(s).
You can copy channel settings between different types of 
channels, but only those...

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The Mixer
Saving and loading Mixer settings
It is possible to save complete Mixer settings for all or all se-
lected audio-related channels in the Mixer. These can later 
be loaded into any project. Channel settings are saved as 
Mixer settings files. These have the file extension “.vmx”. 
Saving selected channels or all Mixer settings
Right-clicking somewhere in the Mixer panel or in the 
Channel Settings window brings up the context menu 
where the following Save options can be found:
•“Save...

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The Mixer
•In the Inspector, you can select input and output busses 
using the Input and Output Routing pop-up menus.
•In the Mixer, you can select busses in the routing panel 
at the top of each channel strip.
For more information about the routing panel, see “Normal vs. extended channel strips” on page 154.
•If you press [Shift]-[Alt]/[Option] and select an input or 
output bus in the track list or the routing panel in the Mixer, 
it will be chosen for all selected channels.
This makes it easy to...

170
The Mixer
ÖYou can also create sends that can be routed to other 
output channels. This can be useful when creating quick 
headphone mixes from the current monitor mix or to create 
a downmix of a surround mix. This is done by creating a 
send from the current monitor output bus, assigned to an
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other output bus connected to a headphone amplifier.
Using group channels
You can route the outputs from multiple audio channels to 
a group. This enables you to control the channel levels us
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ing one...