Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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Direct Routing
In large postproduction projects, a lot of time and effort 
has to go into the routing of individual tracks, group chan
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nels, etc. The Direct Routing features of Nuendo help you 
to set up your routing easily and quickly. They allow you to 
switch the destination of channels “on the fly” (for exam
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ple, if a track containing sound effects is temporarily to be 
routed to the dialogue stem), and to create different mix 
versions (such as full and M+E) in one go, thus saving...

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3.Select all the channels for which you want to set up 
the same destinations (e.
 g. all audio tracks, or all groups).
•The Direct Routing settings can be applied to all se-
lected channels at once. To do this, keep [Shift]-[Alt]/[Op-
tion] pressed when making a selection or activating a 
button.
4.Open the Output Routing pop-up menu for the first 
(topmost) destination slot and choose the main output for 
the selected channels.
The main output should have the widest channel configuration...

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ÖIn order to apply the following settings to all selected 
channels at once, keep [Shift]-[Alt]/[Option] pressed 
when making a selection or activating a button.
3.Activate the “Summing Mode On/Off” buttons for the 
selected channels.
ÖIn the Key Commands dialog (Mixer category), you can 
also set up a key command for the summing mode (see 
the chapter 
“Key commands” on page 580).
4.Activate all the outputs that you want to route the se-
lected channels to.
Automatic upmixing and...

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MIDI-specific procedures
This section describes basic procedures for MIDI chan-
nels in the Mixer.
MIDI channel strips
The MIDI channel strips allow you to control volume and 
pan in your MIDI instrument (provided that the instrument 
is set up to receive the corresponding MIDI messages). 
The settings here are also available in the Inspector for 
MIDI tracks.
Options for extended MIDI channel strips
When using the extended view (see “Normal vs. extended 
channel strips” on page 154), the...

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Every MIDI channel has its own Channel Settings window.
Utilities
Link/Unlink channels
This function is used to “link” selected channels in the 
Mixer so that any change applied to one channel will be 
mirrored by all channels in that group. Only channels of 
the same type (audio-related or MIDI) can be linked with 
each other. You can link as many channels as you like, and 
you can also create as many groups of linked channels as 
you like. To link channels in the Mixer, proceed as...

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VST Mixer Diagrams
Channel Objects 

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Control Room Objects 

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Control Room 

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Control Room
Virtual Control Room – The concept
The concept behind the Control Room features in Nuendo 
is to divide the studio environment into the performing area 
(studio) and the engineer/producer area (control room) 
common to traditional studios. Previously, an analog con
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sole or some method of speaker control and monitor rout-
ing was necessary to provide this functionality to the DAW 
environment.
With its Control Room Mixer and Control Room Overview 
features, Nuendo provides all the...