Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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VST Connections – Studio tab
The Studio tab of the VST Connections window is where 
you configure the inputs and outputs for the Control Room 
Mixer. You can also enable or disable the Control Room 
and open the Control Room Mixer. The channel width of 
the Control Room channel is shown in the Configuration 
field on the top right of the tab. For more information about 
the VST Connections window, see the chapter 
“VST Con-
nections” on page 27. 
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Phones
The Phones channel is used by the engineer in the control 
room for checking cue mixes and as another option for lis
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tening to the mix or external inputs on a pair of headphones. 
Furthermore, the Phones channel can be used for preview
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ing, see “Control Room preferences” on page 190. It is not 
intended for cue mixes that performers use while recording.
Studios
Studio channels are intended for sending cue mixes to 
performers in the studio during recording. They have talk
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Switching between monitors that share device ports will 
be seamless, providing any downmix of multi-channel au
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dio to stereo if needed. Only one monitor set can be active 
at a time.
If your scenario does not require you to assign ports to 
several Monitor channels, it is recommended to activate 
the “Exclusive Device Ports for Monitor Channels” option 
in the Preferences dialog (VST–Control Room page). This 
way you can make sure that you do not accidentally assign 
ports to...

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The Control Room Mixer
The Control Room Mixer is where you can access all the features of the Control Room. It is designed to display informa-
tion and controls only for the channels you have defined in the VST Connections window. For example, if you have not 
defined any Studio channels, they will not appear in the Control Room Mixer. If you want to see all possible channels, use 
the Control Room Overview instead (see 
“The Control Room Overview” on page 193).
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The Control Room Mixer has a variety of controls, some 
that are similar to the Project Mixer and some that are 
unique to Control Room operations. In the following each 
control is briefly described:
1.Input Phase
Each external input and Monitor speaker output has an Input Phase re-versal switch. When lit, all audio paths within the channel have their 
phase reversed.
2.Input Gain
Each external input, Monitor speaker output and the Talkback input has 
an Input Gain control. When an...

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21.Channel labels
These labels reflect the names entered in the VST Connections window.
22.Talkback Enable to Studio and talkback amount
In order for Talkback signals to be routed to a Studio, the Talkback En-
able to Studio button must be lit. Clicking on it turns it on or off. When 
Talkback Enable is deactivated, the Talkback DIM setting has no effect 
on this output.
 
The value below the button controls the amount of Talkback signal fed to 
the output of each Studio.
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37.Open MixConvert Settings
Clicking on this tab opens the MixConvert plug-in used to downmix 
multi-channel signals for monitoring. With this plug-in you can modify the 
settings for each downmix preset. For more information about the Mix
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Convert plug-in see the chapter “Surround sound” on page 226 and the 
separate PDF document “Plug-In Reference”. Note that you can also double-click in the center of the speaker solo area 
to open the MixConvert plug-in.
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If you do not wish to see full sized meters but still want 
some indication of signal activity, activate the “Signal 
Presence Indicators” option in the Preferences dialog 
(VST–Control Room page). They will be displayed next to 
the input selection buttons and indicate signal presence 
for all inputs.
Control Room Mixer channels with active Signal Presence indicators
Inserts for external inputs
Each external input has its own set of six inserts. By click-
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Activating several monitor sources at the same time
By activating several monitor sources, you will hear the 
sum of the selected busses or group channels. For exam
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ple, this is useful to listen to the final mix without having to 
route the individual submixes to the Main Mix first. There 
are two ways to achieve this:
•Activate the “Multiple Monitor Sources” button and suc-
cessively click on the monitor sources that you want to in-
clude. 
•Hold down [Shift] and click on the monitor...

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Control Room preferences
There are several preferences for the Control Room Mixer. 
These are found in the Preferences dialog (VST–Control 
Room page).
Most of these preferences deal with what options are visi-
ble in the Control Room Mixer. This allows you to custom-
ize the layout of the Mixer and only have the controls 
visible that you use the most.
The other preferences have the following functionality:
•Show Control Room Volume in Transport Panel
This option makes the small fader...