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•In the Project Mixer, the Studio Sends are accessed by 
choosing the Studio Sends option from the View options 
pop-up menu in each channel or by clicking the star icon 
(“Show Studio Sends”) on the common panel of the ex
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tended Project Mixer.
The Studio Sends view in the Project Mixer
•In the Inspector, a Studio Sends tab can be found. This 
displays all Studio Sends for the selected track.
Please note that not all Inspector sections are available by default. To 
show/hide a section,...

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To copy fader and pan information from the main mix, pro-
ceed as follows:
1.In the Project Mixer, select all the channels that you 
wish to copy settings from.
The following operations affect only selected channels.
2.In the Control Room Mixer, right-click anywhere on a 
Studio channel strip to open the context menu that has the 
Studio’s name as a submenu.
This submenu contains all the Studio Send functions for that Studio. If 
you open the context menu outside of a Studio channel...

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Using Studio Sends from outputs
Each output also has Studio Sends. Studio Sends from 
the Main Mix output can be used to route the main mix in
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stantly to the Studio output. 
Any level changes made to the main mix are reflected in 
the signal sent by the Studio Send. Setting the level lower 
than 0
 dB can leave headroom for “more me” signals in the 
Studio channel output.
Post-Fader Studio Sends
It is also possible to use the Studio Sends as post-fader 
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The Control Room Overview allows you to see the signal 
flow through the Control Room Mixer. All the routing func
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tions of the Control Room Mixer are duplicated in the 
Overview.
Open the Control Room Mixer and the Control Room Over-
view windows side by side. As you operate the controls in 
the Mixer you will see the various pale squares light up in 
the Overview, indicating changes in signal flow. You can 
also click the squares in the Overview and watch the con
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trols in the Mixer...

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About this chapter
Nuendo comes with a number of effect plug-ins included. 
This chapter contains general details about how to assign, 
use and organize effect plug-ins. The effects and their pa
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rameters are described in the separate PDF document 
“Plug-in Reference”.
Overview
There are three ways to use audio effects in Nuendo:
•As insert effects.
An insert effect is inserted into the signal chain of an audio channel, which 
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However, be aware that this can lead to a situation where 
you added more plug-ins on “transport stop” than the sys
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tem can handle on playback. Therefore, you should always 
find the passage with the largest number of events playing 
simultaneously to make sure that your system offers the 
required performance.
ÖActivating this option can increase your system perfor-
mance a lot in certain projects, but it also makes it more 
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As you can see, the last two insert slots (for any channel) 
are post-EQ and post-fader. Post-fader slots are best 
suited for insert effects where you do not want the level to 
be changed after the effect, such as dithering (see 
“Dith-
ering” on page 201) and maximizers – both typically used 
as insert effects for output busses.
ÖApplying several effects on several channels may be 
too much for your CPU to handle! If you want to use the 
same effect with the same settings on several...

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•To bypass all inserts for a track, click the global bypass 
button. 
This button can be found at the top of the Inserts section in the Inspector 
or the Channel Settings window. It lights up in yellow to indicate that the 
inserts of this track are bypassed. In the track list and the channel strip in 
the Mixer, the Inserts State button will also light up in yellow.
Insert effects in the channel overview
If the “Channel” section is selected in the Inspector or the 
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Using the Routing Editor
If the Effect Routing pop-up menu does not contain the 
configuration that you need, you can use the Routing Editor. 
It allows you to freely set up the routing for the individual 
channels. For example, if you want to apply an effect only to 
the right speaker, you can choose the Mono configuration 
from the pop-up menu and use the Routing Editor to move 
the connection from the left speaker (L) to the right (R).
•To open the Routing Editor, select “Open...