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The Freeze Instrument Options dialog opens with the fol-
lowing options for the Freeze operation:
•Select “Freeze Instrument Only” if you do not want to 
freeze any insert effects for the VST instrument channels.
Use this if you are using insert effects on the VST instrument channel(s) 
and want to be able to edit, replace, or remove these after freezing the 
VST instrument.
•Select “Freeze Instrument and Channels” if you want to 
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As described in the chapter “Audio effects” on page 195, 
there are two types of VST presets that can be used: the 
VST 2 standard FXB/FXP files and the VST 3 preset stan
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dard with the extension “.vstpreset”. Some of the included 
VST instruments use the VST 2 preset standard, and oth
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ers use the VST 3 standard. 
All VST 2 instruments can import FXB/FXP files and also 
convert them to the VST 3 standard. Once converted, you 
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Using the “Choose Track Preset” dialog
1.Right-click the track list to open the context menu and 
on the Add Track submenu select “Add Track Using Track 
Preset…”.
The Choose Track Preset dialog opens. It contains the same sections as 
the Presets browser.
2.Select a preset from the Results list.
The Results section of the Choose Track Preset dialog displays all pre-
set sounds for all track types and VST instruments.
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7.When you have found the preset that you want, dou-
ble-click on it (or click outside the Presets browser).
The preset is applied.
•To return to the preset that was selected when you 
opened the Presets browser, click the “Revert to Last Set
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ting” button.
ÖYou can also open the Presets browser via the Pre-
sets pop-up menu in the control panel of the VST instru-
ment.
Saving VST instrument presets
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About latency
Depending on your audio hardware and its ASIO driver, 
the latency (the time it takes for the instrument to produce 
a sound when you press a key on your MIDI controller) 
may simply be too high to allow comfortable realtime VST 
instrument playback from a keyboard. 
If this is the case, a workaround is to play and record your 
parts with another MIDI sound source selected, and then 
switch to the VST instrument for playback.
ÖYou can check the...

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Introduction
Nuendo has integrated surround sound features with sup-
port for several formats. This support goes all the way 
through the audio path: all audio-related channels (i.
 e. au-
dio and instrument tracks as well as group channels) and 
busses can handle multi-channel speaker configurations 
(up to 12 channels). A channel in the Mixer can either carry 
complete surround mixes, or an individual speaker channel 
which is part of a surround setup.
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Quadro The original Quadraphonic format for music, with one 
speaker in each corner. This format was intended for vinyl 
record players.
LRCS+Lfe Same as LRCS, but including an LFE subchannel.
Quadro+Lfe Same as Quadro, but including an LFE subchannel.
6.0 Cine A Left-Right-Center front speaker arrangement with three 
surround channels (Left-Right-Center).
6.0 Music This uses two front channels (Left/Right) with Left and 
Right surround channels and Left and Right Side channels.
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Preparations
Output bus configuration
Before you can start working with surround sound, you 
have to configure a surround output bus, through which all 
the speaker channels of the selected surround format are 
routed. How to add and set up busses in the VST Con
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nections window is described in detail in the section “Set-
ting up busses” on page 28. 
Child busses
A child bus is a bus within a (wider) bus. The most obvious 
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•You wish to record a surround setup “live”.
•You have prepared surround premixes (e. g. stems) that 
you want to record on a new audio track with a surround 
configuration.
Using the SurroundPanner V5
Nuendo has a special feature for graphically positioning a 
sound source in the surround field or modifying existing 
premixes: the SurroundPanner V5. This plug-in distributes 
the audio from the input channels in various proportions to 
the output surround channels.
Whether the...