Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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Setting up your system
Setting up the input and output ports
Once you have selected the driver and made the settings 
as described above, you need to specify which inputs and 
outputs will be used and name these:
1.In the Device Setup dialog, select your driver in the 
Devices list on the left to display the driver settings for 
your audio hardware.
All input and output ports on the audio hardware are listed.
2.To hide a port, click in the “Visible” column for the port 
(deselecting the checkbox)....

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Setting up your system
Setting up MIDI
This section describes how to connect and set up MIDI 
equipment. If you have no MIDI equipment, you can skip 
this section. Note that this is only an example – you might 
need or want to hook things up differently!
Connecting the MIDI equipment
In this example we assume that you have a MIDI keyboard 
and an external MIDI sound module. The keyboard is used 
both for feeding the computer with MIDI messages for re
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cording and for playing back MIDI tracks. The...

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Setting up your system
Setting up MIDI ports in Nuendo
The Device Setup dialog lets you set up your MIDI system 
as follows:
ÖWhen you change MIDI port settings in the Device 
Setup dialog, these are automatically applied.
Showing or hiding MIDI Ports
The MIDI ports are listed in the Device Setup dialog on the 
MIDI Port Setup page. By clicking in the “Visible” column 
for a MIDI input or output, you can specify whether or not 
it is listed on the MIDI pop-up menus in the program.
If you are trying to...

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Setting up your system
Short response times (latency)
Another aspect of performance is response time. The term 
“latency” refers to the “buffering”, i.
 e. the temporary stor-
ing, of small chunks of audio data during various steps of 
the recording and playback process on a computer. The 
more and larger those chunks, the higher the latency.
High latency is most irritating when playing VST instru-
ments and when monitoring through the computer, i. e. 
when listening to a live audio source via the...

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Setting up your system
Audio hardware and driver
The hardware and its driver can have some effect on re-
gular performance. A badly written driver can reduce the 
performance of your computer. But where the hardware 
driver design makes the most difference is with latency.
This is especially true when using Nuendo for Windows:
•Under Windows, ASIO drivers written specifically for 
the hardware are more efficient than the Generic Low La
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tency ASIO Driver or a DirectX driver and produce shorter...

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Setting up your system
•The lower bar graph shows the hard disk transfer load.
If the overload indicator (on the far right) lights up, the hard disk is not 
supplying data fast enough to the computer. You may need to reduce the 
number of tracks playing back by using the Disable Track function (see 
“About track disable/enable” on page 87). If this does not help, you need 
a faster hard disk. 
ÖThe overload indicator may occasionally blink, e. g. 
when you locate during playback. This does not...

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VST Connections 

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VST Connections
About this chapter
This chapter focuses on the settings you can perform in 
the VST Connections window. Here you can set up input 
and output busses, group and FX channels, external ef
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fects, and external instruments. Furthermore you can use 
this window to configure the Control Room and access 
the Control Room itself.
Since input and output busses are vital for working with 
Nuendo, a large part of this chapter concentrates on bus
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ses and this is also the reason why you find this...

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VST Connections
Let’s say you are using audio hardware with eight analog 
inputs and outputs and digital stereo connections (10 in
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puts and outputs all in all). Furthermore, you work with a 
surround setup in 5.1 format. In this scenario, you may 
want to add the following busses:
Input busses
• Most likely you need at least one stereo input bus assigned to 
an analog input pair. This will let you record stereo material. If 
you want to be able to record in stereo from other analog input 
pairs as...

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VST Connections
Mac OS X only: Retrieving channel names
For some audio cards, you can automatically retrieve the 
ASIO channel names for the ports of your audio hardware. 
Proceed as follows:
1.Open the Device Setup dialog via the Devices menu.
2.On the VST Audio System page, select your audio 
card on the ASIO Driver pop-up menu.
3.In the Devices list on the left, select your audio card.
The available settings are displayed.
4.In the settings section on the right, click the Control 
Panel button....