Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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10.Ensure that the pre-roll and post-roll times are appro-
priate for the VTR.
In most cases, the default values will be sufficient for the VTR to get up to 
speed before punching in.
11.On Nuendo’s Transport panel, activate the Sync button.
This turns Nuendo into a timecode slave. Once the VTR starts to play, 
Nuendo will sync to incoming timecode.
12.On the 9-Pin Device panel, click the Auto Edit button.
This starts the Auto Edit process. The tape transport locates to the set...

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3.In the “Machine Control Input Source” section, select 
the SyncStation option.
Provided that the SyncStation is set to route record and track arming 
commands to Nuendo, this will allow the digital console to record-enable 
audio tracks in Nuendo and enter record mode via 9-Pin commands sent 
to the SyncStation.
4.On the Transport panel, activate the Sync button.
Nuendo will await incoming timecode from the SyncStation.
5.Test the record-enable buttons on the console.
If configured...

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Making connections
Below, we assume that you are connecting two comput-
ers. Should you have more than two computers, it is still 
best to start with two and add the others one by one once 
the system is working – this makes troubleshooting easier 
if you run into problems. For two computers, you will need 
two digital audio cables, one in each direction:
1.Use the first digital audio cable to connect the digital 
output of computer 1 to the digital input of computer 2.
2.Use the...

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ÖThe latency does not affect the synchronization – it is 
always perfectly in time. But it can affect the time it takes 
to send and receive MIDI and audio signals, or make the 
system seem sluggish.
To adjust the latency of a system, you adjust the size of the 
buffers in the ASIO control panel – the lower the buffer 
size, the lower the latency. It is best to keep to fairly low la
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tencies (buffer sizes) if your system can handle it – about 
12
 ms or less is usually a good idea....

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The VST System Link networking signal is carried on only 
one bit of one channel. This means that if you have an 
ADAT-based system which normally carries eight channels 
of 24-bit audio, once you activate VST System Link you will 
have seven channels of 24-bit audio and one channel of 
23-bit audio (the least significant bit of this last channel will 
be used for networking). In practice this makes no discern
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ible difference to the audio quality, since you will still have 
around...

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VST System Link sends and understands all transport 
commands (such as play, stop, fast forward, rewind, etc.). 
This allows you to control the entire network from one 
computer without a problem – try it! If you jump to a loca
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tor point on one machine, all other machines will also in-
stantly jump to that locator point.
Scrubbing via VST System Link
You can scrub on one computer and have the video and 
audio on another computer scrub along. However, the 
playback on the linked...

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Hearing the network audio
If you are using an external mixing desk, hearing your audio 
really is not an issue – just plug the outputs of each com
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puter into the desired channels on the external mixing 
desk, start playback on one of the computers, and you are 
good to go.
However, many people prefer to mix internally inside the 
computer and just use a desk for monitoring (or maybe not 
use any external mixer at all). In this case you will need to 
select one computer to be your...

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Once you have done this, the transmission of all the trans-
port, sync, and MIDI information to the whole network is 
handled pretty much automatically. However, where you 
may run into confusion in a large network is in the trans
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mission of audio signals back to a central mix computer.
If you have lots of hardware inputs and outputs on your 
ASIO cards, you do not have to send audio via the chain at 
all, but can transmit it directly to the master mix computer 
via one or more of...

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8.Open the Send Routing pop-up menu for one of the 
sends and select the VST System Link bus assigned to 
the reverb in step 3.
9.Use the Send slider to adjust the amount of effect as 
usual.
The signal will be sent to the track on computer 2 and pro-
cessed through its insert effect, without using any proces-
sor power on computer 1.
You can repeat the steps above to add more effects to the 
“virtual effect rack”. The number of effects available this way 
is only limited by the...

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