Steinberg Nuendo Expansion Kit User Manual

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Effects (EFX) page
This page features three separate effect units: Distortion, 
Delay and Modulation (Phaser/Flanger/Chorus). The Ef-
fect page is opened by clicking the EFX button at the top 
of the lower half of the control panel.
The Effects page.
Each separate effect section is laid out with a row of 
buttons that determine the effect type or characteristic 
and a row of sliders for making parameter settings.
To activate an effect, click the “Active” button so that a...

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SR parameters
With these buttons you can change the sample rate. 
Lower sample rates basically reduces the high frequency 
content and sound quality, but the pitch isn’t altered. This 
is a great way to emulate the “lo-fi” sounds of older digital 
synths!
 If button “F” is active, the selected Part’s program will play 
back with the sample rate set in the host application.
 If button “1/2” is active, the selected Part’s program will play 
back with half the original sample...

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Sound parameters
Oscillator section
A/B waveform pop-ups
This is where you select basic waveforms for the A and B 
output of the oscillators. The options are especially suited 
for use with the spectrum filter.
Coarse and Fine
These parameters provide overall transposition and tuning 
of the oscillators (common for all oscillators, A and B 
waveforms).
Oscillator pop-up
This pop-up menu is opened by clicking on the text below 
the centrally placed section (which...

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Spectrum filter section
This is where you create the contours (frequency re-
sponse characteristics) for the two 128 pole resonant 
spectrum filters “A” and “B”.
You can use the Preset pop-up menu to select a preset 
contour if you like.
To change the contour, click and “draw” with the mouse.
Once you change the selected contour, it will be labeled as “Custom” in 
the Preset field above the display, indicating that you’re no longer using 
one of the presets.
If you want to...

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LFO page
This is opened by clicking the LFO button at the top of the 
lower half of the control panel. The page contains all pa-
rameters and the modulation and velocity destinations for 
two independent LFOs. Depending on the currently se-
lected Preset, there may already be modulation destina-
tions assigned, in which case these are listed in the “Mod 
Dest” box for each LFO – see “Assigning LFO modulation 
destinations” on page 25. A low frequency oscillator 
(LFO) is...

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You can set positive and negative modulation values by 
clicking on the value in the list, typing in a new value and 
pressing the Enter key.
To enter negative values type a minus sign followed by the value.
3.Select a suitable LFO Waveform, Speed, Depth and 
Sync mode.
You should now hear the Cut parameter being modulated by the LFO. 
4.Using the same basic method, you can add any num-
ber of modulation destinations for the LFO.
They will all be listed in the “Mod Dest”...

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The Envelope parameters are as follows:
Attack
The attack phase is the time it takes from zero to the max-
imum value. How long this should take, depends on the 
Attack setting. If the Attack is set to “0”, the maximum 
value is reached instantly. If this value is raised, it will take 
time before the maximum value is reached. Range is from 
0.0 milliseconds to 91.1 seconds.
Decay
After the maximum value has been reached, the value 
starts to drop. How long this should...

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To remove a modulation destination click on its name in 
the list and select “Off” from the pop-up.
Envelope modulation velocity control – an example:
If you follow the steps above and select the Cut parameter 
as a Velocity destination, the following happens:
The harder you strike the key, the more the parameter 
will be modulated by the Envelope.
If you should enter a negative value for the velocity mod-
ulation amount, the opposite happens; the harder you play 
the less...

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Delay
You can select between 3 basic delay characteristics:
 Stereo Delay has two separate delay lines panned left and 
right.
 In Mono Delay the two delay lines are connected in series for 
monophonic dual tap delay effects.
 In Cross delay the delayed sound bounces between the ste-
reo channels.
The parameters are as follows:
Modulation
You can select between 3 basic modulation characteris-
tics:
 The Phaser uses an 8-pole allpass filter to produce the classic 
phasing...

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Mystic
The synthesis method used by Mystic is based on three 
parallel comb filters with feedback. A comb filter is a filter 
with a number of “notches” in its frequency response, with 
the notch frequencies harmonically related to the fre-
quency of the fundamental (lowest) notch. 
A typical example of comb filtering occurs if you are using 
a flanger effect or a delay effect with very short delay time. 
As you probably know, raising the feedback (the amount 
of signal...