Steinberg WK Audio ID Manual

							 
Chapter 2: Introduction
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ID User Interface 
Here’s a brief overview of the ID user interface sections with cross-references to the respective manual chapters.  
Fader Module 
The basic ID version includes one Fader Module as 
shown above. You can add four more for direct 
access to 120 channels. Each Fader Module has the 
following sub-sections (top to bottom): 
❊ 
Channel meter bridge
This shows the levels of the channels that are 
currently assigned to the 24 hardware level controls 
of each Fader Module. 
❊ 
Channel strip section
This is used to set Aux Send level and parameters, 
Fader and Encoder gain and pan as well as channel 
in/out routing for the selected channel. The Channel 
strip section also lets select, activate and edit insert 
effects and VST instruments and it provides you with 
controls for complete EQ editing. See page 6-31. 
❊ 
Fader section
Here you can manually control the channel levels. 
See page 5-27. 
Master Module 
The Master Module has the following sub-sections 
(top to bottom): 
❊ 
Master meter bridge
Lets you control the output bus(ses) and the level(s) of 
the channel(s) currently selected on the Fader Module. 
❊ 
Monitoring section
Here you can select Solo modes and make other 
settings related to monitoring. Details on page 8-43. 
❊ 
Edit section 
This features an ASCII keyboard with three powerful 
modes, a Trackball, a Jog wheel, many function 
buttons and the Transport controls. See page 4-17. 
❊ 
General Functions strip 
This is the vertical blue strip on the left side of the 
Master Module. It provides many general functions like 
Fader assignment, Nuendo project handling etc. Find 
its full description on page 7-39. Its elements are also 
described in context in other section chapters. 
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Chapter 
3
 
Getting Started
Chapter Overview
This chapter contains the following information:
❊A description of the ID driver software installation 
process.
❊What you must do to connect the ID to the “rest of 
the world”.
❊A description of the necessary settings that you must 
make in Nuendo.
❊Basic information about the various types of control 
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Connecting the ID
Connecting the ID is a simple and straightforward 
process. Do this:
1.Use the included mains cable to connect the ID to a 
suitable and working mains socket. 
2.Switch off your computer.
3.Using the included standard USB cable, connect the 
USB bus on the ID to a USB bus on your computer.
4.If you wish, connect the balanced monophonic 
L/R headphone inputs on the ID rear panel to an 
appropriate sound source. 
The signal will reappear on the two stereo phone jacks 
located at the ID front side.
That’s all there is to connecting! Next, you must 
install the driver software.
The ID Driver Software
The ID driver software that you have received with ID 
must be installed on the computer that you use to 
run Nuendo. 
It is the link that interconnects the Nuendo software 
and the ID hardware. It also allows you to completely 
remote control the computer from the ID’s ASCII 
keyboard.
The driver software is compatible with Windows XP
®.
Driver software for Mac OS should be available in 
the near future.
We recommend that you always use the latest ID 
software driver version. This is available on the 
Steinberg and WK-Audio web sites. 
(www.steinberg.de or www.wk-audio.de)
ID Driver Installation
To install the driver software, proceed as follows:
1.Make sure the ID is properly connected to the USB 
bus on your computer. 
2.Switch on the ID, then switch on your computer and 
let it boot up.
The automatic hardware recognition of your computer’s 
operating system will detect the ID as a new USB device 
and ask you for the driver software.
3.Insert the Driver CD into your CD-ROM drive and 
follow the instructions displayed on your computer 
screen.
The necessary driver software – a Firmware Loader and 
the actual Time Base driver – will now be installed during 
two separate installation processes.
NOTE:  You can safely ignore alert messages like 
“Digital signature not found”, “Do not install driver”, 
“Driver not certified”. 
Simply continue with the installation.
4.Restart your computer when the installation proce-
dures have been completed.
Nuendo Settings
To allow Nuendo to recognize the ID and establish 
communication with it, you must make the following 
settings in Nuendo:
1.Open the Device menu and select “Device Setup…”.
The Device Setup dialog appears
2.Open the “Add/Remove” tab and select the ID in the 
list to the right. Then click the Add button.
The ID has now been added to the Devices list on the left 
side of the dialog.
3.Select it there. Then select the MIDI in- and outputs 
you want to use on the respective pop-up menus.
4.If you wish and know what you are doing at this 
point, you can now also freely assign any Nuendo 
function to any of the available ID User Function but-
tons. If you are not sure yet, leave that for now, read 
on and find the information on page 3-16.
NOTE:  To keep things simple, you may first want 
to use the Nuendo project template file and the 
Nuendo Preferences file that come on the ID Driver 
CD-ROM. You can later always create and save your 
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ID Control types
This section contains basic information about the 
various types of control available on the ID.
Motor Faders
Each ID Fader module holds 12 touch-sensitive 
100 mm motor faders.
●Moving a fader handle upwards increases the audio 
level of the respective channel, moving it downwards 
decreases it.
Encoders with Key function
In its Fader section, ID provides a great number of 
rotary dials called Encoders. The Level and Edit 
Encoders are examples for this.
Encoders can be used in several ways:
●To increase a level or a parameter value, turn the 
Encoder clockwise, to decrease it turn counterclock-
wise.
●To switch to a parameter or overcome a safety pre-
caution, press the Encoder as if it were a button.
Square Function Buttons
Square Function buttons will light 
up when you activate a function by 
pressing its button.
The square Function buttons on 
the ID come in two flavours:
Fixed Function buttons 
Each of these buttons is used to activate/deactivate 
one predefined function. 
Fixed Function buttons are equipped with two modes:
●If you press the button very briefly, the corresponding 
function (e.g. Solo) will be activated. If you briefly 
press the button again at a later time, the function 
will be deactivated.
●Pressing a Fixed Function button for longer than 250 
milliseconds will activate the corresponding function 
only for as long as you press the button. As soon as 
you let go of the button, the function will be disabled 
at once. We call this Push Hold Detection.
This is handy in many different mixing and editing 
situations, e.g. when editing with the Jog Wheel and 
its related Fixed Function buttons or when trying out, what it would be like to mute a channel at a certain 
point.
User Function buttons 
Single and groups of User Function buttons have 
been positioned in various places on the ID user 
interface. You can freely assign any Nuendo function 
to any of these buttons.
User Function buttons
This is where you find them:
NOTE:  Once you have assigned Nuendo func-
tions to these buttons, you can of course create your 
own name tags for them. Simply print them on trans-
parent overhead foil using a laser printer. 
NOTE:  User Function buttons do not provide 
Push Hold Detection or Bounce Repeat, as it could 
lead to confusing results.
No. of 
buttonsDefault 
NamesPosition
6User M Above the trackball.
1User T Above the transport controls.
1User A In the Automation controls 
group that you can find at the 
bottom of the blue General 
functions strip.
2User C Under User Settings at the top 
right of the Monitoring section.
2User W In the Edit section, above the 
top left corner of the ASCII 
keyboard.
1User G In the Edit section, in the sec-
ond group of ten buttons above 
the ASCII keyboard.
1User E In the Edit section, in the third 
group of ten buttons above the 
ASCII keyboard.
10 User F To the left of the ASCII key-
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Assigning User Functions
User Function but-
tons are described 
on the previous 
page.
Proceed as follows 
to assign the 
desired functions to 
the ID User Function 
buttons: 
1.Select “Device Setup…” on Nuendo’s Devices menu.
2.In the appearing Devices Setup dialog, select the ID
If it’s not available, select the ADD/Remove tab to add it to 
the list, then select it.
3.Open the Setup tab and assign the desired func-
tions to the ID User Function buttons. To do this, 
open the local pop-up menus by clicking in a column 
next to the User Function button you want to assign 
a function to.
Round Function button
These can be found all over the ID user interface. 
Pressing one of these buttons lets you either 
activate/deactivate a function or toggle between two 
switch states.  Round function button are equipped 
with Push Hold Detection, see page 3-15.
Round Function buttons
Potentiometers
ID’s potentiometers are all located in the Monitoring 
section. They are rotary dials that have a start and an 
end point and are used to set volume levels.
●To increase a level, turn the potentiometer clockwise, 
to decrease it turn counterclockwise.
Transport Controls
These buttons let you remote-control the Nuendo 
transport controls. The transport controls do not 
provide Push Hold Detection.
Trackball
The Trackball is a convenient mouse replacement.
●Roll the ball to move the cursor on the Nuendo 
screen and use the buttons as left and right mouse 
buttons.
ASCII Keyboard
This is an ASCII keyboard, similar to your computer 
keyboard. It has unusual keys and additional modes 
that help to improve your workflow. These are 
described in the Edit Section chapter. 
Jog Wheel
This is a heavy-weighted, high-resolution Jog wheel 
with additional function keys for quick positioning 
and editing in Nuendo. This is also described in the 
Edit Section chapter.
What’s next?
The following chapters describe the individual ID 
sections. Please read them carefully. The time that 
you invest here is well-spent.       
						

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Chapter4
The Edit Section
Chapter Overview
This chapter contains the following information:
❊A description of the ASCII keyboard and its three 
modes.
❊A description of all other elements in the Edit 
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The ASCII Keyboard
The ASCII keyboard on the ID more or less looks like 
your usual computer keyboard. As its main task is 
usability in a studio environment and not typing 
letters, its keys have been optimized and differ in 
shape from an ordinary keyboard. 
The function buttons located to its left or any other 
ID function buttons may be used as its function keys.
NOTE:  
You can freely assign any Nuendo function to any 
function button on the ID, see page 3-15.
The Trackball is used as a mouse replacement.
●Roll the ball to move the cursor on the Nuendo 
screen and use the buttons as left and right mouse 
buttons.The ID ASCII keyboard has three operation modes: 
ASCII, Reverse and Goto Mark. 
Reverse and Goto Mark mode offer additional 
options. 
NOTE:  
The ASCII functionality is not available in Reverse 
and Goto Mark modes.
ASCII Mode
ASCII mode is the default mode of the keyboard.
In this mode, the keyboard works like any other 
computer keyboard. 
Same as on a usual ASCII keyboard – and differing 
from the other buttons on the ID – the keyboard keys 
will repeat their signal for as long as you press them. 
This is called Bounce Repeat.
If you use a Windows computer, bounce (repeat) 
time can be set under Control Panels/Keyboard 
Properties.
When you scrub-play, you should thus use the 
keyboard keys instead of the User function buttons 
as the latter do not provide bounce repeat.
NOTE:  
The ID keyboard always uses an English/US key-
board layout, even when you have selected another 
layout for the connected computer. If you have, some 
key commands may not work properly. We therefore 
recommend that you use the English/US keyboard 
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Reverse Mode
In Reverse mode, the keys on the ASCII keyboard 
become a matrix of On/Off switches for the last 
selected function type.
The LEDs above each key represent the On/Off 
status of the current function for each of the 
channels.
The individual keys on the keyboard represent the 
channels 1-48 or 49-96.
You get complete overview and can therefore quickly 
activate or deactivate the same function type – e.g. 
Record Ready, Solo etc. – for many channels. 
The shape of the keyboard keys helps you to 
increase setting speed. You can simply run your 
finger over the keys of several adjacent channels in 
one go.
Proceed as follows to activate Reverse mode:
1.Press the REVRS button, located above the top right 
of the ASCII keyboard.
2.Activate the CHAN 1-48 or the CHAN 49-96 func-
tion button (located below the REVRS button) to get 
access to the respective channels. 
3.On the Fader module, use (and thereby select the 
desired function. This must be done for at least one 
channel. 
Now you can use the keys on the keyboard to activate or 
deactivate the selected function for other channels. The 
LEDs above each key provide optical feedback.
4.If you select another function on the Fader module, 
the LEDs will reflect its current status on all channels 
and you can start to change that.
Goto Mark Mode
In this mode, you can use the keys on the ASCII 
keyboard to select Markers that you may have set in 
Nuendo. You can directly jump to up to 96 Markers.
Proceed as follows to activate and use Goto Mark 
mode:
1.Press the GOTO MARK button, located in the button 
group above the ID transport controls.
This activates Goto Marker mode. 
NOTE:  
If Reverse mode was active before, it will automati-
cally be deactivated.
2.Select the CHAN 1-48 or the CHAN 49-96 function 
button to be able to jump to Markers 1-48 or 49-96, 
respectively.
3.Press a key on the keyboard to jump to the desired 
Marker in Nuendo.
4.To disable Goto Marker mode, simply press the 
GOTO MARK button again.
Press this button to activate
Reverse mode…
…and one of these
to select the group of chan-
nels that you want to affect.    
						

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Function buttons above 
the ASCII Keyboard
This section describes all Fixed Function buttons above 
the ASCII keyboard, starting with the MIXER button in 
the first group of ten above its left upper corner and 
ending with the CHAN 49-96 button in the group of 
four buttons, located above its right upper corner.
Window Function buttonsGrid Function buttons
Button Description
Lets you open or close Nuendo’s 
Mixer window.
If Nuendo is not yet running, you can 
press this button to boot it.
USER W 1 and 2 are user-definable 
Function buttons. Read “Assigning 
User Functions” on page 3-16 for 
more information.
LAYOUT buttons 1 through 6 let you 
open different Nuendo Window 
Layouts 
Opens the Nuendo Pool window
Button Description
Press this several times to step 
through the available Snap modes.
Lets you switch Nuendo’s Autoscroll 
function On or Off.
Remote-controls Nuendo’s Undo 
function.
Remote-controls Nuendo’s Copy 
function.
Remote-controls Nuendo’s Paste 
function.
Press this several times to step 
through the available Grid size values.
Activates or deactivates Snap to 
Grid.
Remote-controls Nuendo’s Redo 
function.
Remote-controls Nuendo’s Cut 
function.