- •Table of Contents
- •About this manual
- •Welcome!
- •VST Connections: Setting up input and output busses
- •About this chapter
- •Setting up busses
- •Using the busses
- •Setting up Groups and FX channels
- •About monitoring
- •External instruments/effects
- •The Project window
- •Background
- •Window Overview
- •Operations
- •Options
- •Playback and the Transport panel
- •Background
- •Operations
- •Options and Settings
- •Recording
- •Background
- •Basic recording methods
- •Audio recording specifics
- •MIDI recording specifics
- •Options and Settings
- •Recovery of audio recordings after system failure
- •Fades, crossfades and envelopes
- •Creating fades
- •The Fade dialogs
- •Creating crossfades
- •The Crossfade dialog
- •Auto Fades and Crossfades
- •Event Envelopes
- •The Arranger track
- •Introduction
- •Setting up the Arranger track
- •Working with arranger events
- •Flattening the Arranger chain
- •Live Mode
- •Arranging your music to video
- •Folder tracks
- •About folder tracks
- •Handling folder tracks
- •Working with folder parts
- •Using markers
- •About markers
- •The Marker window
- •Using the Marker track
- •Marker key commands
- •Editing markers in the Project Browser
- •The Transpose functions
- •Introduction
- •Transposing your music
- •Other functions
- •The mixer
- •About this chapter
- •Overview
- •Configuring the mixer
- •The audio-related channel strips
- •The MIDI channel strips
- •The common panel
- •The input and output channels
- •Basic mixing procedures
- •Audio specific procedures
- •MIDI specific procedures
- •Utilities
- •VST Mixer Diagrams
- •Control Room
- •Background
- •Configuring the Control Room
- •The Control Room Overview
- •The Control Room Mixer
- •Control Room operations
- •Studios and Studio Sends
- •Direct Monitoring and latency
- •WK-Audio’s ID Controller
- •Audio effects
- •About this chapter
- •Overview
- •Insert effects
- •Send effects
- •Setting up send effects
- •Using the Side-Chain input
- •Using external effects
- •Making settings for the effects
- •Effect presets
- •VST Instruments and Instrument tracks
- •Introduction
- •VST Instrument channels vs. instrument tracks
- •VST Instrument channels
- •Instrument tracks
- •Comparison
- •Automation considerations
- •What do I need? Instrument channel or Instrument track?
- •Instrument Freeze
- •VST instruments and processor load
- •Using presets for VSTi configuration
- •About latency
- •External instruments
- •Surround sound
- •Background
- •Operations
- •Automation
- •Introduction
- •Enabling and disabling the writing of automation data
- •What can be automated?
- •The Automation panel
- •Virgin territory vs. the initial value
- •Automation modes
- •Automation performance utilities
- •The Settings section
- •Hints and further options
- •Automation track operations
- •Working with automation curves
- •Audio processing and functions
- •Background
- •Audio processing
- •Applying plug-ins
- •The Offline Process History dialog
- •Batch Processing
- •Freeze Edits
- •Detect Silence
- •The Spectrum Analyzer
- •Statistics
- •The Sample Editor
- •Background
- •Window overview
- •General Operations
- •Options and settings
- •Audio Warp realtime processing / Tempo matching audio to the project tempo
- •Working with hitpoints and slices
- •Free Warp
- •Realtime pitch-shifting of audio events
- •Flattening the realtime processing
- •The Audio Part Editor
- •Background
- •Opening the Audio Part Editor
- •Window overview
- •Operations
- •Common methods
- •Options and Settings
- •The Pool
- •Background
- •Window overview
- •Operations
- •VST Sound
- •Introduction
- •The MediaBay
- •Introduction
- •Window overview
- •Browsing for media files
- •Finding files in the Viewer section
- •Previewing files in the Scope section
- •The Tag Editor
- •Media management
- •Track Presets
- •Introduction
- •Types of track presets
- •VST presets
- •Browsing for presets
- •Creating a track preset
- •Creating tracks from track presets or VST presets
- •Applying track presets
- •Previewing track and VST presets
- •Inserts and EQ settings from track presets
- •Track Quick Controls
- •Introduction
- •Setting up the Quick Controls tab
- •Options and settings
- •Setting up quick controls on an external remote controller
- •MIDI realtime parameters and effects
- •Introduction
- •Basic track settings
- •MIDI Modifiers
- •MIDI effects
- •Managing plug-ins
- •MIDI processing and quantizing
- •Introduction
- •The Quantizing functions
- •Making your settings permanent
- •Dissolve Part
- •Repeat Loop
- •Other MIDI functions
- •The MIDI editors
- •About editing MIDI
- •Opening a MIDI editor
- •Key Editor operations
- •Edit In-Place
- •List Editor operations
- •Introduction
- •Opening the Logical Editor
- •Window overview
- •Selecting a preset
- •Setting up filter conditions
- •Selecting a function
- •Specifying actions
- •Applying the defined actions
- •Working with presets
- •The Input Transformer
- •The Project Logical Editor
- •Introduction
- •Opening the Project Logical Editor
- •Window overview
- •Selecting a preset
- •Setting up filter conditions
- •Selecting a function
- •Specifying actions
- •Applying the defined actions
- •Working with presets
- •Working with System Exclusive messages
- •Introduction
- •Bulk dumps
- •Recording System Exclusive parameter changes
- •Editing System Exclusive messages
- •Working with the Tempo track
- •Background
- •Operations
- •Process Tempo
- •The Process Bars dialog
- •Options and settings
- •The Beat Calculator
- •Merge Tempo From Tapping
- •The Time Warp tool
- •The Project Browser
- •Window Overview
- •Editing tracks
- •The Track Sheet
- •Overview
- •Printing the Track Sheet
- •Export Audio Mixdown
- •Introduction
- •Mixing down to an audio file
- •The available file formats
- •Synchronization
- •Background
- •Synchronization signals
- •Synchronizing the transport vs. synchronizing audio
- •Making basic settings and connections
- •Synchronization settings
- •Timecode Preferences
- •Machine Control
- •Setting up Machine Control
- •Working with VST System Link
- •Preparations
- •Activating VST System Link
- •Application examples
- •Video
- •Background
- •Before you start
- •Operations
- •The Edit Mode
- •Working with film transfers
- •Compensating for film transfers to video
- •ReWire
- •Introduction
- •Launching and quitting
- •Activating ReWire channels
- •Using the transport and tempo controls
- •How the ReWire channels are handled in Nuendo
- •Routing MIDI via ReWire2
- •Considerations and limitations
- •File handling
- •Working with Projects
- •Startup Options
- •Working with libraries
- •Revert
- •Importing audio
- •Exporting and importing OMF files
- •Exporting and importing AAF files
- •Exporting and importing AES31 files
- •Exporting and importing OpenTL files
- •Importing XSend projects from Liquid
- •Exporting and importing standard MIDI files
- •Exporting and importing MIDI loops
- •Exporting and importing tracks
- •Other Import/Export functions
- •Cleanup
- •Customizing
- •Background
- •Workspaces
- •The Setup dialogs
- •Customizing track controls
- •Configuring the main menu items
- •About preference presets
- •Appearance
- •Applying track and event colors
- •Where are the settings stored?
- •Key commands
- •Introduction
- •Setting up key commands
- •Setting up tool modifier keys
- •The default key commands
- •Index
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About this manual
Welcome!
This is the Operation Manual for Steinberg’s Nuendo. Here you will find detailed information about all the features and functions in the program.
Ö Please note that this manual often refers to right-click- ing, e.g. to open context menus, etc. If you are using a Mac with a single-button mouse, hold down [Ctrl] and click.
About the program versions
The documentation covers two different operating systems or “platforms”; Windows and Mac OS X.
Some features and settings are specific to one of the platforms, Windows or Mac OS X. This is clearly stated in the applicable cases. In other words:
Ö If nothing else is said, all descriptions and procedures in the documentation are valid for both Windows and Mac OS X.
The screenshots are taken from the Windows version of Nuendo.
About the Nuendo Expansion Kit
The Nuendo Expansion Kit adds a number of music composition functions from Steinberg’s Cubase (the “Cubase Music Tools”) to the standard Nuendo application. The Nuendo Expansion Kit (NEK) is a separate product and can be purchased through your Steinberg dealer.
Whenever procedures in this manual use functions available only when the NEK is installed, this is indicated in the text by “Nuendo Expansion Kit only”.
Key command conventions
Many of the default key commands in Nuendo use modifier keys, some of which are different depending on the operating system. For example, the default key command for Undo is [Ctrl]-[Z] under Windows and [Command]-[Z] under Mac OS X.
When key commands with modifier keys are described in this manual, they are shown with the Windows modifier key first, in the following way:
[Win modifier key]/[Mac modifier key]-[key]
For example, [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Z] means “press [Ctrl] under Windows or [Command] under Mac OS X, then press [Z]”.
Similarly, [Alt]/[Option]-[X] means “press [Alt] under Windows or [Option] under Mac OS X, then press [X]”.
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About this manual