- •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
3. Select an instrument track preset or VST preset and click OK.
The VST instrument and its settings (but no inserts, EQs and modifiers) of the existing track are overwritten with the data of the track preset. The previous VST instrument for this instrument track is removed and the new VST instrument with its settings is set up for the instrument track. Note that the VST instrument of an instrument track does not show up in the VST Instrument window but only in the Plug-In Information window, see the separate manual “Nuendo Expansion Kit – Cubase Music Tools for Nuendo 4”.
Previewing track and VST presets
You can preview all types of track and VST presets except for multi track presets.
Previewing track or VST presets before applying
When you apply a track preset to an existing track, the corresponding dialog opens. Here you can preview the track presets before applying them permanently. This works for audio, MIDI and instrument track presets as well as for VST presets.
You can use this preview for listening to the changes in the output in real time. Proceed as follows:
1.Set your target track to cycle and play back the loop.
2.Select a track preset in the list.
3.Hit the Play button on the Transport panel to listen to the track with all settings from the track preset applied to it.
4.Click outside the browser to apply the selected preset or click the Reset button below the list to return to the unchanged track.
Previewing MIDI, instrument and VST presets independently of tracks
You can also preview MIDI and instrument track presets as well as VST presets in the Sound Browser or in dialogs with the Browse Presets section open.
For example, when you open the “Browse Sounds” dialog and select a MIDI or instrument track preset or a VST preset, preview buttons appear on the lower right. (In the Sound Browser, the preview buttons appear in the Scope section.)
Track-independent preview, for example a VST preset in the “Browse Sounds” dialog.
Two preview options are available:
Previewing with standard MIDI input
1.Click the MIDI Input button.
2.Play some MIDI notes via your MIDI input device, for example a keyboard.
The Activity meter on the far right mirrors the MIDI in activity.
Ö For this to work, “In All Inputs” has to be activated for your MIDI input device (this is the default setting), as only MIDI data incoming via “All MIDI Inputs” is used for preview.
Previewing using a MIDI file
1.Click the Choose MIDI File button.
A file dialog opens.
2.Select a MIDI file (.mid) to be played back with the track or VST preset applied and click OK.
3.Click the MIDI Input button.
The Play button will become available.
4. Click “Play”.
The program applies the track or VST preset to the MIDI file.
• In the Browse Sounds dialog, clicking OK will create a new track (see “Creating tracks in the Browse Sounds dialog” on page 333).
Ö The MIDI file selection is not saved when closing the dialogs or the Sound Browser. Therefore, you have to select a new file the next time you want to preview a preset using a MIDI file.
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Inserts and EQ settings from track presets
Instead of handling complete track presets, it is also possible to apply settings for Inserts or Equalizers from track presets.
This can be done via the Inspector or via the Channel settings window.
• In the Inspector, select e.g. an Instrument track and click the VST Sound button on the Inserts or Equalizers tab to open the presets pop-up menu. There, select the option “From Track Preset…”.
• In the Channel Settings window for a MIDI track, instrument track or audio channel track (opened by clicking the “e” button in the Inspector), click on the VST Sound button in the Inserts section and select “From Track Preset…” in the pop-up menu.
The Presets browser opens, showing all available track presets that contain Inserts or EQ settings. Select the track preset whose Inserts or EQs you want to apply and click outside the browser.
•For information on the general handling of Inserts presets, see the separate manual “Nuendo Expansion Kit – Cubase Music Tools for Nuendo 4”.
•For information on the general handling of EQ presets, see “Using EQ presets” on page 140.
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