- •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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The Track Sheet
Overview
The Track Sheet provides a text-form “flow-chart” representation of the Project. It lists all audio (and video) tracks and their contents, and can easily be printed out.
To open the Track Sheet window, select “Track Sheet” from the Project menu.
The actual Track Sheet is displayed in the lower part of the window. It contains the following items:
•The leftmost time column contains a list of time positions in the display format selected in the Project Setup dialog.
The time positions relate to start and end times of audio or video events or parts on the tracks.
•The following columns display the tracks in the order they appear in the Track list.
Only audio and video tracks are shown.
•The events are listed in their corresponding track columns in the order they appear (starting at the top).
•For each event, the start and end times are shown, with a vertical line binding the two together.
Viewing the pages in the Track Sheet
If your project is large (i.e. there are many tracks and/or many events) or if you are working with a large scale factor (see below), the resulting Track Sheet may have more than one page.
The more tracks you have, the larger the number of pages next to each other (horizontally). The more events you have, the larger the number of pages below each other.
To select which page should be visible in the Track Sheet window, you use the “Y Page” and “X Page” fields in the upper left part of the Track Sheet window. You could think of the Track Sheet as divided into rows and columns, with “Y Page” determining which row should be viewed and “X Page” determining the column. The numbers in parenthesis show the total number of rows and columns, respectively.
In this case, the page in row 2 and column 3 is shown:
X 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Y
1
2
• The size and proportions of the Track Sheet pages are set with the Page Setup dialog, see “Printing the Track Sheet” on page 436.
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The Track Sheet
Adjusting the view
The two sliders at the bottom of the Track Sheet window have the following functionality:
•The slider in the lower left corner is the scale slider.
Use this to adjust the actual size of the Track Sheet contents (including the font sizes). This will also affect the number of tracks and events shown on each page.
•The slider in the lower right corner governs the display zoom.
This affects how much of the Track Sheet is shown in the Track Sheet window – the printout is not affected.
You can also adjust the width of the columns by dragging the edges of the “Timecode” and “Tracks” fields at the top of the window – this resizes the corresponding columns in the Track Sheet.
Resizing the track columns. If the Timecode and Tracks fields are hidden, click the “More” button.
Additional settings
•The “Pen Width” determines the thickness of the vertical lines that bind together the start and end times for events and parts.
•If the Track Sheet is more than one page wide, you can use the “Timecode Column” pop-up menu to determine whether the time column should appear only on the first page, on each new page, or not at all.
The following settings can be shown or hidden by clicking the “More/Less” button.
Setting |
Description |
Project |
By default, this is the name of the current project, but you |
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can adjust this if you like. The project name will be shown |
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in the top left corner of each Track Sheet page. |
Editor
Heading
Do not show end times if length is under...
The editor name you enter will be shown below the project name in the Track Sheet.
Allows you to enter a heading (shown centered at the top of each Track Sheet page).
If this checkbox is ticked, the Track Sheet will not display the end times of Events shorter than the time specified in the field to the right. This is useful if you have many short events, like spot effects, where only the start time is of any relevance.
Setting |
Description |
No leading |
By default, the time positions of events will be listed in a |
zeroes |
syntax with “leading zeroes”. E.g. if the display format is |
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seconds, hours and minutes will be listed as “01”, “02” |
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etc. If this is activated, the time column will not display the |
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leading zeroes. |
Merge events |
If events on a track are lined up end to end – i.e. there is |
if gap is less |
no gap between them – they will be considered as a sin- |
or equal... |
gle event in the Track Sheet. By defining a value in this |
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box, you can specify how large a gap between events has |
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to be for them to be considered as separate events. If |
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gaps between events are smaller than or equal to the |
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value you specify, they will be listed as a single event. |
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Otherwise they will be listed as separate events. |
Name Filter |
This allows you to filter out certain event names of your |
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choice so that they are not displayed in the Track Sheet. |
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Click in the text field and type in the name(s) – to enter |
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several names, separate each with a semi-colon (;). Par- |
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tial names are OK, so if you e.g. want to filter out the |
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event name “Crossfade”, you could just write “Cross”. |
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However, this would filter out other events starting with |
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the word cross as well – e.g. “Crosstalk” would also be |
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filtered out. |
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Printing the Track Sheet
Printing is done using the standard procedures:
1.Make sure the correct page size and page orientation is selected in the Page Setup dialog on the File menu.
You may also want to make additional printer settings, following the standard Windows/Mac procedures.
2.Select “Print...” from the File menu.
Make the desired printer settings in the dialog that appears, and click OK. The Track Sheet is printed.
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The Track Sheet