Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual
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Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Marion Bröer, Sabine Pfeifer, Heike Schilling Thanks to: Ashley Shepherd The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part of this publica - tion may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. All product and company names are ™ or ® trademarks of their respective owners. Windows XP is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows Vista and Windows 7 are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The Mac logo is a trademark used under license. Macintosh and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks. MP3SURROUND and the MP3SURROUND logo are registered trademarks of Thomson SA, registered in the US and other countries, and are used under license from Thomson Licensing SAS. Release Date: April 13, 2010 © Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, 2010. All rights reserved.
4 Table of Contents 9About this manual 10Welcome! 11System requirements and installation 12About this chapter 12Minimum requirements 14Hardware installation 15Installing Nuendo 15Defragmenting the hard disk (Windows only) 15Register your software 16Setting up your system 17Setting up audio 22Setting up MIDI 23Connecting a synchronizer 23Setting up video 23Optimizing audio performance 27VST Connections 28About this chapter 28The VST Connections window 28Setting up busses 32Setting up group and FX channels 32About monitoring 32External instruments/effects 36Editing operations 38The Project window 39Window Overview 41The track list 41The Inspector 44The toolbar 45The status line 45The info line 46The overview line 47The ruler 48The Snap function 50Auto-Scroll 51Working with projects 52Creating new projects 52Opening projects 52Closing projects 53Saving projects 54The Archive and Backup functions 56Startup Options 57The Project Setup dialog 58Zoom and view options 61Handling tracks 66Audio handling 67Auditioning audio parts and events 67Scrubbing audio 67Editing parts and events 76Editing in Lane Display mode 77Range editing 79Region operations 79The Edit History dialog 81The Preferences dialog 83Playback and the Transport panel 84Background 85Operations 87Options and Settings 89The Virtual Keyboard (Nuendo Expansion Kit only) 90Recording 91Background 91Basic recording methods 93Audio recording specifics 103MIDI recording specifics 108Options and Settings 111Recovery of audio recordings after system failure 112Fades, crossfades and envelopes 113Creating fades 115The Fade dialogs 116Creating crossfades 117The Crossfade dialog 120Auto fades and crossfades 121Event envelopes
5 Table of Contents 122The arranger track 123Introduction 123Setting up the arranger track 124Working with arranger events 126Flattening the arranger chain 127Live mode 127Arranging your music to video 129The transpose functions 130Introduction 130Transposing your music 133Other functions 136Using markers 137Introduction 138The Marker window 142Marker tracks 145Marker key commands 145Exporting and importing markers 151The Mixer 152Overview 154Configuring the Mixer 157Basic mixing procedures 160Audio-specific procedures 168Routing 171Direct Routing 174MIDI-specific procedures 175Utilities 176VST Mixer Diagrams 179Control Room 180Virtual Control Room – The concept 180Configuring the Control Room 184The Control Room Mixer 190Studios and Studio Sends 193The Control Room Overview 194Direct Monitoring and latency 195Audio effects 196About this chapter 196Overview 197Insert effects 203Send effects 207Using the side-chain input 208Using external effects 208Editing effects 209Effect presets 212Installing and managing effect plug-ins 215VST instruments and instrument tracks 216Introduction 216VST instrument channels vs. instrument tracks 216VST instrument channels 218Instrument tracks 220What do I need? Instrument channel or instrument track? 220Instrument Freeze 221VST instruments and processor load 221Using presets for VSTi configuration 225About latency 225External instruments 226Surround sound 227Introduction 229Preparations 230Using the SurroundPanner V5 237Using the MixConvert plug-in 238Exporting a surround mix 239Automation 240Introduction 240Working with automation curves 240Enabling and disabling the writing of automation data 241Writing automation data 242Editing automation events 243Automation track operations 245Virgin territory vs. the initial value 248The Automation panel 260Automation Preferences 261Hints and further options 261MIDI controller automation 263Audio processing and functions 264Background 264Audio processing 273Applying plug-ins 275The Offline Process History dialog 276Batch Processing 277Freeze Edits 278Detect Silence 279The Spectrum Analyzer 281Statistics
6 Table of Contents 282The Sample Editor 283Window overview 287Operations 292Options and settings 293AudioWarp: Tempo matching audio 297Free Warp 299Working with hitpoints and slices 302VariAudio 312Flattening realtime processing 314The Audio Part Editor 315Background 315Opening the Audio Part Editor 315Window overview 316Operations 318Common methods 319Options and Settings 320The Pool 321Background 322Window overview 324Operations 334The MediaBay 335Introduction 336Working with the MediaBay 337The Define Locations section 338The Locations section 339The Results list 342Previewing files 345The Filters section 347The Attribute Inspector 351MediaBay aspects 352Preferences 353Key commands 353Working with MediaBay-related windows 354Working with Volume databases 356Working with track presets 357Introduction 357Types of track presets 358Applying track presets 360Creating a track preset 361Creating tracks from track presets or VST presets 362Track Quick Controls 363Introduction 363Setting up the Quick Controls tab 364Setting up quick controls on an external remote controller 364Quick controls and automatable parameters 366Remote controlling Nuendo 367Introduction 367Setting Up 368Operations 369The Generic Remote device 371Track Quick Controls 371Deactivating joysticks 371Apple Remote (Macintosh only) 372MIDI realtime parameters and effects 373Introduction 373The Inspector – general handling 373The Inspector sections 377MIDI effects 379Managing plug-ins 380Using MIDI devices 381Background 381MIDI devices – general settings and patch handling 386About Device panels 389About Studio Connections 391MIDI processing and quantizing 392Introduction 392The quantizing functions 397Making your settings permanent 398Dissolve Part 399Bounce MIDI 399Repeat Loop 400Other MIDI functions
7 Table of Contents 403The MIDI editors 404Introduction 404Opening a MIDI editor 406The Key Editor – Overview 408Key Editor operations 422The In-Place Editor 424The List Editor – Overview 425List Editor operations 427Working with SysEx messages 429Recording SysEx parameter changes 429Editing SysEx messages 431The Logical Editor, Transformer, and Input Transformer 432Introduction 432Opening the Logical Editor 433Window overview 433Setting up filter conditions 437Selecting a function 438Specifying actions 440Applying the defined actions 440Working with presets 440The Input Transformer 442The Project Logical Editor 443Introduction 443Opening the Project Logical Editor 443Window overview 444Setting up filter conditions 448Specifying actions 450Selecting a function 450Applying Macros 450Applying the defined actions 450Working with presets 452Editing tempo and signature 453Background 453Tempo and signature display 455Editing tempo and signature 457Process Tempo 457The Process Bars dialog 458The Beat Calculator 459Merge Tempo From Tapping 459The Time Warp tool 464The Project Browser 465Window Overview 466Editing tracks 470The Track Sheet 471Overview 472Printing the track sheet 473Export Audio Mixdown 474Introduction 474Mixing down to audio files 475The Export Audio Mixdown dialog 478The available file formats 482Networking 483Introduction 483What can I use the Networking functions for? 483Networking protocol and ports 484The network dialogs 484Selecting a user name 485Setting up a network 487Sharing projects 492Joining projects 493Working with shared projects 495Further options 496Synchronization 497Background 497Timecode (positional references) 499Clock sources (speed references) 500Frame edge alignment (phase) 500The Project Synchronization Setup dialog 508Synchronized operation 509Example scenarios 512Working with VST System Link 514Activating VST System Link 520Video 521Introduction 521Before you start 523Preparing a video project in Nuendo 524Video files in the Project window 525Playing back video 527Editing video 528Extracting audio from a video file 528Replacing the audio in a video file 529About film transfers 531Compensating for speed changes in Nuendo 534Tips
8 Table of Contents 535Audio editing to picture 536Introduction 536Video timeline and the grid 537Conforming production audio 539Adding sound design elements 541Conforming to picture changes 542Synchronize tempo maps to picture 543Using standard Nuendo tools for postproduction purposes 548ReWire 549Introduction 549Launching and quitting 550Activating ReWire channels 550Using the transport and tempo controls 551How the ReWire channels are handled in Nuendo 551Routing MIDI via ReWire2 551Considerations and limitations 552File handling 553Importing audio 556Exporting and importing OMF files 557Exporting and importing AAF files 558Exporting and importing AES31 files 559Exporting and importing OpenTL files 560Importing XSend projects from Liquid 560Exporting and importing standard MIDI files 562Exporting and importing MIDI loops 562Exporting and importing track archives 563Converting audio tracks (multi-channel to mono and vice versa) 566Clip packages 570Customizing 571Background 571Workspaces 572Using the Setup options 573Customizing track controls 575Configuring the main menu items 576Appearance 577Applying colors in the Project window 579Where are the settings stored? 580Key commands 581Introduction 581Setting up key commands 586Setting up tool modifier keys 587The default key commands 591Index
10 About this manual Welcome! This is the Operation Manual for Steinberg’s Nuendo. Here you will find detailed information about all the fea - tures and functions in the program. 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 plat- forms. This is clearly stated in the applicable cases. In other words: ÖIf 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 com- position 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 avail- able 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 modi- fier 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 Win- dows or [Option] under Mac OS X, then press [X]”. ÖPlease note that this manual often refers to right-click- ing, for example, to open context menus. If you are using a Mac with a single-button mouse, hold down [Ctrl] and click.