Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Introducing Nuendo -- What Is Nuendo? -- A Brief Overview of Digital Audio -- What Is Analog Sound? -- What Is Digital Audio? -- A Brief Overview of MIDI -- What Does MIDI Transmit? -- MIDI Connections -- How Does Nuendo Handle MIDI and Audio? -- MIDI Ports -- MIDI Channel Settings -- MIDI Tracks -- VST Connections -- Audio Track -- Mixer Channels -- About 32-Bit Recording -- 2 A Guided Tour of Nuendo -- The Project Window -- VST Channels (Mixer Strips) -- Mixers -- Surround Pan -- The Transport Panel -- Metronome Setup Dialog Box -- Synchronization Setup Dialog Box -- The Devices Panel -- Plug-In Information Panel -- Time Display -- VST Connections -- VST Instruments Panel -- VST Performance Panel -- Video Display Window -- The Project Tools -- Marker Panel -- Tempo Track -- Browser Window -- Beat Calculator Panel -- Project Setup Dialog Box -- MIDI Windows -- MIDI Device Manager -- Key Editor -- Quantize Setup Panel -- Drum Editor -- Drum Map Setup Dialog Box -- List Editor -- Score Editor -- Audio Editing Windows -- Media Pool Window -- Audio Part Editor -- Sample Editor -- Spectrum Analyzer -- History Box -- Edit History -- Offline Process History -- VST Effects and Instruments -- 3 Getting Started -- Setting Up Your Peripherals -- Sound Cards and Drivers -- MIDI Interfaces and Drivers -- Monitoring Audio -- Monitoring through Nuendo -- Monitoring Externally -- Direct Monitoring -- Configuring Devices in Nuendo -- Running Other Audio Applications Simultaneously -- Hooking Up Your Equipment -- Creating a New Project -- Setting Up Your Project -- 4 Navigating the Project Window -- Project Window Options -- Project Window Display Buttons -- Project Cursor Selection Buttons -- Project Transport Control Buttons -- Project Editing Setup Buttons -- Setting Up a Quantize Grid -- Working with Markers -- Adding Markers.

Navigating Using Markers -- Editing Markers -- Removing Markers -- The Transport Panel -- Performance -- Record Modes -- Locators -- Shuttle, Jog, and Nudge -- Main Transport -- Click, Tempo, and Sync Controls -- Markers -- MIDI and Audio Activity -- Audio Level Control -- Context Menus in the Project Window -- 5 Working with Tracks -- Project Window Areas -- The Inspector -- The Track List -- The Event Display -- VST Instruments (VSTi) -- Setting Up a VSTi -- VSTi Included with Nuendo -- VSTi and Latency -- The Device Manager -- Adding a MIDI Device -- Importing Patchname Scripts from Steinberg's Web Site -- Managing a MIDI Device -- Using Installed Devices in the Inspector -- About the Tempo Track -- 6 Track Classes -- Adding Tracks -- MIDI Track -- Setting Up a MIDI Track -- MIDI Track Parameters -- About MIDI Effects -- MIDI Track Inserts -- MIDI Track Sends -- MIDI Channel -- Notepad -- Network -- Audio Track -- About Audio Terminology -- Setting Up an Audio Track -- Audio Track Inserts -- Audio Track Equalizer -- Equalizer Curve -- Audio Track Sends -- Audio Track Channel -- FX Track -- Folder Track -- Group Channels -- Marker Track -- Ruler Track -- Video Tracks -- 7 MIDI and Audio Recording -- MIDI Recording Preparations -- MIDI Recording Preferences -- MIDI Filtering -- Setting Up Your Metronome -- Recording MIDI -- Quantizing Your Events -- Quantize Methods -- Setting Up Your Quantize -- Applying Quantize -- Creating Groove Quantize Presets -- Quantizing Audio -- Recording Audio -- Recording Audio in Cycle Mode -- Recording Audio Using Multiple Lanes -- Importing Files -- About Audio CD Track Imports -- Importing Audio from Video Files -- About OMF -- AES31 -- OpenTL -- Importing Nuendo Tracks -- About Importing Older Cubase Documents -- About MIDI File Imports -- About Audio File Imports -- 8 MIDI Editing Windows -- MIDI Editors.

Editor Toolbar -- Key Editor Display Areas -- Editing MIDI Events -- Using Step Recording -- Zooming -- Editing Multiple Tracks -- The Information Bar -- MIDI Controllers -- Drum Track Editor -- Drum Editor Display Areas -- Working with Drum Maps -- List Editor -- List Editor Display Areas -- 9 Audio Editing -- Media Pool -- The Pool Areas -- Understanding the Information -- Pool Functions -- Pool Interaction -- Offline Processes in the Pool -- Sample Editor -- Sample Editor Areas -- Basic Editing Functions -- Working with Regions -- About the Snap Point -- Working with Hitpoints -- 10 Browsing and Processing Options -- The Browser Window -- Browser Window Areas -- Understanding the Information -- Audio Menu Options -- Spectrum Analyzer and Statistics -- Detect Silence -- Converting Audio Objects -- Bounce Selection -- Fades and Crossfades -- Working with Audio Event Envelopes (Real Time) -- Finding Things -- Audio Processing Options -- Using Audio "Processes" -- Using VST and DirectX Plug-Ins -- Optimizing Projects After Offline Processing -- Freezing VSTi -- The Offline Process History Panel -- The Edit History Panel -- 11 Project Editing -- Destructive and Nondestructive Editing -- Working with Audio Events, Regions, and Parts -- Changing Your Focus -- Using the Overview Panel -- Using Cycle Markers -- Using the Zoom Tools -- MIDI Menu Options -- Transpose -- MIDI Merge In Loop -- Dissolve Parts -- O-Note Conversion -- About MIDI Functions -- Edit Menu Options -- Splitting -- Duplicate -- Repeat -- Fill Loop -- Normal Sizing -- Sizing Moves Contents -- Sizing Applies Time Stretch -- Shifting Events Inside an Object -- Muting Objects -- Lock -- Disabling Audio Tracks -- Audio Part Editor -- Creating Audio Parts -- Audio Part Editor Areas -- Audio Operations -- 12 Mixer and Channel Settings -- Mixer Areas -- Common Panel -- Extended Common Panel.

Routing Panel -- Audio Channels -- Disk Channels (Audio Tracks) -- Rewire -- VSTi and Rewire Channels -- Group Channels -- MIDI Channels -- Output Bus Channels -- Input Channels -- Working with Mixer Settings -- Working with Effects -- Channel Settings Panel -- Audio Channel Settings -- MIDI Channel Settings -- Using Groups -- Submixing with Groups -- Creating Headphone or Cue Mixes with Groups -- 13 Working with Automation -- Automation in the Mixer -- Automation Subtracks -- Recording Automation -- Creating Automation Data Using Read and Write Buttons -- Recording Channel Track Automation -- Recording Parameter Automation -- Automation Modes -- Drawing Automation -- Using the Draw and Selector Tools -- Using the Line Tool -- Hiding and Removing Automation Subtracks -- Editing Automation -- Using Write Automation -- Using Automation Subtracks -- Using SysEx -- Recording SysEx -- Transmitting Bulk Dumps -- Using a Remote Control Mixer or Control Surface -- 14 Working in Sync -- Machine Control, SMPTE, MIDI Clock, and Word Clock -- SMPTE Timecode -- MIDI Clock -- MIDI Machine Control -- Sony 9-Pin Control -- Digital Audio and Word Clock -- Synchronizing Playback of Systems and Devices -- Positional References -- Speed References -- Synchronization Examples -- Synchronization Settings -- Linear Time and Musical Time -- Time Warping -- Using Musical Events Follow Mode -- Inside Editors -- Tempo Mapping Freely Recorded Events -- Working with Video Files -- VST System Link -- About System Link -- Linking Computers -- Latency Issues with System Link -- Setting Up System Link Inside Nuendo -- Using System Link MIDI Ports -- 15 Mixdown and Mastering -- Including Your MIDI in the Mixdown -- Converting Your MIDI Tracks -- About VSTi and Rewire Channels -- About Dithering -- Broadcast Wave Properties -- Exporting Your Final Mix -- File Format Options.

RealMedia and Windows Media -- MP3 -- More on OMF -- About Mastering -- Creating an Audio Compact Disc -- Backing Up Your Work -- 16 Score Editing -- About Score Editing -- Score Editor Window -- Score Preferences -- Understanding Score Layers -- Global Settings -- Layout Settings -- Staff Settings -- Working Modes -- Tool Strip Functions -- Insert Buttons -- Enharmonic Shift Buttons -- Function Buttons -- Symbol Palettes -- Working with Chords -- Adding Text -- Printing and Page Setup -- A: Networking -- How Nuendo Networking Works -- Setting Up the Network -- User Manager -- Project Sharing and Permissions -- Shared Projects -- Track Controls -- B: Using MIDI Effects -- Saving Your Presets -- Event Creation Effects -- Arpache 5 -- Autopan -- Chorder -- Density -- MIDIEcho -- Step Designer -- Event Modifying Effects -- Compress -- Control -- Micro Tuner -- Note to Control Change Converter -- Quantizer -- Track Control -- Track Effects -- Input Transformer -- C: Logical Editing -- Logical Editor Parameters -- About Functions -- About Filter Target -- About Conditions -- About Boolean Expressions -- Specifying an Action -- D: Optimizing Nuendo through Customization -- Window Layouts -- Creating Templates -- Customizing Key Commands -- Macros -- Customizing Toolbars -- Customizing Your Transport Panel -- Customizing Track Controls -- E: Surround Mixing in Nuendo -- Surround Bus -- Surround Routing Options -- Surround Panner -- Routing Effects in Surround Outputs -- Exporting a Surround Mix -- F: Nuendo Resources on the Web -- Finding Help -- Nuendo Forums -- Steinberg's Information Center -- Updates and Downloads -- K-v-R VST -- Plug-In Resources and VST Instruments -- Arboretum -- Native Instruments -- Propellerhead -- Prosoniq -- Spectral Design -- Universal Audio -- TC Electronics -- Waves -- Sonalksis -- PSP -- Nomad Factory -- Drumagog -- Index.

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