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  • Page 1 Using Nuendo with DSP Factory...
  • Page 2 The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not rep- resent 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.
  • Page 3 Introduction The Yamaha DSP Factory is an audio hardware system for professional digital multitrack recording and mixing on personal computers. The core of this system is the DS2416 Digital Mixing Card, a PCI-bus audio card with professional specifications, extensive mixing capabilities and on-board EQ, dynamics and effects.
  • Page 4 Setting up Nuendo for use with DSP Factory ❐ Again, this assumes that you have installed the DSP Factory hardware ac- cording to the instructions in the supplied manual, and tested that it runs properly under Windows. Also, please note that the DSP Factory windows require a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768 to be fully viewable.
  • Page 5 Routing Audio between VST and the DSP Factory Audio routing with the DSP Factory is extremely flexible, allowing you to connect channels, aux sends and buses to various physical outputs and inputs. This is done in the special DSP Factory windows, as de- scribed on page 13.

  • Page 6: Outputs Tab

    Assigning Output Buses 1. Pull down the Devices menu, select VST Connections and open the Outputs tab. Repeat steps 3-7 of the description above until eight busses are shown in the Mixer. 2. Make sure that each bus is assigned to the desired DS2416 PCI Out. ❐...
  • Page 7 Selecting Inputs and Outputs for the Audio Channels This description assumes that you have set the number of mono and Stereo audio Tracks so that it corresponds with the number of output bus channels (16 if you have one DS2416 card installed). It also as- sumes that you want each audio channel in Nuendo assigned to a separate mixer channel strip in the DS2416 console.
  • Page 8 The Default Signal Routing This section describes how signals are routed by default, when you first start using the DS2416 card with Nuendo. If you wish you can change the signal routing, as described on page 34. However, this default routing allows you to perform basic playback and recording, and to use the built-in effects without having to change the routing.
  • Page 9 The Default Routing of signals from Nuendo to DS2416 There are sixteen separate “lines” from Nuendo to the DS2416. In VST, these appear as Output Buses (see page 6). In the DSP Factory Input Console window, the “lines” from Nuendo are by default connected to DS channel 1 to 16, as follows: VST Output (and default Output Bus) DS2416 Channel DS2416 #1 PCI 1/2...
  • Page 10 The Default Routing of signals from DS2416 into Nuendo There are eight separate “lines” from the DS2416 card into Nuendo. In Nuendo, these correspond to the four Audio Input pairs (see page In the DSP Factory Input Console window, the default configuration uses the eight bus sends to route signals from the audio card into VST (for recording).
  • Page 11 Physical Inputs and Outputs By default, the physical inputs and outputs of the DSP Factory system are connected to the DS channels in the following way: Inputs Physical Input DS Channel DS2416 Analog In Left DS2416 Analog In Right DS2416 Digital In Left DS2416 Digital In Right Outputs Bus/Send in the...
  • Page 12 The On-Board Effects The DS2416 card carries two powerful effect processors, which can easily be accessed with the default routing: • Signals are routed to the effects using Aux Send 5 (FX Unit 1) and Aux Send 6 (FX Unit 2). The effect inputs are in mono.
  • Page 13 Opening the DSP Factory Windows When Nuendo detects one or more DS2416 cards, special “DSP Factory” menu items are added to the Devices menu. These are the DSP Factory windows. Below follows a brief description of each window. For detailed infor- mation, click on the page number links.
  • Page 14 The Input Console window The Input Console window is the main DSP Factory window. If you view the DSP Factory as an external digital mixer, feeding and receiv- ing audio signals to and from Nuendo, this window is the mixer panel. ❐...

  • Page 15: Channel Strip

    The Upper Display 1. Locate the dividing line between the Upper and Lower display for the channel strip. 2. Point at the small triangle pointing upward, and press the mouse but- ton. A pop-up menu appears with the five modes for the Upper display. 3.
  • Page 16 Channel Controls in the Lower Display Aux Send On/Off buttons Bus On/Off buttons Pan Control Stereo link switch Level Display Level Fader Level Meter Fader Setting Channel Solo Channel Mute Input Selector Stereo Mix on/off switch The Lower Display in “Bus Assign”, “Aux Assign” and “Narrow” modes. –...
  • Page 17 Control Explanation Pan Control Sets the stereo position of the channel. This is used when you are as- signing channels to the buses (when the Bus Sends are in “Post Pan” mode - see below). Stereo link When this is activated (when the green arrow is lit), the two channels switch in an odd-even pair are linked.
  • Page 18 About the FX Return Channels The channels labeled “1” - “4” to the right in the Input Console window, are by default used as stereo effect returns for the on-board effect units. FX Return channels 1 and 2 control the return level from FX Unit 1, and FX Return channels 3 and 4 control the return level from FX Unit 2.
  • Page 19 Channel Controls in the Upper Display The Upper display in “Aux Send”, “Dynamics”, “Bus Send” and “EQ” modes. EQ Mode When EQ Mode is selected for the Upper Display, you have access to a four band parametric equalizer. Each EQ band has the following pa- rameters: Bypass Bypass-switch for the band.
  • Page 20 Selecting High/Low Pass or Shelving EQ types Normally, all four EQ bands are of the regular full parametric type, but you can switch the High and Low bands to Shelving or High/Low Pass Filter mode: • To select High/Low Shelving mode for the High or Low EQ band, turn the Q knob fully to the right.
  • Page 21 Dynamics Mode When Dynamics Mode is selected for the Upper Display, you have ac- cess to a complete multi-mode Dynamics processor for the channel. You use the Type pop-up menu (right above the “Parameters” label) to select which type of dynamics processing to use: Type Description Comp...
  • Page 22 Depending on which Dynamics Type you have selected, there are different parameters available. However, some general controls are available in all modes: Key-In pop-up menu In pop-up menu ON button Click this to activate the Dynamics processor for the channel. LINK button When this is activated, the dynamics processing is linked for the two channels in an odd-even pair.
  • Page 23 In the lower half of the Dynamics panel, you will find the actual controls: Parameter Description Threshold Determines the threshold level at which the dynamics processor is “trig- gered”. Whether signal levels above or below this level will trigger the processing, depends on the selected dynamics type.
  • Page 24 Bus Send Mode ❐ The Bus Sends are always post-fader. This means that in many cases (e.g. when using the buses for recording into Nuendo) there is no need to ad- just the individual bus send levels - you only need to activate the desired buses in the Lower display (Bus Assign mode) and set the recording level using the faders.
  • Page 25 Aux Send Mode In this mode you can view and control the six Aux Sends for the chan- nel. For each send there is a level control with a numeric display showing the current setting, an on/off switch (mirrored in the Lower display in Aux Assign mode) and a Post-fader switch.
  • Page 26 The Stereo Mix Section To the right in the Input Console window you will find the Stereo Mix section. This differs slightly from the regular channel strips: Lower Display In the Stereo Mix section, there are no different modes for the Lower display.
  • Page 27 The Common Panel To the left of the channel strips you will find a section with common controls: Control Description Meter Post Determines which signal the level meters button should show: When the button is acti- vated, the meters will show the levels post-fader.
  • Page 28 The Bus/Aux Console This window contains master level controls for the eight buses and six Aux sends, together with level meters and numerical level indicators. There are also Mute buttons for each bus/send. • The options for slow/fast metering and Peak Hold in the Input Console window affects the meters and indicators in the Bus/Aux Console as well.
  • Page 29 The Channel Overview This window allows you to view and access all controls at the same time for a single channel. You select which channel to view by using the Channel Selection pop-up menu in the upper left corner. The controls in the Channel Overview are the same as in the Input Console window, with the addition of the following parameters: Attenuator Allows you to adjust the input signal gain, with a range of -96 to +12 dB.
  • Page 30 The FX Editor This window allows you to select effect types and make settings for the two on-board effect units (labelled “FX Unit 1” and “FX Unit 2”). The window can be opened either from the Devices menu, or by click- ing the FX Show button in the Input Console window.
  • Page 31 Depending on the selected effect type, various parameters are dis- played in the window. You can edit these freely but your changes are lost when you select another effect type. For detailed descriptions of the effect types and parameters, see the DSP Factory documentation. •...
  • Page 32 Output Routing section Each bus or send can be routed to any output or any combination of outputs. However, it is not possible to route several different buses to the same output. In the Routing window, the output pairs are listed to the left: Output Description DS2416...

  • Page 33: Wordclock Settings

    Wordclock Settings The right half of the Routing window contains wordclock settings. These are used to determine which sample rate should be used for the audio playback and recording. Use the buttons to select one of the following options: Option Description Int 44.1 kHz The internal clock is used, with a sample rate of 44.1 kHz.
  • Page 34 Changing the Input Routing With the default routing of physical Inputs (see page 11), you only have access to the analog and digital inputs on the actual DS2416 card, not to any inputs on additional input/output units. If you have one or two in- put/output units installed, you may want to connect the inputs on these units to DS channels that normally take their input from Nuendo.
  • Page 35 Channel Input Options VST 1 IOB2-1 VST 2 IOB2-2 VST 3 IOB2-3 VST 4 IOB2-4 VST 5 IOB2-5 VST 6 IOB2-6 VST 7 IOB2-7 VST 8 IOB2-8 VST 9 IOB1-1 SUB 1 IOA2-1 VST 10 IOB1-2 SUB 2 IOA2-2 VST 11 IOB1-3 SUB 3 IOA2-3...
  • Page 36 Changing the Output Routing It is possible to route each bus or send (except Aux 5-6) to any output or any combination of outputs. However, it is not possible to route several different buses to the same output. Output routing is done in the Routing window: 1.
  • Page 37 3. Pull down the pop-up menu next to the output and select the desired Aux or Bus Send pair. ❐ Even though the Aux Sends are selected in pairs, it is not possible to use them as “stereo sends”, since the pan setting of the channel is not taken into account.
  • Page 38 Single-Track Recording Recording a single mono or stereo Track in Nuendo with the DSP Factory is easily done, using the default signal routing: Recording a Mono Track ❐ In this section we assume that you are recording a signal connected to one of the analog or digital inputs on the DS2416 card, and that you are monitoring using the analog or digital outputs on the card.
  • Page 39 10.Make sure the Post Pan button is deactivated, activate the Bus Send and turn its send level knob fully up. ❐ Make sure this Bus Send is deactivated for all other DS Channels, to avoid leakage or re-recording background Tracks! 11.Open the Bus/Aux Console window and check the level for the acti- vated Bus (in our example, Bus 1).
  • Page 40 6. Make sure the Meter “Post” button is deactivated in the common panel in the Input Console window. This will make the channel level meters show the input level, pre-fader. 7. Open the Channel Overview window and select one of the channels in the stereo pair.

  • Page 41: Recording With Effects

    Recording with Effects If you like to add effects to the signal you are recording, proceed as follows: 1. Set up the controls as described above (for mono or stereo recording). 2. Activate Aux Sends 5 and/or 6 for the input channel(s), and set their send level knobs to medium values.

  • Page 42: Multi-Track Recording

    Multi-Track Recording The DSP Factory system makes it possible to record up to eight sep- arate audio Tracks at the same time (in a setup with one DS2416 card). Proceed as follows: ❐ In this section we assume that you have at least one additional input/out- put unit installed, and that you are recording mono signals from several different inputs at the same time, while monitoring through the analog or digital outputs on the card.
  • Page 43 6. Rehearse the recording and adjust the sound (using Dynamics and/or EQ). 7. Activate recording in Nuendo. Mixing down to a Stereo Output Once you have finished a piece of music, you may want to mix it down to an external two track recorder (DAT, MD, tape, etc). This example describes how to mix down sixteen separate VST audio channels to stereo, adding the on-board effects, one external effect unit and the stereo output of a MIDI instrument.
  • Page 44 2. In Nuendo, you should route mono channels (in pairs) to the same Out- put Bus, and pan them fully left/right. In other words, if you have six mono Tracks, these should be routed to three separate Output Buses. This panning is only done to separate the channels, by directing them to separate sides of one stereo Output Bus.
  • Page 45 10.Make effect settings for the internal and external effects, and adjust the effect return channels. 11.Put your two track recorder in “Record-stand by” mode or similar, so that you can check the input levels. ❐ A word of caution: Most digital recorders automatically switch to the cor- rect sample rate when recording, but there may be cases when you need to adjust this manually.
  • Page 46 Mixing down to a new Track in Nuendo An alternative to mixing down to a separate two track recorder is to mix down to a new audio file. If you were using Nuendo alone, you would use the Export Audio Mixdown feature for this, but this cannot include the DSP Factory mixing and effects (since the DS2416 card actually is an external mixer - albeit within your computer).
  • Page 47 Working with two DS2416 Cards If you have two DS2416 cards installed, these can be connected using the SI/SO (Serial In/Out) connections on the cards, giving you access to integrated 48-channel mixing with 4 separate on-board FX units. 1. Use the supplied serial cables to connect the SO output on card A to the SI input on card B, and vice versa.
  • Page 48 Routing With two DS2416 cards, the signal routing has the following properties: • There are 32 separate “lines” from Nuendo to the DSP Factory (sixteen stereo Output Buses). By default, VST 1 to 16 are assigned as inputs to DS Channels 1 to 16, and VST 17 to 32 are assigned as inputs to DS Channels 21 to 36.
  • Page 49 Effects When you have two DS2416 cards installed, the Aux 3-4 Sends will automatically be routed to the FX Unit on the Master card. All DS channels (regardless of which card they “belong to”) can access all four FX units. In the FX Editor, there will be four options on the “FX Unit”...
  • Page 50 Remote Controlling the DSP Factory Mixer It is possible to use a Yamaha 01V digital mixer to remote control the DSP Factory mixer in Nuendo. Setting Up ❐ Make sure to read the chapter about Remote Control in the Operation Manual as well, for general information about remote control in Nuendo.
  • Page 51 About the Layouts As when you are using the 01V to control the VST mixer parameters, there are two different “Layouts” for controlling the DSP Factory Mixer in Nuendo (there are two Layouts for controlling the VST Mixer, as de- scribed in the Operation Manual).
  • Page 52 Layout 2 Channels in 01V DS-Channels in Nuendo DSP Factory Mixer 1 to 4 17 to 20 Stereo Master Stereo Mix Return 1 FX Return 1 (activate the Stereo Link for FX Return channel 1 to control FX Return channels 1 and 2 simultaneously) Return 2 FX Return 3 (activate the Stereo Link for FX Return channel 3 to control FX Return channels 3 and 4 simultaneously)
  • Page 53 Index – 53 –...
  • Page 54 ASIO Drivers Effects Attenuator Default Routing Aux Assign Mode Return Channels Controls Sends Selecting Settings Aux Send Mode With Two Cards Controls EQ Mode Selecting Controls AX44 Audio Expansion Units Selecting Shelving/HPF/LPF Bus Assign Mode Controls Fader Selecting FX Editor Bus Send Mode FX Return Channels Controls...
  • Page 55 Narrow mode Sample Rate Solo Stereo link Stereo Mix Output Buses (Nuendo) Stereo Mix on/off Output Routing SUB Inputs Outputs SW1000XG Card Default Routing Physical Routing Wordclock Peak Hold Yamaha DS2416 Drivers Phase Invert Recording Mono Multi-Track Stereo With Effects Remote Control Remote Control (01V) Routing...