Tips Tricks And Workflow Goodness

Ahoy,

More goodness collated into the 1st post.

man, you peoples are so clever.

Eiry

Hi. This is a great topic. I’ve learned a lot of things!!.
So I’d like to share some way I use to work with Nuendo:.

  1. Take a look at Direct Folders: Direct Folders for Windows - Code Sector
    It provides the function Cubendo should have long time ago, remembering paths. It also let you go to a folder of your choice (previously configured) with middle mouse double click. Time saver. All the stuff from codesector is top notch (Terra copy bypasses windows copy engine. its 10 times faster)
  2. I don’t use Track Presets. This function seems broken/ not mature enough. Instead of I use export Track Archives. You can make templates of mixed channels (MIDi, FX,Groups, audio, markers etc.) and recall them from any folder!. Just use Direct Folders :slight_smile:. Takes 2 secs. As a bonus I can instantly recall different Generic Remote setups. Just use DF (from now on I will use this as the Direct Folders name :slight_smile: )
  3. I did post a way to make “fake” VCA" on the Nuendo forum. It is the way I like it :slight_smile: .
    Blue Cat company has got a suite of free gain plugins. The nice thing is they respond to MIDI and can be grouped!
    So: Insert x amount of Free Gain plugin into desired channels. Group them. Configure them to respond to a Cubendo’s MIDI channel. Instant VCA. Here the link : VCA FADERS DIY!! - Nuendo - Steinberg Forums. And: I f you insert the in slot 6 you ride pre fader, slot 7 post fader or a mixture you desire. PT VCA is a joke in comparison LOL. :imp:
  4. Another thing I was looking for was the soundminers ability to PREVIEW SFX with VST plugins. Solution: Just use Headphone Bus (assuming one is using Control Room). You can insert plugs into the bus and preview Media Bay in real time. Link: Soundminer DIY - Nuendo - Steinberg Forums. It saves some bucks and lets you “design” sfx as you preview database. :nerd:

More to come :slight_smile:
Thank you for the great topic!!



For me it doesn’t arm the tracks because once you delete the items it goes to the first selected track and only that one is armed. This is because “Track Selection Follows Event Selection” is enabled which makes the first selected track the only selected track after delete.

However if you change the order of the last two it will work more consistently (i.e. With “Track Selection Follows Event Selection” enabled) though you loose track selection if on anything but Range Selection tools but duplicated tracks are still armed.

I also don’t ever need any other tracks to be record enabled and usually they are monitoring through the tracks I am duplicating so they are already armed. So I added a Project Logical Editor for all armed tracks (already a shortcut for disabling only audio tracks in Mixer key commands if you need just that).

- duplicate selected track 
- select all events on the new one
- PLE - Disable Arming On All Audio, MIDI & Instrument Tracks
- arm for record
- delete

I use this all the time with Pro Tools and select what I want to duplicate so this would be a great help to get set up.


Pro Tools Duplicate Selected Tracks.jpg

this is good stuff-- i would insert a realtime pitch shifting plugin for previewing samples in a transposed key at once.

Great tips here and I appreciate this thread. Thanks all!

SHIFT + ALT click on ‘e’ will open all inserts on that channel.

SHIFT + click on ‘e’ will close all inserts.

This works with any modifier but the control key on a Mac. It seems like I once found a consecutive number method (not shift on selected input and output paths), like Logic does for Objects in the Environment.

Command click on Inspector items to open more than one. Shift click on any of them to close all of them at once. Handy when you use Inspector shortcuts since there doesn’t seem to be a shortcut to close them all at once. You quickly loose view of some items using the shortcuts unless you always toggle them. Thankfully toggling any item (that may be open already) now brings it back into view though.

Do you know if there is a way to toggle them from open and closed for the currently open windows or plug-ins. Cmd+opt+ctrl+w is what it is for Pro Tools and it is so handy, I use that feature all the time.

Also is there a key command to open all plug-ins on selected track without mouse clicking (option+shift on the edit button). Something similar to what “Edit VST Instrument” does but for plug-ins.

Did you edit the XML file manually? I get the pop-up this is already assigned to another key command.

there isn’t unfortunately. (no to both.)

(might want to try going through the generic remote-assignable commands though; it’s detective work but you may find some nice surprises there. lots more on top of what’s available as a regular keycommand. just not this very feature i’m afraid. what you can in fact find as assignable commands via generic remote is to ‘open insert # X’. you could then send 8 midi commands via GR to open up all 8 potential inserted GUIs on a given channel. again, not the best way of interpretting the concept of ‘user experience’ by steinberg.)

Great thanks Lukas for the ideas and help, happy that there is at least a way to implement it. I hadn’t seen the insert slot feature so I’ll have to set that up now.

Thank also for helping me end the mad hunt for the toggle open windows thing!


a video shows how to use VSTI as Click source and record (Export) it as an audio…
(italian spoken but understandable anyway for non italian speakers as i am )

Howdy People,

Collated a couple more clever shortcuts into the 1st post.

As this thread gets bigger and more and more unwieldy I’m sure I’m missing a ripper tip here or there, if you spot any plz PM me or re-post below, I’ll get onto it.

Should this be thread be sticky?

As always, thanks to all for your wiliness and especially for sharing it.

Hi Paul,

I think this is a great use of the forum- and you’ve taken the trouble to maintain the original post, so I stickied it. If you continue to keep it going that would be great.

If you (or anyone) could flag posts off topic posts, I’ll remove them to keep the thread clean. The moderators do appreciate when members flag posts since one can’t (and won’t! :stuck_out_tongue: )read each post. :slight_smile:

This is a “I can’t believe I didn’t know that” kind of observation:

"In the history window, you can go up and down using the arrow keys. "

All these years I’ve been using the mouse which is really hard to do accurately in that window for some reason.

Thanks to greggybud for pointing this out in another post.

Also: can close the history window with a CTRL-W (Win), as long as it’s in focus. Can’t be brain-dead about that though, if it’s not in focus Cubase wants to close the whole project. But it won’t without a 2-step confirmation.

lukasbrooklyn posted this very useful hint on replacing an audio file in your project by a new audio file, possibly influencing dozens of events:

Replace all audio clip instances - by lukasbrooklyn
To replace all instances of an audio event in a project (akin to exchanging a sample in a sampler), put your replacement sample in the pool, the drag it from the pool whist holding shift, and drop it onto the event to be replaced.

My question is: why is this not mentioned in the pool manual, or (if it is): where do I find such functions in the manual?
mr0berts

good tip :wink:

it’s not there is it?

oh well…

let me update the original tip i made, which had been:

“this one isn’t too known i guess: to replace all instances of an audio event in a project (akin to exchanging a sample in a sampler), put your replacement sample in the pool, then drag it from the pool whist holding shift, and drop it onto the event to be replaced.”

try the same with mediabay – it works much the same way. have your mediabay open on one half of the screen and drag + shift + drop audio files on events to replace all instances of that event. almost like browsing samples in a sampler.

i could think of a dozen improvements to this (like: “only exchange samples for events between locators” and so on), but still quite a powerful feature as it is (albeit uber-hidden).

my script for alt+mousewheel vertical scrolling that some people have been requesting