By the way, I’ve cracked and started using layouts and assignments in the Artist Series control panel software. I’m actually more impressed than I thought I’d be… it’s a little bit slow to set up, but I hadn’t realised you can still bank through other channels on the unassigned faders, while the faders you’ve assigned to channels remain fixed in place.
The other advantage is that you still have immediate access to all the other channels in the Nuendo mixer, so if you have to tweak a channel that’s not on the surface, it’s right there on-screen (which it might not be if you’d hidden lots of tracks in the Nuendo mixer in order to rearrange channels on the hardware fader surface).
Ah shucks, whatever. Back to work.