Steinberg Nuendo Time Base User manual

Time Base – Operation Manual

Operation Manual by D. Popow
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Table of Contents

TIME BASE
4 Table of Contents
7 Preface
9 Package Contents and
Installation
10 Package Contents
10 Installation – Connections –
Getting Started
11 Im ortant Safety Instructions
12 Driver Software Installation
12 Windows PC Drivers
12 Mac OS X Drivers
13 Features and Basic
Settings
14 Time Base – Brief Overview
15 Basic Settings
17 Typical Setup
Exa ples
18 Basics
19 Com uter Connection
20 Settings in Nuendo
20 Time Base
22 Setting u the Time Base
9-Pin Device Control Panel
24 Time Base Slave
25 Setu Exam les
25 LTC as the Master
25 MTC as the Master
27 Internal Clock as the Master
28 House Sync (Blackburst) as
the Master
30 Machine Control
34 Video functions
36 Digital Varis eed
37 Reference
38 Basics
40 Selecting Pages in the
Dis lay
40 The Main Page – Dis lay
age P.1
48 VITC and Time Code
Inserter – Dis lay age P.2
50 Varis eed, Word Clock 2,
3, 4 and AES/EBU Out ut –
Dis lay age P.3
52 Time Code Test and Offset
– Dis lay age P.4
54 LTC out ut, Preroll, USB
ort and System Video
settings – Dis lay age P.5
57 Selecting tracks and
switching Track Selection
ages – 9-Pin-Machine A –
Dis lay age P.A
59 Track Selection Virtual
Machine – Dis lay age P.V
61 Service and Machine
Pages
62 Calling u the Service and
Machine Pages
62 Virtual Machine and MMC
settings – Dis lay age SP1
65 Presets, Time Code level,
Red light and SYSEX
handling, Initialization after a
Software U date – Dis lay
age SP2
68 Test and Setu Machine A
72 Preset Tables

TIME BASE
Table of Contents 5
77 Connections
78 Connections on the rear anel
78 VITC-Reader/Generator/
Inserter
78 Video Sync In/Out
78 LTC – Longitudinal Time
Code
79 VST System Link
79 Word Clock OUT 1-4
79 USB
79 9-Pin
80 GPI/O | MIDI
80 Wiring Exam les – GPI/O
81 Power and Protection
Circuit
82 Technical Data
83 VST Syste Link
84 What is VST System Link?
85 How does VST System Link
work?
86 VST System Link –
Troubleshooting
87 Glossary