Source-Connect Pro 3.8 and Nuendo

With the new standalone Source-Connect application and Link plugin things just got even easier.

Read on to learn how to integrate Source-Connect 3.8 with your Nuendo setup with this excellent tutorial from Max Howarth at Red Facilities in Scotland. This tutorial also applies to Cubase on both macOS and Windows.

Download the Nuendo sessions described here: Source-Connect 3.8 and Nuendo sessions.zip.

If the talent is at another studio

1. Create a new project with 3 mono Audio Tracks and 2 mono Group Channel Tracks and Name the first audio track Talent, the second Talkback and the third Other Studio. Then name the first Group Channel Track Incoming, the second Outgoing. Insert a Source-Connect Link plugin on each Group Channel.
2. Activate Send 1 from the Talent track and select Outgoing Group channel as the destination.
3. Check that your talkback mic is routed to the correct input (we use Mono In 3 for this). Route the output of the Talkback track to the Outgoing group channel only. Make sure that the VST Auto Monitoring mode is set to Tapemachine Style.
4. Change the input routing of the Other Studio track to the Incoming Group.
5. Enable monitoring on the Talkback and Other Studio tracks and Record Enable on the Talent Track.
6. Source-Connect Link: Nuendo reads the links in the order they are 'built' by the MixConsole, left to right. So the Talent channel (far left) is Link 1, the Outgoing channel is Link 2.

In the Source-Connect Pro application click on the Settings tab and select Link 2 as the input and Link 1 as the output. This may be different to the way you originally set the project up.

If you're using (the excellent) Remote Transport Sync and connecting to a Pro Tools session you need to make sure that your project starts at 00:00:00:00. Otherwise the timecodes won't match up.

And that's it. All you need to do is a quick test by connecting to the echo48mono contact. Tap on the talkback mic and you'll hear it echo back (roughly a second later).

If the talent is in the studio

1. Create a new project with 2 mono Audio Tracks and 2 mono Group Channel Tracks. Name the first audio track Talkback and the second track Other Studio.
2. Then name the first Group Channel Track Incoming, the second Outgoing. Insert a Source-Connect Link plugin on each Group Channel.
3. Check that your talkback mic is routed to the correct input (we use Mono In 3 for this). Route the output of the Talkback track to the Outgoing group channel only. Make sure that the VST Auto Monitoring mode is set to Tapemachine Style.
4. Enable monitoring on the Talkback track and Record Enable on the Other Studio Track.
5. Nuendo reads the links in the order they are 'built' by the MixConsole, left to right. So the Talent channel (far left) is Link 1, the Outgoing channel is Link 2. In the Source-Connect Pro application click on the Settings tab and select Link 2 as the input and Link 1 as the output.

If you're using (the excellent) Remote Transport Sync and connecting to a Pro Tools session you need to make sure that your project starts at 00:00:00:00. Otherwise the timecodes won't match up.

And that's it. All you need to do is a quick test by connecting to the echo48mono contact. Tap on the talkback mic and you'll hear it echo back (roughly a second later).