Steinberg Nuendo 3.1 User Manual

 
Working with the new features 

 
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Editing – General
New Preferences options
 
For Nuendo 3.1 several changes have been made to the Preferences 
dialog. A new subpage “Project & Mixer” has been added to the Editing 
page, the VST page has been further subdivided, etc. In the following 
sections, the changes are described separately for the different pages 
of the dialog.  

 
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Appearance
 
Appearance–Work Area
 
On this subpage, the Drum Editor option “Active Drum Line Intensity” 
has been added. This allows you to accentuate the display of the se-
lected drum line. 
Editing
 
On the main Editing page, the following options have been added: 
• 
Use Up/Down Navigation Commands for selecting Tracks only
By default, tracks are selected with the up/down arrow keys on the 
computer keyboard. These are however also used for selecting...

 
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mat setting on the Transport panel. When this is set to “Bars+Beats”, 
tracks with musical time base will be added. When this is set to any of 
the other options (Seconds, Timecode, Samples, etc.), all new tracks 
will use linear time base. 
Editing–Project & Mixer
 
This is a new subpage of the Preferences dialog with the following 
new options: 
• 
Auto Track Color Mode 
This offers you several options for automatically assigning colors to tracks that are...

 
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• 
The “Scroll to selected…” pop-up menu
The options in this pop-up menu work as follows: 
• When you select “Track”, the Track list display follows the display in the Mixer, 
i.e. when you select a channel in the mixer, the respective track is automatically 
displayed in the Track list as well. (However, this does not work the other way 
around in this mode.)
• When you select “Channel”, selecting a track in the Track list automatically 
scrolls the mixer to...

 
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MIDI
 
On the main MIDI page, the following options have been added: 
• 
Insert Reset Events after Record
This is a very handy function for MIDI recording. At the end of each re-
corded part, a Reset event will be inserted, resetting controller data 
such as Sustain, Aftertouch, Pitchbend, Modulation, Breath Control, 
etc. This is useful if a MIDI part is recorded and e.g. the Sustain pedal is 
still held after stopping recording. Usually, this would cause all...

 
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sage again” checkbox, it will not be displayed in the future (when open-
ing other projects with missing plug-ins etc.). To display this message 
again, and thus be able to export important warnings as text files, acti-
vate the option “Activate dialog ‘Export Warnings as text file’”. 
• 
Warn on Processing Overloads
When you activate this option, a warning message will be displayed 
as soon as the CPU clip indicator (on the Transport panel) lights up 
during...

 
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Key Commands
 
A wide range of new key commands has been added for various areas 
of the program. These can be assigned or modified as usual in the Key 
Commands dialog (this is described in detail in the Key Commands 
chapter in the Operation Manual).
There is now a separate Mixer section in the Key Commands dialog 
(see also page 47), allowing you to e.g. hide the different channel types, 
to save or load the Mixer settings, etc. In the Edit category, you can...

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•Toggle Selected Track
When you select this menu option, the fold state of the selected track is reversed, i.e. 
if the track was folded in (its elements (subtracks) were hidden), it is now unfolded (all 
subtracks displayed) and vice versa.
•Fold Tracks
Select this menu option to fold in all open folder tracks in the Project window. Please 
note that the exact behavior of this function depends on the “Deep Track Folding” set-
ting in the Preferences dialog, see...

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Gluing events/parts together
In version 3.1 of the program, the behavior of the Glue Tube tool has 
been modified. Below, you will find descriptions of what you can do 
with this tool.
Working with the Glue Tube tool
By using the Glue Tube tool, you can combine several audio or MIDI 
events/parts or even controller events in the Project window, the In-
Place-Editor, the MIDI editors, etc. in the following ways:
Gluing one audio event/part to the next
Clicking on...