Steinberg Nuendo 3 Getting Started Manual

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Drawing events in the Key Editor
When you move the pointer in the note display, its bar position is indi-
cated in the toolbar, and its pitch is indicated both in the toolbar and 
on the piano keyboard to the left. This makes it easy to find the right 
note and insert position.
To insert new notes in the Key Editor, proceed as follows:
1.Select the Pencil tool.
2.Click at the desired time position and pitch (height).
A note is inserted with the following...

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About Snap
Snap activated on the toolbar.
The Snap function helps you find exact positions when editing in the 
Key Editor. It does this by restricting horizontal movement and position-
ing to certain positions. Operations affected by snap include moving, 
duplicating, drawing, sizing, etc.
•When the “Bars+Beats” display format is selected in the ruler, the 
quantize value on the toolbar determines the snap value.
•When any time-based display format is selected in...

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About quantize
Quantizing in its fundamental form is a function that automatically 
moves recorded notes, positioning them on exact note values.
•Normally, quantizing affects MIDI notes only (not other event types).
However, you can choose to move the controllers together with their respective notes 
by activating the “Move Controller” option in the Quantize Setup dialog. This dialog is 
described in detail in the separate document “Working with MIDI”.
•In the...

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2.Open the quantize pop-up menu on the toolbar.
The menu contains three main categories of note values: Straight, Triplet and Dotted.
3.For this example, select straight 1/8 Note quantize from the menu.
4.Select “Over Quantize” from the MIDI menu.
This quantizes the MIDI notes according to the Quantize pop-up menu setting.
Straight note values
Triplet note values
Dotted note values    

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Editing velocity in the controller display
The Key Editor controller display is used for viewing and editing vari-
ous values and events. The controller display can have one or several 
lanes, each showing a separate event type.
•If no controller display is shown, right-click (Win) or [Ctrl]-click (Mac) 
anywhere in the editor window and select “Create New Controller Lane” 
from the pop-up menu that appears.
This displays the controller display at the bottom of...

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An example
In the following example we will create a velocity ramp using the Line 
tool:
1.Add some notes in the note display by using the Pencil tool.
2.Select the Line tool from the pop-up menu that appears by clicking on 
the Line tool icon.
The other tools available on this pop-up menu are described in the separate document 
“Working with MIDI”.
3.Click where you want the ramp to start, move the pointer to where you 
want the ramp to end and release the mouse...

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Tutorial 11: Customizing 

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About this tutorial
This chapter describes how you can set up and customize Nuendo in 
various ways according to your personal preferences.
Most parts of Nuendo can be customized to your liking: key commands 
can be freely changed and assigned to functions, the general look of 
the program can be changed, items can be hidden in the toolbars, the 
Track list and the Transport panel, menu items and entire menus can be 
hidden from view etc. You can change the entire...

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Hiding menu items
Separate menu items and even entire menus can be hidden from view 
in Nuendo. Since we’ve decided we don’t need any MIDI functions, 
let’s start by hiding the entire MIDI menu:
1.Pull down the File menu and select “Preferences...”.
The Preferences dialog opens.
2.In the left column, select “Configuration”.
The Configuration page contains a hierarchical view of folders, similar to the one in the 
Windows Explorer or the Mac OS Finder. There are two...

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5.Click Apply to apply your changes without closing the dialog.
The MIDI menu is hidden in the main menu bar.
There is another column to the right, labeled “Command”. This deter-
mines whether it should be possible to use key commands for the 
menu items (which can be possible even if the menu items are hidden 
from view). In this case we don’t want to use the MIDI features at all, 
so let’s turn off their key command functionality as well:
6.Click in the Command...