Steinberg Nuendo 3 Getting Started Manual

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Audio tracks, parts and channels
For an audio event to be played back in Nuendo, it has to be placed on 
an 
audio track. This is similar to a track on a multi-track tape recorder, 
and allows you to view the event and move it along the timeline. You 
can place any number of audio events on an audio track, but only one 
at a time can be played back. You can have a virtually unlimited number 
of audio tracks, although the number of tracks you can play back at the 
same...

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MIDI terminology
When you are recording MIDI (or entering MIDI data manually in an 
editor), 
MIDI events are created. For example, each note you record is a 
separate MIDI event, and if you record the movement of a modulation 
wheel or other controller, a large number of densely spaced events 
are created.
MIDI events are always placed in 
MIDI parts. These are “containers”, al-
lowing you to move or copy a number of MIDI events (e.g. a recorded 
MIDI melody line) as...

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Basic Methods 

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About this chapter
This chapter contains descriptions of the general methods and proce-
dures used in Nuendo. As this information applies to all parts of the pro-
gram and all ways of working, please take time to read this chapter 
before continuing with the Operation Manual. 
Using menus
Main menus
The menus in the main Nuendo menu bar are available regardless of 
which window is active. You select items from the main menus follow-
ing the standard procedure for the operating...

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The Quick menu
In Nuendo, clicking the right mouse button will bring up a contextual 
pop-up menu (under Mac OS X you need to press [Ctrl] and click, or 
preferably use a two-button mouse set up so that the right mouse but-
ton generates a [Ctrl]-click). 
Some areas have special context menus with functions or settings that 
only apply to the corresponding area (for example, right-clicking in a 
ruler brings up a pop-up menu with display format options).
However, right-clicking...

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Using tools
Editing in Nuendo is largely done with the various tools. Typical exam-
ples are selecting and moving events with the Arrow (Object Selection) 
tool, drawing with the Pencil tool, deleting with the Eraser tool, etc. 
There are different tools for different windows.
Tools can be selected in four ways:
•By clicking the corresponding tool icon on the toolbar.
When you click a tool icon, the pointer takes on the shape of the corresponding tool.
•By using the Quick...

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•By using the dedicated toolbox.
If the option “Popup toolbox on right click” is activated in the Preferences dialog (Edit-
ing page), right-clicking (or [Ctrl]-clicking under Mac OS X) will bring up the toolbox 
instead. This shows the tools only and you select tools as if from a menu. 
Note that you can still bring up the Quick menu in this mode by pressing a modifier key 
(e.g. [Shift]) and right-clicking/[Ctrl]-clicking. Similarly, if the option isn’t activated in 
the...

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Changing values
Throughout the program you will encounter various value fields that 
can be edited. These can be divided into three categories: position 
values, regular numeric values and names.
Editing position values
Depending on the selected display format (see the Operation Manual), 
position values in Nuendo are usually divided into several “segments” 
(the exception being the “Samples” display format, in which values are 
edited as regular numeric values). Two examples:...

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You can also edit the whole value (all segments) by double clicking 
and typing in a new value. Note:
•To separate the value segments, you can use spaces, dots, colons or 
any other character that isn’t a number.
•If the “Bars+Beats” display format is selected, and you enter a value 
with less than four segments, the largest position value segments will 
be affected and the program will set the lesser segments to their low-
est values.
For example, if you enter “5.3”, the...

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•In the Inspector and elsewhere in the program you can find value sliders 
that may be blue or green – click and drag to adjust the value.
•For some values, you can hold down [Alt]/[Option], click on the value 
and keep the mouse button pressed to display a value slider.
This allows you to scroll the value by dragging up or down with the mouse button 
pressed. When you release the mouse button, the value slider is hidden again.
Adjusting the event volume setting on the info...