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 additional properties:
•If you just click once, the created note will get the length set on the 
“length Q” pop-up menu on the toolbar.
You can create a longer note by clicking and dragging the pointer to the right with the 
mouse button pressed. The length of the created note will be a multiple of the Length 
Quantize value.
•The notes will get the insert velocity value set on the toolbar.
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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 the ruler, editing 
snaps to the visible grid.
Selecting and moving events
To select events in the Key Editor window, proceed as follows:
1.Make sure the Arrow tool is selected.
If not, click on the Arrow icon in the toolbar.
2.To select a single event, click on it.
To select several events, use [Shift]-clicking or click and drag a selection rectangle.
To move events in the Key Editor window, proceed as follows:
1.If you want to move more than one event, select them as described 
above.
If you want to move a single event, you don’t need to select it.
2.Click on one of the events with the Arrow tool and drag it to the desired 
position.
If Snap is activated on the toolbar, this determines the exact position of the moved 
events.  
						

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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 Project window, quantizing applies to all selected parts, affecting all 
notes within them.
•In the Key Editor, quantizing applies to all selected notes. If no notes are se-
lected, all notes will be affected.
Here follows a simple step by step example of using the quantize 
function:
1.Let’s say you have recorded a series of eighth notes, which you have 
opened for viewing in the Key Editor.
As shown in the illustration below, some of them have ended up slightly beside the exact 
eighth note positions.
Now there are two ways you can proceed:
•To quantize all notes, no notes need to be selected.
•To quantize some notes only, select them.
Only the selected notes will be quantized.
In this example, we will leave all note events unselected – this means 
all notes will be quantized.  
						

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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 the Key Editor window.
•If you click the arrow to the left of the controller display, a pop-up ap-
pears allowing you to select what event type you wish to view.
For this example, select “Velocity”.
•When “Velocity” is selected for viewing, the controller display shows 
the velocity of each note as a vertical bar.
Velocity events in the controller display.
•To change the velocity of a single note, click on its velocity bar with 
the Pencil tool, and drag the bar up or down. If there are several notes 
on the same position only the velocity value of the selected note is 
changed. If there is no note selected, the velocity values for all notes 
on this position will be changed.
While you drag, the current velocity value is shown in the display to the left.
•To change the velocity values of several notes, you can either draw a 
“velocity curve” with the Pencil tool or use the Line tool to create a ve-
locity ramp.  
						

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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 button.
When the mouse button is released, the velocity values will be scaled according to the 
ramp curve.    
						

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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 look of the program 
using appearances, if you wish.
This tutorial deals with adapting your work environment to what you 
need to do and how you want to do it. We will assume that you don’t 
need to use MIDI at all and therefore want to hide all MIDI related 
functions. Furthermore, we will describe how to set up preferences, 
key commands, workspaces etc. and create a template.
This will show you some of all the ways in which Nuendo can be tai-
lored to best suit your needs and purposes. However, you should also 
read the chapter “Customizing” in the Operation Manual since many 
available options and settings are not described in this chapter. 
						

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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 main folders – “Main Menu” 
and “Command Categories”, which contain subfolders for all main menu items and 
Key Command categories respectively.
3.Locate the subfolder “MIDI” in the main folder “Main Menu”.
This subfolder corresponds to the MIDI menu in Nuendo. If you click the “+” button to 
the left of the subfolder, it opens to reveal all the items on the MIDI menu.
4.To hide the entire MIDI menu in Nuendo, click in the Menu column to 
the right of the “MIDI” subfolder.
The text “On” in the column now changes to “Off” – indicating that the menu won’t be 
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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 column for the “MIDI” subfolder to set it to “Off”.
Now we’ve hidden the entire MIDI menu. You can also hide individual 
menu items in the same way:
7.Click the “+” button to the left of the “File” subfolder.
The File subfolder opens, revealing all items on the File menu. As you can see, the File 
subfolder in turn contains a few other subfolders, among them one called “Import”. 
This corresponds to the Import submenu on the File menu.
8.Click the “+” button to the left of the Import subfolder.
9.In the list of menu items in the Import subfolder, locate the item “MIDI 
File...”.
Since we don’t need to be able to import MIDI files into Nuendo, we can hide this.
10.Hide this from view and disable it by setting the Menu and Command 
columns to “Off”.
The “Import MIDI File” menu item will now be hidden and you won’t be able to access 
it with a key command.
In this way, you can proceed to hide any and all menu items you don’t 
need.