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Metronome settings
There is a new option called Use Time Signature at Record Start Time 
in the Precount Options section of the Metronome Setup dialog 
(which is accessed via the Transport menu).
In the Precount Options section you can specify how long (i.e. for how 
many bars) a precount click should be audible before recording starts 
and which time signature this precount click should use.
There are three options regarding the time signature of the precount:
•When you select Use Time Signature at Project Time, the time signa-
ture of the Tempo track including all tempo changes is used.
•When you select Use Signature, you can set a separate time signature 
that is independent of the Tempo track.
•When you select Use Time Signature at Record Start Time, the pre-
count will automatically use the time signature and tempo set at the 
position where recording will start.  
						

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Synchronization settings
There is a new option called “MIDI Clock Follows Project Position” in 
the MIDI Clock Destinations section of the Synchronization Setup dia-
log (which is accessed via the Transport menu).
The MIDI Clock Destinations section in the Synchronization Setup dialog.
This option is similar to the “MIDI Timecode Follows Project Time” op-
tion in the MIDI Timecode Destinations section in the same dialog (see 
the Synchronization chapter in the Operation Manual), only that this is 
applicable for devices synchronized to MIDI Clock signals instead of 
MIDI Timecode signals.
•Activate “MIDI Clock Follows Project Position” if you want the other 
device to follow when you loop, jump and locate during playback.
When this is activated, the sent MIDI Clock signals will follow the sequencer time and 
tempo position at all times.
Please note that some external devices may not react smoothly to these 
repositioning messages. Especially when working with some older de-
vices, it may take some time for them to synchronize accurately to the 
project time.  
						

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Duplicating tracks
On the Project menu, you will find the new “Duplicate track” command. 
When you select a track in the track list and choose this option, a copy 
of the selected track is created and inserted below the original track. 
You can also define a key command for this function.
Exporting selected tracks
Nuendo allows you to select individual tracks of a project and to export 
these as a track archive. When exporting, you now have the option to 
exclude the media files referenced by these tracks from the export, i.e. 
only file references and other track specific data are exported.
Importing Track Archives
Selecting individual tracks in an archive
When importing a track archive, you can select which of the tracks 
contained in this archive you wish to import. Proceed as follows:
1.Pull down the File menu and open the Import submenu.
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3.In the file dialog that appears, locate the archive’s xml file, select it and 
click “Open”.
The Import Options dialog opens.
4.In the Import Options dialog, click in the Import column to the left to 
select the desired track(s).
A check mark is shown for all selected tracks.  
						

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Sample rate conversion when importing tracks
A track archive may contain media files with a sample rate that is dif-
ferent from the sample rate of your currently active project. When im-
porting such a track archive, the Import Options dialog will show the 
different sample rates and an additional option in the Media Options 
section:
“Perform Sample Rate Conversion” is available in the Import Options dialog.
In the Media Options section of the Import Options dialog, select 
which operation to perform when importing the track(s):
•Select “Use Media Files From Archive” if you want to import the track 
without copying the media files into your project folder.
•Select “Copy Media To Project Folder” if you want to import the me-
dia files into your project folder. 
•When “Copy Media To Project Folder” is selected, the “Perform Sam-
ple Rate Conversion” option becomes available, allowing you to convert 
the imported media files to the sample rate used in the active project.  
						

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The Stereo Pan Law modes
In the Project Setup dialog there is a pop-up menu named “Stereo Pan 
Law”, on which you can select a pan mode. These different pan modes 
provide gain compensation. This is necessary because without com-
pensation, the gain of the sum of the left and right side will be higher 
(louder) if a channel is panned center than if it’s panned left or right. 
This is described in the chapter “The mixer” in the Operation Manual.
• You can now also select “Equal Power” on this pop-up menu, which 
means that the power of the signal will remain the same regardless of 
the pan setting. 
						

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Resizing tracks in the Track list
With the introduction of version 3.1 of the program, you have now the 
possibility to resize a track in the Track list without automatically select-
ing it. This is a handy feature when “Enlarge Selected Track” is acti-
vated (see page 52). 
Normally, a track automatically gets selected when it is being resized 
in the Track list. With Enlarge Selected Track activated, it is therefore 
impossible to change the track size for a track permanently. As soon 
as you try to resize it, it gets selected and is automatically enlarged.
However, there might be situations where you want to change the size 
of one of the tracks permanently. If this is the case, proceed as follows:
1.Move the mouse pointer over the lower border of the (unselected) 
track you want to resize.
The mouse pointer turns into a divider symbol.
2.Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the lower border of the track until it 
reaches the desired height.
•The track height is adjusted, but the track is not automatically selected. 
This way you can change the “original” size of the track. When this 
track is selected (and Enlarge Selected Track is activated), it will be 
enlarged and when another track gets selected, the track will revert to 
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Inspector sub panels
Normally, when a MIDI track is routed to a VST instrument, a new sub 
panel (with the name of the instrument) is added to the inspector for 
the selected track.
This is now also the case in the following situations:
• When a MIDI track is routed to an external instrument or effect that has an asso-
ciated MIDI Device. In this case, the new sub panel gets the name of the device.
• When a MIDI track is routed to an effect plug-in that also receives audio data, 
i.e. that is used as an insert effect for an audio track (e.g. MIDI Gate), a sub 
panel for this audio track appears in the MIDI track inspector.
• If a MIDI track is routed to an effect-plug-in assigned to a FX Channel track, a 
respective FX sub panel is added to the Inspector.
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Editing – MIDI
Freezing track parameters
This function affects the following settings for MIDI tracks:
• Several settings on the main tab of the Inspector (program and bank selection 
and the Delay parameter).
• The settings on the Track Parameters tab (i.e. Transpose, Velocity Shift, Veloc-
ity Compression and Length Compression).
• The settings on the Inserts tab. (If you are using an arpeggiator for example 
and want to convert the added notes into real events.)
The following settings for MIDI parts are taken into account as well:
• The Transpose and Velocity settings for parts displayed on the info line – 
please note that the Volume setting is not taken into account. 
Those settings usually do not change the MIDI events themselves, but 
rather work like a “filter”, affecting the music on playback. However 
sometimes you may want to make these settings permanent, i.e. con-
vert them to “real” MIDI events. For this, you can use the Freeze Track 
Parameter command on the MIDI menu. This works as follows:
1.Select the tracks whose settings should become permanent.
2.Pull down the MIDI menu and select “Freeze Track Parameter”.
The Inspector settings will be converted to MIDI events and inserted at the beginning 
of the part(s). All notes of the part(s) will be modified accordingly and the Inspector 
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Dissolving parts
The option “Optimized Display” has been added to the Dissolve Part di-
alog. The Dissolve Part function still splits parts into separate channels 
or pitches (depending on your settings), but you can now automatically 
remove the silent (empty) areas of the resulting parts by activating the 
“Optimized Display” checkbox.
The Legato dialog
One new feature has been added to the Legato dialog. Previously, 
when the Legato function was applied, it lengthened the selected note 
so that it reached the following note (for a detailed description of this 
function, see the chapter “MIDI processing and quantizing” in the pdf 
document “Working with MIDI”). In version 3.1 of the program, the Le-
gato Options dialog contains the checkbox “Selected Only”. When 
you activate this option, the length of the note will be adjusted so that 
it reaches the next selected note, allowing you e.g. to only apply Legato 
to your bass line (when playing on a keyboard).