Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual

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Handling tracks
To add a track to the project, select “Add Track” from the Project 
menu and select a track type from the submenu that appears. The 
new track is added below the currently selected track in the Track list.
•The items on the “Add Track” submenu are also available on the 
Quick menu.
This is accessed by right-clicking (Win)/[Ctrl]-clicking (Mac) in the Track list.
•There is an additional option at the bottom of the Add Track submenu, 
called “Multiple...”....

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•To select a track, click on it in the Track list.
A selected track is indicated by a light grey color in the Track list. 
It is possible to select several tracks, by pressing [Ctrl]/[Command] and clicking them. 
To select a continuous range of tracks, use [Shift]-clicking.
•To move a track, click and drag it up or down in the list.
•To duplicate a track, complete with all contents and channel settings, 
right-click (Win)/[Ctrl]-click (Mac) in the Track list and select...

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Dividing the Track list
It is possible to divide the Track list into two parts. Both sections will 
have independent zoom and scroll controls (if needed), but resizing 
the window vertically will affect the lower section only (if possible). 
This could be convenient for example if you’re working with a video 
track along with multi-track audio. This way, you can place the video 
track in the upper Track list, letting you scroll the audio tracks sepa-
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•You can resize the upper part by clicking and dragging the divider be-
tween the Track lists.
Switching between musical or linear time base
Tracks can be either “musical” (tempo) or “linear” (time) based.
• On a track using linear time base, the events will be positioned on specific 
time positions – changing the playback tempo will not affect the time position 
of events.
• On a track using musical time base, the positions of events are represented 
as meter values...

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Note that internally, events on musical time based tracks use the same 
high precision for positioning (64 bit floating point values) as linear time 
based events.
However, switching between linear and musical time base results in a 
very small loss of precision (introduced by the mathematical operations 
used for scaling values in the two different formats). Therefore you 
should avoid switching repeatedly between the two modes.
For more information about tempo changes,...

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• The Project window of another open project.
• The Audio Part Editor of any open project.
• The Sample Editor of any open project – press [Ctrl]/[Command] and drag to 
create an event of the current selection, or click in the left column of the re-
gion list and drag to create an event from a region.
• The “Find media” dialog.
While you drag the clip in the Project window, its position will be indicated by a 
marker line and a numerical position box. See also page 484....

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•Open Options Dialog.
An Options dialog appears when you import, allowing you to select whether you want 
to copy the files to the Audio folder and/or convert them to the project settings. Note:
- When importing a single file of a format other than the project settings, you can spec-
ify which properties (sample rate and/or resolution) should be changed.
- When importing multiple files at the same time, you can select to have the imported 
files automatically converted...

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•Double click with the Arrow tool on a MIDI or audio track, between the 
left and right locator.
To add events to a MIDI part, you use the tools and functions in a MIDI 
editor, see the separate PDF document “Working with MIDI”. Adding 
events to audio parts is done in the Audio Part Editor (see page 423) 
by pasting or by using drag and drop.
•You can also gather existing audio events into a part, by using the 
“Events to Part” function on the Audio menu.
This creates...

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Scrubbing
The Scrub tool allows you to locate positions in the audio by playing 
back, forwards or backwards, at any speed:
1.Select the Scrub tool.
Note that the Play tool and the Scrub tool share the same tool button. If the rightmost 
tool icon on the toolbar isn’t a “Scrub symbol”, first click on the icon to select it, then 
click again and select “Scrub” from the pop-up menu that appears.
2.Click at the desired position and keep the mouse button pressed.
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Selecting events
Selecting events is done using any of the following methods:
•Use the Arrow tool.
The standard selection techniques apply.
•Use the Select submenu on the Edit menu.
The options are:
Note that these functions work differently when the Range Selection 
tool is selected (see page 146).
•Select all events on a track by right-clicking in its Track list and select-
ing “Select All Events” from the pop-up menu that appears.
•You can also use the arrow keys on...