Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual

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Audio tracks
For audio tracks, all settings and sections listed above are available.
•User Panels for audio tracks can display panels for channel controls 
(such as input phase or the linked panner option) or for VST effects 
currently inserted in the channel.
•User Panels for audio tracks are accessed by [Ctrl]/[Command]-click-
ing on the Edit Channel button in the Inspector. This opens up a menu 
listing all the device panels available for the audio track. If panels have 
not yet been created, you will see “Setup” panels in the menu. Double-
clicking on one of these will open the Device window for that audio 
track. Here you will be able to create User panels for any parameter of 
the audio track, including VST effects that have been inserted. For 
more information on how to create Device and User panels, see the 
separate PDF document “Working with MIDI”.
The Device Panel Browser.  
						

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Once panels have been created, they are available from the User Panel 
section of the Inspector. Click on the small arrow at the top right of the 
User Panels section to view the choices.
The User Panel menu in the Inspector
In order to have User Panels available in the Inspector, you must create 
Inspector-sized panels. Panels of bigger sizes (e.g. General) will not be 
available in the Inspector.
MIDI tracks
When a MIDI track is selected, the Inspector contains a number of ad-
ditional sections and parameters, affecting the MIDI events in real time 
(e.g. on playback). Which sections are available for MIDI tracks is de-
scribed in the PDF document “Working with MIDI”.
Marker tracks
When the marker track is selected, the Inspector shows the marker 
list. See page 174.  
						

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Video tracks
When a Video track is selected, the Inspector contains a lock button 
for locking the track (see page 140) and two settings for how the 
video thumbnails are shown: Show Frame Numbers and Snap 
Thumbnails (see page 619).
Folder tracks
When a folder track is selected, the Inspector shows the folder and its 
underlying tracks, much like a folder structure in the Windows Ex-
plorer or Mac OS X Finder.
• You can click one of the tracks shown under the folder in the Inspector 
to have the Inspector show the settings for that track.
This way, you don’t have to “open” a folder track to make settings for tracks within it.
Here, an audio track within the folder is selected.
FX channel tracks
When an FX channel track is selected, the following controls and sec-
tions are available:
• Edit button.
• Volume control.
• Pan control.
• Output routing pop-up menu.
• Inserts section.
• Equalizers section.
• Channel section.
• Notepad section.  
						

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FX channel folder tracks
FX channel tracks are automatically placed in a special folder, for eas-
ier management. When this folder track is selected, the Inspector 
shows the folder and the FX channels it contains. You can click one of 
the FX channels shown in the folder to have the Inspector show the 
settings for that FX channel – this way you don’t have to “open” a 
folder track to access the settings for the FX channels in it.
Group channel tracks
When a Group channel track is selected, the following controls and 
sections are available:
• Edit button.
• Volume control.
• Pan control.
• Output routing pop-up menu.
• Inserts section.
• Equalizers section.
• Sends section.
• Channel section.
• Notepad section.
Group channel folder tracks
Just like FX channel tracks, all Group channel tracks are placed in a 
separate folder – when this is selected, the Inspector shows the 
folder and the Group channels it contains. You can click one of the 
Group channels shown in the folder to have the Inspector show the 
settings for that Group channel – this way, you don’t have to “open” a 
folder track to access the settings for the Group channels in it.
Ruler tracks
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The toolbar
The toolbar contains tools and shortcuts for opening other windows 
and various project settings and functions:
• In addition, the toolbar can contain a number of other tools and short-
cuts, not visible by default. How to set up the toolbar and specify which 
tools should be displayed or hidden is described on page 678.
Active project 
indicator
Show/hide 
InspectorShow/hide info line
Show/hide OverviewOpen Pool
Open MixerAutomation mode
Project window tools
Transport controls 
(Previous/Next Marker, Cycle, Stop, Play, and Record)
Snap on/off
Snap modeGrid pop-up menu
Quantize valueColor pop-up menu
Autoscroll on/off    
						

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The info line
The info line shows information about the currently selected event or 
part in the Project window. You can edit almost all values in the info 
line using regular value editing. Length and position values are dis-
played in the format currently selected for the ruler (see page 108).
•To hide or show the info line, click this icon on the toolbar:
The following elements can be selected for display and editing on the 
info line:
• Audio events.
• Audio parts.
• MIDI parts.
• Video events.
• Markers.
• Automation curve points.
When several elements are selected
• If you have several elements selected, the info line will show information about 
the first item in the selection. The values will be shown in yellow to indicate 
that several elements are selected.
• If you edit a value on the info line, the value change is applied to all selected 
elements, relatively to the current values. 
An example: You have two audio events selected. The first is one bar 
long and the other two bars long. The info line shows the length of the 
first event (one bar). If you now edit this value to 3 bars in the info line, 
the other event will be resized by the same amount – and will thus be 
4 bars long.
• If you press [Ctrl]/[Command] and edit on the info line, the values will be ab-
solute instead. In our example above, both events would be resized to 3 bars. 
Note that [Ctrl]/[Command] is the default modifier key for this – you can 
change this in the Preferences dialog (Editing-Tool Modifiers page, under the 
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Editing Transpose and Velocity for MIDI parts
When one or several MIDI parts are selected, the info line contains 
Transpose and Velocity fields.
•Adjusting the Transpose field transposes the selected parts in semi-
tone steps.
Note that this transposition doesn’t change the actual notes in the part – it’s just a 
“play parameter”, affecting the notes on playback. The transposition you specify for a 
part on the info line is added to the transposition set for the whole track with the Trans-
pose track parameter in the Inspector.
•Adjusting the Velocity field shifts the velocity for the selected parts – 
the value you specify is added to the velocities of the notes in the 
parts.
Again, this velocity shift only affects the notes on playback, and again, the value you 
specify is added to the Vel.Shift. value set for the whole MIDI track in the Inspector.
Audio events can also be transposed – see page 451.
Getting on-the-fly info with the Arrow tool
If the option “Select Tool: Show Extra Info” is activated in the Prefer-
ences dialog (Editing page), a tool tip will be shown for the Arrow tool, 
displaying various info depending on where you point it. For example, 
in the Project window’s event display, the tool will show the current 
pointer position and the name of the track and event you’re pointing at. 
						

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The ruler
The ruler at the top of the event display shows the timeline. Initially, the 
Project window ruler uses the display format specified in the Project 
Setup dialog (see page 111), as do all other rulers and position dis-
plays in the project. However, you can select an independent display 
format for the ruler by clicking the arrow button to the right of it and 
selecting an option from the pop-up menu that appears (you can also 
bring up this pop-up menu by right-clicking (Win) or [Ctrl]-clicking 
(Mac) anywhere in the ruler).
Option Positions and lengths displayed as
Bars+Beats Bars, beats, sixteenth notes and ticks. By default there are 120 
ticks per sixteenth note but you can adjust this with the “MIDI 
Display Resolution” setting in the Preferences dialog (MIDI 
page).
Seconds Hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds.
Timecode This format displays hours, minutes, seconds and frames. The 
number of frames per second (fps) is set in the Project Setup di-
alog (see page 111). You can choose from 24, 25, 29.97 and 
30 fps or 29.97 and 30 dfps (“drop frame”).
Feet+Frames 16mm Feet and frames, with 40 frames per foot.
Feet+Frames 35mm Feet, frames and 1/4 frames, with 16 frames per foot.
Samples Samples.
User Hours, minutes, seconds and frames, with a user definable num-
ber of frames per second. You set the desired number of fps in 
the Preferences dialog (Transport page).
Time Linear When this is selected, the ruler will be linear relative to time. This 
means that if there are tempo changes on the Tempo track, the 
distance between the bars will vary in Bars+Beats mode.
Bars+Beats Linear When this is selected, the ruler will be linear relative to meter po-
sition – bars and beats. This means that if there are tempo 
changes on the Tempo track, there will still be the same distance 
between bars in Bars+Beats mode. If the ruler is set to a time-
based mode, the distance between seconds will vary depending 
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•The selection you make here affects the ruler, the info line and tool tip 
position values (appear when you drag an event in the Project win-
dow).
You can also select independent formats for other rulers and position displays. 
•To set the display format globally (for all windows), use the primary 
display format pop-up on the Transport panel, or hold down [Ctrl]/
[Command] and select a display format in any ruler.
•If you use the “Timecode” or “User” options and the option “Show 
Timecode Subframes” is activated in the Preferences dialog (Trans-
port page), the frames will also display subframes.
There are 80 subframes per frame.
•For the “Feet+Frames” settings, there is an option in the Preferences 
(Transport page) called “Feet’n’Frames Count from Project Start”.
When this is activated, time displays and rulers in Feet+Frames format will always start 
with 0’00 at the beginning of the project - regardless of any Start offset settings in the 
Project Setup dialog.
Using multiple rulers – ruler tracks
As described above, the Nuendo Project window contains a main ruler 
at the top of the event display, displaying the timeline from left to right.
If needed, you can have several rulers in the Project window, by adding 
ruler tracks to the project. Each ruler track contains an additional ruler.
•To add a ruler track, select “Add Track” from the Project menu and 
from the submenu that appears, select “Ruler”.
A ruler track showing an additional ruler is added to the Track list.
A ruler track set to the display format “Seconds”.
You can add any number of ruler tracks to a project, and position them 
as needed by dragging them up or down in the list. Each one can 
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•To select a display format for a ruler track, click the leftmost part of it 
in the track list and select an option from the pop-up menu.
The different display formats are described above.
Note that ruler tracks are completely independent from the main event 
display ruler, as well as rulers and position displays in other windows. 
This means that:
• Ruler tracks can all have independent display formats.
• Ruler tracks are not affected by the display format setting in the Project Setup 
dialog (see page 111).
• Ruler tracks are not affected if you set the display format globally with the pri-
mary time display in the Transport panel.
• Ruler tracks are however affected by the option “Show Timecode Sub-
frames” (described above) in the Preferences dialog.