Steinberg Nuendo 3 Operation Manual
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NUENDO
Working with the Tempo track 21 – 523
You need to create a “lock point” – a tempo event at the first cue po-
sition:
9.Press [Shift] and click with the Time Warp tool in the event display at
the cue position.
In our case this is bar 33.
As you can see, a tempo event (with the same value as the first one) is
added at that position.
10.Now match the next musical cue to the next video position, by drag-
ging the musical position to the desired time position as before.
The new tempo event is edited...](http://img.usermanuals.tech/thumb/86/103689/w64_Operation_Manual_d-522.png "Page 523
NUENDO
Working with the Tempo track 21 – 523
You need to create a “lock point” – a tempo event at the first cue po-
sition:
9.Press [Shift] and click with the Time Warp tool in the event display at
the cue position.
In our case this is bar 33.
As you can see, a tempo event (with the same value as the first one) is
added at that position.
10.Now match the next musical cue to the next video position, by drag-
ging the musical position to the desired time position as before.
The new tempo event is edited...")
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NUENDO
Working with the Tempo track 21 – 525
5.Press [Shift] and click in the event at the position of the first downbeat
(the start of the bar).
When you press [Shift], the pointer turns into a pencil. Clicking adds a tempo event at
the first downbeat – when you later adjust the tempo with the Time Warp tool, the first
downbeat will stay in place. Note: if the event started exactly on the first downbeat (no
audio before the “one”) you wouldn’t need to do this. This is because a tempo event is...](http://img.usermanuals.tech/thumb/86/103689/w64_Operation_Manual_d-524.png "Page 525
NUENDO
Working with the Tempo track 21 – 525
5.Press [Shift] and click in the event at the position of the first downbeat
(the start of the bar).
When you press [Shift], the pointer turns into a pencil. Clicking adds a tempo event at
the first downbeat – when you later adjust the tempo with the Time Warp tool, the first
downbeat will stay in place. Note: if the event started exactly on the first downbeat (no
audio before the “one”) you wouldn’t need to do this. This is because a tempo event is...")
NUENDO Working with the Tempo track 21 – 521 3.Make sure the correct tracks are set to linear time base or musical time base, respectively. In our example we want the video track and the audio track with a commentary voice- over to be linear time based (as well as the marker track, if you are using one). All other tracks should be set to musical time base. You change this by clicking the time base button in the Track list or Inspector. 4.Set up the Grid Type pop-up menu as desired. When you click with the Time Warp tool, it snaps to the selected grid. In this case, the musical cue happens at the start of bar 33, so we can set the grid to “Bar”. •Note that this affects the snapping to the ruler (tempo grid) when you click! In addition, the tool can be “magnetic” to events in the Project window when you drag – for this you need to activate Snap and se- lect “Events” on the Snap pop-up menu. In our example, this would be useful if you created a marker at the desired position in the video – when you drag the grid (see below), it will snap to the marker. 5.Select the Time Warp tool and select the “musical events follow” mode. Musical time base selected. Linear time base selected.
NUENDO 21 – 522 Working with the Tempo track 6.Click in the event display at the start of bar 33 and drag to the desired position in the video. As mentioned above, this can mean dragging to a position indicated by the thumbnails on the video track, to a marker on the Marker track or to a time position on an additional ruler track. When you drag, you will see the ruler being scaled – and the music tracks will follow. 7.Release the mouse button. If you look in the ruler at the beginning of the project, you will see that the first (and only) tempo event has been adjusted. 8.Try playing back. The musical cue should now happen at the correct position in the video. OK, let’s say you need to match another cue to another position later on in the video. If you simply repeat this procedure, you will find that the first cue gets out of sync – since you are still changing the first (and only) tempo event on the Tempo track!
NUENDO Working with the Tempo track 21 – 523 You need to create a “lock point” – a tempo event at the first cue po- sition: 9.Press [Shift] and click with the Time Warp tool in the event display at the cue position. In our case this is bar 33. As you can see, a tempo event (with the same value as the first one) is added at that position. 10.Now match the next musical cue to the next video position, by drag- ging the musical position to the desired time position as before. The new tempo event is edited – the first tempo event is unaffected and the original cue is still matched. •If you know you are going to match several cues this way, you should make it a habit to press [Shift] each time you use the Time Warp tool to match positions. This adds a new tempo event – that way you don’t have to add tempo events after- wards as in step 9 above. About snapping If Snap is activated in the Project window and “Events” is selected on the Snap pop-up menu, the Time Warp tool will be magnetic to events when you drag the tempo grid. This makes it easier to snap a tempo position to a marker, the start or end of an audio event, etc.
NUENDO 21 – 524 Working with the Tempo track Using the Time Warp tool in an audio editor Using the Time Warp tool in the Sample Editor or Audio Part Editor is different from using it in the Project window, in the following ways: • When you use the Time Warp tool, a tempo event is automatically inserted at the beginning of the edited event or part – this tempo event will be adjusted when you warp the tempo grid with the tool. This means that material before the edited events won’t be affected. • There is only one mode for the Time Warp tool in the audio editors: When you use the tool, the edited track is temporarily switched to linear time base. Making a tempo map for a “free” recording The following example shows how to use the Time Warp tool in the Sample Editor to create a tempo map matching freely recorded music. Let’s say you have recorded a drummer, playing without a metronome – this typically means the tempo varies ever so slightly. To be able to add sequenced material and easily rearrange the recorded audio, you want the tempo in Nuendo to match the recorded drum track: 1.If necessary, move the recorded event to its desired start position. Move it so that the first downbeat (“one”) happens on the start of the desired bar – zoom in if needed. 2.Open the drum recording in the Sample Editor and make sure Hit- point mode isn’t selected. The Time Warp tool cannot be used in Hitpoint mode – however, if you have calcu- lated hitpoints already these will be visible when the Time Warp tool is selected (see below). 3.Set the zoom so that you can see the individual drum hits clearly. To achieve this type of “visual” beat matching, it’s important to have a fairly clean re- cording, such as the drum track in this example. 4.Select the Time Warp tool. You have already matched the first downbeat with the start of a bar. However, if the recording starts before the first downbeat (with a fill, some silence, etc.) you want to “lock” the first downbeat so that it stays in position:
NUENDO Working with the Tempo track 21 – 525 5.Press [Shift] and click in the event at the position of the first downbeat (the start of the bar). When you press [Shift], the pointer turns into a pencil. Clicking adds a tempo event at the first downbeat – when you later adjust the tempo with the Time Warp tool, the first downbeat will stay in place. Note: if the event started exactly on the first downbeat (no audio before the “one”) you wouldn’t need to do this. This is because a tempo event is automatically added at the start of the edited event. 6.Now, locate the start of the next bar in the ruler. 7.Click at that position in the event display and drag the position to the downbeat of the second bar in the recording. When you click, the pointer will snap to the ruler grid. You mustn’t necessarily match the downbeats (“ones”) – in this figure beat “2” in the second bar is matched to the “two” in the recording’s second bar (simply because the snare drum hits on the upbeats are easier to spot in the waveform image). When you dragged the grid you changed the tempo value in the tempo event at the first downbeat. If the drummer held a fairly consis- tent tempo, the following bars should now match pretty well too.
NUENDO 21 – 526 Working with the Tempo track 8.Check the following bars and locate the first position where the audio drifts from the tempo. Now, if you simply adjusted that beat in the tempo grid to match the beat in the recording, the tempo event at the first downbeat would be changed – this would ruin the match in the previous bars! We need to lock these by inserting a new tempo event. 9.Locate the last beat that’s in sync. This would be the beat just before the position where the audio and tempo drift apart. 10.Press [Shift] and click at that position to insert a tempo event there. This locks this matched position – the material to the left will not be affected when you make adjustments further along. 11.Now match the tempo grid to the next (unmatched) beat by clicking and dragging with the Time Warp tool. The tempo event you inserted in step 10 will be adjusted. 12.Work your way through the recording this way – when you find that the recording drifts from the tempo, repeat steps 9 to 11 above. Now the Tempo track follows the recording and you can add se- quenced material, rearrange the recording etc. Matching to hitpoints If you have calculated hitpoints for the audio event you are editing, these will be shown when the Time Warp tool is selected. • The number of hitpoints shown depends on the Hitpoint Sensitivity slider set- ting you’ve made in Hitpoint mode. • If you activate the Snap to Zero Crossing button on the toolbar, the Time Warp tool will snap to hitpoints when you drag the tempo grid. • If you use the Create Markers function on the Audio-Advanced submenu, markers will be created at the hitpoint positions. This can be useful when us- ing the Time Warp tool in the Project window, as the tool will be magnetic to markers (if Snap to Events is activated on the toolbar).
NUENDO Working with the Tempo track 21 – 527 Using the Time Warp tool in a MIDI editor This is very similar to using the tool in an audio editor: • When you use the Time Warp tool, a tempo event is automatically inserted at the beginning of the edited part – this tempo event will be adjusted when you warp the tempo grid with the tool. This means that material before the edited part won’t be affected. • There is only one mode for the Time Warp tool in the MIDI editors: When you use the tool, the edited MIDI track is temporarily switched to linear time base. • The rulers in the MIDI editors can be set to “Time Linear” or “Bars+Beats Lin- ear” mode (see the separate PDF document “Working with MIDI”) – the Time Warp tool requires Time Linear mode. If necessary, the ruler mode will be switched when you select the Time Warp tool. • If Snap is activated on the toolbar in the MIDI editor, the tool will snap to the start and end of MIDI notes when you drag the tempo grid. Typically, you would use the Time Warp tool in a MIDI editor to match the Nuendo tempo to freely recorded MIDI material (much like the au- dio example above).
NUENDO 22 – 530 The Project Browser Background While the Project window and the editors display events and other data graphically, the Project Browser window provides a list based representation of the project. This allows you to view and edit all events on all tracks by using regular value editing in a list. Opening the Project Browser You open the Project Browser by selecting “Browser” from the Project menu. The Browser window can be open while you are working in other windows; any changes made in the Project window or an editor are im- mediately reflected in the Project Browser and vice versa. Window Overview The Project Structure list. This is where you navigate through the project.The event display. This is where you view and edit parts, events and Regions. The time Format (display format) pop-up menu.The Add pop-up menu and Add button, for creating new parts, events and regions.The Filter pop-up menu, used when editing MIDI.