Steinberg Nuendo 3 Score Layout And Printing Manual

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Strategies: Preparing parts for score printout
Below follow a few tips that you might want to refer to when preparing 
a piece for printout:
•If a part is complex, you may have to do some “manual” editing of notes, like 
moving them or changing their lengths (see next chapter). This means that the 
recording will not play back exactly as it originally did. If this is a problem, we 
suggest you work on a copy of the recording. Use the Duplicate Track func-
tion on...

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Staff settings
The first thing to do after opening the Score Editor is to make initial 
staff settings. There are three ways to open the Staff Settings dialog:
•Make the staff active, pull down the Scores menu and select “Setup” 
from the Staff Settings submenu.
•Double click to the left of the staff.
•Make the staff active and click the “i” button on the extended toolbar.
For this to work, make sure no notes or symbols are selected – otherwise, clicking the 
“i”...

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Applying settings and selecting other staves
The Staff Settings dialog is non-modal (see page 29). This means you 
click Apply to apply the settings you’ve made to the active staff.
To make settings for another staff, simply make it active in the score 
(by clicking anywhere in the staff or by using the up/down arrow keys 
on the computer keyboard). However, please note:
•Remember to click Apply before making another staff active – otherwise 
your settings will...

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Display Quantize
The display quantize settings.
This is where you give the program basic information about how to in-
terpret your playing. There are “fixed” display quantize values plus an 
“Auto” option which should only be used when your music contains 
mixed straight notes and triplets. For background information about 
display quantize, see page 11.
If your music only contains “straight” notes or triplets:
1.Set the Notes display quantize value according to...

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If your music contains mixed straight notes and triplets
1.Examine the score and decide if it mainly contains triplets or mainly 
“straight” notes.
2.Set the Notes display quantize value accordingly.
If the score is mainly triplets, select the smallest triplet note position used in the score. 
If it is mainly straight notes, select the smallest “ordinary” note position.
3.Set the Rests display quantize value.
This is done according to the same rules as above....

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A slightly short eighth note with Clean Lengths off and on.
If using Clean Lengths doesn’t help in a particular situation, you will 
have to manually resize the offending note(s) or use the Display Quan-
tize tool (see page 53).
No Overlap
When notes starting at the same position have different lengths, the 
program tends to add more ties than you may want. This can be 
avoided by using No Overlap.
This recording in the Key Editor…
…will be displayed like this...

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Syncopation
When Syncopation is off, the program generally adds ties to long 
notes crossing beats. There are a few exceptions to this. For example, 
a half note starting at “2” in 4/4 is always displayed as a half note, 
never as two tied quarter notes.
For a “modern” notation of syncopated notes, activate Syncopation.
Syncopation off, and on.
Again, Syncopation off, and on.
Please note that you can insert “exceptions” to the Syncopation set-
ting in the Staff...

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Display transpose
This is used when preparing parts for instruments that are not scored 
at the actual concert key. For example, if you want the note C3 to be 
played by an alto sax, you have to score it as an A3 – nine semitones 
up. Luckily, the display transpose setting takes care of this for you:
•Use the pop-up menu to select the instrument for which you’re scoring.
•If the pop-up menu doesn’t list the needed instrument, you can set the de-
sired...

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Switches
OptionDescription
Flat Beams Activate this when you want the beams over notes to be flat (as 
opposed to slanted). See page 141.
No  Beams Activate this when you don’t want any beaming at all on the staff 
(for example for vocal scoring). See page 134.
Beam Subgroups Use this when you want sixteenth notes displayed under a 
beam to be divided into groups of four notes. See page 140.
Beam Subgroups off and on
16th SubgroupsUse this when you want even...

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Score Drum Map
These settings are all described in the chapter “Scoring for drums”.
System Sizes
This section allows you to set the number of system lines and to con-
trol spacing between the lines. See page 289 for an example of how 
this can be used with tablature.
Fixed Stems
Activate this if you want all note stems to end at the same vertical po-
sition. The Up and Down fields let you specify the desired positions 
for stems in the respective direction, using...