Steinberg Nuendo 3 Score Layout And Printing Manual
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NUENDO 4Table of Contents 7How the Score Editor works 8In this chapter you will learn: 8Welcome! 9How the Score Editor oper- ates 10MIDI notes vs. score notes 11Display quantize 16Entering notes by hand vs. recording notes 17The basics 18In this chapter you will learn: 18Preparations 18Opening the Score Editor 19The project cursor 20Page Mode 22Changing the Zoom factor 23The active staff 24Making page setup settings 24Designing your work space 29About dialogs in the Score Editor 29Setting key, clef and time signature 36Working with transposing instruments 37Working order 38Force update 39Transcribing MIDI recordings 40In this chapter you will learn: 40About transcription 40Getting the parts ready 41Strategies: Preparing parts for score printout 42Staff settings51Situations which require ad- ditional techniques 53Inserting display quantize changes 54Strategies: Adding display quantize changes 55The Explode function 57Using “Scores Notes To MIDI” 59Entering and editing notes using the mouse 60In this chapter you will learn: 60Staff settings 63Note values and positions 66Adding and editing notes 70Selecting notes 72Deleting notes 73Moving notes 77Duplicating notes 77Moving using the bar handles 78Cut, copy and paste 79Editing pitches of individual notes 81Changing the length of notes 83Splitting a note in two 83Working with the Display Quantize tool 84Split (piano) staves 86Strategies: Multiple staves 87Inserting and editing clefs, keys or time signatures 91Staff settings 92In this chapter you will learn: 92Staff settings 93Making settings 94Working with staff presets
NUENDO Table of Contents 5 95Staff names 95Key and clef 96Display quantize and interpretation flags 97Display transpose 98The Options tab 100The Polyphonic and Tablature tabs 101Polyphonic voicing 102In this chapter you will learn: 102Background: Polyphonic voicing 105Setting up the voices 109Strategies: How many voices do I need? 110Entering notes into voices 111Checking which voice a note belongs to 111Moving notes between voices 114Handling rests 115Voices and display quantize 117Creating crossed voicings 119Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves 120Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices 121Additional note and rest formatting 122In this chapter you will learn: 122Background: Note stems 123Setting stem direction 126Stem length 127Accidentals and enharmonic shift 129Changing the note head shape130Other note details 133Copying settings between notes 134Handling beaming 144About tied notes 147Graphic moving of notes 148Cue notes 150Grace notes 152Tuplets 157Working with symbols 158In this chapter you will learn: 158Background: The different layers 161The symbol palettes 168Important! – Symbols, staves and voices 169Adding symbols to the score 183Selecting symbols 186Moving and duplicating symbols 193Changing length and shape 194Double clicking symbols 195Deleting symbols 195Copy and paste 196Alignment 197Symbol details 209Working with chords 210Chord symbols 217Working with text 218In this chapter you will learn: 218Adding and editing text symbols 223Different Types of text 231Text functions
NUENDO 6Table of Contents 239Working with layouts 240In this chapter you will learn: 240Background: Layouts 241Creating a layout 242The Layout List 243Using layouts – an example 244Marker Track to Form 245Designing your score: additional techniques 246In this chapter you will learn: 246Layout settings 249Staff size 250Hiding/showing items 252Coloring notes 253Multiple rests 255Adding and editing bar lines 256Creating upbeats 259Setting the number of bars across the page 262Moving bar lines 264Dragging staves 267Adding brackets and braces 268Auto Layout 272Clean Up Layout 273Breaking bar lines 275Scoring for drums 276In this chapter you will learn: 276Background: Drum maps in the Score Editor 279Setting up the drum map 282Setting up a staff for drum scoring 283Entering and editing notes 283Using “Single Line Drum Staff” 285Creating tablature 286In this chapter you will learn: 286Automatic creation 289Manual creation 290Tablature number appearance 291Editing 292Note head shape 293The score and MIDI playback 294In this chapter you will learn: 294Scores and the Play Order mode 295The MIDI Meaning function 296Dynamic crescendo symbols 299Printing and exporting pages 300Printing 300Exporting pages as image files 303Troubleshooting 304In this chapter you will learn: 304How to use this chapter 304Adding and editing notes 307Symbols and layout 309Tips and Tricks 310In this chapter you will learn: 315Index
NUENDO 1 – 8 How the Score Editor works In this chapter you will learn: •How the Score Editor and MIDI data relate. •What display quantize is and how it works. Welcome! Welcome to scoring in Nuendo! The Score Editor has been created to allow you to get any possible piece of music displayed as a score, complete with all the necessary symbols and formatting. It allows you to extract parts out of a full orchestra score, to add lyrics and com- ments, create lead sheets, score for drums, create tablature, etc. In other words: just about any type of notation you could ever desire! There are a few basic principles to how the Score Editor works, which you just have to understand to make full use of it. So please bear with us during this chapter, we’ll try to be as concise as possible.
NUENDO How the Score Editor works 1 – 9 How the Score Editor operates The Score Editor basically does the following: •Reads the MIDI notes in the MIDI parts. •Looks at the settings you have made. •Decides how the MIDI notes should be displayed according to the settings. The Score Editor takes MIDI data and settings as input and produces a score as output. The Score Editor does all this in real time. If you change some of the MIDI data (for example by moving or shortening a note) this is immedi- ately reflected in the score. If you change some of the settings (for ex- ample the time signature or key signature) this is also immediately apparent. You should not think of the Score Editor as a drawing program, but rather as an “interpreter” of MIDI data. MIDI data Score Editor Score display Score settings
NUENDO 1 – 10 How the Score Editor works MIDI notes vs. score notes MIDI tracks in Nuendo hold MIDI notes and other MIDI data. As you may know, a MIDI note in Nuendo is only defined by its position, length, pitch and velocity. This is not nearly enough information to de- cide how the note should be displayed in a score. The program needs to know more: What type of instrument are we talking about, Drums? Piano? What key is the piece in? What is the basic rhythm? How should the notes be grouped under beams? etc. You provide this in- formation by making settings and working with the tools available in the Score Editor. An example of the MIDI/score relationship When Nuendo stores a MIDI note’s position it makes the measure- ment in an absolute value, called ticks. There are 480 ticks to a quar- ter note. Have a look at the example below. A quarter note at the end of a 4/4 measure. The note is on the fourth beat of the measure. Now, let’s say you change the time signature to 3/4. This shortens the length of a “mea- sure” to only three quarter notes – 1440 ticks. Suddenly our quarter note is in the next measure: The same note in 3/4. Why? Since by changing the time signature you are not changing the MIDI data in the track/part (that would ruin your recording!), the note is still at the same absolute position. It’s just that now each “measure” is shorter, which effectively moves the note in the score. What we are trying to get across here is that Score Editor is an “inter- preter” of the MIDI data. It follows rules that you set up by making set- tings in dialogs, on menus, etc. And this interpretation is “dynamic”, or in other words, it is constantly updated whenever the data (the MIDI notes) or the rules (the score settings) change.