Steinberg Nuendo 3 Score Layout And Printing Manual
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NUENDO5 – 92 Staff settings In this chapter you will learn: •How to make staff settings. •How to work with staff presets. Staff settings Below follows a run-through of all staff settings, more detailed infor- mation about the ones already described and references to other places in the manual for some options. Use this section to set up how the display should be quantized – the displayed spacing and length of notes. This section contains additonal settings for how the notes are dis- played.Use this section to select keys and clefs Use this section to select and apply presets, or turn the current settings into a preset. This is where you enter the name for the staff. Normally, the long name is shown at the begin- ning of the score, while the short name is shown for the remaining systems. This is where you specify the display transpose for instruments that are not scored in concert key. The dialog has four tabs – here, the Main tab is selected.
NUENDOStaff settings 5 – 93 Making settings 1.Open the Staff Settings dialog. 2.With the Staff Settings dialog open, make the desired staff active. Click anywhere in a staff to make it active, or use the up and down arrow keys to step from staff to staff. 3.Select the desired tab in the dialog and make whatever settings you need to do. The settings for regular staves are found on the Main and Options tab, the Polyphonic tab contains settings for split systems and polyphonic voices while the Tablature tab lets you set up tablature scores. 4.When you have made the desired settings, click Apply. The settings are applied to the active staff. •If the option “Apply closes Property Windows” is activated in the Prefer- ences dialog (Scores page), clicking Apply will also close the dialog. 5.Select another staff, make settings for this and click Apply. Repeat this until all staves have the right settings. 6.If you want to close the dialog, click its close box as usual.
NUENDO5 – 94 Staff settings Working with staff presets You will spend some time making staff settings for your scores. Staff presets allow you to reuse those settings whenever you work with a staff similar to one you have worked on before. A staff preset contains all the settings in the Staff Settings dialog except the key. •To store the current settings (including the settings on the Options tab, see below) click the Store button in the Presets section of the dialog. Enter a name for the preset in the name dialog that appears, and click OK. The preset will now be available on the Presets pop-up menu (in all projects). •To load a preset, select it on the Presets pop-up menu. Note that this loads the settings in the preset into the dialog – to apply these to a staff you must click the Apply button as usual. You can also apply staff presets directly in the score – see below. •To remove a preset, select it from the pop-up menu and click the Re- move button. Applying a preset directly in the score If you right-click (Win) or [Ctrl]-click (Mac) directly to the left of a staff, a pop-up menu will appear, listing all available presets. Select one to apply it to the staff. How staff presets are stored The staff presets are stored as individual files in the Presets–Staff Settings folder within the Nuendo program folder. The presets are available for selection in any project you create or edit.
NUENDOStaff settings 5 – 95 Staff names These fields allow you to specify a “long” and a “short” name for the staff. The long name is shown for the very first system for this staff in the score (at the start of the song), while the short name is shown for the remaining systems. •Whether the names should be shown at all is set in the Layout Set- tings dialog (see page 234). Here, you can also opt to use the names of the edited MIDI tracks instead. •If you only want the “long name” to be shown (i.e. if you don’t want a name shown for each system in the score), simply delete the short name. •If the option “Show Long Track Names on new Pages” is activated in the Notation Style dialog (Scores–Global Settings menu), the long name will be shown at the beginning of each new page. Key and clef The basic key and clef settings are described in detail on page 29. There is also a Lower Staff check box which is only used in conjunc- tion with split (piano) staves and polyphonic voicing. This is described on page 33.
NUENDO5 – 96 Staff settings Display quantize and interpretation flags These two sections of the dialog contain a number of settings used to determine how the notes should be interpreted. While these settings are more critical to making MIDI recorded music appear as legible as possible it is still important to have them set correctly when entering notes using the mouse. Below you will find a brief summary of the set- tings – for more details, see page 44. Notes and Rests display quantize values •Generally, the Notes display quantize value should be set to a value equal to, or smaller than, the “smallest note position” you want to be shown in the score. •The Rests display quantize value should be set to a value equal to, or smaller than, the smallest note value (length) you want to be displayed for a single note, positioned on a beat. •If the score contains only triplets, or mostly triplets, select one of the Triplet options. Auto Quantize •If the piece contains no triplets or only triplets, deactivate this option. •If the piece contains mixed triplets and straight notes, activate this option (the additional options are described in detail on page 45).
NUENDOStaff settings 5 – 97 Interpretation flags 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 scor- ing. •If the pop-up menu doesn’t list the desired instrument, you can set the desired transposition with the Semitones value field. •The display transpose setting doesn’t affect playback or the actual pitch of the notes – it only changes how they are displayed and printed. You can also insert display transpose changes anywhere in the score, by inserting a key change symbol and using the Transpose setting in the Edit Key/Clef dialog (see page 36). •Deactivate the “Use Display Transpose” option in the Chord Settings dialog if you do not want the chord symbols to be affected by the dis- play transpose setting (see page 214). Option Description Clean Lengths Activate this when you find the program generally interprets your notes as shorter than you expect. See page 45. No Overlap Activate this when notes starting at the same position, but having different lengths, give you more ties than you want. See page 46. Syncopation Activate this when the program adds more ties to notes crossing beats and bar lines than you prefer. See page 47. Shuffle Activate this when you have played a shuffle beat and want it dis- played as straight notes (no triplets). For details see page 47.
NUENDO5 – 98 Staff settings The Options tab Clicking the Options tab in the dialog brings up another page with ad- ditional settings (which can be made part of a staff preset just like the other settings). Below follows a brief description of these, with refer- ences to more detailed explanations.
NUENDOStaff settings 5 – 99 Switches 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. Score Drum Map These settings are all described in the chapter “Scoring for drums”. Option Description 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 SubgroupsActivate this when you want sixteenth notes displayed under a beam to be divided into two groups of eight notes. See page 140. 16th SubgroupsUse this when you want even smaller subgroups of sixteenth notes. This setting has no effect if Beam Subgroups is turned off. Consolidate Rests Activate this when you want two rests joined to one (for example an eighth note and a sixteenth note rest displayed as a dotted eighth note rest). See page 49 for an example. Option Description System Lines The number of lines in a system. For regular scoring, this should be set to 5. Add Space Allows you to increase or decrease the space between the lines in a system. Size Allows you to set a size for the systems, as a percentage (with 100% being the default value). In effect, this setting scales the score vertically.
NUENDO5 – 100 Staff settings Fixed Stems If you activate this checkbox, the stems of all notes will end at the same vertical position. This feature is perhaps most often used when scoring for drums (see page 282). A drum pattern with Fixed Stem length activated. The Up and Down parameters determine which position (relative to the top of the staff) should be used for up and down stems, respec- tively. The graphical display helps you get your settings right. Note Limits Use the Low and High fields to specify a note range. In the active staff, any notes outside this range will be displayed in a different color. When writing a score for a specific instrument, this makes it easy to find notes that are outside of this instrument’s note range. The Polyphonic and Tablature tabs These are described in the chapters “Polyphonic voicing” and “Creat- ing tablature”, respectively. For now, just note that the Polyphonic tab contains the Staff Mode pop-up, which determines whether the staff should be a single system, a split (piano) staff or use polyphonic voices.