Steinberg Nuendo 3 Working With MIDI Manual

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• If both Snap and Use Global Quantize are activated, the note will snap to po-
sitions according to the Quantize setting on the toolbar (next to the Use Glo-
bal Quantize button).
The length of the inserted note is determined by the Insert Length set-
ting on the toolbar. However, if this is set to “Drum-Map Link”, the 
note will get the length of the quantize value for the drum sound.
• You can quickly audition the drum sounds by clicking in the leftmost 
column in the...

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Moving, duplicating or repeating notes
To move or copy notes in the editor (to other positions or other drum 
sounds), you use the same methods as in the Key Editor: click and 
drag, use the arrow keys or Edit menu functions, etc. – see page 96. 
There is one thing to note:
When you are moving or copying several selected notes by dragging 
them and Snap is activated but Use Global Quantize turned off, the 
notes will snap to positions according to the quantize values for...

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Deleting notes
To delete notes, click on them with the Drumstick tool or Eraser tool or 
select them and press [Backspace].
Other editing methods
As in the Key Editor, you can edit notes on the info line or via MIDI, 
and enter notes using step input. Please refer to page 100.
Working with drum maps
Background
As discussed earlier, a drum kit in a MIDI instrument is most often a 
set of different drum sounds with each sound placed on a separate 
key (i.e. the different...

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Drum map settings
A drum map consists of settings for 128 drum sounds (one for each 
MIDI note number). To get an overview of these settings, open the 
Drum Editor and use the Map pop-up menu below the drum sound list 
to select the “GM Map” drum map.
This drum map is set up according to the General MIDI standard. For information on 
how to load, create and select other drum maps, see page 128.
Now, take a look at the drum sound list (you may have to drag the di-
vider...

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• All settings in a drum map (except the Pitch setting) can be changed 
directly in the drum sound list, or in the Drum Map Setup dialog (see 
page 129).
Note that the changes you make will affect all tracks that use the drum map.
About Pitch, I-note and O-note
This can be a somewhat confusing area, but once you’ve grasped 
how it all works it’s not very complicated. Going through the following 
“theory” will help you make the most out of the drum map concept – 
especially...

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In the following example, we have modified the drum map, so that the 
Bass Drum sound has different Pitch, I-note and O-note values.
I-notes
Let’s look at what happens on input: When you play a note on your 
MIDI instrument, the program will look for this note number among the 
I-notes in the drum map. In our case, if you play the note A1, the pro-
gram will find that this is the I-note of the Bass Drum sound.
This is where the first transformation happens: the note will...

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Usage
So, what’s the point of all this? Again, the purposes are different for I-
notes and O-notes:
• Changing the I-note settings allows you to choose which keys will play 
which drum sounds, when playing or recording from a MIDI instrument.
For example, you may want to place some drum sounds near each other on the key-
board so that they can be easily played together, move sounds so that the most impor-
tant sounds can be played from a short keyboard, play a sound from a...

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• To select the same MIDI channel for all sounds in a drum map, click the 
Channel column, press [Ctrl]/[Command] and select the desired channel.
All drum sounds will be set to this MIDI channel. The same procedure can be used for 
selecting the same MIDI output for all sounds as well.
It can also be useful to select different channels and/or outputs for dif-
ferent sounds. This allows you to construct drum kits with sounds 
from several different MIDI devices, etc....

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The Drum Map Setup dialog
To set up and manage your drum maps, select Drum Map Setup from 
the Map pop-up menus or the MIDI menu. This opens the following 
dialog:
This is where you load, create, modify and save drum maps. The list to 
the left shows the currently loaded drum maps; selecting a drum map 
in the list displays its sounds and settings to the right.
• The settings for the drum sounds are exactly the same as in the Drum 
Editor (see page 124).
As in the Drum...

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• Drum maps are saved with the project files. If you have created or mod-
ified a drum map, you should use the Save function to store it as a sep-
arate file, available for loading into other projects.
If you always want to have the same drum map(s) included in your projects, you may 
want to load these into the default project – see the chapter “File handling” in the Op-
eration Manual.
O-Note Conversion
This function on the MIDI menu goes through the selected MIDI...