Steinberg Nuendo 3 Working With MIDI Manual

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Coloring notes and events
By using the Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar, you can select a 
color scheme for the events in the editor. The following options are 
available:
When any of the options (apart from “Part”) is selected, you can se-
lect “Setup” from the Colors pop-up menu. This opens a dialog in 
which you can specify which colors should be associated with which 
velocities, pitches or channels, respectively.
Option Description
Velocity The notes get different...

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Background
The MIDI Device Manager allows you to specify and set up your MIDI 
devices, making global control and patch selection easy.
But the MIDI Device Manager also features powerful editing functions 
that can be used to create MIDI device panels. MIDI device panels are 
internal representations of external MIDI hardware, complete with 
graphics. The MIDI device panel editor provides all the tools you need 
to create device maps where every parameter of an external device...

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MIDI devices – general settings and patch 
handling
On the following pages, we will describe how to install and set up 
preset MIDI devices, and how to select patches by name from within 
Nuendo. This section also describes how to create a MIDI device from 
scratch.
About program change and bank select
To instruct a MIDI instrument to select a certain patch (sound), you 
send a MIDI Program Change message to the instrument. Program 
Change messages can be recorded or entered in...

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To help with this, you can use the MIDI Device Manager to specify 
which MIDI instruments you have connected, by selecting from a vast 
list of existing devices or by specifying the details yourself. Once you 
have specified which MIDI devices you’re using, you can select to 
which particular device each MIDI track should be routed. It is then 
possible to select patches by name in the track list or Inspector.
Opening the MIDI Device Manager
Select MIDI Device Manager from the...

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Installing a MIDI device
There is an important difference between installing a preset MIDI de-
vice and importing a MIDI device setup:
•The presets available in the Install Device dialog do not include any 
device mapping of parameters and controls and no graphic panels.
They are simply patchname scripts. When you install a preset MIDI device it is added 
to the Installed Devices list.
•A device setup can include device mapping, panels and/or patch in-
formation. 
Device setups...

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The Patch Banks list in the left half of the window shows the patch 
structure of the device. This could simply be a list of patches, but it’s 
usually one or several layers of banks or groups containing the patches 
(much like a folder structure on a hard disk for example).
•You can rename a device in the Installed Devices list by double click-
ing and typing – this is useful if you have several devices of the same 
model, and want to separate them by name instead of by...

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About Patch Banks
Depending on the selected device, you may find that the Patch Banks 
list is divided in two or more main banks. Typically, these are called 
Patches, Performances, Drums etc. The reason for having several 
patch banks is that different “types” of patches are handled differently 
in the instruments. For example, while “patches” typically are “regular” 
programs that you play one at the time, “performances” may be com-
binations of patches, which could e.g. be...

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Selecting a patch for an installed device
If you return to the Project window at this point, you will find that the in-
stalled device has been added to the MIDI Output menus (in the track 
list and the Inspector). Now you can select patches by name, in the fol-
lowing way:
1.Pull down the Output menu (in the track list or Inspector) for a track 
that you want to play the installed device, and select the device.
This directs the track to the MIDI output specified for the device...