Steinberg Nuendo 3 Working With MIDI Manual

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The two lists of numbers will now be matched – the Arpache SX tries 
to play back the pattern from the dropped MIDI file but using the notes 
from the MIDI input (chord). The result depends on the Trigger Mode 
setting:
Finally, the Play Mode setting affects the resulting arpeggio. Note also 
that you can choose to keep the original note timing, note length and 
note velocities from the dropped MIDI part, by selecting “Source” in the 
Quantize and Length...

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Autopan
This plug-in works a bit like an LFO in a synthesizer, allowing you to 
send out continuously changing MIDI controller messages. One typi-
cal use for this is automatic MIDI panning (hence the name), but you 
can select any MIDI Continuous Controller event type. The Autopan 
effect has the following parameters:
Waveform selectors
These determine the shape of the controller curves sent out. The re-
sults of most of these waveforms are obvious from...

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Density
This determines the density of the controller curves sent out. The 
value can be set in ticks (1/480ths of quarter notes), or as rhythmically 
exact note values (by clicking the arrow buttons next to the value). The 
higher the note value, the smoother the controller curve. For example, 
if you set this to 60 (shown as “32th”) a new controller event will be 
sent out every 60th tick (at every 1/32 note position).
You should probably avoid...

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Chorder
The Chorder is a MIDI chord processor, allowing you to assign com-
plete chords to single keys in a multitude of variations. There are three 
main modes of operation: Normal, Octave and Global. You switch be-
tween these modes by clicking the respective button to the left below 
the keyboard.
Normal mode
In this mode, you can assign a different chord to each single key on 
the keyboard. Proceed as follows:
1.Select the key to which you want to...

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Octave mode
The Octave mode is similar to the Normal mode, but you can only set 
up one chord for each key in an octave (that is, twelve different chords). 
When you play a C note (regardless of whether it’s a C3, C4 or any 
other octave) you will hear the chord set up for the C key.
Global mode
In the Global mode, you only set up a single chord, using the Chord 
Setup keyboard display (the lower keyboard display is hidden). This 
chord is then played by...

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Using switches
The Switch Setup section at the bottom of the panel allows you to set 
up variations to the defined chords. This works with all three modes 
and provides a total of eight variations for each assignable key (that is, 
a maximum of 8 different chords in Global mode, 12x8 chords in Oc-
tave mode and 128x8 chords in Normal mode).
The variations can be controlled by velocity or note range. Here’s how 
you set it up:
1.Select one of the two...

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•To turn the variation switch feature off, select the “No Switch” mode.
Compress
This MIDI compressor is used for evening out or expanding differences 
in velocity. Though the result is similar to what you get with the Velocity 
Compression track parameter, the Compress plug-in presents the con-
trols in a manner more like regular audio compressors. The parameters 
are:
Note In this mode, the chorder will play one chord at a time – you cannot 
play...

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Context Gate
The Context Gate allows for selective triggering/filtering of MIDI data. 
It can be used for context selective control of MIDI devices. The fol-
lowing parameters are available:
Poly Mode – Chord Gate
When Chord Gate is activated, only notes in recognized chords are 
let through. There are two modes of chord recognition available; Sim-
ple and Normal. In Simple mode, all standard chords (major/minor/b5/
dim/sus/maj7 etc.) are recognized,...

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Mono Mode – Channel Gate
When this is activated, only single note events in a specified MIDI 
channel are let through, which can be used with MIDI controllers that 
can send MIDI over several channels simultaneously, for example gui-
tar controllers which send data for each string over a separate chan-
nel. You can either set this to a specific channel (1-16), or to “Any”, 
i.e. no channel gating.
Mono Mode – Key Range Gate
This can be used independently...

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Density
This generic control panel affects the “density” of the notes being 
played from (or thru) the track. When this is set to 100%, the notes 
are not affected. Lowering the Density setting below 100% will ran-
domly filter out or “mute” notes. Raising the setting above 100% will 
instead randomly add new notes.
Micro Tuner
The Micro Tuner lets you set up a different microtuning scheme for the 
instrument, by detuning each key. 
• Each Detune field...