Steinberg Nuendo 3 Working With MIDI Manual

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Track Control
The Track Control effect contains three ready-made control panels for 
adjusting parameters on a GS or XG compatible MIDI device. The 
Roland GS and Yamaha XG protocols are extensions of the General 
MIDI standard, allowing for more sounds and better control of various 
instrument settings. If your instrument is compatible with GS or XG, 
the Track Controls effect allows you to adjust sounds and effects in 
your instrument from within...

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About the Reset and Off buttons
Regardless of the selected mode, you will find two buttons labelled 
“Off” and “Reset” at the top of the control panel:
• Clicking the Off button will set all controls to their lowest value, without send-
ing out any MIDI messages.
• Clicking the Reset button will set all parameters to their default values, and 
send out the corresponding MIDI messages.
For most parameters, the default values will be zero or “no...

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XG Effects + Sends
The following controls are available when the XG Effects + Sends 
mode is selected:
Control Description
Send 1 Send level for the reverb effect. 
Send 2 Send level for the chorus effect.
Send 3 Send level for the “variation” effect.
Attack Adjusts the attack time of the sound. Lowering this value shortens the at-
tack, while raising it gives a slower attack. Middle position means no ad-
justment is made.
Release Adjusts the release...

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XG Global Settings
In this mode, the parameters affect global settings in the instrument(s). 
Changing one of these settings for a track will in fact affect all MIDI in-
struments connected to the same MIDI output, regardless of the MIDI 
channel setting of the track. Therefore, to avoid confusion it might be a 
good idea to create an empty track and use this only for these global 
settings.
The following controls are available:
Control Description
Eff....

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Track FX
This plug-in is essentially a duplicate of the Track Parameter section. 
This can be useful if you e.g. need extra Random or Range settings, or 
if you prefer to have your track parameters in a separate window (to 
get this, [Alt]/[Option]-click the Edit button for the effect).
The Track FX also includes an additional function that isn’t available 
among the track parameters:
Scale Transpose
This allows you to transpose each incoming MIDI note,...

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Transformer
The Transformer is a real-time version of the Logical Editor. With this 
you can perform very powerful MIDI processing on the fly, without af-
fecting the actual MIDI events on the track.
The Logical Editor is described starting on page 211. As the parame-
ters and functions are almost identical, the descriptions for the Logical 
Editor also apply to the Transformer. Where there are differences be-
tween the two, this is clearly stated.  

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MIDI processing and quantizing 

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Introduction
This chapter describes the various MIDI processing functions available 
on the MIDI menu. These offer various ways to change MIDI notes and 
other events, in the Project window or within a MIDI editor.
MIDI functions vs. track parameters
In some cases, the result of a MIDI function can also be obtained by 
using MIDI track parameters and effects (see page 8). For example, the 
MIDI functions transpose and quantize are also available as a track...

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Quantizing
What is quantizing?
Quantizing in its fundamental form is a function that automatically 
moves recorded notes, positioning them on exact note values:
However, quantizing is not only a method of correcting errors, it can 
also be used creatively in various ways. For example, the “quantize 
grid” does not have to consist of perfectly straight notes, some notes 
can automatically be excluded from quantizing, etc.
• When quantizing MIDI, only notes are...

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Setting Up
At its most basic, setting up quantizing consists of selecting a note 
value from the Quantize pop-up menu on the toolbar (in the Project 
window or a MIDI editor).
Straight note values
Triplet note values
Dotted note values