Steinberg Nuendo 3 Working With MIDI Manual

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By default, this allows you to quantize to exact note values (straight, 
triplet or dotted notes) only. If you want more options, select “Quan-
tize Setup...” from the MIDI menu (or “Setup...” from the Quantize 
pop-up menu) to open the Quantize Setup dialog.
Any settings you make in the dialog are immediately reflected in the 
Quantize pop-up menus. However, if you want your settings permanently 
available on the Quantize pop-up menus, you have to use the...

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Grid display
The grid display shows one bar (four beats), with blue lines indicating 
the quantize grid (the positions that notes will be moved to).
The Grid and Type pop-ups
These are used to determine the basic note value for the quantizing 
grid. In other words, these have the same functionality as the Quantize 
pop-up menu on the toolbar.
Swing
The Swing slider is only available when a straight note value is selected 
for the grid and Tuplet is off (see...

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Magnetic Area
This allows you to specify that only notes within a certain distance 
from the grid lines should be affected by quantizing. 
•When the slider is set to 0%, the Magnetic Area function is deactivated, 
i.e. all notes are affected by quantizing.
If you move the slider gradually to the right, you will note how the magnetic areas are 
shown around the blue lines in the grid display.
Presets
The controls in the lower left corner of the dialog allow you...

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Auto and Apply
These functions allow you to apply quantizing directly from the dialog, 
as described below.
If you don’t want to apply the quantizing you have set up in the dialog, 
you can close the window by clicking its standard close box. You can 
also leave the dialog open while you continue working.
The Non Quantize setting
This is an additional setting that affects the result of the quantizing. It 
allows you to set a “distance” in ticks (120ths of...

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Extracting a groove
You can extract the groove from an audio event or MIDI part and turn 
it into a Quantize preset:
•To extract the groove from an audio event, you use Hitpoints and the 
“Create Groove Quantize” function.
See the chapter “Working with hitpoints and slices” in the Operation Manual.
•To extract the groove from a MIDI part, you select the part and select 
“Part to Groove” from the Advanced Quantize submenu on the MIDI 
menu.
In both cases, the...

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The Auto Quantize function
If you activate the Auto Q button on the Transport panel, all MIDI re-
cordings you make are automatically quantized according to the set-
tings you have made in the Quantize Setup dialog.
Iterative Quantize
Another way to apply “loose” quantization is to use the Iterative Quan-
tize function on the MIDI menu. It works like this:
Instead of moving a note to the closest quantize grid position, Iterative 
Quantize moves it only part of...

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Quantize Lengths
This function is only available from within the MIDI editors.
This function (on the Advanced Quantize submenu on the MIDI menu) 
will quantize the length of the notes, without changing their start posi-
tions. At its most basic level, this function will set the length of the notes 
to the Length Quantize value on the MIDI editors’ toolbar. However, if 
you have selected the “Quantize Link” option on the Length Quantize 
pop-up menu, the...

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Quantize Ends
The Quantize Ends function on the Advanced Quantize submenu will 
only affect the end positions of notes. Apart from that, it works just like 
regular quantizing, taking the Quantize pop-up menu setting into ac-
count.
Undo and Freeze Quantize
As mentioned above, the original position of each quantized note is 
stored. Therefore, you can make the selected MIDI notes revert to their 
original, unquantized state at any time, by selecting Undo...

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Transpose 
The Transpose item on the MIDI menu opens a dialog with settings for 
transposing the selected notes:
Semitones
This is where you set the amount of transposition.
Scale Correction
Scale Correction transposes the selected notes by forcing them to 
the closest note of the selected scale type. This can be used for cre-
ating interesting key and tonal changes, either by itself or in conjunc-
tion with the other settings in the Transpose dialog.
•To...

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Keep Notes in Range
When this checkbox is activated, transposed notes will remain within 
the Upper and Lower Barrier values.
•If a note ends up outside the barriers after transposition, it will be shifted 
to another octave, keeping the correct transposed pitch if possible.
If this isn’t possible (if you have set a very narrow range between the Upper and Lower 
Barrier), the note will be transposed “as far as possible”, i.e. to the Upper or Lower 
Barrier...