Steinberg Nuendo 4 Manual

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Working with the Tempo track
Options and settings
Snap
You activate or deactivate Snap by clicking the Snap icon 
on the toolbar. The behavior of the function depends on 
the display format selected for the ruler:
If “Bars+Beats” is selected, tempo curve points will 
snap to the set resolution on the Snap pop-up.
If this is set to 1/1, curve points will snap to the start of bars.
If any other display format is selected, tempo curve 
points will snap to the vertical grid lines in the tempo curve...

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Using Tap Tempo
The Tap Tempo function allows you to specify a tempo by 
tapping:
1.Open the Beat Calculator.
2.If you want to tap the tempo to some recorded material, 
activate playback.
3.Click the Tap Tempo button.
The Tap Tempo window appears.
4.Tap the tempo on the computer keyboard’s space bar 
or with the mouse button.
The tempo display will update the calculated tempo between each tap.
5.When you stop tapping, the program calculates the 
average timing of the taps...

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Basic procedure
You use the Time Warp tool to drag a musical position (a 
position in bars+beats format) to a certain position in time. 
This can be done in the Project window or in editor win-
dows, as described below. Here is the general procedure:
1.Make sure Tempo track mode is selected.
You cannot use the Time Warp tool in Fixed tempo mode.
2.Select the Time Warp tool.
Bars+Beats format is automatically selected for the ruler in the active 
window, and the ruler is...

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Working with the Tempo track
Viewing and adjusting tempo events
When you select the Time Warp tool, the ruler of the ac-
tive window is shown in brown. Existing tempo events are 
shown in the ruler as “flags” with the tempo values dis-
played.
This helps you see what’s going on, but you can also use 
this for editing the tempo track:
If you press the create/erase modifier key (by default 
[Shift]) and click on a tempo event in the ruler, it is deleted.
You can click on a tempo event in the ruler and...

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Note that this affects the snapping to the ruler (tempo 
grid) when you click! In addition, the tool can be “mag-
netic” to events in the Project window when you drag – for 
this, you need to activate Snap and select “Events” on the 
Snap pop-up menu. 
In our example, this would be useful if you created a marker at the de-
sired position in the video – when you drag the grid (see below), it will 
snap to the marker.
5.Select the Time Warp tool and select the “musical...

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Using the Time Warp tool in an audio editor
Using the Time Warp tool in the Sample Editor or Audio 
Part Editor is different from using it in the Project window, 
in the following ways:
 When you use the Time Warp tool, a tempo event is automa-
tically inserted at the beginning of the edited event or part – 
this tempo event will be adjusted when you warp the tempo 
grid with the tool. This means that material before the edited 
events won’t be affected.
 Only the default...

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9.Locate the last beat that is in sync.
This would be the beat just before the position where the audio and 
tempo drift apart.
10.Press [Shift] and click at that position to insert a tempo 
event there.
This locks this matched position. The material to the left will not be af-
fected when you make adjustments further along.
11.Now match the tempo grid to the next (unmatched) 
beat by clicking and dragging with the Time Warp tool.
The tempo event you inserted in step 10...

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The Project Browser 

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The Project Browser
Window Overview
While the Project window and the editors display events 
and other data graphically, the Project Browser window 
provides a list based representation of the project. This al-
lows you to view and edit all events on all tracks by using 
regular value editing in a list.
Opening the Project Browser
You open the Project Browser by selecting “Browser” 
from the Project menu. The Browser window can be open 
while you are working in other windows; any changes 
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The Project Browser
The actual editing is done in the event display, using 
regular value editing techniques.
There is one exception: You can rename items in the Project Structure 
list by clicking on their names and typing.
Customizing the view
You can drag the divider between the Project Structure 
list and the event display to make one of them wider and 
the other narrower. Furthermore, the event display can be 
customized in the following ways:
You can change the order of the columns by dragging...