Steinberg Nuendo 4 Operation Manual

291
The Audio Part Editor
Background
The Audio Part Editor allows you to view and edit the events 
inside audio parts. Essentially, this is the same type of edit-
ing that you do in the Project window, which means that 
this chapter contains a lot of references to the chapter “The 
Project window” on page 22.
Audio parts are created in the Project window in one of 
the following ways:
By selecting one or several audio events on the same 
track, and selecting “Events to Part” from the Audio menu.
By...

292
The Audio Part Editor
About lanes
If you make the editor window larger, this will reveal addi-
tional space below the edited events. This is because an 
audio part is divided vertically in lanes. 
Lanes can make it easier to work with several audio events 
in a part:
In the top figure it is unnecessarily hard to discern, select 
and edit the separate events. In the bottom figure, some of 
the events have been moved to a lower lane, making se-
lection and editing much easier.
To move an event to...

293
The Audio Part Editor
Operations
Note that if a part is a shared copy (i.e. you have previ-
ously copied the part by [Alt]/[Option]+[Shift]-dragging), 
any editing you perform will affect all shared copies of this 
part.
To indicate that it is a shared copy, its name is displayed in italics and a 
symbol is displayed in the lower right corner of the part in the Project 
window (see “Aligning events” on page 45).
Auditioning
There are three ways to listen to the events in the Audio 
Part Editor:
By...

294
The Audio Part Editor
Handling several parts
When you open the Audio Part Editor with several parts se-
lected – all on the same track or on different tracks – they 
might not all “fit” in the editor window, which can make it 
hard to get an overview of the different parts when editing.
Therefore, the toolbar features a few functions to make 
working with multiple parts easier and more comprehen-
sive:
The Part List menu lists all parts that were selected 
when you opened the editor, and lets you...

295
The Audio Part Editor
Creating an audio part from regions
1.In the Project window, select the event you recorded in 
Cycle mode.
After recording, this will play the last take.
2.Pull down the Audio menu and select “Events to Part”.
You are asked whether you want to “Create part using regions”.
3.Click “Regions”.
The regions are converted to an audio part.
Assembling a take
1.Double-click the part to open the Audio Part Editor.
Now, the different takes will be placed on different lanes, with the last...

20
The Pool 

297
The Pool
Background
What is the Pool?
Every time you record on an audio track, a file is created 
on your hard disk. A reference to this file – a clip – is also 
added to the Pool. Two general rules apply to the Pool:
All audio and video clips that belong to a project are 
listed in the Pool.
There is a separate Pool for every project.
The way the Pool displays folders and their contents is 
similar to the way the Mac OS X Finder and the Windows 
Explorer display folders and lists of files.
What can...

298
The Pool
Toolbar overview
The info line
Click the “Show Info” button on the toolbar to show or 
hide the info line at the bottom of the Pool window. It 
shows the following information:
How clips and regions are displayed in the 
Pool
 Audio clips are represented by a waveform icon followed by 
the clip name.
 Audio regions are represented by a region icon followed by 
the region name.
 Video clips are represented by a camera icon followed by the 
clip name.
The Pool window columns
Various...

299
The Pool
About the Status column symbols
The Status column can display various symbols that relate 
to the clips status. The following symbols can be shown:
User Attributes
You can define your own attributes for elements in the pool. 
This is handy when you have a large number of audio files in 
the Pool. You can use the attributes to sort items in the pool 
or merely keep track of some aspect of your project.
Simply select the “Define User Attributes” option from the 
View/Attributes pop-up and...

300
The Pool
Customizing the view
You can specify which of the columns should be shown 
or hidden by selecting the View/Attributes pop-up on the 
toolbar and selecting/deselecting items.
You can rearrange the order of the columns by clicking 
on a column heading and dragging the column to the left 
or right.
The mouse pointer changes to a hand when you place it on the column 
heading.
The width of a column can also be adjusted by placing 
the pointer between two column headers and dragging 
left or...