Steinberg Nuendo 4 Operation Manual

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The parameters have the following functionality:
Minimum Length
When the Minimum Length checkbox is activated, the 
note length is taken into account, allowing you to remove 
short notes. You can either specify the minimum length 
(for notes to be kept) in the value display or by dragging 
the blue line in the graphical length display below.
The graphical length display can correspond to 1/4 bar, 
one bar, two bars or four bars.
You change this setting by clicking in...

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Compress/Expand
Compresses or expands the “dynamic range” of MIDI 
notes by scaling the velocity values according to the Ratio 
setting (0 – 300%). The principle behind this is that multi-
plying different velocity values with a factor higher than 1 
(over 100%) will also make the differences between ve-
locity values greater, while using a factor lower than 1 (un-
der 100%) will make the differences smaller. In short:
To compress (“even out” velocity differences), use...

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About editing MIDI
There are several ways to edit MIDI in Nuendo. You can 
use the tools and functions in the Project window for 
large-scale editing, or use the functions on the MIDI menu 
to process MIDI parts in various ways (see “What is affec-
ted by the MIDI functions?” on page 352). For hands-on 
graphical editing of the contents of MIDI parts, you use the 
MIDI editors:
The Key Editor is the default MIDI editor, presenting 
notes graphically in an intuitive piano roll-style...

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Handling several parts
When you open a MIDI editor with several parts (or a MIDI 
track containing several parts) selected, you might find it 
somewhat hard to get an overview of the different parts 
when editing.
For such cases the editor toolbar features a few functions 
to make working with multiple parts easier and more com-
prehensive:
The Part List menu lists all parts that were selected when 
you opened the editor (or all parts on the track, if no parts 
were selected), and...

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The Key Editor – Overview 
The toolbar
As in other windows, the toolbar contains tools and vari-
ous settings. You can specify which toolbar items should 
be shown and store/recall different toolbar configurations 
– see “The Setup dialogs” on page 506. 
The info line
The info line shows information about selected MIDI 
notes. You can edit all values on the info line using regular 
value editing (see “Editing on the info line” on page 375 
for details). Length and position values are...

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The ruler
The ruler shows the time line, by default in the display for-
mat selected on the Transport panel. You can select a 
separate format for a MIDI editor ruler on the Ruler pop-up 
menu, opened by clicking the arrow button to the right of 
it. For a list of the available formats, see “The ruler” on 
page 31.
At the bottom of the pop-up menu, there are two addi-
tional items:
If “Time Linear” is selected, the ruler, note display and 
controller display will be linear in...

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The controller display
The area at the bottom of the Key Editor window is the 
controller display. This consists of one or several control-
ler lanes, each showing one of the following properties or 
event types:
 Velocity values of the notes.
 Pitch Bend events.
 Aftertouch events.
 Poly Pressure events.
 Program Change events.
 Any type of continuous controller event.
To change the size of the controller display, drag the di-
vider between the controller display and the note...

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Using the Trim tool
The Trim tool allows you to change the length of note 
events by cutting off the end or the beginning of notes. It 
is available in the Key Editor and in the List Editor.
Using the Trim tool means moving the note-on or the note-
off event for one or several notes to a position defined with 
the mouse. Proceed as follows:
1.Select the Trim tool in the toolbar.
The mouse pointer changes to a knife symbol.
2.Locate the notes that you wish to edit.
To edit a single...

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When the loop is activated, the cycle isn’t shown in the 
ruler. 
2.Now you need to specify the length of the loop. You 
have the following possibilities:
[Ctrl]/[Command]-click and [Alt]/[Option]-click in the 
ruler to set the start and end of the loop, respectively.
Edit the loop start and end positions numerically in the 
fields next to the Loop button.
Click and drag in the upper part of the ruler to move the 
locators to the desired positions.
The independent track loop is...