Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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Recording
Lock and Unlock Record
During recording it can happen that you accidentally de-
activate the record mode, e. g. by pressing [Space]. In or-
der to prevent this, you can set up a key command for this 
in the Key Commands dialog. If you use the Lock Record 
key command, the Record button will turn gray and the 
record mode is locked until you use the Unlock Record 
key command or enter Stop mode.
•If Lock Record is activated and you want to enter Stop 
mode (by clicking Stop or pressing...

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Fades, crossfades and envelopes
Creating fades
There are two types of fade ins and fade outs in audio 
events in Nuendo: event-based fades that you create by us
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ing the fade handles (see below) and clip-based fades cre-
ated by processing (see “Clip-based fades” on page 114).
Event-based fades
Selected audio events have triangular handles in the up-
per left and right corners. These can be dragged to create 
a fade in or fade out, respectively.
Creating a fade in. The fade is automatically...

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The result depends on your selection:
• If you select a range from the beginning of the event, a fade in 
is created within the range. 
• If you select a range that reaches the end of an event, a fade 
out is created in the range. 
• If you select a range encompassing a middle section of the 
event, but not reaching neither the start nor the end, a fade in 
is created from the beginning of the event to the beginning of 
the selected range, and a fade out is created...

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The Fade dialogs
The Fade dialogs appear when you edit an existing fade or 
use the Fade In/Fade Out functions on the Process sub
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menu of the Audio menu. The picture below shows the 
Fade In dialog; the Fade Out dialog has identical settings 
and features.
If you open the Fade dialog(s) with several events se-
lected, you can adjust the fade curves for all these events 
at the same time. This is useful if you want to apply the 
same type of fade in to more than one...

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Creating crossfades
Overlapping audio material on the same track can be cross-
faded, for smooth transitions or special effects. You create 
a crossfade by selecting two consecutive audio events and 
selecting the Crossfade command on the Audio menu (or 
by using the corresponding key command, by default [X]). 
The result depends on whether the two events overlap or 
not:
•If the events overlap, a crossfade is created in the over-
lapping area.
The crossfade will be of...

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The Crossfade dialog
ÖThis section describes the default Crossfade dialog. 
However, if you activate the “Simple Crossfade Editor” op
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tion in the Preferences dialog (Editing–Audio page), a sim-
plified dialog is used instead (similar to the regular Fade 
dialogs).
Options and settings
The Crossfade dialog consists of two sections: The wave-
forms of the audio to be crossfaded and the fade curves are 
displayed at the top. The lower half of the Crossfade dialog...

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Moving the crossfade area
You can move the crossfade area in the crossfade display 
by changing the overlap or the nudge parameters. This is 
described in the following sections.
Changing the overlap
The overlap value is the relation between the splice point 
(i.
 e. the intersection point of the two events, see the pic-
ture below) and the crossfade area. If you use the Overlap 
controls, the crossfade will be moved around the splice 
point. By default, the splice...

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For symmetric crossfades, the splice point for the fade out 
and the fade in is initially situated in the center of the 
crossfade. By moving the overlap sliders, you can move 
the crossfade around the splice point to determine how 
much of the fade out and how much of the fade in event 
are included. 
For asymmetric crossfades you can move the overlap slid-
ers separately to set up different overlap values for the fade 
in and fade out curves. This results in a Splice...

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•If “Symmetric Fades” is deactivated, the upper Length 
controls change the length of the fade out curve, and the 
lower controls change the length of the fade in curve.
Changing the crossfade length and moving the splice 
points
You can also adjust the length of the crossfade area by 
using the right handle of the fade out or the left handle of 
the fade in curve. This will change the length together with 
the splice points:
Click and drag these handles to change the...