Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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Automation
To freeze your trim curve manually, select the correspond-
ing option on the Freeze Trim pop-up menu in the Automa-
tion Settings (see “Automation Preferences” on page 260). 
You have the following possibilities to freeze your trim data 
manually:
•On the automation track, click on the parameter name 
and select the “Freeze Trim” option from the pop-up menu 
to freeze a specific parameter of one track.
•Open the Functions pop-up menu on the Automation 
panel and select “Freeze All Trim...

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Automation
Working with Automation Passes
An automation pass begins with the first parameter that is 
written after activating Write automation and starting play
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back. It ends when playback stops, either when you click 
the Stop button or when the position cursor jumps to an
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other position (e. g. because Cycle or Arranger mode is 
activated). You can undo automation passes in the Auto
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mation Pass history.
To work with automation passes, proceed as follows: 
1.Enable the “Activate Automation...

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Automation
A branch is a sequence of automation passes. In a branch 
each automation pass is represented by a rectangle with 
the number of the automation pass. Automation that you 
perform manually, as well as other edits and processes in 
between automation passes, are represented by smaller 
rectangles. These rectangles only serve as indicators, they 
cannot be used to undo the edits.
When you undo an automation pass and subsequently 
write new automation, a new branch is created and all fol
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Automation
The following Join options are available:
Join Now
If you hit Stop and want to resume automation manually, 
proceed as follows: 
1.Start playback and watch the automation curve.
2.When the cursor reaches the desired position, click 
Join Now on the Automation panel.
All parameters from the last pass are punched in and the last value is 
written for the whole section. All previous automation events will be over-
written. 
Auto Join
If you hit Stop and want to resume automation automati-...

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Automation
To Start
“To Start” is similar to the “To Punch” option, but with the 
following difference: When “To Start” is selected, punch
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ing out of automation will fill the automation track from 
where you punched out to the start of the project.
To End
Imagine you are automating volume for the background 
tracks of a two-minute scene. Rather than holding the 
fader for two minutes, you can proceed as follows: 
1.Select “Touch” as automation mode and click the “To 
End” button once to activate it...

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Automation
Fill combinations
You can also combine the various Fill options. 
•Combining “To Punch” and “To End” will fill the automa-
tion track from the punch in position to the end of the 
project.
•Combining “To Start” and “To End” will fill the automa-
tion track from the beginning to the end of the project.
•You can also combine the Fill options with the Preview 
options (see 
“The Preview options” on page 256), and 
when writing automation manually with the Pencil tool.
Editing automation...

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Automation
The Preview workflow
The Preview workflow has three different phases: touch-
collecting the required parameters, finding the required 
values, and performing the actual automation pass. Pro
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ceed as follows:
1.In the Preview section click the Preview button.
The Preview button is highlighted. 
ÖYou can set the Preview mode permanently by clicking 
the Preview button two times. A lock symbol is displayed 
on the highlighted button. You can disable this by clicking 
the button for a third...

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Automation
Punch vs. Punch on Play
When using the Punch option as described above, start-
ing playback and punching in are two separate actions. If 
you want to punch in when starting playback, activate 
Punch on Play. 
•Use Punch on Play when you cannot punch in on the fly 
– i.
 e. in situations where you need to find the punch in po-
sition in Stop mode. Once you have found the exact posi-
tion, enable Punch on Play and start playback from there.
•Punch is the option to use if you need to listen...

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Automation
The Punch Log section
This section of the Automation panel displays a list of re-
cent punch in operations performed in Preview mode.
By loading one of these log entries for the current track, 
you recall the corresponding touch-collected parameters 
and their values at the moment of punch in.
•To load the settings of a particular entry in the punch 
log, select it in the list and click Load.
The Preview button on the Automation panel and the “Preview mode” 
button on the corresponding...

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Automation
•To suspend the writing of automation data for all para-
meters/parameter groups, click the All button at the bot-
tom of the Suspend Write category.
When any of the options in the Suspend Write category are enabled, 
clicking All will disable these buttons.
•When an automation pass is in progress for a particular 
parameter and you write-suspend this parameter, it will 
punch out of the automation pass.
The Show options
The Show options on the Automation panel always affect all 
tracks....