Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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•If Snap is activated, this determines the start position of 
the created note.
•If you click once, the created note will have the length 
set on the Length Quantize pop-up menu on the toolbar.
You can create a longer note by clicking and dragging. The length of the 
created note will be a multiple of the Length Quantize value.
Drawing notes with the Line tool
The Line tool can be used for creating series of contiguous 
notes. To do so, click and drag to draw a line and then re
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Selecting notes
Selecting notes is done using any of the following methods:
•Use the Arrow tool.
The standard selection techniques apply, like selecting by clicking on the 
note or using a selection rectangle. Note that when you press [Shift] and 
click on notes or draw a selection rectangle, these notes will be added to 
the overall selection. When you press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click on notes 
or draw a selection rectangle, these notes will be removed from the overall 
selection...

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Moving and transposing notes
To move notes in the editor, use any of the following me-
thods:
•Select the notes and use the buttons on the transpose 
palette on the toolbar.
•Click and drag to a new position.
All selected notes will be moved, maintaining their relative positions. If 
Snap is activated, this determines to which positions you can move the 
notes, see 
“Snap” on page 410.
•Use the up and down arrow keys on the computer key-
board.
This method allows you to transpose the...

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Using cut and paste
You can use the Cut, Copy and Paste options on the Edit 
menu to move or copy material within a part or between 
different parts. When you paste copied notes, you can ei
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ther use the regular Paste function or the function “Paste 
Time” from the Range submenu of the Edit menu.
• “Paste” inserts the copied notes at the project cursor position 
without affecting existing notes.
• “Paste Time” inserts at the project cursor position, but moves 
(and if necessary,...

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Deleting notes
To delete notes, either click on them with the Erase tool or 
select them and press [Backspace].
Editing on the info line
The info line shows the values and properties of the se-
lected events. If a single event is selected, its values are 
displayed on the info line. If several events are selected, 
the info line shows the values of the first of these events 
(in color).
You can edit the values on the info line using regular value 
editing. This allows you to move,...

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How the Key Editor handles expression maps 
(Nuendo Expansion Kit only)
When an expression map is assigned to a MIDI track (see 
the chapter “VST Expression” in the NEK manual), the mu
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sical articulations defined for that map are displayed in the 
following locations of the Key Editor:
For more information, see the chapter “VST Expression” in 
the Nuendo Expansion Kit manual.
Editing notes via MIDI
You can change the properties of notes via MIDI. For ex-
ample, this can be a fast...

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5.Play the first note or chord on your MIDI instrument.
The note or chord appears in the editor and the step input position ad-
vances one quantize value step.
ÖIf Move Insert Mode is activated, all notes to the right 
of the step input position will be moved to “make room” for 
the inserted note or chord.
Move Insert Mode is activated.
6.Continue in the same way with the rest of the notes or 
chords.
You can adjust the Quantize or Length Quantize value as you go along, 
to change...

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•Each MIDI track has its own controller lane setup (num-
ber of lanes and selected event types). 
When you create new tracks, they get the controller lane setup used last.
Controller lane presets
Once you have added the required number of controller 
lanes and selected the event types you need, you can 
store this combination as a controller lane preset. For ex
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ample, you can have a preset with one velocity lane only, 
another with a combination of velocity, pitchbend and...

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•The remaining three Line tool modes (Sine, Triangle and 
Square) align the velocity values to continuous curve 
shapes (see below).
ÖIf there is more than one note at the same position 
(e.
 g. a chord), their velocity bars will overlap in the control-
ler lane. If none of the notes are selected, all notes at the 
same position will be set to the same velocity value when 
you draw. To edit the velocity of only one of the notes at 
the same position, first select the note in the note...

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•The Parabola mode works in the same way, but aligns 
the values to a parabola curve instead, giving more “natu
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ral” curves and fades.
Note that the result depends on the direction from which you draw the 
parabola.
•In Parabola mode, you can use modifier keys to deter-
mine the shape of the parabola curve.
If you press [Ctrl]/[Command], the parabola curve will be reversed. If you 
press [Alt]/[Option]-[Ctrl]/[Command] while Snap is activated, you can 
change the position of the...