Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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Using cut, copy and paste
You can use the standard Cut, Copy and Paste options 
on
 the Edit menu to move or copy events in the controller 
display:
1.Select the events you want to cut or copy.
2.Select Cut or Copy from the Edit menu.
3.If you want to paste the events into another MIDI part, 
open that part in another Key Editor window.
4.Position the project cursor where you want to paste 
the events.
5.Select Paste from the Edit menu.
The events on the clipboard are added, starting...

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Adding and editing Poly Pressure events
Poly Pressure events are special, in that they “belong to” a 
specific note number (key). That is, each Poly Pressure 
event has two editable values: the note number and the 
amount of pressure. Therefore, when Poly Pressure is se
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lected on the event type pop-up menu, there are two value 
fields to the left of the controller display, one for the note 
number and one for the amount.
To add a new Poly Pressure event, proceed as follows:...

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•Just like in the Key Editor, you can edit velocity or con-
tinuous controllers at the bottom of the In-Place Editor.
To change which controller type is shown, click in the controller name 
field directly below the piano keyboard and select a controller type from 
the pop-up menu. To add or remove controller lanes, right-click below 
the controller name field and select an option from the context menu.
•When you select a MIDI note, the Project window info 
line shows information...

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The List Editor – Overview
The toolbar
The toolbar contains several items that are the same as in 
the Key Editor (edit solo, snap, quantize settings, etc.). 
These are described earlier in this chapter. The following 
toolbar items are unique to the List Editor:
•The Insert pop-up menu is used when creating new 
events.
This is where you determine what type of event to add (see “Inserting 
events” on page 425).
•The List Editor contains an additional Value display (see 
below).
The...

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List Editor operations
Customizing the view
You can click and drag the divider between the list and 
the event display to make one area wider and the other 
narrower. Furthermore, the list can be customized in the 
following ways:
•You can change the order of the columns by dragging 
the column headings.
•You can resize columns by dragging the dividers be-
tween the column headings.
Setting the display format
Just like in the Project window, you set the display format 
(bars+beats,...

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•You can edit several events at once. If several events 
are selected and you edit a value for one event, the other 
selected events’ values will be changed as well.
Normally, any initial value differences between the events will be main-tained – i. e. the values will change by the same amount. If you press [Ctrl]/
[Command] when you edit, however, all events will get the same value.
ÖFor SysEx (system exclusive) events, you can only edit 
the position (Start) in the list. However,...

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The Hide section (filtering out event types)
The Hide section on the Filters bar allows you to hide spe-
cific event types from view. For example, it may be hard to 
find note events if the part contains a lot of controller data. 
By hiding the controllers, the list becomes more manage
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able.
•To hide an event type, activate the corresponding 
checkbox on the Filters bar.
•To hide all event types except one, press [Ctrl]/[Com-
mand] and click the checkbox of the event type you want...

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Bulk dumps
Recording a bulk dump in Nuendo
In any programmable device, the settings are stored as 
numbers in computer memory. Change those numbers, 
and you will change the settings.
Normally, MIDI devices allow you to dump (transmit) all or 
some settings in the device’s memory in the form of MIDI 
SysEx messages. A dump is therefore (among other 
things) a way of making backup copies of the settings of 
your instrument: sending such a dump back to the MIDI 
device will restore the...

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• If the dump is very short (for instance, a single sound) you can 
put it in the middle of the project to re-program a device on the 
fly. However, you can achieve the same effect by using Program 
Change. This is definitely preferable, since less MIDI data is 
sent and recorded. Some devices may be set up to dump the 
settings for a sound as soon as you select it on the front panel.
• If you create parts with useful SysEx dumps, you can put these 
on a special muted track. When you...

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Editing a value
The selected value can be edited directly in the main dis-
play or in the ASCII, decimal, and binary displays. Just 
click on it and type in the desired value as usual.
Adding and deleting bytes
Using the Insert and Delete buttons or their corresponding 
computer keyboard keys, you can add and delete bytes 
from the message. Inserted data will appear before the se
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lection.
To delete the complete SysEx message, select it in the 
List Editor and press [Delete] or...