Steinberg Nuendo 5 Manual

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Working with projects
The Preferences dialog
When you open the File menu (the Nuendo menu on a 
Mac) and select “Preferences…”, the Preferences dialog 
opens. This dialog provides a large number of options and 
settings that control the global behavior of Nuendo. 
The dialog has a number of pages, each containing op-
tions and settings belonging to a particular topic.
•In the list on the left, click on one of the entries to open 
the corresponding page.
•You can find detailed descriptions of all...

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When you have made your specific preferences settings, 
proceed as follows to save the partial settings as a preset:
1.Activate “Store marked preferences only”.
A new “Store” column is added to the Preferences list.
2.Click in the Store column of the Preferences items you 
wish to save.
Note that if you activate a Preferences page that contains subpages, these 
will also be activated. If this is not what you want, simply deactivated the 
subpages.
3.Click the Store button in the...

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Playback and the Transport panel 

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Playback and the Transport panel
Background
This chapter describes the various methods available for 
controlling playback and transport functions in Nuendo.
The Transport panel
Below you can find a brief description of each item on the 
Transport panel.
The pictures below show the Transport panel with all con-
trols visible. The Transport panel is divided into the follow-
ing sections, from left to right.
ÖThe Output Activity and Clipping indicator as well as 
the Output Level Control refer to the...

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Playback and the Transport panel
Changing the Transport panel setup
You can customize the appearance of the Transport panel 
by right-clicking anywhere on the panel and selecting/de
-
selecting the corresponding options on the context menu.
This is described in detail in the section “The setup con-
text menus” on page 572.
The numeric keypad
In the default Key Command settings, various Transport 
panel operations are assigned to the numeric keypad on 
the computer keyboard. The keypads are slightly...

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also independent, giving you three different time units 
shown at the same time (in the Project window, you can 
also create additional ruler tracks – see 
“Using multiple 
rulers – ruler tracks” on page 47).
The following rules apply:
•If you change the time format of the primary time display 
on the Transport panel, the time format of the ruler will be 
changed as well.
This is the same as changing the display format in the Project Setup. 
Therefore, to have...

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The shuttle speed control
The shuttle speed control (the outer wheel on the Transport 
panel) allows you to play back the project at any speed 
(four times the playback speed at maximum), forwards or 
backwards. This is a quick way to locate or “cue” to any po
-
sition in the project.
•Turn the shuttle speed wheel to the right to start play-
back.
The further to the right you move the wheel, the faster the playback speed. 
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•Select “Enable Track” from the track context menu to 
re-enable disabled tracks.
Playback functions
Apart from the standard transport controls on the Trans-
port panel, you can also find a number of functions on the 
Transport menu that can be used to control playback. The 
items have the following functionality:
ÖIn the Preferences dialog (Editing–Audio page) you 
will find the “Treat Muted Audio Events like Deleted” op
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The Virtual Keyboard (Nuendo 
Expansion Kit only)
The Virtual Keyboard can be displayed in the Transport 
panel. It allows you to play and record MIDI notes by using 
your computer keyboard or mouse. This is useful if you have 
no external MIDI instrument at hand and you do not want to 
draw in notes with the Pencil tool. The Virtual Keyboard can 
perform all functions that can be controlled by external MIDI 
keyboards, e.
 g. playing and recording MIDI notes.
•You can...

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Recording