Steinberg Nuendo Expansion Kit User Manual

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Lengthening a note by gluing two notes together
You can create unusual note length values by gluing notes 
of the same pitch together.
1.Insert the notes you want to glue together (if they don’t 
already exist).
2.Select the Glue tool from the toolbar or Quick menu.
The Glue tool on the Quick menu.
3.Click on the first note.
This note will now be tied to the first following note with the same pitch.
4.If you want to glue more notes, click again.
By gluing together a quarter...

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Split (piano) staves
Setting up the split staff
1.Make a staff active.
2.Open the Score Settings–Staff page for the staff and 
select the Polyphonic tab.
3.From the Staff Mode pop-up, select Split.
4.Set the Splitpoint value to a suitable note.
All notes below this note value will be put on the lower clef, all above will 
be put on the upper clef.
Split mode selected.
If the default piano clef settings for the upper and lower 
staff are not what you want, you can adjust...

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 If several staves share settings, you will save some time by us-
ing staff presets. Set up the staff settings for the first staff, and 
save them as a preset. This preset can then be applied to any 
of the other staves, one at a time. See “Working with staff pre-
sets” on page 106 for details.
Selecting notes
 You can select notes from one or several staves at the same 
time, using any of the selection methods, see “Selecting notes” 
on page 86.
Adding notes
 You can add...

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On the Score Settings–Project page (Notation sub-
page), you will find several options for how key, clef and 
time signature changes should be displayed.
You can also adjust the automatic spacing between these symbols in the 
Spacings subpage. See the dialog help for details.
Moving clefs
Clefs inserted into the score have an effect on how notes 
are displayed. If you for example insert a bass clef in the 
middle of a treble staff, the staff switches to show bass 
pitches....

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About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How to decide when to use polyphonic voicing.
 How to set up voices.
 How to automatically convert your score to polyphonic voicing.
 How to enter and move notes into voices.
Background: Polyphonic voicing
Polyphonic voicing allows you to resolve a number of situ-
ations impossible to score properly otherwise:
 Notes starting at the same position, but with different lengths. 
Without polyphonic voicing you get unnecessary amounts...

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Setting up the voices
This text describes the Polyphonic tab of the Score Set-
tings–Staff page in general. Below you will find more de-
tailed information on how to select from the multitude of 
options.
1.Open the Score Settings–Staff page for the staff.
2.Select the Polyphonic tab.3.Pull down the Staff Mode pop-up and select Poly-
phonic.
This makes the voice list in the lower part of the dialog available. It con-
sists of eight rows, one for each voice. They are numbered and...

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7.If you have activated “Rests–Show” for a voice, but 
don’t want rests to be shown in empty bars, click in the 
“Rests–Reduce” column for that voice.
This is especially useful for cue voices, see “Cue notes” on page 123.
8.Click in the “Rests–Center” column to determine at 
which vertical positions rests should be shown (for voices 
with “Rests–Show” activated).
When this option is activated for a voice, the rest will be put in the verti-
cal center of the staff, when it is not,...

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Strategies: How many voices do I 
need?
Well, it depends…
 If you are scoring for vocals, you simply need one voice for 
each voice, so to speak.
 Often you will use voices for resolving the problem of overlap-
ping notes (see “Overlapping notes” on page 96), for example 
when scoring for piano. In this case, you will need two voices 
each time two notes overlap. If three notes overlap, you will 
need three voices. In other words you will need to check for 
the “worst case” (largest...

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Moving notes between voices
Manually
To manually move notes to a particular voice, proceed as 
follows:
1.Select the note(s) you want to move to a particular 
voice.
2.Right-click on one of the notes and select “Move to 
Voice” from the context menu that appears.
Move to Voice and the submenu it invokes.
3.On the submenu, select the voice to which you want 
to move the notes.
Voices not activated are not shown.
Alternatively, you can press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click 
a voice Insert...