Steinberg Nuendo Expansion Kit User Manual

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Polyphonic voicing
Alternative ways of handling voices
Below we suggest further “advanced” ways of putting 
notes into voices. This is based on the relation between 
voices and MIDI channels, so please make sure you un-
derstand how this connection works.
 You can use the Logical Editor (see the chapter “The Logical 
Editor, Transformer and Input Transformer” in the Nuendo Op-
eration Manual) to put notes into voices, based on other more 
complex criteria, like for example their pitch and length....

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3.Select the Display Quantize tool.
4.Click at the position you want to insert the event.
The Display Quantize dialog appears.
5.Fill out the dialog as described in the section “Display 
quantize” on page 74. 
6.Click Apply.
Creating crossed voicings
Often, for example in vocal scoring, you will have crossed 
voicings on one system. You can of course move notes 
manually into voices to get the stem direction and other 
note properties right, but there’s a quicker way. Let’s ex-...

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8.Select the two notes that should be moved from voice 
1 to voice 2.
Two notes in voice 1 selected.
9.Move the notes to voice 2.
The quickest way to do this is to press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click the 
voice Insert [2] button on the extended toolbar.
Two notes moved to the right voice.
10.Select the two notes that should be moved to voice 1 
and move them too.
All notes in the right voices.
The voicing is now correct, as you can tell from the stem 
directions. However, theres still...

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Converting voices to tracks – 
Extract Voices
This function does the opposite of “Merge All Staves” – it 
extracts polyphonic voices from an existing track and cre-
ates new tracks, one for each voice. Proceed as follows:
1.Open a track containing 2 to 8 polyphonic voices in the 
Score Editor.
2.Pull down the Scores menu and select “Extract 
Voices” from the Functions submenu.
A number of new tracks is created and added to the display of the Score 
Editor. Each track will contain...

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Staff settings 

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Staff settings
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How to make staff settings.
 How to work with staff presets.
Staff settings
Below follows a run-through of all staff settings, more de-
tailed information about the ones already described and 
references to other places in the manual for some options.
Making settings
1.Open the Score Settings–Staff page.
2.With the dialog open, make the desired staff active.
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To load a preset, select it on the Presets pop-up menu.
Note that this loads the settings in the preset into the dialog – to apply 
these to a staff you must click the Apply button as usual. You can also 
apply staff presets directly in the score – see below.
To remove a preset, select it from the pop-up menu and 
click the Remove button.
Applying a preset directly in the score
If you right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of a staff, 
a context menu will appear, listing all...

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Display quantize and interpretation 
options
These two sections of the dialog contain a number of set-
tings used to determine how the notes should be inter-
preted. While these settings are more critical to making 
MIDI recorded music appear as legible as possible it is still 
important to have them set correctly when entering notes 
using the mouse. Below you will find a brief summary of the 
settings – for more details, see “Display quantize” on page 
74.
Notes and Rests display...

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The Options tab
Clicking the Options tab in the dialog brings up another 
page with additional settings (which can be made part of a 
staff preset just like the other settings). Below follows a 
brief description of these, with references to more detailed 
explanations.
Switches
System Sizes
This section allows you to set the number of system lines 
and to control spacing between the lines:See “Creating tablature manually” on page 191 for an ex-
ample of how this can be used with...

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Additional note and rest formatting