Steinberg Nuendo Expansion Kit User Manual

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Working with symbols The “Line/Trill” palette. Note that the arpeggios, hand indication and 
strum symbols are all “note-dependent”!
The “Other” palette.
The “Layout” palette. All these symbols are drawn in their own “layer”.The “Project” palette. These symbols will be present in all layouts.
The “Words” palette. This is described in the section “The Words tab” 
on page 161.
The “User Symbols” palette. This is described in the section “User 
Symbols” on page 148.
Further details about many of the...

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To remove a symbol from the Favourites tab, select “Re-
move from Favourites” from the context menu or hold 
down [Alt]/[Option] and click on it.
Important! – Symbols, staves and 
voices
Most symbols belong to a staff when inserted. Only note 
symbols, slurs and ties are an exception. They belong to 
notes and therefore to voices. 
It is extremely important that the correct staff is active 
when you insert a symbol (if you are editing multiple 
staves, of course).
If you for...

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3.Either click on the note or above or below it.
If you click on the note, the symbol is put in at a predefined distance from 
the note. If you instead click “above or below” the note, you decide for a 
vertical position yourself. In either case, the symbol is aligned horizontally 
with the note. It can later be moved up/down.
Clicking on a note inserts the note symbol (in this case a tenuto) at a 
predefined distance from the note head.
There are three options in the Accents...

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Adding slurs and ties
Slurs can be drawn in manually or inserted automatically 
for a group of notes. Ties are usually added by the pro-
gram but can also be drawn in as “graphic” symbols.
ÖThere are two types of slurs – “regular” slurs and Bez-
ier slurs (with which you have full control over thickness, 
curve shape, etc.).
Slurs, ties and the display quantize value
Since a slur or tie “musically” always spans from one note 
(or chord) to another, the beginning and end of a...

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Right-clicking on a curve point brings up a context menu 
with the following options:
Creating trills
If you have recorded or entered a trill, Nuendo can help 
you display this properly:
1.Select the notes that make up the trill.
2.Right-click on one of the notes and select “Build 
Trill…” from the context menu.
3.Select an option from the dialog that appears.
The radio buttons determine how the trill should look. Activate the “Help 
Note” option if you want an extra note to...

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Adding guitar chord symbols
A fretboard symbol of a guitar chord can be inserted any-
where in the score. 
Guitar symbols are found on the “Guitar Symbols” tab and 
the “Other” tab in the symbol Inspector.
The Guitar Symbols tab contains all Guitar symbols of 
the current guitar library, see “Using the guitar library” on 
page 136. If the symbol you want to insert is among these, 
select it and insert it as you would any other symbol, see 
above.
To insert a guitar symbol not...

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Defining chord symbols
1.Double-click on one of the symbols in the Guitar Sym-
bols tab in the Inspector to open the guitar library.
Alternatively, you can open the Score Settings–Project page and select 
the “Guitar Library” subpage.
2.To add a guitar chord symbol to the library, click the 
New button.
A chord symbol appears in the list to the left.
3.To edit the chord symbol, double-click it in the list.
This opens the Guitar Symbol dialog, as when editing a chord symbol in...

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 Any editing you perform to layout symbols is automatically du-
plicated in the other tracks.
 The display of layout symbols for different tracks can be deac-
tivated at any time.
 Layout symbols can be copied between layouts, by using the 
Get Form function on the Score Settings–Layout page.
One example of how to use layout symbols: 
Let’s say you are editing a full orchestra score, and want 
rehearsal marks inserted for more than one staff (typically, 
above each instrument...

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Alternatively, you can right-click on one of the Layer but-
tons (1-2-3) on the extended toolbar to bring up a pop-up 
menu, showing which object types are associated with 
that layer.
A checkmark for an object type means it belongs to that layer. If no 
checkmark is shown, you can select the object type from the pop-up 
menu and move it to that layer.
Locking a layer
To “lock” a layer, click on its lock layer button.
In this figure, layer 2 is locked. Event types assigned to...

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The rulers 
Unlike other editors, the Score Editor does not have a 
meter/time position-based ruler. Instead, its rulers are 
“graphical”, i.e. they indicate the actual x-y position of ob-
jects (with “zero” at the upper left corner).
The current pointer position is indicated by thin lines in 
the rulers.
To hide the rulers, pull down the pop-up menu above 
the scroll bar to the right and select “Off”.
This pop-up menu can also be shown by right-clicking in the ruler.
To display...