Steinberg Nuendo Expansion Kit User Manual

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The included VST Instruments
Monologue – Monophonic Analog 
Modeling Synthesizer 
Monologue is a monophonic analog synthesizer based on 
physical modeling technology. It offers full, rich and color-
ful sounds without consuming a lot of CPU power. The 
Monologue synthesizer is the perfect tool for bass, lead 
and sequenced sounds.
The Monophonic Analog Modeling Synthesizer has the 
following properties:
 2 oscillators with sawtooth, square and triangle waveforms.
 An additional noise generator for...

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The included VST Instruments
Envelope
LFO
X/Y Pad
EffectsMaster
Parameter Description
A – (Attack) Sets the attack time.
D – (Decay) Sets the decay time.
S – (Sustain) Sets the sustain level.
R – (Release) Sets the release time.
Mod Src (A+B) Defines the envelope modulation source. You can select: 
Modwheel, Aftertouch, Pitchbend, Velocity, LFO and 
Mod Env.
Depth (A+B) Controls the envelope modulation depth for the mod 
source defined in the “mod src” field.
Parameter Description
Waveform
(pop-up...

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The included VST Instruments
Diagrams
Prologue
Mystic 

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The included VST Instruments
Spector 

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Editing drums 

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Editing drums
Introduction
The Drum Editor is similar to the Key Editor (see the chap-
ter “The MIDI editors” in the Nuendo Operation Manual), 
but takes advantage of the fact that with drum parts, each 
key corresponds to a separate drum sound. 
This is the editor to use when you’re editing drum or per-
cussion parts.
Double-clicking a MIDI part in the Project window will open 
the editor selected on the Default Edit Action pop-up menu 
in the Preferences dialog (Event Display-MIDI page). How-
ever,...

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Editing drums
The Drum Editor – Overview
The toolbar and info line
These are much the same as the toolbar and info line in the 
Key Editor (see the chapter “The MIDI editors” in the Nu-
endo Operation Manual), with the following differences:
The Drum Editor has no Pencil tool – instead there is a 
Drumstick tool (for entering and removing notes) and a 
Line tool with various line and curve modes (for drawing 
several notes in one go or editing controller events).
There are no Scissors and Glue Tube...

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Editing drums
The note display
The note display of the Drum Editor displays notes as dia-
mond symbols. The vertical position of the notes corres-
ponds to the drum sound list to the left, while the horizontal 
position corresponds to the note’s position in time, just as in 
the Key Editor. Note however, that the diamond symbols 
don’t indicate the length of the notes. This makes sense, 
since drum sounds most often are “one-shot” samples that 
play to their end regardless of the note lengths.
Drum...

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Editing drums
ÖClicking with the Drumstick tool on an existing note 
will remove it.
This makes drum pattern editing very quick and intuitive.
Setting velocity values
The notes you enter will get the insert velocity value set in 
the insert velocity field on the toolbar – to speed up things 
you may want to assign key commands to the insert velo-
city options.
Selecting notes
Selecting notes is done by any of the following methods:
Use the Arrow tool.
The standard selection techniques apply.
Use the...

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Editing drums
Working with drum maps
Background
A drum kit in a MIDI instrument is most often a set of dif-
ferent drum sounds with each sound placed on a separate 
key (i.e. the different sounds are assigned to different MIDI 
note numbers). One key plays a bass drum sound, another 
a snare and so on.
Unfortunately, different MIDI instruments often use differ-
ent key assignments. This can be troublesome if you have 
made a drum pattern using one MIDI device, and then 
want to try it on another. When...