Steinberg Nuendo Expansion Kit User Manual

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About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
 How to make various settings for how notes are displayed.
 How to enter notes.
 How to use tools and settings to make the score as legible as 
possible.
 How to set up a split (piano) staff.
 How to work with multiple staves.
Score settings
Before you start entering notes, you need to make some 
initial staff settings in addition to those described in the 
chapter “The basics” on page 59. To understand why and 
how these...

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Note values and positions
Two of the most important settings for entering notes (and 
the ones you will change most often) are the length of the 
note (the note value) and the minimum spacing between 
notes (the quantize value).
Selecting a note value for input
This can be done in one of three ways:
By clicking the note symbols on the extended toolbar.
You can select any note value from 1/1 to 1/64th and activate/deactivate 
the dotted and triplet options by clicking the two...

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The upper field shows the pitch according to the vertical 
position of the pointer in a staff. The lower field shows the 
“musical position” in bars, beats, sixteenth notes and ticks:
The relation between beats and bars depends on the 
time signature: In 4/4 there are 4 beats to a bar. In 8/8 
there are eight, in 6/8 there are six, etc.
The third number is the sixteenth note within the beat. 
Again, the time signature determines the number of six-
teenth notes to each beat....

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Entering notes with the mouse
To add a note to the score, proceed as follows:
1.Make the staff active.
Notes are always inserted on the active staff. See “The active staff” on 
page 62 for details.
2.Select the desired note value.
See “Selecting a note value for input” on page 83.
3.If you select the note value by clicking on a symbol on 
the extended toolbar, the Insert Note tool is automatically 
selected – otherwise select the Insert Note tool from the 
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 Generally the program adds ties where necessary (if a note 
stretches over a beat), but not always. For more “modern” no-
tation of syncopated notes (less ties), you will need to use the 
syncopation feature, see “Syncopation” on page 74.
The same note, without and with Syncopation.
 If you want a long note to be displayed as two (or more) tied 
notes, you can use the Cut Notes tool for this.
 If a note has the wrong accidental, this can be changed. See 
“Accidentals and...

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Using a selection rectangle
1.Click in an empty area in the score with the Object Se-
lection tool and keep the mouse button pressed.
2.Drag the mouse pointer.
A selection rectangle appears. You can drag to select notes on several 
voices or staves if you wish.
3.Release the mouse button.
All notes with their note heads inside the rectangle are selected.
If you want to deselect one or more of the notes, hold 
down [Shift] and click on them.
Using the keyboard
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When moving notes to the left or right using key com-
mands, the notes will be moved in steps according to the 
current quantize value.
The keys assigned for up/down nudging will transpose notes in semitone 
steps.
Moving across staves – the Lock button
If you are editing several tracks, you may want to move 
notes from one staff to another. Proceed as follows:
1.Make the desired Quantize settings and select the 
notes.
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ÖThere are also “L” and “P” layer buttons, for the layout 
and project layer, respectively.
Clicking these buttons allows you to lock the layout layer and project 
layer (see “Background: The different layers” on page 127).
Duplicating notes
1.Set the quantize value and select the desired notes.
You can duplicate any block of notes, even on several systems at the 
same time. The Snap mode applies, see “The Snap mode” on page 88.
2.Press [Alt]/[Option] and drag the notes to...

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Using key commands
Instead of transposing the note with the mouse, you can 
assign key commands for this.
The commands for which you can assign key commands 
are found in the Nudge category in the Key Commands 
dialog.
The commands are listed as “Top” (transpose one semitone up) and 
“Bottom” (transpose one semitone down).
Using the info line
You can use the info line to change the pitches (and other 
properties) of one or several notes numerically, see the 
chapter “The...