Steinberg Nuendo 4 Operation Manual

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The Project window
Adding events to a track
There are a number of ways to add events to a track:
By recording (see “Basic recording methods” on page 
65).
This is possible for audio and MIDI tracks.
By selecting “Audio File…” or “Video File…” from the 
Import submenu on the File menu.
This opens a file dialog, allowing you to locate the file you wish to import. 
When you import a file this way, a clip is created for the file and an event 
that plays the whole clip is inserted on the selected track, at...

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Use Settings.
No Options dialog will appear when you import. Instead, you can choose 
to make any of the options below the pop-up the standard action(s). Ac-
tivate any number of the following options to have them performed auto-
matically each time you import audio files:
Creating parts
Parts are containers for MIDI or audio events. If you record 
MIDI, a MIDI part is automatically created, containing the 
recorded events. You can also create empty audio or MIDI 
parts and later...

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You can adjust the responsiveness of the Scrub function 
in the Preferences (Transport–Scrub page).
ÖIt is also possible to “scrub” the whole project with the 
Jog wheel on the Transport panel. 
See “Project scrubbing – the Jog Wheel” on page 62.
Note that scrubbing can be quite a burden on your sys-
tem. To avoid playback problems, you will find the “CPU 
Saving Scrub Mode” option in the Preferences (Trans-
port–Scrub page).
When you activate this option, scrubbing will be less...

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Note that in the Preferences (Editing page), you can 
find the option “Use Up/Down Navigation Commands for 
selecting Tracks only”.
By default, tracks are selected with the up/down arrow keys on the com-
puter keyboard. However, these are also used for selecting events (see 
above) which can lead to confusing results in some cases. Since track se-
lection is a most vital operation in both editing and mixing, you have the op-
tion to use the navigation controls for track selection...

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Use the Nudge buttons in the toolbar.
These move the selected events to the left or right. The amount of move-
ment depends on the selected display format (see “The Project Setup di-
alog” on page 33) and the value set on the Grid pop-up menu.
Here, clicking this button will move the event 2 frames to the right.
ÖThe Nudge buttons are not visible in the toolbar by de-
fault. 
You can decide which items should be visible by right-clicking in the 
toolbar and checking them in the...

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You can also align audio events or parts to the project 
cursor. This is done in the following way: 
1.Set the cursor to the position where you want to move 
the audio part or event.
This will be taken as a reference for aligning.
2.Make sure that nothing is selected in your project.
3.With the arrow tool selected, point on the audio event 
or part you want to move, press one of the modifiers listed 
in the table below and click.
The mouse pointer will change its shape and the audio...

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You can also perform the Repeat function by dragging: 
Select the event(s) to repeat, press [Alt]/[Option], click the 
handle in the lower right corner of the last selected event 
and drag to the right.
The longer to the right you drag, the more copies are created (as shown 
by the tooltip).
Selecting “Fill Loop” from the Edit menu creates a num-
ber of copies starting at the left locator and ending at the 
right locator.
The last copy is automatically shortened to end at the right...

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Gluing events together
You can glue events together using the Glue Tube tool. 
There are three possibilities: 
Clicking on an event with the Glue Tube tool glues it to-
gether with the next event on the track. The events do not 
have to touch one another.
The result is a part containing the two events, with one exception: If you 
first split an event and then glue the two sections together again (without 
moving or editing them first), they become a single event again.
You can...

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It is also possible to resize events by using the Trim but-
tons (located in the Nudge palette) on the toolbar.
This will move the start or end position of the selected Event(s) by the 
amount set on the Grid pop-up menu. The sizing type currently selected 
applies to this method too, with the exception of “Sizing Applies Time 
Stretch” which is not possible with this method. You can also use key 
commands for this (by default, press [Ctrl]/[Command] and use the left 
and right...

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Group editing operations include:
 Selecting events.
 Moving and duplicating events.
 Resizing events.
 Adjusting fade-in and fade-out (audio events only, see “Cre-
ating fades” on page 87).
 Splitting events (splitting one event will automatically split any 
other grouped events that are intersected by the split position).
 Locking events.
 Muting events (see below).
 Deleting events.
Locking events
If you want to make sure you don’t edit or move an event 
by accident, you can lock...