Steinberg Nuendo - 10.0 User Manual

Score Layout and Printing

Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Lillie Harris, Christina Kaboth, Insa Mingers, Matthias Obrecht, Sabine Pfeifer, Benjamin Schütte, Marita Sladek

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5 Introduction

5 Platform-Independent Documentation 5 PDF Documents and Online Documentation 6 Conventions 7 Key Commands

8 How the Score Editor works

8 About this chapter 8 Welcome! 8 How the Score Editor operates 8 MIDI notes vs. score notes 9 Display Quantize 12 Entering notes by hand vs. recording notes

13 The basics

13 About this chapter 13 Preparations 13 Opening the Score Editor 14 The project cursor 15 Playing back and recording 15 Page Mode 16 Changing the zoom factor 17 The active staff 17 Making page setup settings 17 Designing your work space 21 About the Score Editor context menus 21 About dialogs in the Score Editor 22 Setting clef, key, and time signature 28 Transposing instruments 29 Printing from the Score Editor 29 Exporting pages as image les 30 Working order 31 Force update

32 Transcribing MIDI recordings

32 About this chapter 32 About transcription 32 Getting the parts ready 33 Preparing parts for score printout 33 Staff settings 34 Situations which require additional techniques 34 Inserting Display Quantize changes 36 The Explode function 37 Using "Scores Notes To MIDI"

38 Entering and editing notes

38 About this chapter 38 Score settings 40 Note values and positions 42 Adding and editing notes 45 Selecting notes 46 Moving notes 49 Duplicating notes

49 Cut, copy, and paste 50 Editing pitches of individual notes 51 Changing the length of notes 53 Splitting a note in two 53 Working with the Display Quantize tool 53 Split (piano) staves 54 Strategies: Multiple staves 55 Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time

signatures

57 Deleting notes

58 Staff settings

58 About this chapter 58 Staff settings 58 Making settings 59 Working with staff presets 60 Staff names 60 Key and clef 60 Display Quantize and Interpretation Options 64 Display Transpose 65 The Options tab 66 The Polyphonic tab 66 The Tablature tab

68 Polyphonic voicing

68 About this chapter 68 Background: Polyphonic voicing 70 Setting up the voices 72 Strategies: How many voices do I need? 72 Entering notes into voices 73 Checking which voice a note belongs to 73 Moving notes between voices 75 Handling rests 75 Voices and Display Quantize 76 Creating crossed voicings 77 Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All

Staves

78 Converting voices to tracks – Extract Voices

79 Additional note and rest formatting

79 About this chapter 79 Background: Note stems 80 Setting stem direction 81 Stem length 82 Accidentals and enharmonic shift 83 Changing the note head shape 84 Other note details 86 Coloring notes 87 Copying settings between notes 88 Handling beaming 94 About tied notes 96 Graphic moving of notes 97 Cue notes

Table of Contents

98 Grace notes 100 Tuplets

103 Working with symbols

103 About this chapter 103 Background: The different layers 104 The Inspector 107 Important! – Symbols, staves, and voices 108 Adding symbols to the score 118 Selecting symbols 120 Moving and duplicating symbols 123 Changing length, size, and shape 125 Deleting symbols 125 Copy and paste 125 Alignment 126 Symbol details

136 Working with chords

136 About this chapter 136 Inserting chord symbols 139 Global chord settings

140 Working with text

140 About this chapter 140 Adding and editing text symbols 144 Different types of text 150 Text functions

155 Working with layouts

155 About this chapter 155 Background: Layouts 156 Creating a layout 156 Opening a layout 156 Layout operations 157 Using layouts – an example 158 Marker Track to Form

159 Working with MusicXML

159 Introduction 160 Importing and exporting MusicXML les

164 Designing your score: additional techniques

164 About this chapter 164 Layout settings 166 Staff size 167 Hiding/showing objects 169 Coloring notes 169 Multiple rests 170 Editing existing barlines 171 Creating upbeats 172 Setting the number of bars across the page 173 Moving barlines 174 Dragging staves 177 Adding brackets and braces 177 Displaying the Chord Symbols from the Chord

Track

178 Auto Layout 180 Reset Layout 181 Breaking barlines

183 Scoring for drums

183 About this chapter 183 Background: Drum maps in the Score Editor 184 Setting up the drum map 185 Setting up a staff for drum scoring 186 Entering and editing notes 186 Using “Single Line Drum Staff”

187 Creating tablature

187 About this chapter 187 Creating tablature automatically 189 Creating tablature manually 190 Tablature number appearance 190 Editing 190 Note head shape

191 Rhythmic Notation

191 About this Chapter 192 Showing Rhythmic Notation 192 Rhythm Bar Indicators 193 Showing Regular Notation 193 Clearing Bars 194 Showing Repeat Bar Signs 194 Notation Style

195 The score and MIDI playback

195 About this chapter 195 Scores and the Arranger mode 195 Working with mapped dynamics

199 Tips and Tricks

199 Overview 199 Useful editing techniques 202 Frequently asked questions 205 If you wish you had a faster computer

206 Index

Introduction

The documentation covers the following Steinberg product: Nuendo.

Nuendo is a powerful audio production system that offers a vast range of dedicated functions focused on postproduction, studio production, and live recording. It comes with an extensive set of functions and tools for music notation and score printing.

Platform-Independent Documentation

The documentation applies to the operating systems Windows and macOS.

Features and settings that are specic to one of these platforms are clearly indicated. In all other cases, the descriptions and procedures in the documentation are valid for

Some points to consider:

●

The screenshots are taken from Windows.

●

Some functions that are available on the File menu on Windows can be found in the program name menu on macOS.

Windows and macOS.

PDF Documents and Online Documentation

The documentation consists of several documents. You can read them online or download them from steinberg.help. To visit steinberg.help, do one of the following:

●

Enter www.steinberg.help in the address bar of your web browser.

● In the program, select Help > Nuendo Help.

Operation Manual

The main Nuendo reference documentation, with detailed descriptions of operations, parameters, functions, and techniques.

Score Layout and Printing

Describes the professional music notation, score editing, and printing features included in the Score Editor.

Remote Control Devices

Lists the supported MIDI remote control devices.

Plug-in Reference

Describes the features and parameters of the included VST plug-ins, VST instruments, and MIDI effects.

Steinberg Library Manager

Describes how you can register and manage your VST Sound libraries.

HALion Sonic SE

Describes the features and parameters of the included VST instrument HALion Sonic SE.

Introduction Conventions

Groove Agent SE

Describes the features and parameters of the included VST instrument Groove Agent SE.

Retrologue

Describes the features and parameters of the included VST instrument Retrologue.

MIDI Devices

Describes how to manage MIDI devices and device panels.

Conventions

In our documentation, we use typographical and markup elements to structure information.

Typographical Elements

The following typographical elements mark the following purposes.

Prerequisite

Requires you to complete an action or to fulll a condition before starting a procedure.

Markup

Procedure

Lists the steps that you must take to achieve a specic result.

Important

Informs you about issues that might affect the system, the connected hardware, or that might bring a risk of data loss.

Note

Informs you about issues that you should consider.

Example

Provides you with an example.

Result

Shows the result of the procedure.

After Completing This Task

Informs you about actions or tasks that you can perform after completing the procedure.

Key Commands

Many of the default key commands, also known as keyboard shortcuts, use modier keys, some of which are different depending on the operating system.

When key commands with modier keys are described in this manual, they are indicated with the Windows modier key rst, followed by the macOS modier key and the key.

EXAMPLE

Ctrl/Cmd-Z means: press Ctrl on Windows or Cmd on macOS, then press Z.

How the Score Editor works

About this chapter

In this chapter you will learn:

● How the Score Editor and MIDI data relate.

● What Display Quantize is and how it works.

Welcome!

Welcome to scoring in Nuendo! The Score Editor has been created to allow you to get any possible piece of music displayed as a score, complete with all the necessary symbols and formatting. It allows you to extract parts out of a full orchestra score, to add lyrics and comments, create lead sheets, score for drums, create tablature, etc. In other words: just about any type of notation you could ever desire!

There are a few basic principles to how the Score Editor works, which you have to understand to make full use of it.

How the Score Editor operates

The Score Editor does the following:

● Reads the MIDI notes in the MIDI parts.

● Looks at the settings you have made.

● Decides how the MIDI notes are displayed according to the settings.

The Score Editor takes MIDI data and settings as input and produces a score as output.

The Score Editor does all this in realtime. If you change some of the MIDI data (for example by moving or shortening a note) this is immediately reected in the score. If you change some of the settings (for example the time signature or key signature) this is also immediately apparent.

Do not think of the Score Editor as a drawing program, but rather as an “interpreter” of MIDI data.

MIDI notes vs. score notes

MIDI tracks in Nuendo hold MIDI notes and other MIDI data. As you may know, a MIDI note in Nuendo is only dened by its position, length, pitch and velocity. This is not nearly enough information to decide how the note is to be displayed in a score. The program needs to know more: What type of instrument are we talking about, Drums? Piano? What key is the piece in? What is the basic rhythm? How should the notes be grouped under beams? You provide this information by making settings and working with the tools available in the Score Editor.

How the Score Editor works Display Quantize

An example of the MIDI/score relationship

When Nuendo stores a MIDI note’s position, it makes the measurement in an absolute value, called ticks. There are 480 ticks to a quarter note. Have a look at the example below:

A quarter note at the end of a 4/4 measure

The note is on the fourth beat of the measure. Now, let’s say you change the time signature to 3/4. This shortens the length of a “measure” to only three quarter notes – 1440 ticks. Suddenly our quarter note is in the next measure:

The same note in 3/4

Why? Since you are not changing the MIDI data in the track/part (that would ruin your recording!) by changing the time signature, the note is still at the same absolute position. It is just that now each “measure” is shorter, which effectively moves the note in the score.

What we are trying to get across here is that the Score Editor is an “interpreter” of the MIDI data. It follows rules that you set up by making settings in dialogs, on menus, etc. And this interpretation is “dynamic”, or in other words, it is constantly updated whenever the data (the MIDI notes) or the rules (the score settings) change.

Display Quantize

Let’s say you used the Project window to record a gure with some staccato eighth notes. When you open the Score Editor, these notes are displayed like this:

This does not look anything like what you intended. Let’s start with the timing – obviously, you were off at a couple of places (the third, fourth and last note all seem to be a 32nd note late). You can solve this by quantizing the not t in the musical context. To resolve this problem the Score Editor employs something called “Display Quantize”.

Display Quantize is a setting which is used to tell the program two things:

● How precise the Score Editor is to be when displaying the note positions.

● The smallest note values (lengths) you want displayed in the score.

In the example above, the Display Quantize value seems to be set to 32nd notes (or a smaller note value).

Let’s say we change the Display Quantize value to sixteenth notes in the example:

With Display Quantize set to sixteenth notes

gure, but this would make the passage sound too “stiff”, and

OK, now the timing looks right, but the notes still do not look like what you intended. Maybe you can understand that from a computer’s point of view, you did play sixteenth notes, which is why there are a lot of pauses. But that’s not how you meant it. You still want the track to play back short notes, because it is a staccato part, but you want something else “displayed”. Try setting the Display Quantize value to eighth notes instead:

With Display Quantize set to eighth notes

How the Score Editor works Display Quantize

Now we have eighth notes, as we wanted. All we have to do now is to add staccato articulation which can be done with one simple mouse click using the Draw tool or using musical articulations.

How did this work? By setting the Display Quantize value to eighth notes, you give the program two instructions that would sound something like this in English: “Display all notes as if they were on exact eighth note positions, regardless of their actual positions” and “Don’t display any notes smaller than eighth notes, regardless of how short they are”. Please note that we used the word “display”, which leads us to one of the most important messages of this chapter:

IMPORTANT

Setting a Display Quantize value does not alter the MIDI notes of your recording in any way, as regular quantizing does. It only affects how the notes are displayed in the Score Editor (and nowhere else)!

RELATED LINKS

Working with symbols on page 103

Choose your Display Quantize values with care

As explained above, the Display Quantize value for notes puts a restriction on the smallest note value that can be displayed. Let’s see what happens if we set it to quarter notes:

With Display Quantize set to quarter notes

Oops, this doesn’t look too good. Well of course it doesn’t! We have now instructed the program that the “smallest” note that occurs in the piece is a quarter note. We have explicitly told it that there are no eighth notes, no sixteenths, etc. So when the program draws the score on screen (and on paper) it quantizes the display of all our eighth notes to quarter note positions, which makes it look like above. But again, please note that when you hit Play, the passage still plays as it originally did. The Display Quantize setting only affects the score image of the recording.

IMPORTANT

Even if you manually enter notes in the score using perfect note values, it is very important that you have your Display Quantize settings right! These values are not just used for MIDI recordings! If you for example set the Display Quantize value for notes to quarter notes and start clicking in eighth notes, you get eighth notes in the track (as MIDI data), but still only quarter notes in the display!

Using Rests as Display Quantize setting

Above we used Display Quantize for notes. There is a similar Display Quantize setting called “Rests” which is used to set the smallest rest to be displayed. Often, this setting is very effective.

Let’s start with the following note example:

As you see, the rst note appears one sixteenth note late. If we change the Display Quantize value for notes to eighth notes, the score is displayed like this:

With Display Quantize: Notes set to eighth notes

How the Score Editor works Display Quantize

Unfortunately, this moves the rst note to the same position as the second, since sixteenth note positions are not allowed. We can solve this by inserting extra Display Quantize values within the bar with the Display Quantize tool, but there is a much easier way: Change the Display Quantize value for notes back to sixteenths, but set the value for rests to eighth notes! This tells the program not to display any rests smaller than eighth notes, except when necessary. The result looks like this:

With Display Quantize: Notes set to sixteenth notes, but Rests set to eighth notes.

How did this work? Well, you instructed the program not to display any rests smaller than eighth notes, except when “necessary”. Since the rst note appeared on the second sixteenth note position, it was necessary to put a sixteenth rest at the beginning of the gure. All other rests can be hidden by displaying the notes as eighth notes, and were therefore not “necessary”.

This leads us to the following general guidelines:

●

Set the Notes value according to the “smallest note position” you want to be shown in the score. If you have notes on odd sixteenth note positions, for example, set the Notes to sixteenth notes.

●

Set the Rests value according to the smallest note value (length) you want to be displayed for a single note, positioned on a beat.

Common Display Quantize settings would be to have Notes set to 16 (sixteenth notes) and Rests set to 4 (quarter notes).

RELATED LINKS

Inserting Display Quantize changes on page 34

Handling exceptions

Unfortunately, the guidelines above do not work perfectly in every situation. You may for example have a mix of straight notes and tuplets of different types, or you may want to display equally long notes with different note values depending on the context. There are several methods you can try:

Automatic Display Quantize

If your score contains both straight notes and triplets, you can use Auto Quantize. If this option is activated, Nuendo tries to “understand” whether the notes should be displayed quantized to straight notes or triplets.

RELATED LINKS

If your music contains mixed straight notes and triplets on page 62

Using the Display Quantize tool

With the “Q” tool, you can insert new Display Quantize values anywhere in the score. Inserted Display Quantize values affect the staff from the insertion point onwards.

RELATED LINKS

Inserting Display Quantize changes on page 34

Permanent alteration of MIDI data

As a last resort, you can resize, quantize or move the actual note events. However, this would result in the music not playing back like it originally did. Often it is possible to get the score to look the way you want without altering any MIDI data.

How the Score Editor works Entering notes by hand vs. recording notes

Entering notes by hand vs. recording notes

Sometimes you enter and edit notes by hand (or rather using the mouse and/or the computer keyboard) and at other times you record them from a MIDI keyboard. Most of the time, you do a combination of both. In real life, even if you have recorded the piece perfectly, you often have to do some permanent editing to your recording before printing.

RELATED LINKS

Transcribing MIDI recordings on page 32 Entering and editing notes on page 38

The basics

About this chapter

In this chapter you will learn:

● How to open the Score Editor.

● How to switch between Page Mode and Edit Mode.

● How to set up the page size and margins.

● How to hide and show the Symbols Inspector, the toolbar, and the extended toolbar.

● How to set up the ruler.

●

How to set a zoom factor.

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How to make initial settings for clef, key, and time signature.

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How to transpose instruments.

●

How to print and export your score.

Preparations

PROCEDURE

1. In the Project window, create a MIDI track for each instrument.

You can prepare a piano (split) staff from a single track, that is, there is no need to create one track for the bass clef and one for the treble clef.

2. Name each track after the instrument.

This name can later be used in the score if you like.

3. Record on the tracks or create empty parts on all tracks.

You can make very long parts that cover the entire project, or you can start out with shorter parts to begin with. If you choose the latter option, you can always go back later and add new parts or copy existing parts.

Opening the Score Editor

Editing one or several parts

To open one or several parts in the Score Editor, select the parts (on the same or on different tracks) and select “Open Score Editor” from the MIDI menu or from the Scores menu. The default key command for this is Ctrl/Cmd-R.

● You can also select the Score Editor as your default editor, allowing you to open it by double-clicking parts.

The basics The project cursor

This is done with the Default MIDI Editor pop-up menu in the Preferences dialog (Editors page).

Editing whole tracks

When preparing a score for printing, you probably want to open whole MIDI tracks in the Score Editor. To do this, select the tracks in the track list and make sure no parts are selected – then open the Score Editor.

Editing parts on different tracks

If you have selected parts on two or more tracks (or several entire tracks – no parts) and open the Score Editor, you get one staff for each track. However, you can split a staff in two when scoring for piano, for example. Think of the Project window as an overview of your entire score and the tracks as representing one instrument each.

Editing predened combinations of tracks

You can open the Score Editor for a certain combination of tracks that you edited before.

RELATED LINKS

Layout operations on page 156

Displaying single voices or the complete score

If the Double-click on staff ips between full score/part option is activated in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page), double-clicking on the rectangle to the left of a staff switches between display of either the whole score or the current voice.

The project cursor

The project cursor appears as a vertical line across the staff. When you open the Score Editor, the view is automatically scrolled so that the project cursor is visible in the window. This means you do not always see the beginning of the edited part when you rst open the Score Editor.

● Hold down Alt and Shift and click anywhere in the score to move the project cursor there.

This is handy when the project cursor is not visible. This is not possible if Computer Keyboard Input mode is activated.

RELATED LINKS

Entering notes using the computer keyboard on page 42

The basics Playing back and recording

Playing back and recording

You can play back and record MIDI in the Score Editor using the standard transport commands, just like in the other MIDI editors.

Page Mode

When you are preparing a score for printout, you should set the Score Editor to Page Mode. This is done by selecting Page Mode from the Scores menu. If Page Mode is activated, a checkmark appears next to this menu option.

In Page mode, the window switches to display one page at a time, as it appears on printout.

Page Mode vs. Edit Mode

If Page Mode is not activated, the Score Editor is in Edit Mode. All you can do in Edit Mode, you can also do in Page Mode. But Page Mode offers lots of additional features which are directly related to how the score is displayed and printed.

IMPORTANT

This section of the manual assumes you are in Page Mode. It is mentioned explicitly if something in this text

specically relates to Edit Mode.

Changing the Background in Page Mode

In Page Mode, you can specify different background textures for the score by selecting an option from the Background Texture pop-up menu on the toolbar.

NOTE

The background texture only affects the display and is not used for printing.

Using the scrollbars in Page Mode

In Page Mode, the scrollbars are used to scroll the image of the page inside the window.

Moving between pages in Page Mode

If your score takes up more than one page, you use the page number indicator in the lower right corner to move to another page in your score. The number can be adjusted using the standard editing techniques.

The page number indicator – adjust it to move to another page.

Also, if Auto-Scroll is activated on the toolbar, the score display follows the project cursor position. This way you can scroll the score by using fast forward or rewind.

The basics Changing the zoom factor

Editing individual parts in Page Mode

When you view a single part in Page Mode, the bars before and after the part is normally shown as empty measures in the Score Editor. This is to preserve the layout of the track, that is, the spacing between staves and barlines, number of bars per staff, etc.

If you want to view and print a single part, without any surrounding empty bars, activate the “Unlock Layout when editing single parts” option in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page). Note, however, that if you adjust the layout when editing the part in this mode, this erases the layout for the whole track!

Changing the zoom factor

There are two ways to change the zoom in Page Mode: by setting a zoom factor on the zoom pop-up menu or by using the Zoom tool.

Using the Zoom pop-up menu

Above the vertical scrollbar to the right you can nd a pop-up menu allowing you to set the zoom factor.

By zooming in you can make detailed adjustments to symbols, etc. By zooming out you get a better overview.

● If you select “Fit Page”, the zoom factor is adjusted according to the window size so that the whole page becomes visible.

● If you select “Fit Width”, the zoom factor is adjusted according to the window width so that the full width of the page becomes visible.

NOTE

This pop-up menu can also be opened by right-clicking in the ruler.

Using the Zoom tool

The Zoom tool in the Score Editor works much like in the Project window:

Click once with the Zoom tool to zoom in one step.

●

Hold down Alt and click once with the Zoom tool to zoom out one step.

●

Drag a rectangle with the Zoom tool to set a custom zoom factor.

●

The section encompassed by the rectangle is zoomed to ll the window.

The basics The active staff

● Hold down a modier key and right-click with the Zoom tool to open the Zoom context menu, and select the desired Zoom setting.

Using the Mouse wheel

You can also zoom by holding down Ctrl/Cmd and moving the mouse wheel. The mouse position is kept (if possible) when zooming in or out.

The active staff

Only one staff at a time can be active, and it is indicated by a rectangle to the left of the clef symbol.

This staff is active.

NOTE

To make a staff active, click anywhere on it. By default, you can also use the Up Arrow and

Down Arrow keys to step between staves.

Making page setup settings

Before preparing the score for printout, you have to make some page settings for your project. This does not have to be the rst thing you do, but it is a good working habit, because it also affects the on-screen display of the score.

PROCEDURE

1. On the File menu, select Page Setup.

The Page Setup dialog appears. This is the regular operation system Page Setup dialog, described in detail in your system’s documentation. The only things that Nuendo adds to this are the margin settings.

2. Select the preferred printer, paper size, orientation, etc.

3. If you need to, change the margins by setting the left, right, top and bottom settings.

To make the settings permanent, save the project.

If you want new projects to always start with certain page setup settings, you can create project templates.

Designing your work space

You can design your work space according to your needs by showing/hiding different areas using the Window Layout function and by showing/hiding different options of these areas using the

The basics Designing your work space

Setup options dialogs. Which areas and options to show or hide depends on what kind of project you are working on, how large your monitor is, and so on.

Window layout

1 Status line

2 Info line

3 Extended toolbar

4 Filter bar

5 Symbols Inspector

Conguring the window layout

PROCEDURE

1. On the toolbar, click the “Set up Window Layout” button.

2. Activate the desired options.

The status line

The status line features the Mouse Time and the Mouse Note Position displays as well as the Current Chord Display, which helps you identify chords in the Score Editor note display. It can be hidden/displayed using the “Status Line” option in the “Set up Window Layout” pane.

The status line has its own Setup dialog where you can specify exactly which properties you want to see.

● Right-click on the status line and select “Setup…” from the context menu.

In the dialog that appears you can congure where the separate items will be placed and save/recall different setup congurations.

The info line

The info line displays information about the selected note. It can be shown and hidden using the “Info Line” option in the “Set up Window Layout” pane.

The info line has its own setup dialog where you can specify exactly which properties are shown.

● Right-click on the info line and select “Setup…” from the context menu.

The basics Designing your work space

In the dialog that appears you can congure where the separate items will be placed and save/recall different setup congurations.

The extended toolbar

The extended toolbar contains additional tools for your score. It can be hidden/displayed using the Tools option in the “Set up Window Layout” pane.

The lter bar

This area contains checkboxes determining which indicators, handles, and other non-printed elements are shown in the score. It can be hidden/displayed using the Filters option in the “Set up Window Layout” pane.

Showing and hiding elements

Some of the elements in the score are not printed, but rather serve as indicators for layout changes, handles, etc. These elements can be hidden or shown in any combination by using the Filters options.

The following options are available:

Bar Handles

Displays the bar handles, used for copying bars.

Hidden Notes

Displays any notes you might have hidden.

Hide

Displays markers in the score for each hidden element (except notes).

Quantize

Displays markers in the score where you have made Display Quantize “exceptions”.

Layout Tool

Displays markers in the score where you have made adjustments with the Layout tool.

Grouping

Displays markers in the score where you have made beam groupings.

Cutag

Displays markers in the score where you have inserted cutag events.

Split Rests

Displays markers in the score wherever you have split multiple rests.

Stems/Beams

Displays markers in the score where you have made any stem or beam adjustments.

RELATED LINKS

Moving and duplicating with the bar handles on page 122 Hiding/showing objects on page 167 Inserting Display Quantize changes on page 34 Graphic moving of notes on page 96 Grouping on page 88 The Cut Notes tool on page 95 Splitting multi-rests on page 169

The basics Designing your work space

Setting stem direction on page 80 Manual adjustment of beams on page 94

The Symbols Inspector

This area allows you to add symbols to the score. It can be hidden/displayed using the Symbols option in the “Set up Window Layout” pane.

The symbol sections can also be opened as free-oating palettes by opening them, right-clicking any of the buttons and selecting “Open as Palette” from the context menu. This way you can move symbol palettes around on the screen by clicking and dragging their title bars. Rightclicking on a symbol palette brings up a pop-up menu:

● Select “Toggle” to switch between a vertical or horizontal view of the palette.

● Select one of the options on the pop-up menu to bring up the corresponding palette instead of the current palette.

● Hold down Ctrl/Cmd and select a palette from the pop-up menu to open the selected palette in a new window (without closing the existing one).

● Click the close button to close a symbol palette.

In the Symbols Inspector setup dialog you can specify exactly which symbol sections are shown.

RELATED LINKS

The Symbols Inspector Setup dialog on page 105 Working with symbols on page 103

The Inspector

The Score Editor Inspector provides settings for working with MIDI tracks. It also features the Quick Staff Setup section that allows you quick access to score specic settings.

This section combines the basic settings for Display Quantize, staff mode, as well as staff presets for quick access.

NOTE

For a description of the MIDI track Inspector, refer to the Operation Manual.

RELATED LINKS

Display Quantize values on page 61 Setting up the voices on page 70 About the polyphonic presets on page 71

The basics About the Score Editor context menus

The ruler

In the Score Editor there are no meter/time position rulers as in the other editors. Instead, there are horizontal and vertical “graphic rulers” in Page Mode. These help you to position symbols and graphical objects in the score.

● To specify which units to show on the rulers, open the Zoom pop-up menu and select one of the options.

You can choose between points, inches, and centimeters.

● To hide the rulers, select “Off” from the pop-up menu.

The Position Info window

To help you when positioning objects in the score, the Page Mode has a special Position Info window, in which you can view and adjust object positions numerically, in the unit selected for the ruler. To display the Position Info window, click in the ruler.

About the Score Editor context menus

Many functions and settings of the Score Editor can be accessed via context menus, opened by right-clicking on certain elements of the score. For example, if you choose a note, the note context menu opens, listing note-related functions.

If you open the context menu on an empty area of the score, it lists all available tools (allowing you to quickly switch between tools) and it contains many functions of the main menus.

About dialogs in the Score Editor

There are two types of dialogs available in the Score Editor:

Non-modal dialogs can remain open while you continue working in the score.

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In a non-modal dialog, clicking the Apply button applies the settings in the dialog to the selected objects in the score. This means you can select different elements in the score and change their settings, without having to close the dialog in between.

The dialog is closed by clicking the standard close button in the window title bar. The Score Settings dialog is an example for a non-modal dialog.

Regular dialogs have an OK button instead of an Apply button.

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Clicking OK applies the settings you have made and closes the dialog. You cannot continue working in the score (or select other objects) until you close the dialog.

NOTE

If the “Apply closes Property Windows” option is activated in the Preferences dialog (Scores– Editing page), clicking the Apply button in a non-modal dialog closes the dialog. In other words, this makes a non-modal dialog work a bit more like a regular dialog.

Setting clef, key, and time signature

When preparing to enter notes into a score, you probably want to start out by setting the desired clef, key, and time signature for the staff. The text below assumes you are working on one track only. If you have multiple staves, you either make this setting independently for each staff or for all staves at once.

Normally, all these symbols appear at the beginning of each staff. However, you can control this by using the Real Book option and by hiding objects.

IMPORTANT

In the Score Settings dialog on the Project–Notation Style subpage (Keys category) you can nd the “Key Changes for the entire Project” option. If this option is activated, all changes made to the key always affect every staff in the project, that is, it is not possible to dene different keys for different staves.

RELATED LINKS

Staff settings on page 58 Real Book on page 166 Hiding/showing objects on page 167

Using the Symbols Inspector to set the initial clef, key, and time signature

PROCEDURE

1. Click the “Set up Window Layout” button on the toolbar and activate the Symbols option.

The Symbols Inspector is displayed.

2. Open the Clefs section of the Inspector and click on the symbol for the clef that you want to use in your score.

3. Click anywhere in the rst bar of the staff to set the clef for this track.

4. Open the Keys section and click on the symbol for the key that you want to use.

5. Click anywhere in the rst bar of the staff to set the key for the track.

6. Open the Time Signature section of the Inspector and click on the symbol for the time

signature value that you want to use.

If you cannot nd the desired time signature, you can use the Edit Time Signature dialog.

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RESULT

The settings you have made so far are valid for the entire track.

Editing the time signature

PROCEDURE

1. Double-click on the time signature symbol at the beginning of the staff.

A dialog opens.

2. If the project is in 4/4 or 2/2, you can select common time/cut time directly by clicking one of the two symbols on the right.

This sets the time signature to 4/4 or 2/2, respectively and also inserts a common/cut time symbol on the staff.

3. If the project is in any other time, set the numerator and denominator above and below the line, respectively.

The numerator can consist of several numbers for composite time signatures. However, if the project is in a simple time signature you only need to ll in the rst number above the line. The more advanced options are described below.

4. Click OK or press Return.

IMPORTANT

All tracks share the time signature! In other words, when you set the time signature, you do this for all tracks in the project.

If you need to enter half a bar somewhere, you must make a time signature change from 4/4 to 2/4 and back again, for example.

RELATED LINKS

By using the Pickup Bar feature on page 171 Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures on page 55

Composite time signatures and the For Grouping Only option

For composite signatures, the numerator can be made up of up to 4 groups. For example, “4+4+3+/” on the upper line and 8 on the lower means the time signature is 11/8.

The reason for dividing the numerator into several numbers is to get beaming and tied notes displayed correctly automatically. This does not affect the metronome or anything else, only beams and ties.

If “For Grouping Only” is not activated, the numerator shows all the numbers entered. If it is activated, it shows the sum of the numbers entered, as for “simple” time signatures.

“For Grouping Only” off and on

Note that Nuendo tries to preserve the denominator when you insert a composite signature with “For Grouping Only” activated. This means that if you have a 4/4 time signature, and change it to

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a composite value (3+3+2 eighths for example), the time signature still is displayed as 4/4 instead of 8/8.

RELATED LINKS

Handling beaming on page 88

Setting the time signature on the Transport panel

You can also set the time signature directly on the Transport panel. Please note that you cannot create composite time signatures from the Transport panel.

Setting the time signature using the signature track/Tempo Track Editor

You can also add, edit, and delete time signatures using the signature track or the Tempo Track Editor.

Please note the following:

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The score always shows the time signature events set in the signature track/Tempo Track Editor, regardless of whether or not the Tempo button is activated. Likewise, any time signatures you create in the Score Editor are shown in the signature track/Tempo Track Editor.

● You cannot create composite time signatures using the signature track/Tempo Track Editor.

Editing the clef

On the clef context menu

When you right-click on a clef symbol, a context menu with a list of all available clefs opens. This menu also contains the following options:

● Display Clef Changes as Small Symbols

If you activate this option and insert a clef change in the score, the clef is displayed with a smaller symbol.

● Warnings for new Clefs at Line Breaks

If you activate this option and insert a new clef at a line break, the Clef change symbol is inserted in the last bar before the staff break. If this option is deactivated, the symbol is inserted in the rst bar of the next staff line.

● Hide

If you select this function, the clef is hidden.

Properties

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If you select this function, the Edit Clef dialog opens.

In the Edit Clef dialog

PROCEDURE

1. Double-click on the current clef.

A dialog appears.

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2. Use the scrollbar to select a clef.

IMPORTANT

This does not work if Auto Clef is activated on the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog.

3. Repeat the steps above for all staves in the system.

On the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog

PROCEDURE

1. Click on a staff to make it the active staff.

2. On the Scores menu, select “Settings…” to open the Score Settings dialog. Select the Staff

page at the top to open the Main tab, showing the current settings for the active staff.

You can also double-click to the left of a staff to make it active and bring up the Score Settings dialog in one go. If this does not work, the “Double-click on staff score/part” option in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page) may be activated.

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3. In the Clef/Key section, use the scrollbar on the left to select one of the available clefs.

4. Click Apply.

RELATED LINKS

Displaying single voices or the complete score on page 14 Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures on page 55

In a split system

If you have a split system you can set different clefs for the upper and lower staff.

NOTE

You can select another staff in the score and make settings for it without having to close the Score Settings dialog rst.

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PROCEDURE

1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page.

2. Select a clef for the upper staff.

3. Activate the “Lower Staff” checkbox.

4. Set a clef for the lower staff.

RELATED LINKS

Split (piano) staves on page 53 Strategies: How many voices do I need? on page 72

Using Auto Clef

On the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog you also nd the Auto Clef option. If this option is activated, the program automatically selects a treble clef or a bass clef for the staff, depending on the range of the notes in the part.

Editing the key

IMPORTANT

In the Score Settings dialog on the Project–Notation Style subpage (Keys category), you can nd the “Key Changes for the entire Project” option. If this option is activated, all changes made to the key always affect every staff in the project. You cannot dene different keys for different staves other than the relative display transpose settings for instruments made on the Staff page. Furthermore, on the Staff page, you can set any staff to not show key signatures.

Therefore, when you want to edit the key, decide if you want the key change to apply to the entire project, or if you want to use different keys on different staves:

● If the key set at the beginning of the track is to be used on all staves, and if any subsequent key changes are also valid for all staves, then leave the “Key Changes for the entire Project” option activated.

● If you want to use different keys on different staves, make sure that the “Key Changes for the entire Project” option is deactivated.

On the key context menu

When you right-click on a key symbol, a context menu with a list of all available keys opens. This menu also contains the following options:

Key Changes for the entire Project

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If this option is activated, all changes made to the key always affects the entire project, so that it is not possible to dene different keys for different staves.

Hide

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If you select this, the key is hidden.

Properties

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If you select this, the Edit Key dialog opens.

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In the Edit Key dialog

If the current key is anything but C major/A minor (no accidentals), you can set the key directly in the score:

PROCEDURE

1. Double-click on the accidentals at the beginning of a staff.

The “Edit Key” dialog opens.

2. Use the scrollbar to select a key and click OK.

RELATED LINKS

Transposing instruments on page 28

On the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog

PROCEDURE

1. Make the desired staff active, open the Score Settings dialog and select the Staff page.

The Clef/Key section on the Staff page

2. Use the right scrollbar in the Clef/Key section to select the desired key.

3. Click Apply.

NOTE

You can select other staves in the score and make settings for these, without having to close the Score Settings dialog.

Setting the key for a split system

If you have a split system with two staves you can set different keys for the upper and lower staff.

PROCEDURE

1. Click in the system to make one of its staves the active staff.

2. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page.

3. Set a key for the upper staff.

This automatically sets the lower staff to the same key.

4. If you need to set a different key for the lower staff, activate the “Lower Staff” checkbox and set a key for this.

RELATED LINKS

Split (piano) staves on page 53 Strategies: How many voices do I need? on page 72

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Setting a local key

You can also set a different key for the selected staff only. This is useful for instruments like oboe and English horn that change display transpose and therefore also the key.

PROCEDURE

1. Make the desired staff active, open the Score Settings dialog and select the Staff page.

2. Activate the “Local Keys” option on the Main subpage in the Clef/Key section.

NOTE

This option is only available if “Key Changes for entire Project” is activated in the Score Settings dialog, on the Project–Notation Style subpage (Keys category).

3. Use the scrollbar to the right to set the desired key.

4. Click Apply to set the selected key for the staff.

Transposing instruments

Scores for some instruments, for example a lot of brass instruments, are written transposed. Therefore, the Score Editor provides a Display Transpose function. With this function notes are transposed in the score without affecting the way they are played back. This allows you to record and play back a multi-staff arrangement, and still score each instrument according to its own transposition.

Setting Display Transpose

PROCEDURE

1. Make the desired staff active, open the Score Settings dialog and select the Staff page.

2. In the Display Transpose section, select your instrument from the Transpose pop-up menu

or adjust the value directly in the Semitones eld.

Transpose pop-up menu

3. Click Apply.

IMPORTANT

Display Transpose does not affect MIDI playback!

Display Transpose in the Edit Key dialog

If you want to change the Display Transpose setting in the middle of the score, you can do this by inserting a key change. In the Edit Key dialog, which is opened by double-clicking a key symbol, you can nd a Transpose eld, in which you can enter a transposition value in semitones. This is useful if you are for example writing a saxophone part and want the player to switch from alto to tenor saxophone.

NOTE

Note that you enter an absolute Display Transpose value that is used from this point on. In other words, this setting is not relative to any Display Transpose settings you made on the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog.

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RELATED LINKS

Inserting and editing clefs, keys, or time signatures on page 55

Disabling Display Transpose

You can also disable Display Transpose by deactivating the “Display Transpose” button on the Score Editor toolbar. This can be useful if you work with transposing instruments and want to show the concert key and not the scored key.

Printing from the Score Editor

When you have made all necessary changes to the score display and you are satised with the result, you can print your score.

PROCEDURE

1. On the Scores menu, activate “Page Mode”.

Printing is only possible from within Page Mode.

2. Select Page Setup from the File menu and make sure all your printer settings are correct. Close the dialog.

IMPORTANT

If you change your setting for paper size, scale, and margins now, the score may change its look.

3. Select Print from the File menu.

4. A standard print dialog appears. Fill out the options as desired.

5. Click Print.

Exporting pages as image les

You can export a section of a page or a complete page in various le formats. This allows you to import your scores into desktop publishing and drawing applications.

Selecting a section of a page for exporting

If you only want to export a part of a certain page, proceed as follows:

PROCEDURE

1. Make sure that you are in Page Mode.

2. Select the Export tool (“Select Export Range”).

The pointer turns into a cross-hair cursor.

3. Drag over the section of the score you want to include.

The area is indicated by a rectangle.

You can adjust the size of the rectangle by clicking and dragging its handles with the

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Object Selection tool.

You can move the rectangle to another position in the score by clicking and

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dragging.

To export the selected range, you have two possibilities:

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Exporting

● Double-click inside the rectangle while it is selected.

This opens the Export Scores dialog, where you can make settings for the le to be created.

Use the Export Scores function.

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To export the score, proceed as follows:

PROCEDURE

1. Make sure that you are in Page Mode.

2. Select the page that you want to export.

3. Open the File menu, open the Export submenu and select “Export Scores…”.

The Export Scores dialog appears.

4. Select a picture format.

5. Specify a resolution for the le.

This determines the accuracy with which the image is created. 300 dpi, for example, is the resolution many laser printers use for printing. If the image le is only displayed on screen in other programs, select 72 or 96 (depending on screen resolution) and it has the same size as it had in Nuendo.

6. Specify name and location for the le and click Save.

The page of the score is exported and saved as a le. It can now be imported into any program supporting the selected

le format.

Working order

When you prepare a score, we suggest you do things in the following order, since this minimizes the time needed if you make a mistake somewhere and need to redo a step.

● Preferably work on copies of recorded tracks.

If the parts are fairly complex you might have to change them permanently, after which they do not play back as they originally did.

● If memory is an issue, break the score up into segments.

You might for example use the Split Loop function from the Functions submenu on the Edit menu to split the parts across all tracks.

● Arrange the tracks in the Project window in the order you want them displayed in the score.

You cannot rearrange the order of systems in the Score Editor. However, you can go back and change the order in the Project window at any time.

When opening the Score Editor, begin with the adjustments described above.

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You should always begin by setting page margins, etc.

If you have recorded music into tracks already, try adjusting the graphic display of the

● score as much as possible without permanently editing the notes.

Use the Score Settings, Display Quantize, Grouping, etc.

If the tracks are empty, make basic staff settings, enter the notes and then make detailed

● adjustments, add Display Quantize, etc.

If needed, use polyphonic voicing to resolve overlapping notes, create piano systems,

● handle crossing voices, etc.

When all this is done, decide if you need to perform “destructive” editing.

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