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Chapter 8: Creating and Editing Sounds

• The <Play> soft key:

Pressing this soft key plays the selected sound, from soft start

address to soft end address, at full velocity level through the stereo

mix outputs, panned center.

• The <Best st> (best start) soft key:

This function automatically finds the point within a sound at which

the drum strike begins, bypassing any dead space at the beginning

of the sound which could cause play delays. Pressing this soft key

causes the following screen to appear:

========= Find Best Soft Start =========

Start threshold%: 5

Press <Do it> to change SOFT START

address to earliest sample that exceeds

threshold.

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<Do it>

It works by searching through the sound for the earliest sample that

exceeds the threshold entered into the Start threshold field.

To find the best start, enter a number into the field (5% is a good

starting point) and press <Do it>. At that time, the Edit Sound

screen reappears with the Soft st field set to the optimum

starting value. Experiment with the threshold value. A value too low

will start the sound too early, causing a slight playback delay; a

value too high will start too far into the sound, cutting off too much

of the beginning.

The Edit Samples section of the screen (right side)

This section allows the editing of the sound’s actual sample data.

The following is a description of the fields and soft keys.

• The Zone st (zone start) and Zone end fields:

These two fields are used to edit the actual sample data. They

define the start and end of a zone to be altered with the Do field and

<Do> soft key. The contents of the zone can be copied, deleted,

silenced, or reversed. Both fields are of the

seconds.milliseconds.samples format as described in the Soft st

section above.

• The Play X field:

This field works in conjunction with the <Play X> soft key to

audition any portion of the sound before editing. When the <Play

key is pressed, it plays the portion of the sound that is currently

selected in the PLAY X field, a choice field. The options are:

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