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Chapter 8: Creating and Editing Sounds

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Once a sound is selected, the Soft St, Soft end, Length, Vol%, and Tune

fields will immediately be updated to show the newly selected sound’s

settings. Also, if the selected sound is stereo, “(ST)” appears to the right

of the sound name.

• The Soft St (soft start) field:

When a sound is played, play actually starts not at the absolute

beginning of the sound but rather at the position within the sound

specified in this field. It is actually three interrelated fields:

1. Seconds (0–999),

2. Milliseconds (0–999), and

3. Samples (0–39; at the 40kHz sample rate, there are 40

samples to a millisecond.)

Increasing this value above 000.000.00 will cause the sound to start

playback from a location later than the actual start, but will retain the

unused beginning portion of the sound. It is possible to delete this

unused portion by using the <Do> soft key, described below. To find the

best soft start address for the sound automatically, use the <Best st> soft

key, described below.

• The Soft end field:

When a sound is played, play actually stops not at the absolute end of

the sound but rather at the position within the sound specified in this

field. It is a seconds.milliseconds.samples-format field as used in the

Soft st field above. Decreasing this value below the address in the

Length field will cause the sample to stop playing sooner than the actual

end, but will not delete the unused end of the sound from memory.

However, the end can be deleted from memory by using the <Do> soft

key, described below.

• The Length field:

This field shows the total size of the sound, in

seconds.milliseconds.samples format. This field is for indication only—it

cannot be edited directly.

• The Vol% (volume percentage) field:

This is an initial volume control for the sound, and affects all outputs. The

range is 1 to 200% and is initially set to 100%. The intended purpose of

this parameter is to adjust the sound’s volume to be roughly equal to the

levels of other sounds.

• The Tune field:

This is an initial tuning setting for the sound. This tuning value adds to

the other tuning values found in the program and to each note’s Note

Variation tuning data. The range is from -120 to +60 in increments of 0.1

semitone. The intended purpose of this parameter is to adjust the

sound’s tuning to be at the apparent center of its range.

• The <Play X> 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

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