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Manual

MIDI output device strips
MIDI output device parameter
Track controls
Karaoke
Settings
List editor
ML's Internal Sound Generator
Audio record
Wave editor

Wave editor

First of all, select the relevant playback device, which is used if you start playing a wave inside the wave editor.

This can be done by selecting the 'settings' main-menu item and choosing sub-category 'Wave Editor devices'. There you find the current Wave editor playback device in the upper half.




For working with the wave editor now, it is necessary to set the focus to it. Only then all further toolbar and menu-selections are routed to the wave editor. The wave editor gets the focus by clicking inside of it, or clicking it's tab. The wave editor's frame turns to dark (active):



Now you can click on the toolbar-button 'open' and MIDI Locator knows, that you want to open a wave file and not a MIDI file. If you want the toolbar-buttons to be targeted to the MIDI area again, just click inside the MIDI track view, later. But now, keep the focus in the wave editor window.

Zooming:

If you have opened a wave file, please select some area with the mouse and then move the first horizontal scrollbar a little bit to the right: You can see that you are zooming into the wave file. If you want to zoom deeper, just select an new area inside the now zoomed area and move the scrollbar again. This way you can zoom as deep until you see single samples from your wave. Zoom back again to the complete overview by moving the scrollbar to the left. Or simply press the 'ESC' key.



Wave editor's header controls:



Sync to MIDI:

If this checkbox is marked, the wave editor will playback synchronized to the MIDI seqence in the upper MIDI track view. But wave playback will only be started together with the MIDI playback if the focus is set on the MIDI track view. As long as the focus stays inside the wave editor, starting playback will only start the wave output.

Vol. factor, Stretch factor, # of copies, insert paste, keep pitch, fade
are controls for copy and paste. and explained now:

Copy and paste

Select any area of your wave file and click on the copy button in the toolbar. And click on paste.

You see the content of the copy buffer, painted as a green "ghost".


The ghost is not pasted on your wave, yet. You can now move the ghost and start playback, you can check if you insert position is the one you realy want. If you finaly want to paste the "ghost" in your wave, just click paste again in the toolbar (2. paste-click).

In addition you can influence the copy buffer some ways, before the finaly paste it on your wave:

You can change it's volume with the mouse by touching the upper or lower edge of the ghost and moving it.

You can change the pitch (and therefore the length) of the ghost, by touching the right edge and moving it.

# of copies:

You can paste the ghost several times one after the other, multiplied coping it:
Just enter a number inside the "# of copies" control:



Insert Paste, no Mix Paste:

Insted of overdupping the ghost on your wave file, you can create a free ghost-size area inside the wave file and paste the ghost into it. The right part of the original wave is moved to the right, no data will be truncated. Your wave file expands. Just mark the checkbox "Insert Paste, no Mix Paste" before you click on the final 2. Paste button:



Fade out multiple copies:

If you have entered a number in the "# of copies" control, you can decide to "fade out" those multiple copies. This is often done in DJ mixes, when an old rythm's is changing to a new one. In the last one or two measures of the old rythm, the old bass kick is faded out this way.



Properties:

The properties of the wave file (khz, bits) can be viewed with a click on the property-button in the toolbar (icon with blue points).