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TOOLS PANEL

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clicks and pops at your loop points. You can override the Intelligent Zero Crossing feature

by modifying Loop Start/End points at their respective numeric value controls located

below the spectrogram.

Crossfade: This allows you to apply crossfades to your loop, and is set by default to 176

samples to minimize any potential clicking. The crossfade will be indicated with diagonal

lines over the spectrogram.

Oset: This control changes where playback will begin in the sample. This will be

indicated by a dotted yellow line vertically across the spectrogram.

Delay: This control changes when playback will begin in relation to the other samples.

There is no visual indication on the spectrogram for this parameter.

TOOLS PANEL

On the left-hand corner of the Iris 2 window, you will see the Tools Panel, a collection of 16

tools used for Spectral Filtering. They are grouped into four major sections—Zoom Tools,

Selection Tools, Erase Tools, and Inversion Tools—and a single outlier, the preview button.

When a tool is highlighted in the blue/green color, that is the tool that is currently active.

Zoom Tools

These tools let you zoom in or out on the spectrogram:

Zoom to Selection: Once you’ve made a selection in the spectrogram, clicking this

button will zoom in speciﬁcally on that selected area so that you can see it more

clearly, and make modiﬁcations to your selection with more precision.

Zoom out Full: This tool quickly brings the spectrogram back to a full overview of

the entire ﬁle.

Zoom +/- Tool: This is simply a conventional zoom tool. Wherever you click on the

spectrogram, you will see in more detail. To zoom out, simply hold down Alt/Option

while clicking. You’ll notice the mouse icon switch from “+” to “-.”

You can also use your mouse wheel to zoom on the X-axis (for time-based zoom) or hold

down Alt/Option to zoom on the Y-axis (for frequency based zoom). If the Frequency or

Time rulers are displayed, you can also click and drag on these rulers to zoom in their

respective domains.

Scroll Tool - When zoomed in on the spectrogram, you may want to scroll around

through your audio ﬁle without having to zoom back out; this tool lets you do that! .