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Selection Tools

These tools allow you to make draw in selections on the spectrogram, and are the key to

Spectral Filtering:

Time Selection Tool: Allows you to make rectangular time selections in the horizontal

plane across the entire spectrum. This is the default tool for making selections in Iris.

Time and Frequency Selection Tool: Allows you to make rectangular selections across

time and frequency.

Frequency Selection Tool: Allows you to make rectangular frequency selections in the

vertical plane across the entire length of the sample.

Lasso Tool: Allows you to make a freehand drawing, and will automatically connect

beginning and ending points to create a complete shape.

Paintbrush Tool: Allows simple freehand drawing with a circular brush. An adjustment

for brush size will appear next to the control once it has been selected. You can also

adjust brush size with your mouse wheel by holding down Control + Command at the

same time.

Magic Wand Tool: Automatically selects similar harmonic content in two ways:

1. Click on an unselected part of the spectrogram; the Magic Wand tool will

automatically select the most prominent tone under the cursor.

2. Click on existing selection; the Magic Wand tool will automatically select the

overtone harmonics or related audio components of your current audio selection.

You can use the Brush or Lasso tools ﬁrst to broadly deﬁne a sound and then use

Magic Wand to reﬁne your selection to include relevant harmonic material.

Using Selection Tools

Hold down Alt/Option while using any of these tools to make it a removal tool and erase

selections. A ‘-’ minus symbol will appear next to the cursor.

After using any of Iris 2’s tools to select a portion of your audio (with the exception of the Magic

Wand or Eraser tools), when the mouse is subsequently placed on top of any selection, a Grab

and Drag hand cursor will be displayed automatically, allowing you to change the position of

that selection.

You can also hold control-option (PC) or command-option (Mac) to move all of your current

selections at once.