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Soft: Activating this option depends upon your own perception of sound. If
you would like to produce a more lurid sound (such as grunge) you should
deactivate the "soft" option. This option does, however, reduce eventual
distortion.
High Quality: This option improves the results of the effects while demanding
more of your computer’s performance. As with the "soft" option, your own
notion of sound should come into play when choosing this option.
Sound Cloner
With the "sound cloner" you can determine the sound characteristic of a song
and transfer it to your other recordings. This way you can, for example, create
a Pat Metheny song in the style of Madonna. Load a track you really like, set
the song's playback position and press the "Get sound" button in the sound
cloner. The sound's characteristics are now calculated. As a preset sound
clone, it is now immediately available to you and can also be stored via "Save"
for later use.
By loading the "clone" from the preset menu, you can use it on the sound
material. With the slide control, you can regulate the intensity of the sound
transmission.
The sound cloner is a kind of automatic 1024 band equalizer. Its filter curve
(compare the touch screen in the "normal" EQ) is a result of the mean of the
cloned sound and output sound. When loading the preset, the sound cloner
uses the audio material beneath the playback marker as the basis for filter
settings which then apply to all objects in the master, but are actually only
intended for this object. So if your output material on the track comes from
various sound sources, the sound cloner should definitely be used as an
object effect.
The "Settings" menu of the sound cloner also contains a few useful filter
settings besides its "clone" presets. These are independent of the source
material and can be used as a master effect.