Specifications

PLAYING AUDIO

4. Click the Envelope button, or select “Envelope” from the View

menu.

The Envelope panel appears below the main toolbar. Envelope allows you to

adjust three parameters; Attack, Decay and Stretch (see the chapter “Pro-

cessing Audio” for a full description of the Envelope parameters). This par-

ticular file was saved with non-default Attack and Decay parameter settings,

which means that the Envelope effect is already turned on. This is indicated

by the darkened and lit On/Off button (the leftmost button on the panel).

5. Turn the “Stretch” knob fully to the left (0%).

6. Now lower the tempo of the loop down to about 70 bpm and start

playback.

As you can hear, at this tempo the slices sound “chopped off”, with a dis-

cernible gap of silence between each slice.

7. While still in playback, gradually turn the Stretch knob clockwise

until it is set to about 45%.

Like magic, the tail (end) portion of each slice is lengthened so that the gaps

disappear. The Stretch function actually generates sound. It analyzes the ex-

isting tail of each slice, and then lengthens it. This feature is used if you wish

to lower the tempo of a loop.

There are two other effect processors which can be applied in Pre-

view mode, “Transient Shaper” (compressor) and “Equalizer”.

These are described in the “Processing Audio” chapter.

! For all Preview settings, the principle “what you hear is what you

get” applies to the resulting saved or exported file or when trans-

mitted to your sampler!