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The Sample Editor
3. Click to glue the active segment to the next segment.
If several segments are selected, they will all be glued together. Snap will
not be taken into account.
Moving a segment horizontally
After cutting a segment, it may be necessary to move seg-
ments horizontally, e.g. if you notice that a note is at the
wrong position.
Proceed as follows:
1. Activate Segments mode on the VariAudio tab.
2. To move a segment, move the mouse pointer over the
upper border of the segment.
The mouse pointer becomes a double arrow.
3. Click and drag the whole segment to the left or right.
The segment will be moved accordingly. If several segments are selected,
they will be moved together. Snap will not be taken into account.
Ö Note that you can only drag the segment start/end un-
til it reaches the start/end of the next segment. Segments
cannot overlap each other.
Deleting segments
Sometimes it might be useful to delete segments. This is
true for situations where you want the original audio to be
played back, e.g. for non-tonal portions or consonants.
You can delete segments by selecting them and pressing
[Backspace].
Saving the segmentation
The corrected segmentation is saved with the project, no
additional saving is required.
Pitch & Warp mode
If you activate Pitch & Warp mode in the VariAudio tab,
you can change the pitch and the timing of your audio.
You can edit the pitch and timing of audio segments for
corrective purposes but also creatively by experimenting
freely with note pitches in order to change the melody with
or without preserving a natural sound, or by changing the
timing of the audio (see “Pitch & Warp mode” on page
247).
Ö In Pitch & Warp mode, the segments are shown with a
plain background. You can toggle between “Pitch & Warp
mode” and “Segments” mode by pressing the [Tab] key.
Ö There are some restrictions concerning the highest
and lowest possible note pitch. You cannot choose note
pitches above C5 and below E0.
The following paragraphs list the modifications that can be
performed when Pitch & Warp mode is activated.
Changing the pitch
If you want to edit the pitch of a segment, proceed as
follows:
1. Activate Pitch & Warp mode on the VariAudio tab.
2. Move the mouse pointer over the segment.
The mouse pointer becomes a hand symbol to indicate that you can
change the pitch of the segment. If the zoom factor is high enough, a
tooltip indicates the found note pitch and the deviation of the segment
from this pitch in percent.
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When the resulting segment pitch cannot be calcu-
lated because of an increase in non-tonal data, the
segment will be deleted.
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When the resulting segment pitch cannot be calcu-
lated because of an increase in non-tonal data, the
segment will be deleted.
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Before changing the pitch or timing of your seg-
ments, make sure that the segments you want to
change are corrected (see “Applying editing, offline
processes and VariAudio” on page 245).
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Before changing the pitch, you should have cor-
rected the segmentation. If you glue together seg-
ments after changing the pitch, your modifications
will be reset and the original pitch will be heard.