User Guide

yellow tools INDEPENDENCE 1.0

Manual

Basic Settings

Here you can assign the volume, panorama and pitch settings for the selected Layer.

Use the “MA” (MIDI Automation) buttons to activate the default MIDI automation for “volume”

and “panorama”.

Read Model

The Read Model is a very important feature and allows you to switch between RAM (RF-RAM)

and hard disk (RF-HDD) as memory for all loaded sound samples. The yellow tools RF-HDD

technology enables you to load and play instruments completely independent from their physical

size - even if this size is bigger than your available RAM. Only a small part of the beginning of each

required audio ﬁle gets loaded into RAM and the rest remains on the hard disk. The entire audio

ﬁle only gets reloaded if required. This is a very complex technology which allows an enormous

performance and a so far unreached loading rate. You can adjust the parameters of the Read Model

in Independence‘s preferences (-> see „Preferences“ chapter on page 120). To switch between the

two read models please click on the pull-down menu and select your preferred model.

Next to the read models you can also activate and reset the Auto-RAM-Cleaner. This feature allows

a very special optimization of the performance of your computer resources.

In practice it often happens that many Zones of a loaded instrument remain unused and thus only

require unnecessarily RAM. At this point Independence‘s Auto-Ram-Cleaner becomes active:

When you ﬁnished the editing of a Layer, simply click on the read model pull-down menu and select

one of the following options:

A: If you activate the Auto-Ram-Cleaner, Independence automatically unloads all unused sound

samples of the Layer, so only the sounds you used remain in the memory. To activate the

Auto-Ram-Cleaner simply click this option again.

B: To give you still the ﬂexibility of any subsequent editing you can reset the Auto-Ram-Cleaner at

any time and all sound samples of the Layer get reloaded.

If the Auto-Ram-Cleaner is active, the number of the respective Layer gets shaded.