User manual ALESIS ADATEDIT

[. . . ] Owner's Manual for Adat Edit Version 1. 0 February 1999 ­ English - E Soft- und Hardware GmbH Important! Please read this licence agreement before opening the disk seal! Copyright This manual and software described herein are copyrighted © 1992­1999 by Emagic Soft- und Hardware GmbH (Emagic) with all rights reserved. Under copyright laws this manual, protection-key and software may not be duplicated in whole or in part without the written consent of Emagic, except in the normal use of the software or to make a back-up copy of the original disk. Limited Warranty Except to the extent prohibited by applicable law, all implied warranties made by Emagic in connection with this manual and software are limited in duration to ninety (90) days or minimum guarantee period in your state or country from the date of original purchase, and no warranties, whether express or implied, shall apply to this product after said period. This warranty is not transferable ­ it applies only to the original purchaser of the software. Emagic makes no warranty, either express or implied, with respect to this software, its quality, performance, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. [. . . ] You can play back the regions in the Arrange window in almost the same way. You just choose an audio object as the "track instrument. " Any track can play back regions in the Arrange window, if an audio object has been assigned to it in the track list. Owner's Manual Version 1. 0 ­ English - Audio Basics Audio Object An audio object represents a single playback track for Adat Edit. Imagine an audio playback track, also known as a physical track, as being similar to a single track on a multi-track tape recorder. You can lay down as many audio tracks in the arrange window as you want, regardless of the number of physical tracks. These tracks are also sometimes called "virtual tracks. " If the same audio object is assigned to different audio tracks, then only one of the regions in the Arrange window can be played back at a time. By the way, if you create a new song (çn in Windows, and Cn in Mac respectively), Adat Edit will automatically give you an audio object for every physical track. The level meter, balance, volume control, and the effects are set on the audio object. All of these parameters can be automated in Adat Edit, using standard Midi controllers. Important Sample Editor In the Sample editor you can precisely set the boundaries and the anchor position for each region. Also, you can select areas of the audio files to form new regions, or perfrom destructive edits of selected portions of regions. For editing purposes, you have a variety of functions at your disposal: from simple reversing or normalization (which allows you to adjust volume to maximum without clipping), to sample rate conversion. For all destructive editing, which actually does change the audio file, you also have an undo function available. Also, before starting any destructive operations, you can make automatic back-ups. Emagic Adat Edit 164 Production 7. 2 Production 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 This section will explain the basic steps for making an audio recording in Adat Edit. Starting a Recording First, connect the sound source (a mixer, CD player, or microphone, for example) to the audio input(s) of your system. Setting a Path Click-hold on the record button of the Transport window, and select the menu option Set Audio Record Path. . . Click on Set, and in the dialogue box that appears, set the name and path for your recording (audio files). Subsequent recordings will be given the same name, with a number appended to the end of the file name. The record path will be saved in the Preferences, and will still be active at the next program start. It is recommended, however, that you desciptively name each of your audio files. When you start a new song, create a folder on your hard drive for it, and set the path to that folder when working on the song. This will help you manage the many audio files that you will no doubt create, as you work with Adat Edit. 13 14 15 16 17 18 Gl Ix B C 165 Selecting the Audio Track Select an audio track in the Arrange window by clicking on it. Owner's Manual Version 1. 0 ­ English - Audio Basics To create a new audio track, select Track>Create Audio Track from the local Arrange window menu bar. A new audio track will be inserted in the track list, just below the currently highlighted track. Arming Tracks Unlike Midi tracks, audio tracks must be "armed" before they can be recorded to, just as the tracks on a tape recorder must be first armed. You can also click on the REC button on an audio channel in the Track mixer, in order to arm the appropriate audio object. Stereo Recording In order to make a stereo recording, you must configure the selected track as stereo in the Adat Edit mixer. Go to an audio object, and click on the symbol to the left of the record switch. A simple circle indicates mono, a pair of interlocked circles indicates stereo. Levels As soon as you arm an audio track, you will hear any signal being sent to the audio inputs of your system. With the audio object's fader on the mixer you can control the level of the monitored signal. [. . . ] Velocity may have a range of 0-127. Virtual Memory Storage space on the hard disk, which is used by Windows as a "swap file" to enlarge RAM capacity. WAV Files File format for sound files on a Windows PC. WAV files can be recorded in various formats (8bit, 16bit, Stereo/Mono, ) and various sample rates, such as 22 kHz or 44. 1 kHz. 338 Emagic Adat Edit Wave Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Gl Ix B C Feature that allows sound files in the computer to be triggered with Midi Notes. Windows Commonly used operating system for PC compatible computers. It offers a graphical user interface. WYSIWYG Acronym for "What You See Is What You Get". A program's ability to show a accurate display on the screen of what a document will look like when printed. [. . . ]