User Guide

CHAPTER 13
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Navigating the Multitrack View
To use the Loop Duplicate function to create interesting time delay effects:
1 Start by placing the source waveform into the Multitrack View.
2 Once entered, hold down the Shift key and right-click on the waveform and drag it to make an Image. The Image
should be placed onto a new track (such as below the existing track).
3 Next, shift the Image in time, to the right of the original; small amounts to create phase shifts (small time offset), larger
amounts to create delays (15-50 ms offsets) or echoes (50 ms or greater offsets).
4 Repeat this any number of times, shifting each Image slightly more to the right. You can even create in tempo delays
by changing the Display Time Format to Bars and Beats and use the Snapping function to Snap To Ruler locations,
placing the delayed Images at every beat, for example.
Try reducing the volume levels slightly for each Image, to soften the echoes (also, the combined waveforms will increase
the track's overall level in the mix and could cause clipping). You can also create both Pan and Volume envelopes for each
Image for truly dynamic delay effects that change over time.
Convert to Unique Copy This command creates a copy of the selected waveform block. Copying a waveform block in the
multitrack environment (as opposed to creating an Image) will create a separate audio file on disk, identical to the
original in size and disk space consumption. Creating a copy of a waveform block has the advantage of allowing for
separate editing of each occurrence of the waveform (you can add reverb to the one placed in your intro, while the same
sound placed in your verse can be dry).
Images have the advantage of not consuming any disk space, and depending on the situation, it may be an advantage to
be able to affect all occurrences of a waveform block by editing the original once. (With Images, you can add a Flanger
effect to one instance, and all 30 instances, for example would be flanged.).
To quickly add an effect to a waveform block within the Multitrack View, double-click on it (which will open the
waveform in the Edit View window). From there, you can use File > Save As… to create a copy of the file that can be
transformed using any Effect function. The newly processed file can then be placed into the multitrack environment.
To add multiple effects to an existing waveform non-destructively in Multitrack View:
1 Create a copy of the waveform using Edit > Convert to Unique Copy, or by saving the file under a new name using
Save As in the Edit View.
2 Once a copy of the original file has been made, add any processing or effect you like to it. For effects that have wet/dry
balancing, set them to 100%, or close to 100% wet, so the result is primarily effect. (The original waveform that you
copied will provide the dry element.)
3 Insert the processed copy into the multitrack environment, placing it into an adjacent to the original, in a different
track. This way it will simultaneously playback both original file and the effected one.
4 You can then vary the effected waveform’s (and the original’s) volume and pan envelopes to bring the wet/dry in and
out, or pan right and left.
Repeat this operation for other effects to have separate control over a number of effects (one for Flange, one for Reverb,
etc.).