Instruction manual

MESA II Tutorial 11
empty Information Window will appear.
* Select a sample from the Memory Window and drag and drop it into the "untitled"
Window. To load stereo samples, select both left and right samples and drop them.
The Audio Editor Window is now filled with the selected samples' wave form and the
Information Window shows the information about the samples.
* Press the Spacebar.
The samples on the window will be played. To stop playing, press the Spacebar again.
Since these samples are on the Mac memory, they will be played from the speaker
built- in the Mac.
Step 5: Editing a sample
You can edit a sample using a DSP (Digital Sound Processing) function in Audio Editor.
DSP functions work only on the selected part. Selecting the whole sample ( Select All
in Edit Menu) or selecting a part thereof renders the DSP Menu active, i.e. its color
changes from gray to black.
* Select the Selection Tool (the "bar" icon in Toolbar Window, top right) of Audio Editor.
The shape of Cursor is changed to an "I" beam shape.
* Drag it on the wave form to select the part of a sample.
The selected part is displayed in reversed color, and only the selected part will be
played when the Spacebar is pressed. To adjust the right and left margins of the se-
If a sample is too
large to load into
Mac memory, you
will have to adjust
the memory by clos-
ing MESA II, clicking
its icon on the Finder
and selecting "Get
Info..."
To use DSP func-
tions, the DSP
PlugIns has to be
contained in the
MESA Pouch