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Tutorial 10—Cyclone Soft Synth
When you are happy with the drum sounds you have mapped, you can mix
down to an audio file.
Tutorial 10—Cyclone Soft Synth
This tutorial explains how to use Cyclone. You will learn how to open, play
and edit loops as you create a short song.
Next step: Cyclone Overview
Cyclone Overview
Cyclone allows you to trigger individual parts or “slices” of Riff Wave files
and ACIDized files. There are 16 pads, and you can assign a file to each
pad. You can trigger pads with a MIDI file, your mouse or a MIDI keyboard.
You can edit the content and length of each file all while syncing to
SONAR’s tempo changes and pitch markers.
Let’s start by opening Cyclone.
To Open Cyclone
1. Open a new project by selecting File-New.
2. In the New Project File dialog box, enter Tutorial10 in the Name field.
3. Select the Normal template from the template list and click OK.
4. Select Views-Synth Rack.
The Synth Rack appears.
5. In the Synth Rack click the Insert Soft Synths button and select
Cyclone from the menu that appears.
The Insert Soft Synths Options dialog appears.
Change the V Scale setting Double-click in the appropriate cell and
enter a new value, or click on the right
side of the cell, and when the cursor
changes to an up and down arrow, drag
it up to increase the value or down to
lower the value.
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