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The Waveplayer

The Waveplayer Window

MAGIX midi studio generation 6’s built-in WavePlayer

lets you play back any WAV-files you like—polyphonically,

with filter and envelope treatments. If that sounds like

owning a real sampler, you’re right, but you don’t have to

buy an expensive piece of hardware. So how do you use the

WavePlayer? Easy—just follow our small tour, and

chances are that you’ll never have to read the WavePlayer

section in the reference manual. The only real precondi-

tion is that after you fasten your seatbelt and load MAGIX

midi studio generation 6, you must select a DirectSound

driver for the WavePlayer under Audio > Audio-Hardware

& Drivers. This is because the WavePlayer works only with

a DirectSound driver and only DirectSound drivers allow

you to use the WavePlayer and the audio features of

MAGIX midi studio generation 6 simultaneously. Got a

few WAV-files at hand? Fine, let’s start.

What you really got to know

Click on the Wave track in the Arrange window. Open the

WavePlayer window via Options > WavePlayer. On the left

side of the WavePlayer window you can see a horizontal

keyboard. To the right of each key you can see the name of

each note. To the right of each note name you can see the

File Name box. Left-clicking on such a box opens the stan-

dard Windows File Selector. Select and open a WAV-file.

You have now assigned this WAV-file to the key associated

to the File Name box. Don’t like the WAV you assigned?

No problem: simply right-click on the File Name box to

erase the key/WAV-assignment, then repeat the above

procedure to assign a new WAV-file.

Now that you have assigned a WAV to a key, it will only

play when you press this specific key. So let’s define a key-

board zone in which you can play this WAV-file. Right be-

side the File Name box you see the controls for each WAV-

file, arranged on a kind of grey crossbeam. Grab the upper

or lower edge of the crossbeam without touching any

other controls, and a double-arrow will appear, allowing

you to stretch the crossbeam into a vertical rectangle. This

rectangle defines the keyboard zone in which you can play

the WAV-file.

There is only one limitation in doing this: you can extend

the keyboard zone down all the way you like, but you can

only extend it one octave (twelve semitones) upwards. This

means that playing on your keyboard allows you to trans-

pose down as far as you like, but an upward transposition