User Manual

SAMPLING (RECORD+REASON)
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Cropping samples
Cropping a sample means deleting parts you don’t want to keep, e.g. any silence in the beginning and/or in the end
of a sample. The Crop function in the Edit Sample window deletes everything except what’s in between the Start and
End locators, or everything outside any highlighted part of the sample. To crop a sample, proceed as follows:
1. Set the Start and End locators where you want them - see “Setting Sample Start and End”.
Alternatively, click and drag in the Edit Sample window to highlight the section you want to keep.
2. Click the Crop button in the Edit Sample window.
• If you highlighted a section by clicking and dragging in the Edit Sample window, everything except the high-
lighted part gets permanently deleted.
• If you didn’t highlight a section of the sample, everything before the Start locator and after the End locator
gets permanently deleted.
Normalizing samples
Normalizing means amplifying the volume of the sample so that the loudest peak in the sound touches 0 dB. The
Normalize function normalizes either the entire sample, or the highlighted part of the sample.
1. Click and drag in the Edit Sample window to highlight the part of the sample you want to normalize.
To normalize the entire sample, you don’t have to do anything.
2. Click the Normalize button in the Edit Sample window.
• If you highlighted a section of the sample, the highlighted part gets normalized.
• If you didn’t highlight a section of the sample, the entire sample gets normalized regardless of any Locator set-
tings.
Since the entire sample is normalized, this means that any noise present in the sound will also be amplified.
After the Normalize operation, the waveform is redrawn with the new volume values.
! Note that normalizing a sample that already use the full headroom (touches 0 dB) won’t have any effect.
Reversing samples
Reversing a sample means playing it backwards, from the end to the start. The Reverse function reverses either the
entire sample, or the highlighted part of the sample.
1. Click and drag in the Edit Sample window to highlight the part of the sample you want to reverse.
To reverse the entire sample, you don’t have to do anything.
2. Click the Reverse button in the Edit Sample window.