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Voice Selection
In each tabbed page, voices can be selected by clicking any part of the voice strip.
Selection is shown by a red box around the voice strip.
1. Select the first voice in the “Voices & Zones” screen.
2. Hold the Shift key to select contiguous voices. Hold the Control key to select or
deselect non-contiguous voices. Press Control-A to select all voices.
Manipulating Voices
Under each tabbed page, there are various controls that allow you to change a voice’s
Group, Sample, Direction, Volume, Pan, etc. Some controls, such as Group or
Direction, are selected from a drop-down menu. Others, such as Volume and Pan, are
controlled by a slider or wheel.
Most pages also contain parameters that can be adjusted
using graphical sliders.
You edit a slider’s range or position by clicking the slider, and dragging your mouse left
or right. Create a fade by holding the Alt key in conjunction with clicking and dragging
your mouse. See the example below:
Click & Drag the
End to Resize
Click & Drag the
Middle to Move
Click & Drag Fade Point
to Adjust Fade
Alt-Click & Drag the
End to set Fade
To set the high and low ranges, click and drag the end points of the graphic display
To move the whole range without resizing it, click and drag the middle of the range.
To create a fade, hold Alt, and click and drag the end points. Once you create a fade
point, you can click and drag the fade point to re-position it.
Working With Multiple Voices
If you select more than one voice, you can edit parameters for all selected voices simultaneously.
To select more than one voice, hold the Ctrl key while clicking the voices
with your mouse. To select contiguous voices, hold the Shift key while clicking.
It’s important to understand how changing parameters in the various tabbed pages
differs from changing parameters in the Overview section that occupies the bottom
half of the screen:
• In the tabbed pages, such as the Mix/Tune page, parameter changes work in a
relative manner. This means if you select multiple voices and decrease the
Volume of a voice by 10 dB, you decrease all voices’ volumes by 10 dB.
• However, if you select multiple voices and change the volume knob in the
Overview section, you change all selected voices’ absolute volumes.
5 - Voices & Sample Zones
Voice Selection
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