User manual ALESIS ADATEDIT

[. . . ] Owner's Manual for Adat Edit Version 1. 0 February 1999 ­ English - E Soft- und Hardware GmbH Important! Please read this licence agreement before opening the disk seal! Copyright This manual and software described herein are copyrighted © 1992­1999 by Emagic Soft- und Hardware GmbH (Emagic) with all rights reserved. Under copyright laws this manual, protection-key and software may not be duplicated in whole or in part without the written consent of Emagic, except in the normal use of the software or to make a back-up copy of the original disk. Limited Warranty Except to the extent prohibited by applicable law, all implied warranties made by Emagic in connection with this manual and software are limited in duration to ninety (90) days or minimum guarantee period in your state or country from the date of original purchase, and no warranties, whether express or implied, shall apply to this product after said period. This warranty is not transferable ­ it applies only to the original purchaser of the software. Emagic makes no warranty, either express or implied, with respect to this software, its quality, performance, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. [. . . ] Existing selection parameters can be moved by using S-click and dragging. Automation of Audio To automate the volume or pan settings for audio tracks, open the Track Mixer, and put the sequencer into record. As you move the faders or knobs of the audio objects, corresponding Midi controllers will be recorded to the audio tracks. Upon playback, the Midi data will be sent back to the faders, thereby automating them. Summary Here is a short summary of operation: set the path and name for the audio file. A long click on the record button in the Transport window opens the dialog box. Select an audio track in the Arrange window; if one is not already available, create an audio track. Click R next to the audio object in the track column, or on the REC button of the audio object in the Adat Edit mixer. Start the recording with RECORD, as with Midi recordings. Emagic Adat Edit - - 168 In General Audio regions are displayed and can be edited nondestructively in the Arrange window. More precise nondestructive edits, and destructive edits are possible in the Sample editor. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Gl Ix B C 7. 3 In General Tempo and Timeline Digital audio recordings differ from Midi sequences in a very important respect. Changing the tempo of your song will not change the rate of playback of an audio recording, as it would a Midi sequence. If you do change the tempo of the song after recording audio, the starting bar positions of the regions will change, but they will play for exactly the same amount of time as they did when originally recorded. This is because the rate of playback is determined by the sample rate of the audio hardware, not the internal clock in the computer. For this reason, you should carefully choose the tempo when you start to make an audio recording. A change is not easy to make after the fact. Adjusting Tempo to fit an Audio Recording Adat Edit allows you to adjust the song tempo to an audio recording. To do so, you just need to edit the recording so that it cycles smoothly, and tell Adat Edit how long in bars and beats the musical piece should be when the function is complete. More about this in the Chapter 3 Tutorial on page 43. Owner's Manual Version 1. 0 ­ English - 169 Audio Basics Data Formats Audio files and their Formats Audio files are saved on the Macintosh in the SDII format (SDII stands for SoundDesigner II, a standard format from Digidesign for digital audio files). For PCs the standard WAV format is used. Both platforms support AIFF files (Audio Interchange File Format). Sample Rate and Bit Depth As with all comparable multi-track HD systems, Adat Edit can only play back audio files with a single sampling rate. If you want to integrate files with different sample rates into a project, you can make the changes in the sample editor with Factory > Sample Rate Convert. All files used should be 16 bit. Stereo File Formats Any of Adat Edit's 12 available tracks may be set to mono or stereo, but there are some things you need to be aware of before you start working with audio files in the stereo format: Adat Edit can import stereo files that are made up of two phase locked mono files (split stereo), or files in which both channels of the stereo recording are contained in one file (interleaved stereo). In Adat Edit, the stereo files are indicated by two interlocking rings after the region name. You will see the same symbol on the mono/stereo button of a mixer channel. Stereo files recorded directly into Adat Edit are automatically written as interleaved stereo files. [. . . ] 170 Stereo recording setting audio object for stereo recording . 298 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Gl Ix B C T Tempo setting on the Transport window 122 Tempo and Timeline changing tempo after recording audio not a good idea . 169 Tempo event inserting in the Tempo List . 276 Time signature setting on the Transport window 122 Toggle Selection . [. . . ]