User manual YAMAHA SOUND EDGE

[. . . ] INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing the Yamaha Sound Edge--a high quality sound card with on-board musical instrument sounds and digital effects bundled with a number of software applications with the power to turn your IBM PC/AT compatible personal computer into a high fidelity multimedia center. Sound Edge gives you enormous multimedia potential that will add an entirely new dimension to your computer, including direct access to the wide world of music, stereo digital sound recording and playback, and much more. In addition to extremely high fidelity musical instrument sounds, including an "AWM" wave table of real musical instruments sampled with Yamaha's Advanced Wave Memory technology, plus a wide selection of "FM" voices generated by Yamaha's world-famous Frequency Modulation synthesizer technology, the Sound Edge lets you play multiple wave data on a musical scale using a sequencer. The sound card also features the high quality "DSP" (Yamaha's unique effect processor) which gives you great control over the sound. [. . . ] This setting changes the vibrato or tremolo effect. £LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) is an oscillator that generates low-frequency signals and is used to create vibrato or tremolo effects. 49 Sound Edge Application Software 11 Vibrato Depth: Sets the depth of the vibrato effect. 12 Tremolo Depth: Sets the depth of the tremolo effect. 13 Pan: Sets the apparent sound orientation for stereo. Valid values are from -7 (left-most), through 0 (center), to 7 (right-most). 14 OK: To apply any parameter setting changes, click the [OK] button. 15 Cancel: To cancel any parameter setting changes, click the [Cancel] button. I Window Menu Cascade: Displays the windows organized as a series of overlapping windows. 50 Tile: Displays the windows organized as a series of side-by-side, top and bottom windows. Arrange Icons: Displays the iconized windows organized as in rows. I Help Menu Contents: Displays Online Help. Search for Help on: Displays the Search window. How to Use Help: Displays information on how to use the Help system. About SE: Displays version information about SampleEdit. Sound Edge Application Software Reading Wave Files You can read wave files recorded by other application software and files of previously created material, and you can edit the waveforms. SampleEdit can handle the following three types of files, but only files that have the . WAV or . OPL file extension can be read and used for waveform editing. . WAV (Waveform Audio): The standard format for digital audio files used in Windows. . OPL (OPL Waveform Audio): The wave file format to which has been edited and added the parameters of the internal tone generator(OPL4). . OMP (OPL Download Map): The file format with the . OPL files assigned and listed in the Mapping window. For details on . OPL files, see page 60. £SampleEdit is compatible with the following wave data: 8 or 16 bit; 11. 015, 22. 050, or 44. 1 kHz sampling; monaural. If the wave file that was read is a stereo sample, only the left-channel data is read and displayed. Reading Procedure 1. The File Selection dialog box appears. 52 2. When a . WAV file or . OPL file is read, the waveform editing window is displayed in the work area and a waveform is displayed. £When a . WAV file is read, actually a new . OPL file is created with initial values of the wave parameters that correspond to the wave file. Therefore, the original . WAV file remains unchanged, and editing will be performed on duplicate. £When a . OMP file is read, the Mapping window appears and the list for downloading appears. For details, see page 59. Sound Edge Application Software Editing in the Waveform Editing Window You can use SampleEdit to edit a waveform in the same way you would use word-processing software to edit a document: for example, you can use the commands [Copy], [Cut], or [Paste]. [. . . ] 48 Paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 SOFTWARE LICENSING AGREEMENT The following is a legal agreement between you, the end user, and Yamaha Corporation ("Yamaha"). The enclosed Yamaha software program is licensed by Yamaha to the original purchaser for use only on the terms set forth herein. Please read this licensing agreement with care. [. . . ]