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Owner’s Manual for Adat Edit

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February 1999

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Owner’s Manual

Authors: Peter Gorges, Jan-Friedrich Conrad, Ronald

Bias, Thorsten Adam

Translation: Bernie Hurst, Matt Bell, Ruthven Martinus

Editing: Jeff Bohnhoff, Robert Hunt, Joel Heppting,

David Dvorin, David Freeman

Layout: Fabian Schmid, Ronald Bias, Thorsten Adam,

Uwe Senkler

Address: Emagic Inc.

Tel: +530 477 1051

Fax: +530 477 1052

Net: http://www.emagic.de

eMail: info@emagicusa.com

13348 Grass Valley Ave. Building C, Suite 100 Grass Valley, CA 95945 USA

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Features

Chapter 2 Getting Started

Chapter 3 Tutorial

Chapter 4 Operation

Chapter 5 Transport Functions

Chapter 6 Arrange Window

Chapter 7 Audio Basics

Chapter 8 Working with Audio in the Arrange Window

Chapter 9 The Mixer

Chapter 10 The Event Editor

Chapter 11 The Matrix Editor

Chapter 12 The Score Editor

Chapter 13 The Sample Editor

Chapter 14 Synchronization, Video and Midi Files

Chapter 15 Reference: Key Commands and Use of Mouse

Chapter 16 Menu Reference

Chapter 17 Audio Recording Tips

Glossary

Index

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Chapter 1 Features

1.1 Adat Edit is… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

1.2 Multitrack Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

1.3 Flexible Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

1.4 Automatic Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

1.5 GM Supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

1.7 Graphical Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

1.8 About this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

The Tutorial Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Chapter 2

2.1 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

2.2 Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

2.3 MacOs/Win: Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Getting Started

Getting Started With Adat Edit . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Selecting the Midi Out Port in the Program 31

Testing the Midi Connection . . . . . . . . . . .32

Test the Midi Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Adat Edit and Multitasking . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Launching Adat Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Launch Adat Edit Automatically . . . . . . . . .34

Launching Adat Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Choose Midi Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Midi Time Piece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Testing the Midi Connection . . . . . . . . . . .36

Test the Midi-Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Autoload Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Start Adat Edit automatically . . . . . . . . . . .38

Keyboard and Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Key Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Exchanging Songs Between Mac and PC . .40

Main Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Chapter 3

3.1 Adapting the Tutorial Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Tutorial

Load the Tutorial Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

General Midi Tone Generator . . . . . . . . . .44

Non GM, Multi-Timbral Tone Generators .45

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Sounds and Midi Channels . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Drum Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

3.2 Starting the Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

3.3 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

3.4 Tracks and Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

3.5 Information Track and Instruments . . . . . . . . . .50

3.6 Transport Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Start Song Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Display Current Song Position . . . . . . . . . .52

Zoom a Window Excerpt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Cycle Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Solo and Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

The Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Mouse Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Copies of Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Scissors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Transposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Your First Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Song Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Let’s Record! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Saving the Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

3.7 Event List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

3.8 Matrix Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

3.9 Score Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Display Parameter Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Key Signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Page Edit View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Arrange-Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Track Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

3.10 Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Create Audio tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Mixer with Audio Channels . . . . . . . . . . . .76

Importing Audio File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

Sample Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

Internal Audio Effects in the Mixer . . . . . .80

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Chapter 4

4.1 Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

4.2 Key Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85

4.3 Operating the Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87

4.4 Selecting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

4.5 Working withTools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98

4.6 The Edit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

4.7 File Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

4.8 Windows Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

4.9 Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

4.10 Song Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Operation

Standard Elements of Operation . . . . . . . .88

Undoing a Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

Selecting all Following Objects . . . . . . . . .96

Tools: Area of Influence . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

Undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Song Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

1.Quick Launch of Recent Songs . . . . . . .107

Open Event List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Open Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Wide Song Position Line . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Single Click closes Window . . . . . . . . . . .111

Bank Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115

Chapter 5

5.1 Transport Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Transport Functions

Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Indicator Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

Position Slider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Smaller/Larger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Parameter Fields and Indicators . . . . . . . .121

Position Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121

Position Markers (Locators) . . . . . . . . . . .121

Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Free Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

End of Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

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5.2 Transport Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

5.3 Mode-Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Cycle (Repeat Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Record Replace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Solo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

5.4 Bar Ruler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

5.5 Cycle Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

Cycle Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132

5.6 Autodrop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

5.7 Combining Cycle and Autodrop . . . . . . . . . . .134

5.8 Tempo List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Chapter 6

Arrange Window

6.1 Structure of the Arrange Window . . . . . . . . .137

6.2 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

6.3 Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138

6.4 Arranging Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

What is a Sequence? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Creating an Empty Sequence . . . . . . . . .143

Shifting Sequences in Time . . . . . . . . . . .143

Copying Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Moving/Copying onto another Track . . . .144

Changing the Length of a Sequence . . . .144

Setting Cycle Length by Sequence Length 144

Selecting within the Cycle Locators . . . . .145

Automatically Adjusting the Length . . . . .145

Setting Locators by Objects . . . . . . . . . . .145

Optimizing Size of Objects . . . . . . . . . . .145

Snap Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Remove Overlaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Tying Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

Erase Duplicated Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

6.5 Information Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

6.6 Sequence Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Stopping Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Turning Loops into real Copies . . . . . . . .151

Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

Velocity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

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Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Normalizing Sequence Parameters . . . . . .152

6.7 Demix by Event Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

6.8 Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Setting the Quantization Value . . . . . . . .154

Quantization: Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . .154

Fixing the Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

The Different Types of Quantization . . . .155

No Quantizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155

Standard Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Quantization to Odd Tuplets . . . . . . . . . .156

Swing Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156

Mixed Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Pre-quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

6.9 View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158

Color Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158

Hide/Show Transport Field . . . . . . . . . . . .158

Hide/Show Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

White Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159

6.10 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Send Midi Commands... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Maximum Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Chapter 7

7.1 Basic Principles and Terminology . . . . . . . . . .161

7.2 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Audio Basics

What You Need to Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

Audio File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162

Anchor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Audio Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163

Audio Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164

Sample Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164

Starting a Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Setting a Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Selecting the Audio Track . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Arming Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Stereo Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166

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Starting to Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

Basic Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

Sample Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Automation of Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168

7.3 In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Tempo and Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Adjusting Tempo to fit an Audio

Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169

Data Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Audio files and their Formats . . . . . . . . . .170

Sample Rate and Bit Depth . . . . . . . . . . .170

Stereo File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170

Chapter 8

Working with Audio in the Arrange Window

8.1 Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Generating Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

Dividing Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174

Deleting Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174

Deleting a Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174

Copying Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

Creating A New Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

Multiple Use of an Existing Region (Alias) 175

Looping Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175

Moving Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176

Fine Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176

Using the Event List to edit Regions . . . . .176

Changing Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

Region Parameter Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178

Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178

Region Anchor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178

8.2 Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179

Setting Tracks to Record Audio . . . . . . . . . . .179

Recording Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Standard Recording with Count-in . . . . .180

Manual Drop Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Pre-Programmed Drop Recording . . . . . .181

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Recording in Cycle Mode . . . . . . . . . . . .182

After Recording, Please Note… . . . . . . . .182

8.3 Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182

Adjusting Tempo Automatically . . . . . . . . . . .182

Digital Mixdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

Bounce to Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185

Chapter 9

9.1 Integrating Midi and Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

9.2 Midi Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

9.3 Audio Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

9.4 Real-Time Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

The Mixer

Opening the Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

General Midi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Bank Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189

Mute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190

Other Control Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Display Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

The Level Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Volume Level Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Mute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Solo for Audio Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192

Pan/Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

Equalizer (EQ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

Bus Sends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

Arming Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193

Stereo Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194

Configuring a Stereo Object . . . . . . . . . .194

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

Direct Insertion of Effects . . . . . . . . . . . .195

Bus Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195

Overview of Bus Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196

Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196

Plug-In Window Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

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9.5 Mixer Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Chapter 10

The Event Editor

10.1 Midi Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

10.2 Opening the Event List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201

10.3 Standard Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202

Hiding the Parameter Area . . . . . . . . . . .202

10.4 Event List Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

Midi Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

10.5 Scrolling the Event List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

Current Song Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

Scroll Arrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204

Scrollbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205

10.6 Selecting Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205

10.7 Structure of the List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206

Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206

Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206

Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207

Num (1. Data Value) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207

Val (2. Data Value) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207

Length/Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207

Display of Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208

10.8 Event Type Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208

View Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208

Inserting Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209

10.9 Event Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209

Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209

Program Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210

Pitch Bend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210

Control Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211

Aftertouch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212

Polyphonic Aftertouch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212

SysEx Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .212

10.10 Editing Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213

Moving Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213

Changing Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214

Copying Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215

Deleting Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215

10.11 Arrange Level Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215

Naming Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216

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Muting Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217

10.12 Quantizing Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217

10.13 Moving and Copying Segments . . . . . . . . . . .219

Locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .219

Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220

Number of Copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220

Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220

10.14 Practicing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221

Copying a Segment of the Flute Solo . . .221

Chapter 11

11.1 Opening the Matrix Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225

11.2 Standard Matrix Editor Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . .226

11.3 Transport Field and Parameter Dialog Box . . . .226

11.4 Event Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .226

11.5 Working with Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228

Chapter 12

12.1 Opening the Score Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231

12.2 Standard Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232

12.3 Setting the Display Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232

12.4 Adjusting the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233

12.5 Editing Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235

The Matrix Editor

Moving Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228

Copying Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228

Inserting Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .228

Changing Length of a Note . . . . . . . . . . .229

Deleting Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229

Working With Velocity Value . . . . . . . . . .230

The Score Editor

Hide and Show the Parameter Area . . . . .232

Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233

Autostyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234

Display Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234

Selecting Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235

Information Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235

Note Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235

Moving and Transposing . . . . . . . . . . . . .236

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Insert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236

12.6 Insert Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237

12.7 Diatonic Insert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237

12.8 Getting Ready to Arrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238

12.9 Parameter Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238

12.10 Switching Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239

Sequence Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239

Arrange Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239

12.11 Track Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241

12.12 Inserting Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241

Insert Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .242

Applying Symbols to Multiple Notes . . . .242

Selecting Symbol Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . .242

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243

Pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243

Clefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243

Dynamic Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .244

Note Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .244

Articulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .244

Legato Marks and Accent Marks . . . . . . .244

Key Signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .244

Time Signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245

Repeat and End Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245

Trill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246

12.13 Symbols in the Event Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246

12.14 Preparing for Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246

Enharmonic Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246

Stem Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247

Beaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .248

Adjusting the Position of a Staff . . . . . . .248

Multiple Staffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249

12.15 Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249

Insert Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250

Text Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251

Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251

12.16 Page Edit View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252

Switching Page Edit and Normal View . . .253

Printer and Page Edit View . . . . . . . . . . .253

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Print Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254

Configuring the System for

Adat Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254

RAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254

Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .254

12.18 Printing a Score on the Macintosh . . . . . . . . .255

Selecting the Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255

Set Pages and Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255

Chapter 13

13.1 The Sample Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257

13.2 Layout of the Sample Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .258

13.3 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259

13.4 Using the Sample Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263

13.5 Managing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268

13.6 Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269

The Sample Editor

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259

Overview Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .260

Relationship between the Windows . . . . . . . .260

Catch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261

Link Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261

Waveform Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261

Scaling the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261

The Amplitude Axis and Time Axis . . . . . .262

Controlling Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .263

Playing from the Overview Display . . . . . .263

Playing the Entire Audio File . . . . . . . . . .264

Playing the Current Selection . . . . . . . . .264

Playing After a Specified Point . . . . . . . . .264

Cycle Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264

Selection Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264

Selecting All Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . .264

Manual Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .264

The Selection Parameter Field . . . . . . . . .265

Working with Regions in the Sample Editor . .265

Edit Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .267

Backup Copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .268

Normalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269

Change Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .270

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Fade In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271

Fade Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271

Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .272

Invert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .273

Reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274

Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274

Remove DC Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .275

Sample Rate Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .275

Open the Sample Rate Converter . . . . . .275

Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276

13.7 The Digital Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276

Time Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276

Opening the Time Machine . . . . . . . . . . .277

Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .277

Free Transposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278

Classic (correlated) Transposition . . . . . . .278

Using the graphic display . . . . . . . . . . . .279

The Technology of the Time Machine . . .279

Audio Energizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .280

Opening the Audio Energizer . . . . . . . . .281

Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281

Chapter 14

Synchronization, Video and Midi Files

14.1 Synchronization Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283

Sync Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283

External Stop ends Record Mode . . . . . . .284

Auto Detect Format of MTC . . . . . . . . . .285

SMPTE Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .286

Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .286

Nominal Sample Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287

Sync Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287

Allow Song Position Pointer

while playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288

Send MMC (MIDI Machine Control) . . . .289

14.2 Special Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289

Switching on external sync . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289

Recording with external

synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .290

Incoming Midi Time Code Display . . . . . .290

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MTC Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .290

Receiving Midi Clock/SPP . . . . . . . . . . . . .291

Midi Machine Control (MMC) . . . . . . . . . . . .291

Switching on MMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292

14.3 The Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292

Timecode and Clock synchronization . . . . . . .292

Bar-Referenced synchronization . . . . . . .293

Time-Referenced synchronization . . . . . .295

Synchronizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298

synchronization Procedure . . . . . . . . . . .298

Audio synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300

If you have Sync Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301

14.4 Midi Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302

Preparing a Song for Midi File Conversion 302

Saving the Song as a Midi File . . . . . . . . .303

Saving Individual Sequences as a Midi File 303

Saving Songs as SMF Format 0 . . . . . . . .303

Importing Midi Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304

14.5 Transfer Songs onto other Devices or

Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304

Chapter 15

15.1 Keyboard Command Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . .307

15.2 Key Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308

15.3 Using the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313

Chapter 16

16.1 Main Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315

Reference: Key Commands and Use of Mouse

Menu Reference

-Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315

File Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315

Edit Menu (Mac Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316

Windows Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316

Video (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317

Help Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317

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16.2 Edit (All Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318

16.3 Menus in the Arrange Window . . . . . . . . . . .318

Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318

Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .319

View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320

16.4 Menus in the Event Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321

Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321

View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322

16.5 Menus in the Matrix Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322

Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322

View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

16.6 Menus in the Score Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323

View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326

Chapter 17

Audio Recording Tips

17.1 Digital Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327

Setting Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327

Clipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327

Sampling rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328

Fragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328

Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .329

Dealing Economically with the Hard Disk .330

Glossary .....................................................331

Index ...........................................................341

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Features

1.1 Adat Edit is…

• an audio-recording system, a Midi sequencer, and a notation system that is easy to learn and operate.

• Adat Edit transforms your computer into a recording studio. It allows you to record audio using your Alesis PCR card.

• For playback only, other MME hardware may additionally be used, as long as the PCR card is present.

• You can use the audio inputs and outputs of the PCR card to record up to 8 tracks of audio simultaneously.

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• The resulting tracks can be output via any of the 8 channels available on the PCR’s lightpipe output connector or on additional MME hardware.

• There are additional signal processing functions supplied by the Digital Factory in the Sample Edit window.

• Adat Edit also offers a sophisticated set of synchronization features, allowing you to sync your computer with an ADAT, or digital mixer.

• You can create songs and arrange them on your computer screen, and then print out musical notation.

• By integrating audio recording and real-time effects, you can even combine acoustic instruments, or vocals with your songs. Audio is just as easy to edit as Midi tracks are.

Adat Edit thus combines all the functions that you would expect from a modern, powerful audio sequencer, with an intuitive and clearly arranged user interface.

 The screenshots used in this manual will sometimes show the Macintosh version of

Adat Edit, and sometimes the Windows version. Also, most of the screenshots are from Adat Edit, which the PCR version is based on. In cases where there is a functional difference between the versions, then screenshots from Adat Edit will be shown.

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Multitrack Recorder

1.2 Multitrack Recorder

Track plan with transport ﬁeld and note editor, here on a Macintosh

One of the main components of Adat Edit is the multitrack recorder. You record ecord multiple tracks, as though you were in a professional studio, and as you record the next one, listen to the tracks that you just recorded. This special version of Adat Edit only works with the Alesis PCR card. It offers 8 digital inputs, and 8 digital outputs, through a lightpipe connection to your ADAT or digital mixer.

Adat Edit offers you many ways to alter and reﬁne your recorded material at a later time. You can move the tracks around in the Arrange window, give the Midi tracks a different sound, or divide them into blocks (sequences). You can cut, copy, move, transpose, or correct (quantize) rhythmically.

The three editor windows give you complete control of your recordings. Whether you are changing the length, or dynamic strength of a single note in the Event editor, or entering entire scores in the Score editor – it’s all easy and fast with Adat Edit.

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1.3 Flexible Input

There are several ways of entering notes into Adat Edit. Everything is available, from real-time recording to manual note entry; the possibilities are endless.

You can use Adat Edit simply to record real-time audio or Midi performances, or as a conventional notation system by inputting your scores on the screen with the mouse.

Adat Edit offers you every possibility; you decide which ones to use. You may control the program either with the mouse or the computer keyboard; all functions can be carried out using the mouse, and the majority can be adapted to meet your needs via keyboard commands, which can be programmed as desired.

1.4 Automatic Notation

Page layout of a piano track

If you prefer working in musical notation to piano roll, or event list editing, you can edit your songs in the Score editor. There, you can view your sequences as conventional musical notation. You can insert, move, or transpose notes easily using the mouse.

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Adat Edit offers a range of functions with which you can adapt the appearance of the score to your liking, from the notes themselves, to the size of your windows.

Of course you can also print out your songs. Adat Edit offers an efﬁcient page-layout function, with which you can create attractive and legible scores, which can then be printed on a connected printer.

You can also create a PostScript ﬁle, and continue to edit the scores which were created in Adat Edit, with word-processing or layout programs.

1.5 GM Supported

If you use a GM-compatible tone generator connected to your computer, you can control its functions remotely from the Mixer window. Selecting sounds, controlling the volume, or adding chorus or reverb etc. is as easy as can be. Adat Edit also supports the GS- (Roland), or the XG standard (Yamaha). With these devices, more sound and effect parameters can be remote-controlled, for example, the ﬁlter frequency.

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The Mixer thus becomes your virtual mixing console on screen, allowing you to automate your GM device from Adat Edit.

1.6 Multimedia

Adat Edit can load and play digital videos in AVI format for Windows, or QuickTime format for Macintosh. The picture runs synchronously with Adat Edit’s song position. You can add music to commercials, or videos of your vacation, without using a video recorder. Sounds or jingles start concurrently with the frame.

1.7 Graphical Interface

Adat Edit features a clearly structured graphical user interface. All operations can be done quickly and directly, using the mouse.

You can open the windows, and place them anywhere on the screen. You can adjust all elements in the windows as you like; the windows can be enlarged or reduced. To make the most of your screen, you can open as many windows simultaneously as you want. Next to the track list in the Arrange window, for example, you can simultaneously open an Event list and Score editor for the same material.

As Adat Edit plays the song for you, the notes e.g. are displayed in the Score Window. Whatever you hear, you see at the same time. If there is a wrong note, just ﬁx it, while Adat Edit continues to run. It does not get any easier than this.

Adat Edit's menus are well organized. Local menus in each window make sure that you only see the functions that you may need. This way, the main menu lists remain orderly, and you can ﬁnd whatever function you need faster.

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About this Manual

1.8 About this Manual

• The headings in this manual are arranged according to the names of the functions in the program. This way, you can quickly ﬁnd speciﬁc functions in the table of contents.

• Located in the appendix of this manual is an index, in which you can look up keywords.

• The Menu List, found in the appendix, offers an overview of all menu items.

• The glossary explains the meaning of specialized terms. If you do not ﬁnd a term there, you can look it up in the index, and read about it in the corresponding section of the manual.

The Tutorial Chapter

If you want to familiarize yourself quickly with a speciﬁc topic (e.g., Arrange window, Event editor, note editing), we recommend that you work through the corresponding section in chapter 3, Chapter 3 Tutorial on page 43. The tutorial is arranged by self-contained topics. You will ﬁnd the appropriate Tutorial Song on Adat Edit’s program disk. It takes less than half an hour to work through each section. You can then work through the corresponding pages of that chapter, to familiarize yourself with the details.

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2.1 Windows

Getting Started With Adat Edit

Before launching Adat Edit, be sure you have installed the PCR card, and its driver. Double-click the Adat Edit icon, or select Adat Edit from the Start Menu, to launch the program. Your Midi interfaces and your PCR cards are recognized at startup, and all internal connections and settings are automatically established. If you have installed several Midi cards in your computer, you can use any of them.

Each time Adat Edit starts up, it searches for installed Midi interfaces so that a new card is automatically available the next time Adat Edit starts up.

After a short time, you will see an empty Arrange window, and the main menu bar.

Selecting the Midi Out Port in the Program

You can select the Midi port for each track separately. To do so, select the desired track, and go to the Instrument parameter box, located just below the Toolbox, on the left side of the Arrange window. Click-hold in the ﬁeld just below the “Channel” assignment ﬁeld. You will see a ﬂip menu listing all the Midi out ports available on your system. Select the one you want, and release the mouse button.

Start > Programs > Emagic > Adat Edit, in

Selecting the Midi out port in the Program

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Testing the Midi Connection

You should then test to make sure that the connections between Adat Edit and your Midi system are working smoothly.

First, test to see if your Midi keyboard transmits.

• Open the Transport Window by choosing “Open Transport Window” in the window menu or press “F11”.

• You can see the Midi monitor in the upper right-hand corner of the Transport window.

• If there is no activity, the display will show “No In/ No Out”.

• Now play a couple of notes on your Midi keyboard.

• In place of “No In”, the received events should now be displayed.

• If this is not the case, test the following:

• Is the Midi-Out connection of the keyboard connected correctly with the Midi-In of your computer?

• Is the cable working properly?

Test the Midi Out

Now test to see if Adat Edit is sending Midi events to your tone generators.

• Call up RIAL.LSO) from the ﬁle selection box.

• Set the Midi out port for each of the tracks, as described above.

File> Open, and select the Tutorial Song (TUTO-

• Click on the PLAY button in the Transport Window or press

0 on the numeric keypad of the computer.

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• The Tutorial Song will run, and the second line of the Midi indicator should show the sent events.

• If this is not the case, test

• whether you are using a good Midi cable.

• whether you connected the Midi-In of your tone generator to the Midi-Out of the interface.

File Extensions

Adat Edit can load or save ﬁles in both its own native ﬁle format, or as Standard Midi ﬁles, for use with other programs. You can recognize the type of ﬁle from the following extensions:

Type of File Exten-

sion

Song .LSO Song File Adat Edit when the menu

Standard Midi File

.MID Song ﬁle in the

Description Created from

ﬁeld “Save” is called up in the ﬁle menu

external sequencers can standard Midi ﬁle format

be imported into Adat

Edit or from Adat Edit

with Export

Adat Edit and Multitasking

Adat Edit can be operated in conjunction with other Midi programs. If you switch over to another program, Adat Edit continues to run in the background. For this to work, your Midi interface must use a multi client driver. If you have any questions about this, contact the manufacturer of your interface for information.

Launching Adat Edit

The installation program automatically creates a program group “Adat Edit” under

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Here you will ﬁnd Adat Edit itself, and the de-installation program. You may launch Adat Edit by simply highlighting the program icon in this menu.

Launch Adat Edit Automatically

If you add Adat Edit to the program group “Startup” from the Start Menu, then Adat Edit starts up automatically when Windows is launched. Create a shortcut to Adat Edit in this folder by dragging the “Adat Edit 3.5.exe” icon from the “C:\ Program Files\emagic\Adat Edit 3.5” folder to the “C:\ Windows\Start Menu\Startup” folder. This will not move, or copy the program ﬁle, but will create a “shortcut” to it in the new location. You may also drag the prgram to the Desktop instead, if you prefer to launch from there.

You have now correctly installed Adat Edit, and have set it up to connect with your Midi system. Everything is now ready for you to work through the tutorial. This series of exercises will help you to become acquainted with Adat Edit.

2.2 Macintosh

Launching Adat Edit

This is how you usually start up Adat Edit:

1. Double-click the program's icon, or

2. Click on the program's icon and choose File> Open, or press

As long as you are working through the manual, we recommend that you start Adat Edit directly with the Tutorial Song.

3. Double-click the Tutorial Song icon.

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Adat Edit will launch with the Tutorial Song loaded. The main screen now looks something like this:

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Main screen with tutorial song

Choose Midi Connection

First, let Adat Edit know which serial port of your Macintosh is connected to your Midi interface.

• In the Option Menu, call up “Midi Interface Communication.”

The Global Preferences dialog box appears.

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Parameter for the serial ports

You can activate one of the two Midi ports here:

• Click the modem port or the printer port so that a small cross appears in the small checkbox.

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When you have chosen one port, Adat Edit automatically turns off the other port.

Adat Edit tests automatically to see whether a Midi interface is connected to the speciﬁed port and is operable. If no Midi interface is recognized, a dialog box appears.

Starting up without Midi interface: If you want to test Adat Edit “dry”—that is without Midi interface and tone generator— simply disable the modem port as well as the printer port in the

File>Preferences>Midi/Global window.

Midi Time Piece

Adat Edit directly supports the “Midi Time Piece” (MTP) interface from the manufacturer “Mark Of The Unicorn”, as well as MTP-compatible interfaces:

• Enable the options “Check For MTP” and “Fast Speed” in Global Preferences.

Unlike Logic, Adat Edit cannot separately address the different Midi Outputs of MTP compatible interfaces.

The “Fast Speed” mode can be switched off—for instance with longer SySex transmissions, if you have any problems with Midi Communications.

Testing the Midi Connection

You should now make sure that the connection between Adat Edit and your Midi system is working properly.

1. Launch Adat Edit.

First, test to see if your Midi keyboard transmits.

2. Open the Transport Window by selecting in the window menu, or press

Open Transport

Important!

You can see the Midi indicator in the upper right-hand corner of the Transport Window.

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If there is no activity, the display will show “No In/ No Out”.

3. Now play a couple of notes on your Midi keyboard.

In place of “No In”, the received events should now be displayed.

If this is not the case, test the following:

4. Is the Midi-Out connection of the keyboard connected correctly with the Midi-In of your computer?

• Is the cable working properly?

• Did you choose the correct port in Global Preferences?

Test the Midi-Out

Now test to see if Adat Edit is sending Midi events to your tone generators.

1. Choose selection box.

File > Open, and select the tutorial song in the ﬁle-

It is loaded and displayed on the screen.

2. Click on the PLAY button in the Transport Window, or press 0 on the computer's numeric keypad.

The tutorial will run, and the second line of the Midi indicator should show the sent events.

If this is not the case, see if you have enabled the modem port or the printer port in Global Preferences. If you have not, enable the port to which your Midi interface is connected.

Autoload Song

You can select a song with which Adat Edit is automatically loaded. This song can contain your own preferred song settings and window layouts.

Proceed as follows:

1. Create a new song.

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2. Adjust the song settings according to your preferences.

3. Save the song with the ﬁle name “Autoload” (quotes excluded).

To save the song, select “Save” in the ﬁle menu and enter “Autoload” in the dialog box.

You can also create an alias for any song, and start Adat Edit directly by double-clicking the alias.

Start Adat Edit automatically

You can have Adat Edit open automatically every time your Macintosh starts up. If you want, you can also have a song start automatically.

Proceed as follows:

1. Create an alias of Adat Edit, or the desired song.

2. Drag the alias with your mouse into the folder “Startup Items”, in the system folder.

Adat Edit will be started up automatically the next time you turn your system on.

Adat Edit is now properly installed and conﬁgured for your system.

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2.3 MacOs/Win: Differences

Adat Edit for Macintosh and for Windows is basically the same. The controls for both versions are practically identical. However, because of some differences between the operating systems, there are some slight variations in Adat Edit between the two platforms.

When you ﬁrst look at it, you will notice that we have used two symbols to identify the Macintosh and Windows versions:

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• This symbol identiﬁes a function that is only on Windows.

• This symbol characterizes Macintosh.

If you own a Macintosh, you can skip over the following sections and continue with the tutorial chapter.

Most illustrations in this book are screenshots from the Macintosh version.

a function that is only on

Keyboard and Mouse

Unlike the Macintosh mouse, a Windows mouse has a right mouse button. Also, the position of some special keys is slightly different between the systems.

There is a table with explanations for the symbols used in this book for hot keys. This is located in the section, Hot Key Symbols starting on page 307.

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Look at the table and note which keys and/or mouse functions for Windows are replaced and how.

Function Adat Edit Windows Adat Edit Macintosh

Multiple selection S  click S  click

Mouse copy functions

Using tools right mouse button C and mouse

Speciﬁc mouse functions

ç hold down O hold down

‚  mouse ç  mouse A  mouse

S  mouse C  mouse O  mouse

Key Commands

On a Macintosh, the permanent function codes for menu items are, as usual, displayed directly behind the menu item.

In addition, you can deﬁne your own function codes for almost all of the Adat Edit functions. These are not displayed in the menus.

Exchanging Songs Between Mac and PC

Unlike Windows, Macintosh does not use ﬁle extensions. You can, however, transfer songs back and forth between Macintosh and Windows versions without any problem. When you are transferring a song from a Macintosh to a Windows version, it is important that you add the ﬁle extensions, which are discussed above in the section named File Extensions. You can do this either on the Macintosh or on the PC, when you are ﬁnished.

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Songs created with Adat Edit for Windows can be opened in Adat Edit for Macintosh under “Import”.

Main Menu Bar

The main menu bars of Adat Edit for Windows and Adat Edit for Macintosh are similar. While the Macintosh version has an

edit

menu in the main menu bar, there is not a window menu

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video. The functions are also arranged differently. You can find

details in chapter 17.1 Main Menu Bar.

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Tutorial

This chapter introduces you to the features of Adat Edit by using examples. It touches upon all of Adat Edit’s important functions. You will learn, for instance, how to arrange a song, record a sequence, insert audio sequences, or prepare your arrangement for printing.

In order to follow the examples you should:

• install the PCR card

• install Adat Edit

• have a General Midi tone generator or an equivalent multitimbral device connected to your computer’s Midi interface.

3.1 Adapting the Tutorial Song

As you work through this chapter and the next, use the provided tutorial song. This song is conﬁgured for general Midi tone generators. Of course, you will not have any problems using the song with tone generators that do not follow the GM speciﬁcation. The only difference when using a non-GM device, is that you will have to set the sounds and the Midi channels manually the ﬁrst time you run the song, and you may have to transpose some tracks. If this is necessary, be sure to save your changes, so that you don’t have to redo your edits.

Load the Tutorial Song

As you may already know, data ﬁles can launch Windows programs, if the appropriate connections have been preset. You can start the Tutorial Song by

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• double-clicking the “Tutorial.lso” icon in the Adat Edit folder, or

• double-clicking the ﬁle “Tutorial.lso” in Windows Explorer, or

• starting Adat Edit, call up

File > Open, and choose “Tuto-

rial.lso”.

With a Macintosh, simply double-click the song ﬁle in the ﬁnder.

You should now be looking at the following screen:

Arrangement window with tutorial song

General Midi Tone Generator

The program change, volume, and pan settings for this song are optimized for GM tone generators, and are transmitted to your device via Midi. This happens automatically, if you play the song from the beginning. These settings are found in a separate sequence at the beginning of the song. Since delays can occur with some synthesizers when they receive program change data, you should then mute this sequence.

To mute the program changes, select the mute tool from the toolbox, and use it to click on the sequence named “GM Set-

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Up”. The sequence is now shown reversed, and a small circle is now in front of the name.

Muting the GM sequence

Non GM, Multi-Timbral Tone Generators

If you do not have a , you need to consider the following points: One prerequisite is, for example, that the sounds listed in the table are available. If necessary, ﬁnd similar sounds in your own device.In addition, the drum kit's note assignemt needs to match that of the GM drum map(previously Roland drum map), otherwise, the percussion passages will be reproduced with the wrong drum sounds. Adjust the appropriate reception channels in your multi-timbral synthesizer, and assign the listed sounds speciﬁed in the table. If you need to rearrange your Drum kit, consider the percussion instruments listed in the table, as well.

Sounds and Midi Channels

MIDI Cha.

1 chord combination

3 accents muted E guitar Mute Guitar,

4 melody long dying

Function Sound Possible

Name

Electric

piano/E piano

bass

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away melodic sound

Grand, LA Grand

Rock Bass, E Bass

Slap Guitar

Synthbell 100 0

Vol Pan

110 0

127 0

127 R

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5 carpet string section Slow Strings,

6 accents wind section Brass Section 80 L

7 solo ﬂute-like solo

10 drums GM-compati-

Function Sound Possible

Name

Pad

Stream, div.

sound

ble drum set

“Solo”

GM Kit 110 0

Vol Pan

90 0

120 0

Drum Kit

Here is a list of percussion instruments used by the tutorial song, and their locations. (C3 = No. 60)

Note Instrument

C1 Kick

D1 Snare (normal)

E1 Snare (hi)

F1 Tom lo

F#1 HHT closed

G1 Tom mid

G#1 HHT closed short

A1 Tom hi

A#1 HHT open

C#2 Crash

D#2 Ride

E2 Ride Bell

Since transposition and relative volume are only automatically correct with GM sounds, you should let the song run through a couple of times, and see how it sounds with your instrument, after you have assigned compatible sounds. Go ahead and try opening

Window > Mixer and use the faders to set the volume,

if needed.

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3.2 Starting the Song

You probably want to listen to the Tutorial Song ﬁrst. Just push on the numeric keyboard. To jump back to the beginning of the song, push ‰, on the numeric keypad, twice.

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3.3 Overview

After you open the tutorial song, you will see the following components on the screen. This example is on a Macintosh:

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Transport field This is where you

control the operation of Adat Edit. You can turn on Cycle, set drop in/out points for recording, set the synchronization, and many other things..

Main menu bar This is where you find

global functions, e.g. for saving and loading songs or for opening various windows.

Bar ruler The bar ruler displays Adat

Edit’s time axis for you; here you can set markers with the mouse, or jump to any desired place in a song.

Arrange area, with sequences A track

may contain any number of sequences. Sequences contain the actual data, such as notes, controller data, etc. The data can be edited in a variety of ways.

Zoom buttons If you click on the

telescope buttons, you can alter the magniﬁcation factor of the window’s contents and thus adapt to your screen.

Transport window The transport

window performs the same functions as the transport ﬁeld, but can be located at any

desired point of the screen and is variable in size. A “slider” permits rapid approach from far removed song positions.

Track column It is in the track column

that you determine the Midi channel for each track. It is likewise here that you can swap tracks, insert them or delete them.

Toolbox You can select a particular tool

from this box in order to be able to edit sequences, notes or other data in a variety of ways.

Sequence parameter box The

sequence parameter box is where quantization, transposition and other aspects of the playback for a sequence can be non-destructively edited.

Local menu bar In every window there

!≠

is a separate menu bar that provides important functions for the particular window.

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3.4 Tracks and Sequences

To start with, Adat Edit offers the usual elements found in a Windows or Macintosh program—the main menu bar, and various windows that you can open and close, move and adjust to size. After you load a song, you should see the Arrange window, as seen above. This is where you record and arrange your songs. Like a multitrack tape machine, Adat Edit also works on the basis of tracks. You can see and access the tracks in the Arrange window.

Narrow objects known as “sequences” are found on the tracks. A sequence represents an individual recording, or “take”. Each time you record, a sequence will be created in the track you recorded to. The sequence is like a container, so to speak, which contains the actual Midi data. This data can be notes as well as control data, program changes, or even sysex for your Midi tone generators.

Tracks with sequences

You can see that with Adat Edit, there are many more possibilities than with a traditional tape machine.

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3.5 Information Track and

Instruments

Take a closer look at the “track plan”.

On track 1, you can see the sequences “A intro”, “B groove”, and subsequent entries. “No Output” is displayed in the track column of track 1. This is a “ dummy track “, which does not contain any notes. The sequences on this track are only markers for the various song parts and, for the time being, are empty. As you continue to work through this section, you will learn about other advantages to using an information track in your own songs..

Instruments for the tutorial song are found on the remainder of the tracks: piano on track 2, bass on track 3, guitar on track 4, and so forth.

The Midi channel for each track is visible in the track column. In addition, an icon is displayed there for each track. This shows which instrument is in use.

3.6 Transport Functions

The second, smaller window, which Adat Edit shows after loading the song, is the Floating Transport window. It is laid out like the control surface of a tape machine, and is used for operating the

Play and Record functions. In addition, you can change the

tempo settings and engage operations such as

tion

, or cycle.

Let's start the song. Instead of clicking the also press

You can hear that the song is not completely arranged, and still contains some inconsistencies. As you continue to work

= on your numeric keypad.

solo, synchroniza-

Play button, you can

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through this chapter, you will ﬁnish arranging the song, add a few details, and correct any mistakes. At the end, the song will be completed by adding some audio ﬁles.

In this section, you will learn to start and limit passages, and listen to places in the song—in short, to “navigate” in the song.

• Try out the buttons in the upper row of the transport ﬁeld. You already are familiar with functions from tape machines or cassette recorders.

Start Song Positions

There are several ways to jump to speciﬁc song positions.

In the upper ﬁeld of the Arrange window, you can see the bar ruler.

• Click at various places in the lower ﬁeld of this ruler; you immediately jump to that position. At the same time, a gray line appears. This is the song position line (SPL)—in the most generalsense, it is comparable with the position of the tape on a traditional recording device.

• Engage Play. Now click on the bar ruler, and hold the left mouse button. You can move to any position, and listen by moving the song position line.

If you know to which location you would like to go, you can enter this position directly with the “locators”. To the right and next to the transport buttons, Adat Edit shows the current song position, in both absolute time and as musical measures.

• Click on the song position indicator, and hold the mouse button. Place the song position at “17 1 1 1” and start playback. Adat Edit now plays starting at measure 17.

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Display Current Song Position

If you manually enter song positions, the window view that you see will not necessarily correspond to what you hear. You can, however, guarantee that these two things will always match.

• Click on the catch button on the upper left in the transport ﬁeld, and the window excerpt follows the song position line again.

The window viewwill update, as soon as the song position line leaves the visible ﬁeld, only if the catch function has been enabled:

Zoom a Window Excerpt

You can view the entire song in the window by using the two telescope buttons on the upper right edge of the window:

Click on the left half of the horizontal zoom button until you can see all of the sequences in the window:

Cycle Mode

In cycle mode, you can cause a section of the song to repeat for as long as Play is engaged, in order to edit a sequence, for instance, or record new tracks in a speciﬁc section of the song. Two “locators” can be used for this. These are position markers

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that mark the left and right boundary of a loop. They are found directly to the right of the bottom row of transport control buttons.

First, turn on the cycle mode. To do this, click on the cycle button in the Transport window. It is now displayed blue.

For the next experiments, mark part “C” as cycle zone.

• Use the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the Arrange window to move the window view, until you can see the sequence “C” in the information track.

• Click on this. It is displayed inverted and is thus selected.

Sequence C

You will see another menu bar in the Arrange window, a “local menu “. Local menus contain speciﬁc functions for the current window. In the “Functions” menu, choose the menu item “Set Locators by Objects”. The cycle loop is now sized and positioned automatically to this sequence. Pay attention to the cycle bars in the measure ruler:

You can move this by grabbing it in the middle. The right and left boarders can be changed bygrabbing one of the bottom corners of the bar, and moving it. When Cycle is engaged, pressing Stop twice will take the SPL to the beginning of the cycle zone, rather than the beginning of the song..

Solo and Selection

Let's listen to the individual tracks in section “C “once, to become more familiar with the selection options. In order to edit objects in Adat Edit—be it sequences or notes—we have

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to ﬁrst select them. All functions and operations are carried out only on those items that are highlighted or “selected”.

• First, turn on the solo function, by clicking on the solo button in the Transport window. The button is now displayed yellow.

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Make sure that—as in the illustration above—that “Cycle” mode is also enabled, and the Cycle zone covers measures 25 through 33.

• Start playback, and click on the sequence “Piano C”. The sequence will highlight, indicating it is selected. You will only hear the piano part, because when solo is on, only selected sequences will play.

• Click on the other sequences of section C one one after another, to listen to them “solo”. Let's go one step further; by playing several selected sequences solo.

• Select “Piano C” once more. Hold S down,

and click on the sequence “Bass C”. This is additionally selected and played. Click “Groove Real-time”. You should now hear piano, bass, and percussion.

• While pressing the

S button, click on the gray area

beneath “Grove Real-time”, keep the mouse button pressed and drag a “lasso” over all sequences of section C.

• The selection is now reversed—you hear all sequences except for piano, bass and percussion.

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Try out the selection functions with other sequences. You are now familiar with the most essential Adat Edit techniques. In

4.4 Selecting Objects, you can learn more about the selection

functions.

Quantize

Quantizing is the rhythmic correction of notes, by means of a grid. Adat Edit thereby moves all of the notes exactly to their correct grid positions. We will test this by using the “Groove Real-time” sequence as an example. The timing in this sequence is slightly off, so you will use quantization to correct it.

You can hear this most clearly by enabling the Metronome .

• To do this, click on the metronome button in the Transport window. It is on the lower right. This is how to enable the metronome.

Adat Edit now sends a metronome note on channel 10 to your GM tone generator. Solo the drum sequence, as described above. You can now hear that the groove is not completely clean.

• In the From the resulting ﬂip menu, select the setting 16D Swing, and release the mouse button. The quantizesetting is now displayed in the sequence now, it sounds rhythmically perfect.

• Go ahead and try out other quantize values, for example 16, 24, or

Look at the quantize settings of the various song parts. You will notice that the swing factors—characterized by the alphabetic character—are chosen differently. The groove factor can therefore be varied so that choruses sound like they have more swing in them than verses do, for example.

Sequence parameter box, click-hold in the line Qua .

Sequence parameter box. If you play the

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Loops

Loops are automatic repetitions of a sequence. The loop function enables you to repeat a passage as many times as you wish, without having to copy it.

Let's add a cabasa to the tutorial song. This cabasa is only in the chorus and in section C, but is no longer in the grove section. A sequence by the name of it is still muted.

• Click on the sequence with the mute tool. The sequence is unmuted, and selected.

cabasa

is already on track 10; however,

Now turn the loop in the

Sequence Parameter box to

. You

should now see the following screen:

This sequence will now be repeated until the end of the song. Of course, we want to stop it before then.

This is how it works: a loop is repeated until it comes across another sequence on this track. To “turn off” the cabasa at the desired place, place an empty sequence at the beginning of section C.

Select the pencil tool, click in the cabasa track at position 25 1 1 1. Adat Edit inserts a new, empty sequence. The screen should now look like this:

The cabasa will stp playing at measure 25.

Finally, we will copy the new cabasa part to the groove section.

While pressing the

S key, click on the cabasa sequence, and

the “stop” sequence. They have now both been selected.

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In the Windows version, press the ç key. In the Mac version press the O key. Click on the cabasa sequence, and drag the entire section to measure 33, while keeping the modiﬁer key pressed.:

The entire passage, including the stop sequence, will be copied, and you're done.

The Toolbox

In the toolbox, you may select the desired editing tool, by clicking on it with the mouse. In the Windows version, you may select a second tool with the right mouse button.

Mouse Arrow

Using the mouse arrow—the standard tool—you can move sequences onto other tracks, or to other positions in the Arrange window.

Let’s insert a B part in front of the groove section of the Tutorial song. Half way through the section, we will transpose the B section by a semitone. To do this, the groove part must ﬁrst be moved back eight measures:

• Press the mouse button and rubber band select all of the groove section sequences. Grab them, and drag them eight measures to the right. The position display in front of the information line serves as a reference point. The information line should read “41 1 1 1” when you release the mouse button.

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The arrange area should look something like this:

Undo

Did you make a mistake, like not selecting all of the sequences, or did you move them to the wrong place?

If so, this is a good time to become acquainted with one of the most important functions in Adat Edit:“undo”. With the “undo” function, you can always undo the last editing step.

• Select

Edit > Undo. The sequences will be reset to their

original positions. You can now put them where you want.

Copies of Sequences

We will now copy the section “B theme” to the empty area created when we moved the “groove” section..

Rubber band select the sequences of the “B groove” section. Press Move the mouse to the right. A copy of all of the selected sequences is now dragged with the mouse pointer. Set these to measure “33 1 1 1”, where they will ﬁll the space left by moving the “groove” section. The newly created sequences will have the names of the originals, with the text “*copied” appended to the end of the name. You decide whether or not this extension should appear in the sequence's name by going to the

Preferences > Midi/Global

box to the left of the line “Add ’Last Edit Function’ to

ç and click-hold on one of the selected sequences.

File >

window. Place an X in fthe check-

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Sequence Name”, if you want a description of edit operations to edited sequences. If not, remove the X from the box.

Scissors

Now, let’s cut the sequence we just copied in half, using the scissors tool. By doing this, we will then be able to transpose the second half of the section, while leaving the ﬁrst half in the original key.

• Rubber band select the sequences that were just copied.

• Select the Scissors tool by clicking the scissors symbol in the toolbox. The mouse pointer is now displayed as ascissors within the Arrange area.

Click on one of the selected sequences, and hold the mouse button down. If you hold the mouse button down, and move the mouse left or right, you can adjust the exact edit position by means of the information line. Choose the position “37 1 1 1”, which is measure number 37. When you release the mouse button, the sequences are cut. Enlarge the horizontal view by using the zoom buttons until it looks like this:

Now, you can transpose the second half of the section.

Rubber band select measures 33 to 49, to select the corresponding passages.

Transposition

Look at the parameter Transpose in the Sequence Parameter box. Itcontains an aserisk (*). This means that the selected sequences already show different transposition values. Don't worry, the sequence parameters always work relatively; therefore, the transposition differences are maintained.

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• Grab the asterisk in the transpose line, and move the mouse upward until the value “+ 2” is displayed.

• Release the mouse button. The passage has now been transposed up a whole tone.

Place the song position line to measure 37 and listen to the result.

It does not sound particularly good, we still need to do some ﬁne-tuning.

The percussion sounds somewhat strange at ﬁrst. This is because you unknowingly transposed the percussion sequences, causing the drum note placement to shift. You will have to undo the transposition for the percussion tracks. To do so, selected the drum sequnces, and drag the “+2” transpose setting down, until the line is empty. This indicates no transposition.

Also, the bass in the copied B-section is only a loop that was not transposed, because it is merely a pointer on the real sequence, which was not affected by the edit. Therefore, we will have to change the loop into a real sequence:

Select the sequence “Bass theme

Choose

Functions > Turn Loops to Real Copies. A new

copied”.

sequence now now will replace the gray loop. Transpose this up two semitones, from “-12” to “-10”; the end of the song is now perfect.

Your First Recording

The ﬁnal exercise in the Arrange window is to make your ﬁrst recording. To make it fun, you can play a solo over the Csection. There is already a ﬂute solo there, this, however can certainly be replaced by a better solo. Since you may not play the solo perfectly on the ﬁrst try, we’ll set Adat Edit so that you can record several “takes” from which you may select your favorite.

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Step One: Delete the old solo.

• Select the eraser from the toolbox and click on the sequence “Flute”. It will be deleted.

Now you can preset the cycle and record parameters. You willprobably want a bit of lead in, before the solo starts, to get ready to play. You therefore need to extend the cycle to be longer than the actual recording, that is from you two extra measures before section C, which starts at measure 25.

You probably do not want to manually enter and exit recording with every cycle. This is not necessary because Adat Edit offers the Autodrop function which engages and disengages automatically at predeﬁned points (often called “Punch In/ Out”).

• Click on the Autodrop button; this is in the Transport window, just to the right of the Cycle button. The bar ruler will divide into two sections. You can now see the Autodrop bar, which will appear below the cycle zone..

23 1 1 1

33 1 1 1

This gives

record

• Set this to positions 25 through 33, as shown above.

Song Settings

For the next step, we will make a few settings.

• Open the

File > Song Settings window.

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• Check the box, Auto Mute in Cycle Record.

This setting will cause each previous take to be automatically muted when the cycle repeats. This way, you can record one passage after another, without being distracted by your previous takes.

If you would like to hear the metronome via Midi, you should enable

Midi click now. The metronome is sent on channel 10—

the drum channel.

• Conﬁrm by clicking

OK.

Let’s Record!

• Click in the track list on track 8—the one with the small ﬂute icon. This selects it as the recording track. You can now play the ﬂute sound from your Midi keyboard.

• You can select other tracks to try them out—Adat Edit automatically addresses the right instrument (MidiTHRU). Finally, switch back to track 8.

Your Arrange window should now look something like this:

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• For practice, you can now simply start play by pressing 0 on the numeric keypad, or by clicking on E major is difﬁcult for you, transpose the “MIDITHRU” simply by appears in place of a sequence name in the Sequence parameter box, when you click on an empty space in the Arrange window. Any settings you make to the Sequence parameter box now will be applied to any subsequently recorded sequences.

• When you are conﬁdent enough to record the solo the recording by clicking pressing

The count-in of one measure, starts, then the cycle zone will play repeatedly. You can play over the ﬁrst two measures of the cycle zone, until Adat Edit reaches the left Autodrop point (measure 25) in the song. Anything you play from measure 25 onwards will be recorded. At measure 33, recording will automatically stop, and a sequence will be created in the track.

transposing -4 to C major. “MIDITHRU” always

* on the numeric keypad, or by

Record.

Play. If the solo in

begin

• Let Adat Edit continue running. After reaching the right cycle point (measure 33), the SPL will jump back to the left cycle point (measure 23). At measure 25, the next recording begins.

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Repeat the entire sequence until you feel that you have one or two good versions recorded. Your Arrange window will now look somewhat like this:

Adat Edit creates a new track automatically, for every cycle, and moves the previous tracks down the list.

• By using the mute tool, you can now listen to the individual takes.

• After you have decided which version to use, delete the unwanted takes by clicking the corresponding track(s) in the track column, and in the local menu call up

Delete Track

. Repeat this process, until you have deleted

Track >

all the unwanted tracks.

Saving the Song

Here’s how to save the tutorial song, with your new solo:

• Choose to be saved as, for instance, “Tutsolo”. When using Windows, Adat Edit automatically assigns the extension “. LSO”.

File > Save As…, and enter a new name for the song

Load the initial tutorial song for further excercises.

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3.7 Event List

In the event list, you can see all Midi events of a sequence displayed as an alphanumeric list.

• Open the Event List for the sequence, “ﬂute”, by doubleclicking with the right mouse button (Windows), or by holding O down (Macintosh), on the sequence.

status column displays what type of event it is. Besides the

The notes, the sequence contains other types of events. You can view only certain types of events by using the ﬁlter buttons for various types of events.

Click on each of the buttons, except for the one showing a slider at the bottom of its range, so that they are displayed in dark gray.

All that is left in the event list is the control change events.

• When ﬁnished, enable the view for all of the types of events again. As you click on each button, the events of that type will re-appear in the list.

We will now insert two program changes in the solo, in order to change from a ﬂute sound for the solo in the ﬁrst half,to a synthesizer sound for the second half..

The solo begins at measure 25. First, we place the program change for the ﬂute at measure 25.

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• Set the song position line to 25 1 1 1 in the Arrange window or the transport window. In this way, you determine the position for the event to be inserted.

• Select the Pencil tool, and use it to click on the program change symbol.

(In the Windows version, you may

simply click with the right mouse button on the Program change button in the Event List).

A program change is inserted at position 25.

The program number is in the

VAL column. Set this to 73 on a

GM tone generator. If you are not using a GM tone generator, ﬁnd a program change that can choose a ﬂute sound.

Now, we will inset a second program change:

• Put the song position line to position the

88 symbol again.

Choose

value 87 with GM tone generators, or a program change

29 1 1 1

, and click on

that selects a synthesizer solo sound.

• Switch to the arrow tool again. Filter the view for all event types, except for the program change events.

Your event list should look like the following:

*UDSKLN

If you play the solo now, the second half will have a different sound. The next time it plays through, the program change at the beginning of the solo, switches again to the ﬂute sound.

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3.8 Matrix Editor

The Matrix editor can be compared to an Arrange window for notes. Unlike the Arrange w indow, notes in the form of bars are shown, instead of sequences.

This picture shows the Matrix window for the sequence “Strings C”.

• Open the Matrix editor by holding the double-clicking the sequence “Strings C”.

You can see a keyboard along the left edge of the Matrix window. By using this keyboard, you can see the pitch of the notes in the display. A chord is represented by a group of overlapping bars. You can easily recognize that the note lengths of the second chord are unequal. Also, there is a wrong note in the 4th chord..

Look at this sequence in the Event List as well, by choosing

Window > Open Event List. These inconsistencies are not so

easily recognizable. Close the event list window again.

ç button, and

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• Selectnotes from the ﬁrst chord by rubber band selecting it.

• Now, grab the lower right corner one of the selected notes,

26,

and drag it to measure

so that the end of the bar

connects with the beginning of the next chord. .

Any edit to the length of one note, will affect all other selected notes equally in the Matrix editor.

• Repeat the process, to lengthen each chord so that it comes up to the beginning of the next. This will create a legato effect on playback. Choose a larger zoom level to better be able to edit the events.

*UDSKLN

The wrong note should now be deleted.

• Select the eraser from the toolbox, and use it to click the short note at position 28 1 1 1. The note will disappear.

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You are now done editing the strings sequence. Practically every sequence in the tutorial song contains slight incongruities, which you can easily repair in the Matrix editor. Select one or two more sequences and edit them as you did with the String part.

You will probably notice a big difference when optimizing the lengths of bass sequences.

3.9 Score Editor

Note events can be represented as notation, and can be edited in the Score editor. You can simply use the Score editor, as well as the other editors, to correct Midi events. The possibilities that the Score editor provides, however, are much more comprehensive—allowing you to control the page layout with many functions to help in the printing of music.

• Open the Score editor for the sequence “Bass theme”, by double-clicking on it.

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The representation of notes is indeed “mathematically correct“, however, it’s currently barely readable—transposition, key, and a lot more must be edited. Let's go ahead and shape this sequence so that it is ready to print.

Display Parameter Box

Click the check box in the left parameter area next to the term “Bass theme”. This opens the Display Parameter Box.

Style

The Display Parameter Box contains several functions that you can use very effectively to correct the representation of notes. One of these is the style commonly used instruments, transposition of display, and number of systems.

There are 21 preset styles for the most

From the Flip menu “Style” select the style “Bass 8”. The score looks better immediately:

Now, enable

Interpretation. This should clean up the display, by

automatically “rounding up” the durations of the notes, so that they are represented in a more readable way:

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You can see that the notes are now much more cleanly displayed, without all the short notes and rests. This way, staccatto passgaes can still be notated correctly.

Key Signature

Enter the correct key. The tutorial song is in E major.

• Enlarge the window , until the part box is visible. Click on the ﬁeld with the key icon, as shown to the right.

Under the ﬁeld, a box with all of the keys opens up.

• Hold down the mouse button and drag the letter “E” to the beginning of the score display. The correct key signature (4 sharps) will now be shown in the stave. Sharps for diatonic notes will no longer be displayed.

Text

For printing purposes, you may want to name the note system. Of course Adat Edit allows you to input text in the Score editor.

• Select the text tool from the toolbox and click onto the ﬁeld above the clef. A text input box opens. Type “Bass” here, and press system; you can move the text in small increments with the mouse.

Yoiu can change the appearance of the text by using

Score Font

Page Edit View

The page edit view in Adat Edit is very practical for editing longer passages, or editing the look of the score for printing. In this mode, you can see a complete sheet of music on the screen before printing it.

Suppose that you want to be able to see and edit the entire bass track on the screen.

R. The text will appear above the notation

Options >

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• First, switch to full-page view by clicking the “Page Edit”

button in the Score editor.

The buttonwill displayed light gra,y and you will see two lines of notes:

These are the contents of the selected bass sequence.

Arrange-Level

Often, you will want to see the whole track. To do this, you need to switch to the song-level in which all tracks of the song are represented simultaneously in the Score editor. Doubleclick on an empty space in the window, and Adat Edit will switch to the song-level display.

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Because it has not been edited at all, the score display is still not perfect. The piano, for example, (middle system) is not represented as a piano system. We will not worry about that yet; ﬁrst concentrate on the bass track.

let's

Track Filter

To hide all other tracks, we are going to use the track ﬁlter. It is the upper ﬂip menu in the Score editor; at ﬁrst it displays

TRACKS

Open the ﬂip menu by clicking and then holding the mouse button, then select

You can select and edit individual sequences at the song-level.

• Click on different places of the bass notation, and look at

• Double-click on a place in a system —Adat Edit changes

CHA2

—the bass track:

the sequence name, which is shown in the Display Parameter box.

again to the sequence level.

ALL

• Click in the sequence level on an empty spot; you are in the song level again.

The score display shows the entire bass track when you are at the Arrange level. Except for the small portion you have already edited, this track still needs to be cleaned up. You can do that relatively quickly, by editing all the bass sequences at once.

In the Score editor, select be selected, and will now be ﬂashing. Set the display parameters as follows:

If you now enter the key of Emajor, as you did before for the single bass sequence, all the selected sequences will now be set to the key of Emajor. The whole piece almost looks ready to print—at least ready enough to try.

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If you have connected and installed a printer onto your computer, then you can immediately print the displayed page:

Windows In the local

menu option

Print menu, choose the

Parameter, and set

“Last Page 1”. Then, select “Start”.

Macintosh In the File menu, choose the menu

option

Print, and conﬁrm by clicking

OK.

In a few minutes, you should be holding a printout of the page in your hands.

3.10 Audio Tracks

With Adat Edit, you can make and play audio recordings. As with the Midi tracks, audio recordings are displayed in the Arrange window. Because we are not working with Midi events, but rather audio ﬁles, the editing options of the audio tracks are not the same in every way with those of the Midi tracks.

Reload the initial Tutorial Song for more exercises.

Create Audio tracks

We will now create an audio track in the Arrange window, so that we can insert a drum loop onto this track.

• Select the piano track in the track list, and create an audio track in the Arrange window by choosing

Audio Track

In the Arrange window, a new track

called “Audio” willappear below the piano track. You can name this audio track by doubleclicking on “Audio”. For example, you can call this track “Audio1”, because this is your ﬁrst audio track. It would probably make more sense if you were to name it “Drums”, so that you can better identify the corresponding channel in the mixer.

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In the Track Parameter box, use the Cha ﬂip menu, to select which of the available audio channels the track should be set to.

The newly created audio tracks always appear below the currently chosen track in the Arrange window, and must be deﬁned in the parameter box, so that they can be displayed in the mixer.

Mixer with Audio Channels

Anaudio track can be controlled from the Mixer window, just as with the Midi tracks.

• In the main menu, choose

You now see a new channel strip in the upper portion of the mixer; this strip is named “Audio 1” or “Drums” (depending on what you named the track). The number of the corresponding track in the Arrange window is shown below. Also, two more channels (” Bus 1” and “Bus 2”) appear to the right of the created track. These two channels are for looping internal effects. There is also a stereo fader fwhich acts as a master volume control for all the audio tracks (“Out 1-2”). This audio section appears in the mixer as soon as an audio track has been created in the Arrange window, and deﬁned in the

eter

box.

Window > Open Mixer.

Track Param-

• Change the audio channel from mono to stereo operation

by clicking the button on the lower left corner of the

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channel strip. This is necessary, because we are going to import a stereo ﬁle.

• Switch back to the Arrange window by closing the mixer

window.

Importing Audio File

Now, let’s import an audio recording of a drum loop into the tutorial song from the Adat Edit CD.

• Select the pencil tool, and click at measure 5.

Adat Edit will now ask where you want to get the audio ﬁle from.

• Find the drive and folder that contains the tutorial drum

Loop “Atmo-Drums.AIFF” (Macintosh) or “AtmoDrums.wav” (Windows). The ﬁle will be found in the same folder that contains your Adat Edit program.

• Double-click this ﬁle. It appears in the Arrange window.

If you enlarge the display with the “Zoom” buttons, you will see a waveform display in the audio sequence that was just imported. The audio ﬁle name is displayed over this. After the

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name, a symbol indicating whether the ﬁle is mono or stereo will be shown.

If you switch to playback after measure 5, you should be able to monitor this audio ﬁle via the audio output of your computer or sound card. You will notice that the speed of the tutorial song does not ﬁt the imported audio ﬁle. We can ﬁx this by adjusting the speed of the song.

Sample Editor

• Open the sample editor by double-clicking on the drum

loop.

In this view, you can best edit the audio ﬁle. Look at the starting point of the sequence; you will notice that the starting point of the drum loop is not exactly on the “one” of measure 5.

• Enlarge the display so that you can see the starting point

precisely.

• Move the left starting point so that it is exactly at the begin-

ning of the waveform.

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• Now press the button with the loudspeaker symbol, to

listen to the audio ﬁle.

The starting point should now be correct, but the end point must still be corrected. It is currently too far back, and must be moved forward until the drum part loops smoothly. The best way to check this is by engaging “cycle” mode in the Sample editor. Do so by pressing the button.

• Go to the end of the drum loop and move the end point

back until there are exactly two measures between the start and end points.

Optimize the beginning and end points in the cycle mode until the loop actually cycles smoothly. Listen to the loop a couple of times. This is important, because this length will be used to adapt the tempo of the song.to the audio ﬁle.

• In the transport window, set the locator points to measures

5 1 1 1

• Click in the Arrange window, and select

Tempo using object length & Locators

and

7 1 1 1

Functions > Adjust

At this point, you will be asked whether the tempo for the entire song (global) should be changed to match the audio ﬁle, or whether a tempo change should be inserted at the left cycle

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point, drum loop should look something like this:

The song speed is adapted precisely to the drum loop, we just deﬁned using the locator points. The drum loop corresponds to the length of two measures. The length and position of the audio sequence now corresponds exactly to the settings that we changed in the sample editor.

You can move, cut, and copy the audio sequence in the Arrange window, just like you are used to doing with Midi sequences. Of course, the Matrix editor, the Score editor, and other Midi speciﬁc functions are unavailable for audio sequences.

5.1.1.1

. If you select

global

, then your arrangement in the

which

Internal Audio Effects in the Mixer

The internal audio effects of Adat Edit are inserted into “Buses” 1 and 2 by selecting the desired effect with the “Insert” button.

Highlight the effect you want in the ﬂip menu, and then release the mouse button. The insert appears green, with the name of

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effect displayed on the button. You can edit the effect parameters by double-clicking on the button.

The “Tutorial Song Audio/1” ﬁle is an example of a combined Midi /audio arrangement, based upon the original tutorial song. The delay and quantizing parameter of the Midi tracks were changed, because the initial swing groove does not work well with the drum loop. Effects from the Mixer were added to the drum loop and rap sequence.

There is a stereo ﬁle named “Audio Tutorial (2 Track)” on the Adat Edit CD. This is the outcome of editing the audio portion of the tutorial. This is the master of the Adat Edit song “ TUTORIAL Song.Audio/1”.

Now It's Your Turn …

If you have worked through the tutorial up to this point, then you know the most important functions of Adat Edit, and already have a good overview of its operation, and wide range of functions.

The tutorial song contains useful output material for your own experiments, h which you can build on. We recommend that you take some time to work in depth with the tutorial song.

• Record more tracks (e.g. percussion).

• Replace existing tracks with your own recordings, e.g.

piano, bass, drums.

• Create more audio tracks, and insert additional audio ﬁles.

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• In the Sample editor, try out various audio sequences in the

menu options of the “Functions” menu and listen to the results directly in sample editor.

• In the mixer window with the bus inserts, place delay and

reverb effects on the audio tracks; set these effects differently.

• Look for mistakes in the sequences, and remove them by

using the various editors.

• Use the Score editor to printout smaller sections of the

song..

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Operation

In this chapter you will learn how to use the mouse, keyboard, menus, toolbox and other elements in Adat Edit.

4.1 Mouse

The user interface of Adat Edit is graphically oriented. You can control all of Adat Edit’s functions with the mouse. This section will give you an overview of how you can put the mouse to use.

Open up the Tutorial Song and its Arrange window, if you would like to directly try out the operations described below.

Mouse Techniques

The terms that we will use in this manual to describe mouse techniques will certainly already be familiar to you from other applications. These terms are:

Point Move the mouse arrow to the object

that you want to work on.

Click Point with the mouse arrow to an

object and then brieﬂy press down once on the (left) mouse button. Generally, for the Windows version, unless the right button is speciﬁed, you can assume that the left mouse button will always be meant. With this technique you are able to select objects, activate on/off switches, or select options.

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Double Click Point to an object and tap on the

mouse button twice. With this, you can open windows in Adat Edit.

Click-hold Click on an object and hold the

mouse button down.

Dragging Click-hold an object, and then drag

the object in the desired direction. This way, you can move an object to another position.

 If you are still not familiar with using the mouse, you can practice with the help of

the Windows Learning Program. You can ﬁnd the tutorial in the help menu of the Program Manager.

You can change the mouse settings for your computer under

System Tools > Mouse (Windows) or under the Apple Menu > Control Panels > Mouse

(Macintosh) respectively.

Flip Menus

Menus in Adat Edit can be operated just as they would be in other applications you are used to. There is one exception, however, and that is the ﬂip menus. These are menus that pop up to display different selection options, when you click-hold the menu.

Practice

In the Arrange window, click-hold on an “icon” symbol in a track’s parameter box. A ﬂip menu with more icons will open, from which you may select a different icon. Use this to practice using ﬂip menus.

You may use a ﬂip menu in the following ways:

• Select an entry from the menu, and release the mouse

button. That entry will be chosen.

• In order to choose entries which are not in the visible

section of the ﬂip menu, scroll up or down the ﬂip menu, by moving the mouse over the upper or lower edge of the

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window. The farther you move the mouse over and away from the edge of the window, the faster you will scroll.

• If you open the menu with the right mouse button, it will

remain open after releasing the button. Now you can move down the ﬂip menu, using the scroll bar on the right. To select a menu item, click on it with the left mouse button. The ﬂip menu will then close.

• On the Macintosh, the procedure is a little bit different:

Open the ﬂip menu, press mouse button, and then let go of the mouse button. The ﬂip menu will remain open, and you can use the scroll bar to move up and down in the menu. Click on the desired selection. Now release the chosen, and the ﬂip menu closes automatically.

S while holding down the

S key. The selection is

4.2 Key Commands

Adat Edit is designed so that you can carry out a large variety of functions with either the mouse, or the computer keyboard, depending on your personal preference.

Adat Edit uses key commands for calling up functions and menu items, using the computer keyboard,. Many of these are already assigned, others are not preset. You may customize any of these to suit your own working style (see also Chapter 15 Reference: Key Commands and Use of Mouse on page 307).

A key command may either be a single key, or a combination of one or more “modiﬁer” keys ( “normal” key, in order to carry out a particular function. Furthermore, function keys ( tosh), are recognized as key commands.

You can deﬁne the assignment of key commands and functions in the Key Commands window. To do this, call up

Key Commands

in the Main Menu.

S, A, ç, C, O) with a

@ to ˚ or Ì with Macin-

Windows >

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Key Commands Window

A list of key commands and their functions will now open. The functions are divided into subject areas. In the left column, you can see the deﬁned key, and in the right column, the function assigned to it.

As you can see, most of the functions are already sensibly predeﬁned. You can, however, change these deﬁnitions and give key combinations to unassigned functions.

We recommend that you do not change the pre-deﬁned key combinations, especially if you work together with other Adat Edit, MicroLogic or Logic users, or frequently change your computer. That way, it is guaranteed that you can always fall back upon the familiar key commands.

Deﬁning the Key Commands

Click the Learn button. The button will turn light gray. Click the desired function with the mouse. It will highlight. Press the desired key combination; it will be shown right away. You can enter as many key combinations as you want in this fashion. Deactivate the commands.

Learn button when you have ﬁnished asigning

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Hiding Key Commands

You can ﬁlter the view in the Key Commands window, by either hiding all the keys which already have a function assigned to them, or all keys which do not have a function assigned to them. That way, you can tell at a glance which functions do not already have a key command assigned to them.

1. Click on Hide Unusedto hide all functions which are not

already occupied.

2. Click on

deﬁned.

Find Key Command

It is also possible to ﬁnd a key command quickly, even if you only know a part of its name.

Simply click on the white ﬁeld to the right of text you are looking for. The key command window will now just show those key commands which have that combination of characters.

Hide Used to ﬁlter out all functions already

Find, and enter the

The key command window remains completely functional in the ﬁnd mode. You can hide unused or used key commands, or make assignments.

The ﬁnd function does not distinguish between upper and lower case.

Click the are ﬁnished.

Find switch again to turn off the ﬁnd mode, when you

4.3 Operating the Windows

The program windows in Adat Edit can be operated in much the same way as they would in the computer’s operating system. However, there are some extra functions which give you an improved overview, and make Adat Edit even easier to

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use. This section will explain the effective operation of windows in Adat Edit.

Standard Elements of Operation

The standard window elements are probably already familiar to you from other programs, and your computer’s operating system.

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With each window you are able to:

• close individual windows; windows in Adat Edit can be

closed by just a simple click;

• change the window size;

• minimize any window to an icon on the task bar, and then

reset it to its original size and position by clicking on the icon.

If you are not familiar with these functions, please review your computer manual.

Telescope Tools

In the Arrange window, the Score window and the Matrix edit window you will ﬁnd one or two telescope tools. These can be found in the upper right-hand corner, underneath the title line. They are used to control the zoom setting of the window. With

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these telescope tools, you can change the magniﬁcation factor of the window section being viewed. In the Arrange window, the size of the sequences and fonts are affected; in the Score editor, on the other hand, the size of the notes is determined by the zoom settings.

A small arrow within the telescope tool shows the zoom direction (horizontal or vertical).

• Clicking on the left half of a telescope tool reduces the

magniﬁcation, whereas clicking on the right half enlarges it.

• You can also hold down the mouse button, until the desired

zoom factor has been reached.

Practice

Return the Arrange window to its normal size, and use scroll bars and Telescope tools to set the following views:

• Just measures 7 to 11

• The entire song

• Track 1 to 4, with the Sequence parameter box displayed

• All tracks

Another way to set the magniﬁcation factor is the zoom tool, in the Arrange and Matrix windows. See section Zoom Tool on page 103.

Scroll Bars

The scroll bars that you will ﬁnd to the right of and underneath every window are the same as in other applications. The scroll bars in Adat Edit offer an additional function, however. The scroll box in it varies not only in its position, but also in its size proportional to the visible window section. Therefore you can see at any time the propor-

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tional relationship between the visible section, and the entire contents of the window.

Example

In the Arrange window, you can tell by the bottom scroll box, which part of the entire song you are seeing at that moment. Clicking on one of the arrows at the end of every scroll bar will scroll one step further. Clicking in the empty space within the scroll bar allows you to scroll the window one page in the corresponding direction. If all the contents of the window ﬁt into the visible section of window, then the scroll bar appears in its entirety, and the small arrows disappear.

x/y-Movement Elements

In the lower left-hand corner, you will ﬁnd the x/y movement elements. These allow you to move the window section both horizontally and vertically at the same time.

Click-hold the small gray box, and hold down the left mouse button. The mouse’s arrow changes into a crosshairs tool. The visible section of the window will now move in proportion to the movement of the mouse.

On the other hand, if you hold down the right button on the mouse, the window section will continue moving automatically in the direction that you are moving the mouse. In this case, the mouse’s movement determines the scrolling speed.

Catch Mode

The Catch mode is controlled by the button in the upper left corner of each window that shows a “walking man” .

When the catch mode is activated, the contents of the window move in correlation with the current song position. In short: what you see on the screen will actually be what you hear at that moment. This is practical if you want to, for example,

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listen to a track and simultaneously check it in the Score window. You should turn off the catch mode if you want to listen to the song,, but edit onlya particular part of it.

If you use the horizontal scroll bar to manually move a window section, then the catch function will deactivate itself. Otherwise, the window would always jump back to the song position.

Link Mode

The link button, with a stylized chain-link symbol, can be found next to the catch function in every window, except for the Arrange window .

If this is activated in a window, then that window will automatically show the contents of a selected sequence. So if you have opened the Score editor, and then click on a sequence in the Arrange window, its contents will automatically be shown in the Score editor. If you subsequently click on another sequence, then the contents of the Score editor will change.

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Practice

Open the Score editor in the Tutorial-Song, and activate the link function. Now click on a few sequences of the piano, bass, and melody tracks one after the other. Try the same with the Matrix editor and the Event list.

Local Menus in Adat Edit

In Adat Edit, menu items whose functions are only valid for a certain window are not located in the main menu bar, but rather in a local menu in the corresponding window. This way, the main menu bar remains clearly arranged and neat.

The available menu items vary, depending on the window.

Only the functions of the Edit menu remain for the most part the same. You’ll remember this menu from the sections “Object Selection” and “Cutting, Copying, Pasting, and Deleting of Objects.”

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Arranging Windows on the Screen

In Adat Edit, you can open many windows at once. For example, you can place two Arrange windows with higher and lower zoom levels next to each other, with an Event list underneath, and perhaps a Score editor, etc. The functions of the command menu – window menu in Macintosh – manage these windows, and allow you to call up certain windows or to switch from window to window.

When you save a Adat Edit song, the window conﬁguration is also saved, and is established again the next time you open the song. Therefore, it is guaranteed that you will have the optimal arrangement, size and zoom factor on hand for every song.

Last Window

This menu item brings the window that was used last to the foreground. This is especially practical if you accidentally click on another window, covering up your present work window. You can call it up again with menu, or the

˚ key.

Window > Last Window in the main

Next/Previous Window

Adat Edit keeps track of the order in which you have opened windows. You can activate the next window in the series with

Window > Next Window (·). Previous Window (˜) opens

the previous one.

Tip

As a rule these two functions help you ﬁnd a certain window more quickly than by blindly clicking on partially hidden windows.

Toggle Transport

This menu item toggles the ﬂoating Transport window from normal view to an icon. This way, you can temporarily hide the Transport, when you need the space for other things. Instead of the menu item, you can also use the

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Main Window

The main window in Adat Edit provides the framework for all other windows, and holds the main menu items. You can call up this window at any time, if by changing to another application or Adat Edit window it becomes covered. To do this, you have to change to Adat Edit (under Windows via there, press the within Adat Edit, too, if another window is activated.

You can make the main window smaller and place it on the title bar by using the “change size” button, which is the middle of the three buttons in the upper right-hand corner of the main window. This way, the windows of other applications are also visible.

Working in Background Windows

In Adat Edit you can also work in windows which are opened in the background (unhighlighted title bar) without having to move the window to the foreground. That way you can, for example, move objects in the Arrange window, without having to move the Score editor to the background.

¯ key. The ¯ key calls up the main menu

A†) and, once

Tip

Normally, just clicking brieﬂy on a window will bring that window to the foreground. Here’s how you copy or move an object without moving the window up to the foreground:

1. Click on a sequence in a background window, and hold

the mouse button down.

2. Move or copy the sequence as usual.

3. Release the mouse button.

The sequence is moved, while the window remains in the background.

If you click brieﬂy on the window, it will be called up to the foreground.

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Closing Windows

You can close a window in Adat Edit by clicking on the close button, in the upper right-hand corner.

Alternatively, the

A and £ key will also close the active

window, under Windows.

4.4 Selecting Objects

Using the mouse and the local edit menus in the Adat Edit windows, you have several possibilities for selecting desired objects (sequences, notes, events) in a window.

Example

In the Arrange window, you may wish to select:

• a sequence,

• all sequences of a track,

• all sequences inside of certain limits (ex. measures 11 to

17),

• all sequences that still have not been selected

In order to edit a sequence or group of sequences, they must ﬁrst be selected. The same holds true for notes or note groups in the Score editor, groups of events in the Event list editor, or notes in the Matrix editor. So that you do not have to laboriously click on these objects one at a time, Adat Edit offers you a wide variety of selection options, which will be described in this section. These selection functions are identical in all Adat Edit windows.

Try out the different selection options in the Tutorial Song.

Selecting Individual Objects

You can select individual items by clicking on them. Selected objects or events will display highlighted, except for notes in

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the Score window, which blink when selected. To deselect them again, click on a free area in the window.

Example

If you click on a sequence in the Arrange window, it will be selected.

Selecting a Block

In order to select a block of adjacent objects, click-hold a free area near the objects and, while holding down the mouse button, rubber band select around them.

Example

Here’s how you select sequences which are next to each other.

If, while rubber band selecting, you move the mouse over the edge of the window, the visible window section will be moved as well. This way, you can select objects which had been out of the visible range of the window.

Selecting Several Scattered Objects

In order to select a non contiguous group of objects, hold the S down and click on the desired objects.

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Example

Undoing a Selection

You can undo the selection of all objects or a group of objects. Call up objects.

Edit > Toggle Selection to deselect recently selected

A second possibility is to hold down the

S key and rubber

band around the objects. The selection will be undone for all objects that the rubber band reaches.

If, however, you want to select all objects except for one, it is easier to select this object and call up

Edit > Toggle Selection.

Selecting all Following Objects

You can select all objects after the current song position, if you place the song position line at the desired location, and select

Edit > Select all Following.

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Select all following

Selecting Objects within the Locator Positions

Adat Edit selects all objects within the left and right locator points when you select diagram below shows, objects are also selected which are only partially within the locator limits.

Example

If you want to select all the sequences from the ﬁrst chorus to the third verse, set the locator value accordingly and select this menu item.

If you want to move objects over a long distance, select a smaller zoom factor, so that you can see the start and destination positions in the Arrange window simultaneously.

Edit > Select Inside Locators. As the

Select Inside Locators

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4.5 Working withTools

In Adat Edit you do not need to enter any number columns or click on any values with the mouse when you want to move, cut, delete or paste sequences or notes. You just have to choose the proper tool from the tool box, in order to carry out the operation. Through the tools’ symbols, you can immediately recognize what each is for. For cutting, there are scissors, an eraser for deleting, a glue tube for merging. So that you always have the right tool accessible, Adat Edit allows you to change tools at any time, assign two different tools to the mouse buttons (under Windows), or call up the toolbox at any time with the touch of a button.

Here is an overview of the tools available to you. The widest selection of tools can be found in the Arrange window; we will use these tools to explain general tool use. In each of the editor windows you will ﬁnd toolboxes with a smaller selection of tools. The tools remain the same, only the material to be edited changes: sequences in the Arrange window, notes in the Score editor, bars representing notes in the Matrix editor.

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Tools: Area of Inﬂuence

Each tool functions only in the work area of its respective window. Example: If you select a tool in the Arrange window, you can edit only sequences with it, not notes in the Score window etc. If you have multiple windows open, the pointer will change to the currently selected tool for each window, as you move it over each window. Working with the tools always affects all the selected objects. So if you select three sequences stacked on top of each other and click in the middle of one of them with the scissors, then all three will be cut (see diagram).

If you move the tool outside the work area, it will automatically change into an arrow. That way you are able, for example, to move the song position line in the bar ruler (see section Bar Ruler on page 129) even if you have the eraser, or any other tool selected.

The same holds true for all other tools. That way you can, for example, delete, move or copy many objects with one single operation, even if they are scattered around the window.

Please note this especially when working with the eraser. Before you delete a sequence, for example, make sure that other sequences are not selected outside the visible range of the window, or they could accidntally be deleted as well.

All tool operations can be undone with

Edit > Undo.

Assigning a Tool to the (Left) Mouse Button

Select a tool by clicking on it in the toolbox. The mouse’s pointer will then take on the form of that tool.

In order to edit an object with the tool, you generally have to point and click on the object. The result will depend on which tool is selected. The operation of each tool is described below.

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Assigning a Tool to the Right Mouse Button

You can assign a second tool to the right mouse button by just clicking on that tool with the right mouse button. This way, you always have two different tools available to you, without having to reach into the toolbox.

 Because double-clicking with the right mouse button is used to call up the event list,

and could be easily pressed, instead of the left button, by mistake, we recommend that you avoid assigning the eraser to the right mouse button. Otherwise, you could accidentally delete sequences or notes.

Opening the Toolbox at the Mouse Position

If you press ™, the toolbox will open up at the position of the mouse. This way, you can choose a new tool, even if the current window’s toolbox is not visible.

Information Line

While holding down the mouse button to perform an operation, an information line will replace the normal local menu items in the window where the edit is being performed. This informs you exactly of what type of change you are making and where that change is taking place.

Important!

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Arrow

The arrow is the standard mouse tool, as is typical of other applications. It is used for every action in which you use the mouse to select, move or copy something. Here are the most important arrow functions:

Select Click on the object.

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