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1 <tips caption="Tip of the Day">
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2 <tip>
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3 <text>
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4 Welcome to Sonic Visualiser!
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5
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6 Sonic Visualiser is pretty complex, but you can use it for simple
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7 things very easily. Try importing an audio file and using the Pane
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8 menu to add some different views of it.
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9
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10 Check out the links on the Help menu for tutorials and other
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11 documentation!
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12 </text>
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13 </tip>
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14 <tip>
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15 <text>
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16 Sonic Visualiser's window is organised into "panes" and
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17 "layers". To begin with, you have one pane. Import an audio
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18 file to see it displayed in a waveform layer on that pane.
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19 </text>
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20 </tip>
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21 <tip>
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22 <text>
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23 Each pane can contain any number of layers, which appear stacked
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24 from "front" to "back" on the same timeline. A layer can contain a
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25 view of audio, or of points (time instants) or data plots (time-values).
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26 </text>
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27 </tip>
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28 <tip>
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29 <text>
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30 There's a "layer property box" to the right of each pane, with one
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31 tab for each of the layers on that pane. Click on a layer's tab to
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32 bring that layer to the front. You can then adjust its colour and
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33 other display properties in the property box.
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34
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35 The first tab is always for the pane itself, which has a few
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36 adjustable properties of its own.
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37 </text>
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38 </tip>
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39 <tip>
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40 <text>
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41 If you have more than one pane, only one of them will be "current",
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42 marked with a black bar at the left side. Just click on another pane
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43 to make it current. Most editing operations affect the layer that's
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44 at the front of the current pane.
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45 </text>
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46 </tip>
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47 <tip>
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48 <text>
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49 You can use different zoom levels for different panes by un-checking
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50 the Global Zoom control for one of them. By default, all panes will
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51 zoom and scroll together.
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52 </text>
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53 </tip>
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54 <tip>
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55 <text>
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56 You can speed up and slow down playback using the Playback Speedup
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57 control in the bottom-right of the window.
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58 </text>
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59 </tip>
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60 <tip>
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61 <text>
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62 The Transforms menu lists things you can do to extract features from
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63 or process your audio. The available outputs of any Vamp
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64 feature-extraction plugins or LADSPA audio effects plugins you have
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65 will show up here.
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66 </text>
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67 </tip>
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68
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69 </tips>
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