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