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2 <tip>
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3 <html>
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5 <p><b>Welcome to Sonic Visualiser!</b></p>
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6
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7 <p>Sonic Visualiser is pretty complex, but you can use it for simple
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8 things very easily. Try importing an audio file and using the Pane
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9 menu to add some different views of it.</p>
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10
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11 <p>Check out the links on the Help menu for tutorials and other
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12 documentation!</p>
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16 <tip>
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17 <html>
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18
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19 <p>Sonic Visualiser's window is organised into <i>panes</i> and
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20 <i>layers</i>. To begin with, you have one pane. Import an audio
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21 file to see it displayed in a <i>waveform layer</i> on that pane.</p>
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22
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23 </html>
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24 </tip>
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25 <tip>
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26 <html>
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27
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28 <p>Each pane can contain any number of layers, which appear stacked
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29 from "front" to "back" on the same timeline. A layer can contain a
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30 view of audio, or of points (time instants) or data plots (time-values).</p>
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33 </tip>
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36
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37 <p>There's a <i>layer property box</i> shown to the right of each
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38 layer, with one tab for each of the layers on that pane. Click on a
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39 layer's tab to bring that layer to the front. You can then adjust its
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40 colour and other display properties in the property box.</p>
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41
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42 <p>The first tab is always for the pane itself, which has a few
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43 adjustable properties of its own.</p>
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46 </tip>
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47 <tip>
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48 <html>
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49
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50 <p>If you have more than one pane, only one of them will be "current",
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51 marked with a black bar at the left side. Just click on another pane
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52 to make it current. Most editing operations affect the layer that's
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53 at the front of the current pane.</p>
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56 </tip>
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57 <tip>
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58 <html>
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59
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60 <p>You can use different zoom levels for different panes by un-checking
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61 the Global Zoom control for one of them. By default, all panes will
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62 zoom and scroll together.</p>
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63
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64 </html>
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65 </tip>
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66 <tip>
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67 <html>
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68
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69 <p>You can speed up and slow down playback using the Playback Speedup
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70 control in the bottom-right of the window.</p>
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73 </tip>
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75 <html>
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76
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77 <p>The Transforms menu lists things you can do to extract features from
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78 or process your audio. The available outputs of any Vamp
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79 feature-extraction plugins or LADSPA audio effects plugins you have
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80 will show up here.</p>
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83 </tip>
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