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2 <!-- Note: this tip file is not actually used, the tip of the day
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6 <tips caption="Tip of the Day">
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7 <tip>
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8 <html>
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9 <p><b>Welcome to Sonic Visualiser!</b></p> <p>Sonic Visualiser is a
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10 complex application, but it's easy enough to get started with.</p>
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11 <p>Try importing an audio file and using the Pane menu to add some
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12 different views of it.</p> <p>Check out the links on the Help menu for
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13 tutorials and other documentation!</p>
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14 </html>
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15 </tip>
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16 <tip>
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17 <html>
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18 <p>Sonic Visualiser's window is organised into "panes" and
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19 "layers". To begin with, you have one pane. Import an audio
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20 file to see it displayed in a waveform layer on that pane.</p>
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21 </html>
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22 </tip>
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23 <tip>
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24 <html>
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25 <p>Each pane can contain any number of layers, which appear stacked
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26 from "front" to "back" on the same timeline. A layer can contain a
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27 view of audio, or of points (time instants) or data plots (time-values).</p>
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28 </html>
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29 </tip>
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30 <tip>
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31 <html>
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32 <p>There's a "layer property box" to the right of each pane, with one
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33 tab for each of the layers on that pane. Click on a layer's tab to
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34 bring that layer to the front. You can then adjust its colour and
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35 other display properties in the property box.
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36
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37 The first tab is always for the pane itself, which has a few
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38 adjustable properties of its own.</p>
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39 </html>
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40 </tip>
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41 <tip>
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42 <html>
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43 <p>If you have more than one pane, only one of them will be "current",
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44 marked with a black bar at the left side. Just click on another pane
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45 to make it current. Most editing operations affect the layer that's
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46 at the front of the current pane.</p>
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47 </html>
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48 </tip>
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49 <tip>
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50 <html>
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51 <p>You can use different zoom levels for different panes by un-checking
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52 the Global Zoom control for one of them. By default, all panes will
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53 zoom and scroll together.</p>
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54 </html>
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55 </tip>
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56 <tip>
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57 <html>
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58 <p>You can speed up and slow down playback using the Playback Speedup
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59 control in the bottom-right of the window.</p>
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60 </html>
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61 </tip>
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62 <tip>
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63 <html>
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64 <p>The Transforms menu lists things you can do to extract features from
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65 or process your audio. The available outputs of any Vamp
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66 feature-extraction plugins or LADSPA audio effects plugins you have
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67 will show up here.</p>
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68 </html>
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69 </tip>
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71 </tips>
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