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Chris@119: <tip>
Chris@120: <text>
Chris@120: Welcome to Sonic Visualiser!
Chris@119: 
Chris@120: Sonic Visualiser is pretty complex, but you can use it for simple
Chris@120: things very easily.  Try importing an audio file and using the Pane
Chris@120: menu to add some different views of it.
Chris@119: 
Chris@120: Check out the links on the Help menu for tutorials and other
Chris@120: documentation!
Chris@120: </text>
Chris@119: </tip>
Chris@119: <tip>
Chris@120: <text>
Chris@120: Sonic Visualiser's window is organised into "panes" and
Chris@120: "layers".  To begin with, you have one pane.  Import an audio
Chris@120: file to see it displayed in a waveform layer on that pane.
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Chris@119: </tip>
Chris@119: <tip>
Chris@120: <text>
Chris@120: Each pane can contain any number of layers, which appear stacked
Chris@119: from "front" to "back" on the same timeline.  A layer can contain a
Chris@120: view of audio, or of points (time instants) or data plots (time-values).
Chris@120: </text>
Chris@119: </tip>
Chris@119: <tip>
Chris@120: <text>
Chris@120: There's a "layer property box" to the right of each pane, with one
Chris@120: tab for each of the layers on that pane.  Click on a layer's tab to
Chris@120: bring that layer to the front.  You can then adjust its colour and
Chris@120: other display properties in the property box.
Chris@119: 
Chris@120: The first tab is always for the pane itself, which has a few
Chris@120: adjustable properties of its own.
Chris@120: </text>
Chris@119: </tip>
Chris@119: <tip>
Chris@120: <text>
Chris@120: If you have more than one pane, only one of them will be "current",
Chris@119: marked with a black bar at the left side.  Just click on another pane
Chris@119: to make it current.  Most editing operations affect the layer that's
Chris@120: at the front of the current pane.
Chris@120: </text>
Chris@119: </tip>
Chris@119: <tip>
Chris@120: <text>
Chris@120: You can use different zoom levels for different panes by un-checking
Chris@119: the Global Zoom control for one of them.  By default, all panes will
Chris@120: zoom and scroll together.
Chris@120: </text>
Chris@119: </tip>
Chris@119: <tip>
Chris@120: <text>
Chris@120: You can speed up and slow down playback using the Playback Speedup
Chris@120: control in the bottom-right of the window.
Chris@120: </text>
Chris@119: </tip>
Chris@119: <tip>
Chris@120: <text>
Chris@120: The Transforms menu lists things you can do to extract features from
Chris@119: or process your audio.  The available outputs of any Vamp
Chris@119: feature-extraction plugins or LADSPA audio effects plugins you have
Chris@120: will show up here.
Chris@120: </text>
Chris@119: </tip>
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Chris@119: </tips>
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