# HG changeset patch # User Chris Cannam # Date 1173461967 0 # Node ID a7b88d07a8365d779723808a5522c6cbd50d6b9b # Parent b4110b17bca85e0f1bb50e0a306d3de00d7a5e8b ... diff -r b4110b17bca8 -r a7b88d07a836 i18n/tips_en.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/i18n/tips_en.txt Fri Mar 09 17:39:27 2007 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ + + + + +

Welcome to Sonic Visualiser!

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Sonic Visualiser is pretty complex, but you can use it for simple +things very easily. Try importing an audio file and using the Pane +menu to add some different views of it.

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Check out the links on the Help menu for tutorials and other +documentation!

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Sonic Visualiser's window is organised into panes and +layers. To begin with, you have one pane. Import an audio +file to see it displayed in a waveform layer on that pane.

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Each pane can contain any number of layers, which appear stacked +from "front" to "back" on the same timeline. A layer can contain a +view of audio, or of points (time instants) or data plots (time-values).

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There's a layer property box shown to the right of each +layer, with one tab for each of the layers on that pane. Click on a +layer's tab to bring that layer to the front. You can then adjust its +colour and other display properties in the property box.

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The first tab is always for the pane itself, which has a few +adjustable properties of its own.

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If you have more than one pane, only one of them will be "current", +marked with a black bar at the left side. Just click on another pane +to make it current. Most editing operations affect the layer that's +at the front of the current pane.

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You can use different zoom levels for different panes by un-checking +the Global Zoom control for one of them. By default, all panes will +zoom and scroll together.

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You can speed up and slow down playback using the Playback Speedup +control in the bottom-right of the window.

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The Transforms menu lists things you can do to extract features from +or process your audio. The available outputs of any Vamp +feature-extraction plugins or LADSPA audio effects plugins you have +will show up here.

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