Yamaha A3000 Owner's Manual

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YAMAHA Wave Editor TWE Version 2.2.0 for Macintosh Owner's manual (1/3) The TWE wave editor (hereafter referred to as TWE) is software for digitally recording sounds (instrumental sounds, sound effects, voice, etc.) to the hard disk of a perso...

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•The company names and product names in this owner's manual are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. •The screen displays as illustrated in this owner's manual are for instructional purposes, and may ...

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5.14. Load Preferences... 5.15. Save Preferences As... 5.16. Page Setup... 5.17. Print... 5.18. Quit 6. Edit menu 6.1. Undo (or Redo) 6.2. Cut 6.3. Copy 6.4. Paste 6.5. Insert 6.6. Clear 6.7. Select All 6.8. Trim 6.9. Mix 6.10. Reverse 6.11. Invert 6...

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8.3. Preferences … 9. Window menu 9.1. Hide (or Show) Tag Window 9.2. Hide (or Show) Transport 9.3. Cascade 9.4. Tile Horizontally 9.5. Tile Vertically 9.6. Next Window 9.7. Close All 9.8. (Select Window) 10. List of shortcut key default settings ...

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<File formats> •Apple AIFF (displayed by TWE as "AIFF") •Digidesign Sound Designer II (displayed by TWE as "Sd2f") •Microsoft Wave PCM (displayed by TWE as "WAVE") <Sample size> •1 bit to 32 bit <S...

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displays various settings of the sound file) will appear. The following chapters explain the various parts of TWE's windows. [3. Tag Window and Transport Window] 3.1. Tag Window The Tag Window is a small window with two buttons: [Open] and [N...

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Moves the playback start location (Play Location) to the beginning of the sound data. <Stop> Stops playback/recording. <Play> Begins playback from the playback start location. <Record> Begins recording from the playback star...

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display refer to "4.8. Overall waveform display." *If the OS you are using is earlier than System 7.5, there will be cases in which it will not be possible to switch applications while the Transport Window is being used. In such cases, te...

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<Samples> Displays the total number of samples in the sound file. <Data size> Displays the size (number of bytes) of the sound file. <Modified> Displays the last time the file was modified (year.month.day and time). 4.2. Device info...

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If you click on the time axis markings (Time Ruler) of the waveform display area, the location at which you clicked will be specified as the playback start location. While sound data is being played back or recorded, the current location is displa...

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This numerically indicates the loop region. The start, end, and length of the loop region are displayed as a number of samples (Sample) and as hours/ minutes/seconds/milliseconds (Time). If you specify a loop range and turn on the Loop button, the l...

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4.7. Waveform display (Waveform) This area shows a magnified portion of the currently opened sound file. You can use the horizontal and vertical scroll bars to move the displayed portion. You can also click on the overall waveform display (Overview)...

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loop region shown in the time axis ruler, the mouse pointer will change shape, and you can drag to left or right to modify the start/end points of the loop region. By dragging the mouse within the loop region (brown, with the default settings) in ...

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YAMAHA Wave Editor TWE Version 2.2.0 for Macintosh Owner's manual (2/3) [5. File menu] 5.1. New... This command creates new sound data. When you select [New...], a dialog box will appear, allowing you to set the following parameters. <File T...

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(The data which was originally on the disk (meaningless garbage) will be used without change.) •Square... (Square wave data will be created.) •Sawtooth... (Sawtooth wave data will be created.) •Triangle... (Triangle wave data will be created.)...

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[Save] Save the edited content and close the Waveform Window. [Don't Save] Close the Waveform Window without saving the edited content. Your edits will be lost. [Cancel] The Waveform Window will not be closed, nor will the edited content be sa...

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raised, the noise produced during conversion will decrease, but the high frequency range will be cut. <Sampling Rate> Specify the sampling frequency after conversion. The available range is 11,000Hz-64,000Hz. 5.8. Convert Bit Size ... This co...

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5.13. Export To Sampler... When an external Yamaha sampler (A3000/4000/5000, EX5/5R7) is connected via SCSI, this command transmits sound data to the sampler. *If you are using an A3000/4000/5000, you must first select MIDI function in Utility mod...

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5.16. Page Setup... This command opens the standard Macintosh page setup dialog box, allowing you to specify the page setup settings that will be used when you use the [Print...] command (see below). 5.17. Print... This command lets you make a hard...

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6.3. Copy This command copies the region currently selected in the waveform display to the TWE clipboard. 6.4. Paste This command pastes the waveform which was copied to the TWE clipboard, starting at the specified point in the waveform display. If...

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6.8. Trim This command leaves only the waveform in the selected region, and deletes the portions of the waveform which lie before and after the selected region. In the case of sound data with two or more channels, the [Trim] command can be executed...

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This command flips the selected region of the waveform from left to right. 6.11. Invert This command inverts (up/down) the selected region of the waveform. 6.12. Fade In This command fades-in the selected region of the waveform (i.e., gradually ...

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immediately before the end of the loop region will be crossfaded and rewritten. If you select Sustain + Release type, the waveform immediately before and after the end of the loop region will be crossfaded and rewritten. *If you have imported soun...

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In the case of a presence filter, this specifies the steepness of the peak or valley that is produced by boosting or cutting the signal level of the specified region. Higher values of Q will produce a sharper curve. In the case of a shelving filte...

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6.18. Gain... This command modifies the overall amplitude (volume) of the selected region of the waveform. To change the amplitude (volume), drag the Rate slider to left or right, or type a numeric value into the box. 6.19. Normalize... This comm...

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selected region will be calculated, and the inverse of this value will be added to each sample. After this command has been executed, the value that was actually added will be displayed. If you select Specify Offset Value, the value that you specif...

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Maximize the vertical display resolution. <Vertical Full Zoom Out> Minimize the vertical display resolution. <Horizontal Full Zoom In> Maximize the horizontal display resolution. <Horizontal Full Zoom Out> Minimize the horizontal di...

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<Level> If either the start point or the end point are changed to a location that is near the level of the other point (the existing end point or start point), the newly set point will be moved to a location of a matching level. If both poin...

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<Time> The time axis will be in units of time. <Samples> The time axis will be in units of samples. 7.9. Level Ruler Select whether the amplitude axis located at the left of the waveform display will be displayed in the specified units o...

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<Stop (or Start) Background Scanning> Specify whether to stop/start scanning of data that is being performed in the background. <Refresh All> All data will be rescanned, including the portion for which scanning has already been complete...

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displayed tab panel will return to their default settings. If you click the [Revert Panel] button, the contents of the currently displayed tab panel will return to the settings that were in effect when the dialog box was opened. 8.3.1. Colors Spec...

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<Window Colors> •Tag... The background color of the Tag Window •Transport... The background color of the Transport Window •Waveform... The background color of the Waveform Window. •Dialog box... The background color of the various dialo...

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*Pressing the return key or the enter key in the Colors or Others panels will execute [Cancel], but when the Shortcuts panel is open, pressing the return key or the enter key will specify these keys as the shortcut key for the currently selected a...

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correspondingly better. On fast computers you will want to uncheck this item, and check it on slower computers. •Up/Down sensitive Auto Snap If this is checked, Auto Snap will be performed so that the upward/downward level slope of the start and ...

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9.3. Cascade All Waveform windows will be displayed in overlapping "stair-step" fashion. 9.4. Tile Horizontally All Waveform windows will be shown side by side. 9.5. Tile Vertically All Waveform windows will be shown stacked vertically 9.6....

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YAMAHA Wave Editor TWE Version 2.2.0 for Macintosh Owner's manual (3/3) [10. List of shortcut key default settings] By using shortcut keys, you can use the keys of your computer keyboard to rapidly execute the commands of the menus or toolbars....

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selected region. Insert [cmd]+[I] Insert the waveform from the clipboard into the ...

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Horizontal Zoom Out [G] Decrease the horizontal display resolution by one. Horizontal Full Zoom In [ctrl]+[H] ...

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windows. Select Tag Window [cmd]+[0] Makes the Tag window active. (Select) [cmd]+[1] Makes th...

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- Pitch Shift was added to the Edit menu. - Auto Snap was added to the View menu. - Cascade, Tile Horizontally, and Tile Vertically were added to the Window menu. - Initial Status and other items were added to Others in the Preferences menu. - Butt...