What is an Envelope, What is a Chopper -ACID Product Family

Subject:What is an Envelope, What is a Chopper Posted by: joshiwashi Date:10/29/2010 6:30:44 PM Does anybody know what an evelope is? How about a chopper? The software already presumes I am a sound recording engineer and that I know what all these terms mean. I'm so frustrated. All I want to do is delete a few seconds of music that I recorded from my piano so I tried select, delete. Wrong. That just leaves a big empty hole in the middle of the music. I thought the word delete means delete. What is the term for deleting here?
Subject:RE: What is an Envelope, What is a Chopper Reply by: pwppch Date:10/30/2010 7:43:54 PM An envelope appears on a track. It allows you to automate the volume, pan, and other aspects of the track. Let say you want to have a track fade in from silence to 0db. You insert a volume envelope on the track. Let's fade in from bar 1 to bar 3. Click on the envelope line that is overlaid on the track. Double click on the envelope at bar 3. You will see a node appear. There is also a node at bar 1. Drag the node at bar 1 down as far as it will go. You have created an envelope that will automatically fade the audio on that track from -inf to 0db as the track plays back. The chopper is a tool in ACID. It allows you to select portions of an audio or MIDI clip and place them in a track on the timeline. The chopper creates track events that expose portions of the clip for actual playback on the time line. Play around with it. You will see what it does, and the cool things you can do with it. It let's you slice and dice long clips of audio or MIDI into interesting patterns. Peter
Subject:RE: What is an Envelope, What is a Chopper Reply by: Iacobus Date:11/1/2010 10:11:43 AM "All I want to do is delete a few seconds of music that I recorded from my piano so I tried select, delete." Select the take (called an "event" or "clip" in ACID), place the cursor where you want the beginning of the split to occur, press S on your keyboard. Do the same for the end. Click this newly-split event. Hit Delete. Iacobus
Subject:RE: What is an Envelope, What is a Chopper Reply by: Geoff_Wood Date:11/2/2010 2:29:13 PM Without wishing to sound patronising to a newbie, maybe a brief read of the Help, Manual, or free online training guides might be a relevant suggestion ? And then there are the more comprehensive commercial training resources (DVDs). geoff

Subject:What is an Envelope, What is a Chopper

Posted by: joshiwashi

Date:10/29/2010 6:30:44 PM

Does anybody know what an evelope is? How about a chopper? The software already presumes I am a sound recording engineer and that I know what all these terms mean. I'm so frustrated. All I want to do is delete a few seconds of music that I recorded from my piano so I tried select, delete. Wrong. That just leaves a big empty hole in the middle of the music. I thought the word delete means delete. What is the term for deleting here?

Subject:RE: What is an Envelope, What is a Chopper

Reply by: pwppch

Date:10/30/2010 7:43:54 PM

An envelope appears on a track. It allows you to automate the volume, pan, and other aspects of the track. Let say you want to have a track fade in from silence to 0db. You insert a volume envelope on the track. Let's fade in from bar 1 to bar 3. Click on the envelope line that is overlaid on the track. Double click on the envelope at bar 3. You will see a node appear. There is also a node at bar 1. Drag the node at bar 1 down as far as it will go. You have created an envelope that will automatically fade the audio on that track from -inf to 0db as the track plays back.

The chopper is a tool in ACID. It allows you to select portions of an audio or MIDI clip and place them in a track on the timeline. The chopper creates track events that expose portions of the clip for actual playback on the time line. Play around with it. You will see what it does, and the cool things you can do with it. It let's you slice and dice long clips of audio or MIDI into interesting patterns.

Peter

Subject:RE: What is an Envelope, What is a Chopper

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:11/1/2010 10:11:43 AM

"All I want to do is delete a few seconds of music that I recorded from my piano so I tried select, delete."

Select the take (called an "event" or "clip" in ACID), place the cursor where you want the beginning of the split to occur, press S on your keyboard. Do the same for the end. Click this newly-split event. Hit Delete.

Iacobus

Subject:RE: What is an Envelope, What is a Chopper

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:11/2/2010 2:29:13 PM

Without wishing to sound patronising to a newbie, maybe a brief read of the Help, Manual, or free online training guides might be a relevant suggestion ?

And then there are the more comprehensive commercial training resources (DVDs).

geoff