Generate Menu

ToDo briefly describe each type of generator

Audio Generation

The items in Generate menu are for creating a new section of audio, including different types of tones and noise, or silence. The audio you create can be placed into the project in three distinct ways:

• If there is no audio track already on screen, or no tracks on the screen are selected, a new track is created of the duration you specify.
• If there is already a selected track or tracks on screen, but no selection of audio, your specified duration of audio is inserted into those tracks at the cursor point, thus extending the length of the selected track(s).
• If there is already a selected track or tracks on screen, with an area of audio track selected, then that selected area is overwritten with your chosen type of audio, such as a tone or noise. The total length of the selected tracks thus remains the same.

If there is no selected area of audio, the length of the created audio defaults to 30 seconds unless you specify another length. However some of the generators such as Noise always remember the last length entered, so that last length becomes their default.

Examples

Example 1: Insert two seconds of silence at the start of the track as a "lead-in":

1. Click the "Skip to Start" button or press HOME to place the cursor at the start of the track
2. Choose Silence from the Generate Menu
3. Specify the two seconds silence. This works by the highlighted digit being overtyped with the figure you enter, then the highlight moving to the next digit. So if the value is showing at 30 seconds with "3" highlighted, simply type "02". To change the digit that is highlighted, click on the one you want to highlight or use the left or right arrow keys on your keyboard
4. Click OK or hit ENTER on your keyboard

Example 2: Overwrite a 30 second section of audio starting at 1 minute 15 seconds with a tone:

1. Click in the track at 1 minute 15 seconds (underneath "1:15" in the timeline above the track).
2. Drag your mouse to the right to select 30 seconds of audio, then release the mouse button
3. Choose Tone from the Generate menu.
4. Specify your Waveform, Frequency and Amplitude in the dialogue (see explanation in the Tone section below)
5. Click OK or hit ENTER on your keyboard

The different types of generator are described below.

Tone...

Parameters:

• Waveform: can be Sine, Square, Sawtooth
• Frequency(Hz): 1-20000 (value below 1.0 and above 20000 will be corrected to 1.0 and 20000!)
• Amplitude: 0-1 - This is the volume of the generated wave.

Pluck...

Inserts a synthesized pluck tone.

• Pitch 0-127. The number corresponds to the value of a midi note, which is assigned to a pitch. The higher the number, the higher the note.