Drew's Tutorial - Wave Editor Advanced Effects Tab

Adding Effects Is Just A Click Away

Drew's Tutorial
The Operations Advanced Tab
Effects & How To Use Them
I've had a lot of requests for powerful effects like changing musical pitch, adding echo and more. Plus I love to speed listen to the many conference tapes that I buy. And finally if you have a tape or CD with lyrics or spoken word that you want to transcribe, then slowing it down by 1/2 really make the task easy.

So, I've rolled up all these 'effects' into a new set of screens in our Editor and added a few extra effects because I could get them and that's how you have the new Advanced Effects Tab that I've explained below. Please let me know what you think and if there are any other effects you'd like me to try to add next time I can do an upgrade.

To access all the great effects and operations in the Advanced Tab, just click on the Operations Menu (Arrow 1) and Choose Advanced (Arrow 2) to get to the effects.

Note: To use any of the effects, you first select the portion or all of the music or voice that you have loaded. Then after you've chosen which effect you want to use and the settings within that effect, just click the Apply Button to Apply the effect to the area that you have chosen.

It's all just that easy. So, Let's click Advanced and get started.

Here's the Other Tab of the Advanced Operation Effects Menu. To Access it,
Arrow 1. Click on the Other Tab

Arrow 2. DeleteSilence- This is an automated way to delete silence. Check the box and then set the two boxes to 0 to get started.

Arrow 3. MixStereo- If you have a stereo file and you'd like it to be less separated, you can mix the right and left channels together to make it less stereo or all the way to mono or anywhere in between.

Arrow 4. Resample. OK this one is very important. This is where you actually adjust he pitch in 5. increments It resamples the existing audio data and recalculates the samples using a different rate. Using percentages above 100 the pitch goes up and percentages below 100, the pitch goes down

Arrow 5. Pitch Shift. This keeps the speed the same but alters the pitch. It's not really for music, it's more for changing your voice. But you can get some very interesting effects by playing with this.

Arrow 6. TimeStretch. This is big. Time Stretch actually adjusts the speed of what you are listening to. You can slow it down to as little as 50% or raise it to 200%. It will maintain intelligibility because it attempt to keep the pitch fairly stable.

Use this for transcribing notes from a conference or recorded phone numbers or any type of dictation when you slow it down. When you speed it up, it's like speed reading. It's amazing. After you get used to it (which takes a few minutes) you can actually listen to conference tapes, books on tape and more at 200% speed. Why? We'll you'll hear it all in 1/2 the time. And that's really a great big deal.

Arrow 7. After you've made your choices, just click the Apply Button and whatever was selected in the editor will be converted to what you've chosen. If for any reason you don't like what you did the first time, just Undo it by clicking the reverse arrow button up in the icons at the top of the editor. The Advanced Tab Effects are extremely powerful.

This is the Delay tab, Arrow 1, and it gives you the power to add some very powerful effects to your music and voice files.

To use it, select something in the Editor. Then Click the Advanced Tab Effects and Choose Arrow 1 to access the Delay Tab.

Arrow 2. Delay Phaser is what I call the Echo Effect. The default is really good and it's what you'll use most of the time. It gives you that feeling of being in a very echo heavy environment. Depending on your source file, you can turn up or down the amount of the echo by increasing or decreasing the amount of Delay, Depth of the Delay and Decay of the succeeding echoes. It's easy, but the only way to really get comfortable with it is to record a file and then try different setting with it till you get what you want.

Arrow 3. Reverb is a bit like the old spring reverbs in the cars of the 60s. It's very subtle and you might not hear anything at all, or very little depending on your source. It's probably not an effect you will use often, but it's one you might like if you do.

Arrow 4. Flanger/Chorus is another effect that's really 60ish. It's not for music. It can be used if you just want to create odd sound effects from your own voice or music. Play with it I've gotten some interesting effects out of it.

Arrow 5. After you've made your choices, just click the Apply Button and whatever was selected in the editor will be converted to what you've chosen. If for any reason you don't like what you did the first time, just Undo it by clicking the reverse arrow button up in the icons at the top of the editor. The Advanced Tab Effects are extremely powerful.

This is the Amplitude Tab. It's easy to use and has some powerful effects. Choose the Amplitude Tab (Arrow 1) to get started.

Arrow 2. Normalize gives you the power to make different parts of a recording which might not be recorded at the same volume more even so you don't have to manually play with the volume control while you listen. This is worth trying if you have problem voice or dictation files.

Arrow 3. Fade. This is important. You'll find Fade+ and Fade- on the Main Operations Menu. So Why is there here? It's really special. With this Advanced Variable Fade Control, you gain total control of how much and in what direction your fade-ins and fade-outs will be. OK here's what I mean. Select the amount of your file you'd like to fade. Often it's 3-6 seconds, but with this control, it can be any amount that you select. Then you don't have to go from 100% to 0. You can go from 100% to 30% if you like. So you don't have to completely fade in or completely fade out. Just choose the percentage that you want and you'll be all set.

Arrow 4. Vibrato. What's Vibrato? It's a tremulous or pulsating effect produced in an instrumental or vocal tone by barely perceptible minute and rapid variations in pitch. And you can apply it to anything you've selected in the editor. It's an interesting effect and it's used for both music and if you want to change your voice, add some vibrato too.

After you've made your choices, just click the Apply Button and whatever was selected in the editor will be converted to what you've chosen. If for any reason you don't like what you did the first time, just Undo it by clicking the reverse arrow button up in the icons at the top of the editor. The Advanced Tab Effects are extremely powerful.

OK, that's it for the Advanced Effect Tab Effects. I'm really pleased I was able to add all this great functionality to the Editor for you. I use several of these on a daily basis, so frankly I really added them for myself. Enjoy. . .Drew

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