Welcome to Soundprobe. This box will open every time you start Soundprobe with a new tip. If you turn it off, it is available from the help menu.
You can change most of the colours that Soundprobe uses for drawing by selecting View > Set Colours.
To find out what a toolbar button does, hold your cursor over the button and a ToolTip will appear. The status bar (at the bottom of the screen) contains a description of the function.
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If you have a Microsoft IntelliMouse or compatible, the wheel may be used for zooming in and out on the horizontal axis. Holding Ctrl enables vertical zooming.
The Save As and Open dialog boxes remember the last folder and have a list of previous folders.
You can open supported sounds by dragging them from Windows into the Soundprobe main window.
You can press <S> to toggle the displaying of a selection. When the selection is off, no operations may be performed on it but its location is stored.
You can display a menu of toolbars by pointing to a toolbar and right-clicking. This menu may also be accessed from the view menu.
To move a toolbar from its docked position, left-click between the buttons and drag. To move it back to its original location, simply double-click its toolbar.
To change how many recent files are siplayed in the list on the File menu, select Tools, Preferences then change the position of the recent files slider.
You can display a menu of important commands by right-clicking on the graph in any document window.
You can cycle through open windows by pressing Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab.
To quickly move a selection, hold down the Ctrl key and left-click the selection. You can then drag it to a new location.
Soundprobe supports multiple Undo levels. The option to change the number of Undo levels can be found by selecting Tools, Preferences then clicking on the Editing tab.
Selecting File, Properties enables Author and Copyright information to be stored in a sound file.
Soundprobe has two clipboards...A fast internal clipboard, and the Windows clipboard which can be used for sharing data with other programs. Options on the Edit menu allow data to be copied between the two.
Soundprobe can plot an open Sound in four ways: 2D Time Graph, 2D Colour Time Graph, 2D Frequency Graph and 3D Frequency Graph . These can be accessed from the View Menu or by right-clicking on the graph. Selecting View, Graph Preferences enables the appearance of each graph type to be altered.
Soundprobe has a number of visualisation tools for displaying sound output. These can be accessed by selecting the Visualisation menu. By right clicking over a visualisation you can display a popup menu. Selecting Properties from this menu enables you to change appearance of the visualisation.
You can access statistical data on the selection in the active document by selecting Tools, Statistics.
Use the ESC key to stop the graph redrawing when you don't need it.
Find clicks and pops using the 2D Frequency Graph by looking for bright vertical lines.
Create an ADSR envelope by using the Volume effect with a variable gain by using the vector variation type.
Stop clicks and pops when editing by using smooth editing.
Use frequency editing to quickly remove unwanted frequencies from the 2D Frequency Graph display.
Customise the interface to your needs to speed up editing.
Use File > Revert to undo all changes to the originally saved, or last saved file.
Group commonly used sounds into a workspace.
Use Edit > Cut Play to preview cut.
Use Tools > Mixer to quickly mix documents and files.
Turn off confirmation messages by using Tools > Properties > Options.
Use the Advanced options for the FFT Accuracy setting to greatly improve the quality of your effects processing.
Use a small output/real-time buffer of less than 200 ms for real-time effects when you need a fast response.
Turn down your Windows graphics acceleration if you have any trouble with sound breaking up.
Read through the Tour in the Help menu or via Help to help you to get to know Soundprobe.
Lots of RAM will help speed up editing greatly, a fast CPU always helps.
Using RAM for the Soundprobe virtual memory will greatly speed up editing.
If you have low physical RAM use the Soundprobe virtual memory as your HD, never use the Windows virtual memory.
Use LAME for MP3 encoding, a link to the LAME home page is available from the Help menu, or from our site.
This tips file can be updated from our site.
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