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Harmonic Editor can also be opened by pressing
X
/Ctrl+T.
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Choose a tool by clicking on one of the buttons at the top. A description of the selected tool and
its keyboard shortcut is shown beneath the buttons.
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Choose the Select/Edit/Mask Tool to hear ranges of harmonics and time by clicking & dragging
over them, then press Up/Down/Backspace to increase/decrease/remove the selected sound.
This tool can also be used to place a cursor. Press Escape to remove it.
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Click the Play button to hear the entire note/unpitched sound or only that part of it from the
cursor onwards or within the selection.
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You can change the duration and volume level of the brush with the sliders and choose which
harmonics to apply the edits to.
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The decibel (dB) level, harmonic number, frequency, and time at the position of the mouse
pointer are shown at the bottom.
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When Remove To Another Note is checked, if sound is removed, it is transferred to a newly
created overlapping note so that it is not lost.
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When the
button is selected, live edits such as formant adjustments for pitch shifts, plus
effects and repairs using the Adjust / Effects and Repair / Clean menus are applied to the
displayed harmonics.
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Click the button to the right of the Play button to undo all edits made to the note/unpitched
sound since it was last opened in Harmonic Editor.
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Harmonic Editor can edit the frequency components of unpitched sound. However, it should be
noted that sibilants, snare/tom drum and percussion sounds are usually a group of individual
unpitched sound objects (which can be ungrouped in the usual way using Audio>Ungroup). Only
one of these individual objects can be edited at a time. Clicking at different frequencies within a
grouped unpitched sound object will open each of these in the editor.
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Tip: Audioshop’s Edit Unpitched Tool (see above) can be used for editing a broader
bandwidth of unpitched sound.
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Note: If edits are made to the currently displayed note/unpitched sound with the Audioshop or
Noise Removal RipScripts, Harmonic Editor automatically updates to display the new
harmonics. If for some reason a note is not updated, it is necessary to click the Refresh button
to the left of the Contrast slider in the top-right corner of Harmonic Editor.
Clean Phase
Available from the Clean submenu, removes artifacts from selected notes by recalculating their phases.
This is useful for improving the sound quality of a note. Additional cleaning tools are available in the
same submenu.
Infinity Scale
Available from the Effects submenu, use this tool to create an infinitely rising or falling glissando effect
(based on the Shepard tone auditory illusion).