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In Sound Palette, choose a palette and then an instrument or other sound sample within that palette to
draw with. Change the volume level of the sample by clicking & dragging the Level slider left or right.
Click the Play button directly to the right of that slider to audition it. In the options to the right of
Audioshop, choose whether to draw the sample at its original pitch or at the pitch at which the mouse
pointer is located. (If a palette’s instrument contains multiple notes at different pitches, the pitch of the
first note to be added to that instrument will be used as the original pitch.) Also choose whether or not
to always draw the entire sample. Click & drag from left to right to create a new note. Drag back to the
left once started to cancel.
A selection of instrument samples is included with RipX in the Primary and Primary Drum Kit palettes
but you can add your own instrument samples directly from a rip as follows:
1)
If you wish to include associated unpitched sounds with a note, first select them in addition to
the note by
X
/Ctrl-clicking or dragging over them and then use Audio>Group (
X
/Ctrl+G).
2)
Ensure the note is assigned to the correct layer for the instrument by selecting it and then
clicking on the arrow icon next to the layer name in the Layers Panel (bottom-right of window).
3)
Click on the pitched note and click the + button in the Sound Palette toolbar.
4)
Repeat for differently pitched notes if required, each around an octave apart. RipX
automatically generates missing pitches as and when they are needed. Quickly switch between
the Rip and the palette by clicking on the pencil icon to the left of the + button.
5)
The new instrument will be automatically selected for you to draw with right away. A palette is
automatically created for it with the same name as the Rip from which the sample was taken.
It is also possible to import your own samples of sounds (such as drums, speech & sound effects) from
audio files by clicking the Import Samples button in the Sound Palette toolbar:
1)
Browse to the folder where the audio files are located.
2)
Select only those audio files that you would like to be included in the same category (e.g. Drums
or Special Effects).
3)
Click Open and wait for all of the audio files to be ripped. As ripping completes, they are
automatically added to a new Imported Samples palette listed in the RipList Panel.
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The Imported Samples palette can get filled up pretty quickly and slow down the
selection of samples within it. It is therefore recommended that you rename it to
something appropriate from time to time so that it starts afresh the next time samples
are imported.
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Apart from the palettes included with RipX, a palette can be renamed, removed from
the RipList Panel or deleted by right-clicking on it and clicking on the appropriate item in
the menu that opens. You can quickly open the currently selected instrument in the
RipList panel by clicking on the pencil icon to the left of the + button.
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Palettes are stored as Rip files and can be re-opened like any other Rip file (e.g. by
clicking File>Open).
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To view the samples within a palette, click on the arrow icon to the left of its name and
click on each of the listed instruments to view its contents.