Tools Menu

Record Wave

Use this function to record Waves. Read more about it in Recording Audio

Mixdown Intern

This tool allows you to mixdown all audio from one position to another position into one single new Wave.

This is handy for special FX.

Mixdown To File

This tool allows you to mixdown all audio from one position to another position into an AIFF or WAVE File.

This is handy to export a mix, ready to go to CD !

Plugin Manager

The Plugin Manager lets you manage your VST plugins.

The advantages of the Plugin Manager against a fixed "Vstplugins" folder are :

A standard "Muzys/VstPlugins" folder is also supported. If you put any plugins in there, Muzys will find them when it restarts, and will propose to add them to the plugin database.

How it works :

The Wave Manager

Here you can organize the Waves you are using in your current Project.

Muzys can save a Wave inside the Project (internal) or outside the Project (external).

Saving a Project with all Waves included allows for easy exchange of Projects and sounds and protects you from inadvertently deleting sounds used in Projects.

You can always save Waves outside your Project again using "Make Selecteds External".

The Options button pops up a menu with a lot of interesting functions for managing the Waves in your Project. It also allows you to set your Waves Folder; More info on this in : Managing your Sound Library.

The Keyboard Mapper

This tool allows you to assign Sequences to the keys of your keyboard, so you can assign a chord or some arpeggio's to a certain key.

There are 3 different ways on how a key plays a Sequence :

Note that the sequencer must be running for 'Gated' and 'Triggered' sequences to play.

For every mapped key, you can set a Mode, Sequence, Player, Transpose and Quantize value. So, for example, you can assign the same Sequence to different keys with a different transposition.

You can use the [Arrow Keys], [Page Up/Down] and the scrollbar to navigate the keyboard. A click on the keyboard selects and monitors that key.

The 'Options' button gives some extra functions :

The Tempo Controller

Allows you to vary the tempo by means of a fader. Of course, when recording is active, everything is recorded !

You can call the Tempo Controller via the Tools menu, or by [Shift]+clicking the Tempo field in The Control Panel.

The 'Setup' button allows you to setup the fader.

Note that a proper Tempo Track has to be on the first track of a Composition, as you can read in The Song Composer.

Sysex Dump Manager

The Sysex Dump Manager offers 3 functions :

A SYX File is one of the most common file types for sysex data. In fact, it just contains the raw sysex bytes.

Important note : Muzys only listens to sysex received at he port indicated in the System menu : MIDI Hardware dialog.

MidiMonitor

Is a technical, diagnostic feature.

With the [C]lear key, you can clear the message-screen.

With the [S]etup key, you can choose whether 'Active Sensing' ($FE) and 'Timing Clock' ($F8) should be shown.

The 'paging' parameter defines whether Muzys should pause when the screen is full.

Use the [Esc] key to quit the MidiMonitor.

Macro & Micro Tuning

Here you can edit the global Project tuning.

The Macro tuning controls the overall detuning of all Muzys' Patches.

The Micro tuning allows you to use other tuning tables than the standard "Western Equal Tempered".


ReWire Panel

ReWire is a product of Propellerheads that enables audio streaming from one application to another.

If ReWire support is available in your Muzys version, Muzys can act as a ReWire Master, which means it can receive audio streams from ReWired slave devices, and mix this audio together with all Muzys' native audio into the Audio Mixing Desk !

Also the basic transport functions like Play, Stop, Rewind and Forward are exchanged between ReWired applications.

Please consult the Propellerheads website for details about ReWire.

Though one thing must be emphasized : Always first start Muzys, then the ReWire device. And when shutting down, always first quit the ReWire device, then Muzys ! This is a normal ReWire procedure, and is described on the above website.

The panel itself is simple and straightforward : you can wire up to 8 devices, and each device has its own Mute and Options button.

Via "Options" you can open/close the ReWired device's panel, and you can also "Edit Output Routing". The latter pops up a list of all the ReWired device's outputs. Clicking an output allows you to route it to a channel in Muzys' Audio Mixing Desk.

Note that these settings are not saved within a Muzys project file, but you can load/save such channel maps separately also via the device's "Options" button, or if you want to load/save all routings for all ReWired devices, then use the bigger "Options" button at the bottom of the ReWire Panel.

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