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The Wave tab of the Wave Component Properties window is shown in the following figure.
The tab contains the following settings:
Default volume of the wave, expressed as decibels of attenuation. A value of 0 is full volume.
Adjustment of the pitch of the wave, in semitones.
Note To restore the default settings for Attenuation or Fine Tune, click on the slider while pressing CTRL.
Note at which the wave is played at its original pitch, as modified by Fine Tune. For example, if a waveform was originally sampled from a flute playing middle C, enter C5 as the root note for the waveform. For information about pitch names and their corresponding MIDI values, see Pitch Names and MIDI Numbers.
The root note setting is automatically inserted in the Root Note box of the Region Properties when the wave is assigned to a region in DLS Designer.
This value has no effect on the playback of the wave in a wave track.
Number of samples in the waveform, or in one channel of a stereo wave. This value is read-only.
If this check box is selected, the wave loops when played. This is the default value but can be overridden in the Region Properties and Wave Properties windows.
If this option is selected, the release segment of a region's articulation is played immediately when a note-off message is received, regardless of the position of the play cursor in the looping portion. The looping portion continues to play until the release segment is completed. This setting has no effect on waves in tracks.
If this option is selected, the release segment of a region's articulation is not played until the looping portion has finished playing. This setting has no effect on waves in tracks.
The top row of boxes contains the loop points and length of the looping portion, in samples. The second row contains the dimensions of the selected area in Wave Editor and can be used to make fine adjustments to the selection for editing purposes.
Changing the End value also changes the Length value, and changing Length changes End. However, if the Lock check box is selected, the Length value is fixed, and any change to Start or End adjusts both the Start and the End values.
If this check box is selected, the synthesizer may truncate the wave data to its own format after loading the wave into memory. For example, if a synthesizer is low on system resources, it can use this option to save memory by playing the waveform at an 8-bit resolution. Truncating the sample may result in loss of sound quality.
This type of data reduction is rarely used, and the Microsoft Synthesizer disregards this setting.
If this check box is selected, data compression is allowed after the wave is loaded into memory.
This type of data reduction is rarely used, and the Microsoft Synthesizer disregards this setting.
It is not necessary to select this check box before using the data compression options on the Compression/Streaming Tab.