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Wave Track

The wave track contains sounds and variations. It is similar to a Pattern Track, but contains sampled sounds rather than notes, and does not respond to chord changes.

Waves can be mono or stereo waves, and can be set to play straight through a single time, or to loop one or more times.

A wave in a wave track is a reference to a wave (.wvp) file in the project tree. You can set Wave Properties for the playback of this instance of the wave, but changes do not affect the wave file. If you delete the file from the project tree, or close the project that contains the wave file, the wave will be removed from the wave track. The run-time wave (.wav) file must be distributed with the segment, either separately or embedded in a container.

Each wave track can contain one or more parts. Each part belongs to a specific PChannel, and appears as a separate strip in Segment Designer. For example, the following illustration shows a segment with a single wave track. The track contains two parts, Main Wave Part and Extra Wave Part, assigned to play over PChannels 33 and 34 respectively. The Main Wave Part contains two waves: CHIMES and APPLAUSE.

Waves in a wave track part

You can select one or more waves in the track. Selected waves are displayed in red.


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