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1. 28 G Getting started 5 GIOSSaty eei leitete tent 41 etie 9 27 linis 37 Sta 10 14 Installation 3 Instrument Editor 30 ie vele wit ee i 9 LEFT BLOCK FUNCTIONS Loading song esses Multiple effects Multi Sample Instruments Velvet Studio User Manual ees 10 14 Pattern defaults 12 Pattern Info eer 35 PATTERNS 18 Peak indicator essse 23 16 37 25 PLAY PATT ieina 19 Play 2 2 2 2 38 Play sample 21 Play Song eter ee 38 teens 18 Position Editor 35 PreDef o nete 11 preview 4 008080 bakin 28 Protracker Pattern 18 pull down menu ses 7 R Record Pattern 38 Record Song 422 2 1 38 Renaming a 16 reme 24 esses pete 12 S Smp crop 10 14 sample sepe EH E ee A 2 Sample oe Ren 23 Sample edit functio
2. Ba 16 7 3 TOGGLE EQUALIZER 17 Velvet Studio User Manual DOSSHELL eae ete e rece reti 17 Ved EXIT TRACKER obe ire 17 8 LOWER BLOCK FUNCTIONS 18 8 1 PROTRACKER 000 0 arek enne n rennen enne 18 8 2 SCREAMTRACKER PATTERN 18 83 EDITING 20 0 0 entere sri 18 84 SAMPLE EDITOR ertet d eire alas 21 SAL Wave form nte t eee gera 21 9 2 Bottom Left zone iii ide e m ERR ERE ER ERI eas 21 8 4 3 Sample view Junctions esnips seeiis peitai 22 84 4 Sample edit functions o i eee e pleni 22 SAD Sample uec ce 23 946 e ER e Ese ee ER 23 8 4 7 Vol m uei 24 SAD Effectssui aate escoger case divin HC ren 24 8 4 9 Fix Loop Mix and 28 9410 LOOP UY DES aiio e e p P EU REV ERE EC EX PP 28 6 4 11 Edit boxes lower right zone see 29 6 4 12 Desc Editor AITE erpa asea ener 30 6 4 13 Instrument Editor 30 9 LEFT BLOCK 85 0 0 0 3
3. LOWER BLOCK LEFT BLOCK Also you will be presented with many options which are presented in a push button style Figure 2 shows an example of these as found in the Disk Option screen As you can see in Figure 2 the Song button is pressed Also to the right of Song is the AMS button in our example Velvet Studio is currently looking for Songs of the AMS format Advanced Module System The function behind these will be explained in the Disk Option section At this moment we are specifically looking where the mouse are involved To Enable an option move the mouse pointer over the button for example MOD and click on it once using the Left Mouse Button To Disable an option click on the enabled recessed box again with the Left Mouse Button In Figure 3 we see two buttons to the right of a number an arrow pointing up and the other pointing down Clicking on either with Default Settings the Left Mouse Button increases or decreases the amount shown to the left or Cormands 2 right depending on the location of arrow buttons in relation to the numbered dialogue at a relatively slow pace Clicking on either with the Right Mouse Button increases or decreases the number at a medium rate To speed through a number rapidly click upon either arrow button with both the Left AND Right Mouse Buttons The combination of 5 16 4 Hous 864 ERIT
4. eee 14 4 BLOCK MARKING COMMANDS 14 5 CHANNEL COMMANDS eee 14 6 5 147 SELECTING SAMPLES eene 14 8 MENUS amp SCREEN BLOCKS 14 9 MISCELLANEOUS 15 APPENDIX C FILE FORMATS 15 1 OVERYIEW 15 2 2 15 3 15 4 SAMPLES 15 5 PATTERN DATA 16 APPENDIX D COMMAND REFERENCE 16 1 ONBRYIEW 16 2 PROTRACKER 16 3 FINER PROTRACKER COMMANDS 16 4 NEW COMMANDS 17 INDEX Cc iv Velvet Studio User Manual Velvet Studio User Manual 1 INTRODUCTION Welcome into the world of exciting sound experiences and interesting stimulating music creation In your hand right now you ve got one of the most impressive and powerful music program that has ever been made You will soon experience the ease and comfortability that this program provides you with along with the huge amount of technical features making your music editing a real pleasure We hope that we have succeeded in creating a tool for your delighted usage and satisfactory that will bring inspiration to your composing talent 11 Disclaimer There is no warranty for the program to the extent permitted by applicable law Except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and
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6. Clicking on the button toggles the Equalizer on or off For more information look to the previous explanation of the Equalizer located within the Upper Block Section 10 15 Song Specific Settings You can change the frequency system utilized for pitch through this option box Linear Freq and Amiga Freq Frequency are the two choices of pitch modulation Strikingly enough a linear frequency denotes a constant rate of change between two pitches as witnessed with a portamento to note command The speed at which the frequency changes stays the same for all pitches within all 10 octaves Amiga frequency operates in a nonlinear way From the Song Specific Settings dialogue box you can also change the base Speed and BPM beats per minute of your module 38 Velvet Studio User Manual 11 CLEAR SECTION Overview True enough Clear does exactly that to the different facets listed below aar CONFIG ABOUT HELP Therefore an elaborate explanation of Song each is unnecessary Instrunents Everything Song Current Instrument Clears the patterns of the module Inst and Sample nanes Pattern names Instruments Channel names Clears the instruments of the module Descr ipt ion Figure 26 Everything Kills everything Current Instrument Key Pad Delete Kills selected instrument Inst and Sample Names Instrument and Sample Names Clears both the sample text and data Pattern Names Wipes the Pattern Names away
7. Also try to write some notes in the other channels with other instruments to hear how Velvet Studio plays them at the same time Notice that only six channels can be seen at the same time on screen If you use more than six channels up to 32 you can use the drag bar at the bottom of the screen to scroll to the next channels or just move the cursor out of the screen using the cursor keys or TAB and new channels will appear The number of channels can be changed by pressing the mouse on the number and entering a new value or by pressing one of the arrows You can mark an area of the pattern by pressing CAPS LOCK simultaneous with any arrow key or by pressing the left mouse button within the pattern area and drag the mouse When you ve marked an area you can copy it and paste somewhere else Check the keyboard shortcuts in the Appendix for full information Above each channel there is a small panel used for changing the channel status see Figure 15b By changing the value in the edit 88 82 B box you can display any channel in the pattern Just type in the Figure 15b number of the channel you want to view and it will be displayed The digit to the left is the current volume for the channel When a song is playing you will be able to see the volume change as instruments play in the channel If you press the small button to the right of the edit box it will change states between M for muted L for locked and empty for normal state If mu
8. Channel Names Washes the Channel Names clean Description Erases the Description accessed by 39 Velvet Studio User Manual 12 BUG FIXES We have bugtested Velvet Studio for a very long time and we hope that it doesn t contain many serious bugs But as you probably know it s impossible to make a program that hasn t got any bugs Bugfixed versions may be downloaded from our homepage http www velvet home ml org 40 Velvet Studio User Manual 13 APPENDIX A Glossary A Additive Synthesis The process of constructing a complex sound using a series of fundamental frequencies pure tones or sine waves Each of the fundamental frequencies usually has its own amplitude envelope which allows independent control of each partial harmonic Pipe organs or Hammond organs are both instruments which are based on additive synthesis ADSR Abbreviation for Attack Decay Sustain and Release These are the four parameters found on a basic synthesizer envelope generator envelope generator is sometimes called a transient generator The Attack Decay and Release parameters are rate or ime controls Sustain is a level When a key is pressed the envelope generator will begin to rise to its full level at the rate set by the attack parameter upon reaching peak level it will begin to fall at the rate set by the decay parameter to the level set by the sustain control The envelope will remain at the sustain level as long
9. You dont have to worry about which direction to slide you need only set the slide speed To keep on sliding just select the command 3 00 Example A 2 00 0000 First play a note C 5 00 0305 C 5 is the note to slide to 3 the command and 5 the speed 04 Vibrato Usage 04 vibratorate vibratodepth vibratorate 0 F vibratodepth 0 F Example C 5 00 0481 4 is the command 8 is the speed of the vibrato and is the depth of the vibrato To keep on vibrating just select the command 04 00 To change the vibrato you can alter the rate depth or both Use command 0E4x to change the vibrato wave form 05xy Tone portamento Volumeslide Usage 05 upspeed downspeed upspeed 0 F downspeed 0 F This command will continue the current toneportamento and slide the volume at the same time Example C 5 00 0503 3 is the speed to turn the volume down C 5 00 0540 4 is the speed to slide it up 06xy Vibrato Volumeslide Usage 06 upspeed downspeed upspeed 0 F downspeed 0 F This command will continue the current vibrato and slide the volume at the same time Example C 5 00 0605 5 is the speed to turn the volume down C 5 00 0640 4 is the speed to slide it up 55 Velvet Studio User Manual 07xy Tremolo Usage 07 tremolorate tremolodepth tremolorate 0 F tremolodepth 0 F Tremolo vibrates the volume Example C 5 00 0794 7 is the command 9 is the speed of
10. Alt I Instrument Editor Alt P Position Editor Alt Q Toggle Equalizers 50 Alt R Alt S Alt 7 Velvet Studio User Manual Restore to main screen Sample Editor Toggle Zoom pattern 14 9 Miscellaneous Keys Ctrl E Ctrl W Shift Ctrl E Shift Ctrl W Ctrl T F6 F10 Shift F6 F10 Ctrl R Alt N Alt X Space Shift Space Keypad Del Shift Keypad Del lt Shift lt Esc Fl F2 Increase CommandNr on current channel Decrease CommandNr on current channel Increase CommandNr on every channel Decrease CommandNr on every channel Toggle Rowskip when using arrows Go to the stored row Store current row on F key Restore F6 F10 positions 0 16 32 48 63 Load next selected song Exit the tracker Toggle edit Stop all voices Invoke Pulldown menu at mousepos Kill Instrument Kill Sample Increase RowSkip Decrease RowSkip Main PullDownMenu Decrease Octave Increase Octave 51 Velvet Studio User Manual 15 APPENDIX C File Formats 15 1 Overview Velvet Studio can manipulate the following file formats Those with an asterix can also be saved 15 2 Modules AMS Advanced Module System Velvet Studio x MOD Protracker FastTracker 6 8 channel xxCH module Protracker FastTracker TakeTracker FastTracker IL etc S3M ScreamTracker revision 3 0 module ScreamTracker IIT SSTM ScreamTracker module ScreamTracker XM Extended Module FastTracker 2 DigiTrekker MTM MultiTrac
11. The red bar Figure 22 may not be red depending upon your choice of colors There are a number of different things to do with the Mark function so you can 28 Velvet Studio User Manual experiment Velvet Studio is a simple matrix of complex features and Mark is another of them that saves you the tracker time Bits allows you to change your sample between 8 and 16 bit resolution When you decide to change the 5 resolution you can convert the sample data or not Likewise this process works in reverse changing 16 bit samples into 8 bit ones 8 4 11 Edit boxes in lower right zone Samp Sample Indicates which sample in the sample list you are viewing Pos Position Indicates where in the sample the play indicator resides Typically the play indicator is a red bar You know the one that scrolls across the wave form really fast when you press Play or a key on the keyboard Value Value has a maximum value of 255 for 8 bit samples and 65535 for 16 bit ones Smp Size Sample Size Shows how large the sample is in samples not bytes Mrk Size Mark Size Shows how large the highlighted block is Smp Rate Sample Rate Shows what the base sample rate is RepBeg Repeat Begin Shows the byte position of the repeat start marker the line with the box to the left RepEnd Repeat End Shows the byte position of the repeat end marker the line with the box to the right C 4 Rate The middle C rate for the sample
12. This can be handy for tuning disparate sample sources to each other Use this with the Tune Fork function to speed the process FineTune From 8 to 7 you can alter the pitch of the sample in subtle ways This is also useful in setting pitch s correctly against other samples 29 Velvet Studio User Manual PanPot Pan Position The positions within the panning field range from 7 to 7 hard left to hard right respectively 0 represents center channel or MONO although MONO in terms of stereo arrangement is something completely different than true monophonic sound Volume Volume typically represented in hexadecimal represents the base volume level for the sample Ranges in hex from 00h to 07Fh in decimal from 0 to 127 Velvet Studio allows twice the volumatic sensitivity of other trackers making for smoother fading in of chords etc 8 4 12 Desc Editor Alt E The Description Editor allows the composer of the song to type long winded passages about their greatness with lots of room to greet everyone leave your address and if you re patient enough draw your own ASCII art The editor has line and word wrap which are useful text editing functions The word wrap works as in other text TA m editors where words wrap at the edge of the line but do not wrap back if text is deleted 8 4 13 Instrument Editor Instruments are basically a number of envelopes that Figure 23 effect the sample in many diffe
13. louder than 2 When you let go of the key the release point or in this case point 4 is triggered and depending upon the slope of the line it could take a long time to fade out or it could simply maintain a constant volume level until a note off command is triggered Panning Envelope In many ways the Panning Envelope are very similar to Volume but with different effects The default envelope shows many points 12 forming an inverse cone As it stands you would want to alter it from it s basic inception for a wiggling chord just doesn t sound right The envelope itself is constructed exactly the same as Volume but effects panning Therefore once you have some experience with the former Volume editing the panning positions should be a breeze Vibrato Envelope Exactly like the other envelopes in most respects slightly different due to the ability to choose four different wave forms that affect the vibrato of your instrument This is especially useful with samples such as clarinet s oboes and siner s you get the point Using one of the four predefined vibrato wave forms Sine Square Up Saw and Down Saw your sample can have vibrato as an integral function rather than using an effect within the track editor Also added to the envelope are the Vibrato Amplifier which has four levels ranging from 0 to 3 This effects how dramatic the vibrato will be for your sample Multi Sample Instruments When you acc
14. reverse track eject jump save and volume The center has the sample information with sample rate set at 16726 which can be set manually or according to a desired pitch To the bottom of this is the Peak indicator which shows the highest sampled amplitude To the bottom of that are the stereo left and right volume levels or the MONO volume level The right of the Sample box contains the options Scopes which turns the scopes on or 1 mm NOTE Scores T DM puse xil EQUALIZER STEREO 5 nt PERK o00 fo0R 4s BITS Wea UMP SAVE EN ai VOL de cy EGD INPUT SAMPLE CD SANPLE EHIT Figure 19 off Equalizer which again turns the equalizers on or off Stereo which determines if you are sampling in MONO or stereo mode 16 Bits which tells if you are sampling in 8 bit or 16 bit mode Line In Mic and CD Input determine the source of your recording material The very bottom buttons of the Sample box are Sample CD which you push when sampling something from your internal CD player Sample for all other sampling options and Exit to get back to the Sample Editor 8 4 6 Resample Resampling allows you to pitch shift the sample from one note to another 223 Velvet Studio User Manual 8 4 7 Volume Is that sample of yours too loud Too soft Whatever it may be you can use the Volume feature to change the level the sample takes from too loud to normal depending
15. 2Cxx Global volume 2Axy Global volumeslide 08xx Set PanPosition Usage 08 panpot This command will set the current channel pan position Example C 5 00 0805 Set the panpot to 3 62 Velvet Studio User Manual Use this table to work out the value from the panpot apo 7 Te 5 gt B To er E2 E hh 0 h 2 4 5 6 7 8 p p E 0 80 Break SampleLoop Usage 0E80 This command will set the volume to 00 if the sample has reached the end loop point at least once 10xx Sample Directional Control Usage 10 value value 00 02 This command controls which direction the sample is played in as well as the types of loops the sample can have bidirectional or unidirectional Value 00 Play sample forwards 01 Play sample backwards 02 Play w bidirectional loop only for looped samples Example C 5 00 1001 Play sample backwards 63 Velvet Studio User Manual 13xy Retrigger with Volume Slide Usage 13 volumeslide value tick volumeslide value 0 F tick 0 F This command is very similar to the 0E9x command except that it allows volume slides between the retrigs Example C 5 00 1343 Retrig note every 3 ticks with 4 volume between each retrig Use this table to work out the volumeslide value 0 0 volslide 8 0 No volslide 1 1 9 1 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 8 C 8 5 16 D 16 6 2 3 the orig vol E 3
16. INST AMS collection you must click upon nn the black user field adjacent to the MPATT AMS marker Then simply type the directory in which your modules are located For example AMS C SOUND MODULES AMS FATS Figure 8 10 Velvet Studio User Manual If you press the button to the left of the input field you ll automatically get the path that currently is active in the disk option Similarly configuring the sample directory ies involves clicking upon the Samp push button and following the same suite 5 5 Colors If you don t like the colors in Velvet Studio you may configure them as you like The Config Colors is a pretty self explanatory dialog with three drag bars for Red Blue and Green If you have tried any program containing color composing ingredients you should be familiar with this way of defining a specific color The push buttons in the left part of the dialog indicates which color you want to modify e g Background for changing the background color Surface for changing the surface color etc There is also an extra drag bar for some parts like Contrast for the surface and Shadow for the font on the surface The additional parameter gives you a greater control of the visual appearance of Velvet Studio and lets you define exactly how colors will behave when mixed together To fully understand each feature just try it and see how it works The Pre Def buttons are some predefined palettes that you may us
17. If the sample number is 00 then the current note will be played with the previously used instrument on that channel and with the same settings unless a new command overrides it To enter notes in the Edit Board or to simply play an instrument the computer keyboard can be used to simulate a real synthesizer keyboard The layout is built like a normal piano starting with the key Z as the lowest C tone Here is an explanation of the NOTE KEYS Normal synth keyboard Di FH B Computer keyboard S D G H J Z x B N M When pressing the V key you get the tone F for the key you get the halftone and so On You can also access a higher octave by using the following keys instead Computer keyboard high 2 3 5 6 7 Q W E R T Y U The other keys are not mentioned here like O or P work just like the keyboard continued to work as a synth so it s possible to reach even higher octaves by just playing on But as Velvet Studio has got ten octaves you cannot reach them all at the same time without switching between them If you use the mouse then you can increase the octave number by pressing it with the LMB and decrease it by using the RMB Otherwise you can use the keys F1 to decrease or F2 to increase the number Now to edit the current pattern you choose a sample instrument either by using the mouse and picking one from the instrument list in the upper right corner or using the keypad key shortcuts th
18. Quick Mark Channel Pattern Ctrl M Interpolate command data at marked channels Ctrl P Paste BlockBuffert To CursorPos Ctrl U Unmark Block Ctrl Y Change Inst in area to curr Inst Ctrl X Cut Marked block 14 5 Channel Commands Ctrl A Mute Lock Unmute current channel Ctrl Q Unmute all channels Ctrl S Solo channel Mute all except current channel 49 Velvet Studio User Manual 14 6 Transposing CAPS gt Plus keys below Sample Track __ Sample Pattern _ Sample Block 1 Note Up 2 Note Up 5 Note Up Note Down W Note Down T Note Down A Octave Up 5 Octave Up G Octave Up B Octave Down Z Octave Down X Octave Down All Pattern 4 Note Up R Note Down F Octave Up V Octave Down All Block 6 Note Up Y Note Down H Octave Up N Octave Down E Note Down D Octave Up C Octave Down 14 7 Selecting Samples On the numeric keyboard 0 Select Sample 0 st row Select Sample 1 4 2nd row Select Sample 5 8 3rd row Select Sample 9 C 4th row Select Sample D F Pressing a shift key simultaneous with above lt CAPS LOCK gt Sample 10 1F lt SHIFT gt Sample 20 2F lt CONTROL gt Sample 30 3F lt ALT gt Sample 40 4F 14 8 Menus amp Screen Blocks Alt C Config Screen Alt D Disk Option Alt E Description Editor Alt G Toggle Piano Alt H Help popup
19. an S beside it click on the instrument you want to shadow and shazam the Shadow appears Edit away to your hearts desire Depending upon memory available as many Shadow s may be created as you desire Toggle Zoom Alt Z Zooming in on a track allows you to view all of the effects at once Obviously zooming out shows only one effect the tone and the sample number Therefore zooming in shows the aforementioned along with the rest of the effects Velvet Studio allows you to have up to seven effects at work at one time 34 Velvet Studio User Manual 9 LEFT BLOCK FUNCTIONS The upper left corner has a bar of numbers indicating the current position pattern total song length speed SPD and beats per minute BPM of the current song 9 1 Pattern Info You can toggle the Left Block view from Pattern Info to Sample Info the difference being Pattern Info shows you the total number of channels commands rows patterns and the current sample and or instrument selected 9 2 Sample Info Sample Info shows you the specifics of each sample length repbeg repend C 4 rate fine tune panpot and volume These options are also found within the Sample Editor 9 3 Position Editor Position Editor allows you to edit the flow of the composition You can insert patterns anywhere you want while deleting ones that do not work for you Simply click on INS insert or DEL delete to well you know insert or delete a pattern You cl
20. and get out of the current option such as Disk Option or Instrument Editor Figure 10 7 1 Disk Option Alt D The Disk Option menu allows you to load and save various module formats sample formats patterns and instruments These are described in Appendix C 7 1 1 Selecting File Types When examining Figure 11 you will notice that to the bottom of the directory box are four push buttons Song Patt Inst and Samp These allow you to choose what you are MRRSSI RMS Marssi 4419 fF SANE MATERNAL AMS maternal F GNURT MIKROBII AMS Mikrobiitti Esperimental 5 PACH NOMOREFA AMNS No More Fantasy tonedeaf INANE RAIN ANS Rain symphony RAUTALAN ANS rautalangasta vi nnetty SEARCHIN AMS searching the perfect beat RENANE 2 5 Probe Target En DELETE SHITLOAD ANS Trance Venture 64 17 TRANSPIR AMS transpiration SHWE UNFNSHD AMS Aurora Wind Ironuire 344916 LOAD F RATT 5 INST Figure 11 looking to load or save Song allows you to load or save modules A list of module formats supported by Velvet Studio exists within the Appendix C Patt allows you to load or save individual Patterns Patterns are the essence of the module Inst allows you to load or save Instruments Instruments are explained in detail within the Instrument Editor section while another explanation exists in the Appendix Samp a
21. as the key is held down Whenever a key is released it will return to zero at the rate set by the release parameter Amplifier A device which increases the level of a signal Amplitude Amplitude is a term used to describe the amount of a signal It can relate to volume in an audio signal or the amount of voltage in an electrical signal Amplitude Modulation A change in the level of a signal For example if a Voltage Controlled Amplifier VCA were being modulated by a Low Frequency Oscillator LFO the result would be a periodic increase and decrease in the audio level of the signal In musical terms this would be referred to as Tremolo The abbreviation of Amplitude Modulation is AM Analog Data signal presented in a non digital continuous form Wave form Wave form that does not have a repeating pattern 41 Velvet Studio User Manual Attack The first parameter of an envelope generator which determines the rate or time it will take for the event to reach the highest level before starting to decay Audible Range The range of frequencies that the human ear can hear healthy young human can usually hear from 20 cycles per second to around 20 000 cycles per second 20 20 000 Hz less after prolonged exposure to Heavy Metal music or Opera Auto Correlation A process that determines optimum start and ending loop points to produce minimum discontinuity Binary Of or based on the number two or the binary numeration s
22. called as many times as the speed of the song The slower the song the more the panpot will be changed on each note 20xx KeyOff at Tick 65 Velvet Studio User Manual Usage 20 tick 00 FF This command will send a KeyOff event on a certain tick Example C 5 00 2003 Sends a KeyOff signal at tick 3 2 Set Global Volume Usage 2C global volume global volume 00 7F This command will set the current global volume where 7F 127 is the default and maximum volume Example C 5 00 2C20 Set global volume to 20 32 C 5 00 0C40 Play sample with volume of 40 64 but since global vol is set to 20 the real volume is 32 127 64 16 2Axy Global Volumeslide Usage 2A upspeed downspeed upspeed 0 F downspeed 0 F Example C 5 00 2A05 Slides the global volume down at speed 5 C 5 00 2A40 4 is the speed to slide the global vol up NOTE The slide will be called as many times as the speed of the song The slower the song the more the volume will be changed on each note 66 17 INDEX A ADD 24 Amiga 38 Apply an effect 24 Uc 16 10 1 11 9 29 BRM 38 BUG FIXES cce 40
23. can add and remove points in the envelope The result is shown in the black field to the right It s quite hard to edit an envelope with only the edit boxes and therefore you can click and drag on the dots that are connecting the curves together If you use the left mouse button only the selected point will be moved but if you instead press the right everything behind this point will also be affected 2 Velvet Studio User Manual To the right of the black edit field you ve got icons of different curves These are related to the selected point Below that there is an option Loop If you activate it you will notice two new lines in the edit field You can move these lines by changing in the edit boxes Loop start and Loop end There are also some arrow symbols with plus and minus sign This is a zoom function which hasn t any effect on the sound It s only there for simpler editing Preview and apply a new effect When you have edit and want to hear how it sounds the effect engine offers you a flexible preview function This function works the same way as multiple effects see Apply an effect earlier in the text The Apply function applies the effect directly without saving the effect in the list The effect engine is a complex function with which you can create almost any effect you want The default effects that are included in Velvet Studio are just a sample of what you can do with it The best way to learn how it works is
24. delay 1 20 ms and slightly modulating the delay of one or both of the sounds The term comes from the early days of tape recording when delay effects were created by grabbing the flanges of the tape reels to change the tape speed Frequency The number of cycles of a wave form occurring in a second Glissando A rapid slide through a series of consecutive tones in a scale like passage On the Emulator III arpeggiator when two notes are played with glissando on every note in between the two notes will be played in a sequential order Similar to portamento except that the pitch changes in semitone steps Hertz Hz A unit of frequency equal to 1 cycle per second Named after Heinrich R Hertz K Abbreviation for Kilo or 1000 Keyboard Assignment The assignment of specific sounds to an area of the keyboard For example the lowest octave could be drum sounds the next octave could be an electric bass the rest of the keyboard could have various piano samples assigned to it LMB Left Mouse Button Loading To transfer from one data storage medium to another This is generally from disk to RAM memory or vice versa as opposed to saving from RAM to disk Lock To prevent data from being edited discarded or renamed or to prevent entire banks or disks from being altered Looping 44 Velvet Studio User Manual Looping is the process of repeating a portion of a sample over and over in order to create a sustaining sound The l
25. idea behind a tracker is ease of use You don t have to know much of how music is build up using notes You maybe know what note you want to use and it ll be represented in an easy way e g C 4 which means note C on octave 4 There s also another big advantage You don t have to own expensive equipment your computer and sound card is all you need 1 4 The manual This manual will guide you through most functions in the program and it will describe the most interesting parts more thoroughly There are so many features everywhere that even we can t remember them all Our advice is to test it a lot especially the options in the configuration since there you can find plenty of interesting stuff 1 5 Statistics The program is written totally in assembler using Pmode W as DOS extender Jt contains over 100 000 rows of source code e The source code s file size is over 2 Megabytes Velvet Studio User Manual 2 INSTALLATION 2 1 DOS Installation The installation of Velvet Studio is very easy Put disk number one in your disk drive and type INSTALL at the command prompt or Each copy of Velvet Studio has an unique serial number that is connected to your name 5 you can be sure that your is personal Please enter your name and the serial number that we gave to you in the package when prompted You ll also have to answer a question concerning where you want the program to be installed If you are satisfied with the de
26. in a computer that stores data temporarily while you are working on it Data stored in RAM is lost forever when power is interrupted to the machine if it has not been saved to another medium such as floppy or hard disk RMB Right Mouse Button Sample Rate When digitally sampling a signal the rate at which level measurements of the signal are taken Sampling The process of recording a sound into digital memory Tremolo A cyclic change in amplitude usually in the range of 7 to 14 Hz Usually achieved by routing a LFO low frequency oscillator to a VCA voltage controlled amplifier Undo Cancels the results of the last operation Vibrato A cyclic change in pitch usually in the range of 7 to 14 Hz 46 Velvet Studio User Manual 14 APPENDIX B default key map 14 1 Surveying Current Song Shift ArrLeft Shift ArrRight Ctrl ArrLeft Ctrl ArrRight Alt ArrLeft Alt ArrRight Shift Arrup Shift ArrDn Ctrl Arrup Ctrl ArrDn Home End Arrows Tab Shift Tab PGUP PGDN CTRL PGUP CTRL PGDN ALT PGUP ALT PGDN Decrease Current Position Increase Current Position Decrease Current Instrument Increase Current Instrument Decrease Current Pattern Increase Current Pattern Fast Decrease row Fast Increase row Fastest Decrease row Fastest Increase row First press Go to first row Second press Go to first channel Go to last row Browse the pattern data Next Channel Prev Channel Jump 8 notes Up Jump 8 n
27. on your definition of it or too soft to too loud whatever sound level your looking for in the sample This feature is also handy for making bizarre wave forms say a chaotic string section where the volume goes about in random ways Mark an eighth of your sample and edit the volume so it is soft Then go to the next eighth and make it rip roaring loud and so on Of course you dont have to do this but it s fun if not musically wise 8 4 8 Effects Is your sample somewhat bland Want to spice it up a bit Their are a multitude of effects to apply to your work Chorus Crossfade Crowd Cucumber Echo Vibrato Time Invariation Strange Sounds Super Echo Slowdown Slow up and down Robots Pitch Curve Pitch Up Pitch Down Reverbs Reverse Flangers and variations of each one listed You also have the ability to make your own effects There are individual effects in the upper right box and multiple effects in the larger left box In each list you have the ability to edit new effects Apply an effect When you apply an effect to your sample you have the ability to preview what the sample will sound like in advance If you push the preview button with your left mouse button the effect engine will just preview a part of the sample but if you use the right mouse button it will calculate the whole sample You can also use the right mouse button to click direct on the effect name for a preview Create multiple effects You can combi
28. sine default C 5 00 OE44 Dont retrig WaveForm C 5 00 0 41 Set Ramp Down C 5 00 0 45 Dont retrig WaveForm C 5 00 OE42 Set Squarewave C 5 00 OE46 Dont retrig WaveForm 5 Set finetune Usage 0E5 finetune value finevalue 0 F Example 58 Velvet Studio User Manual 5 00 0 51 Set finetune to 1 Use these tables to figure out the finetune value 7 6 5 4 23 32 41 Value 7 5 4 3 2 1 Finetune 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 c 9 8 0 PatternLoop Usage 0E6 loopnumber loopnumber 0 F This command will loop a part of a pattern Example C 5 00 OE60 Set loopstart C 5 00 0 63 Jump to loop 3 times before playing on 0 7 Set tremolo wave form Usage 0E7 wavetype wavetype 0 2 Example C 5 00 0E70 Set sine default C 5 00 OE71 Set Ramp Down C 5 00 0E72 Set Squarewave 9 Retrig note Usage 0E9 tick 0 F This command will retrig the same note before playing the next Where to retrig depends on the speed of the song If you retrig with 1 in speed 6 that note will be trigged 6 times in one note slot Retrig on hi hats Example C 5 00 OF06 Set speed to 6 5 00 0 93 Retrig at tick 3 of 6 59 Velvet Studio User Manual OEAx Fine volumeslide up Usage value value 0 F This command works just like the normal volum
29. the short drag bar are Information To choose a specific Area click on it with the Left Mouse Button once The information within the fields Options Specifics Information will change accordingly To choose a parameter in Options click on it with the Left Mouse Button once The list of configurables within the Specific field will change accordingly as will the text within the Information field To choose a parameter in Specifics click on it with the Left Mouse Button once Velvet Studio will then respond to your choice either automatically or when you exit Options To find out more about the Options utilize the Information field s drag bar 5 3 Autosave After you finish configuring Velvet Studio to your liking you can save your preferences by clicking on the Config Save Config resource Or you can enable the auto save feature by clicking on the Config AutoSave Config resource From that point on any alteration to the configuration is saved automatically when exiting the program 5 4 Paths After configuring Velvet Studio in your best interests you will want to edit the path ways for your Song Module Inst Instrument Samp Sample and Patt Pattern directories To edit these you must click on the Configure Paths option within the Command Bar Config dialogue box As you will note from Figure 8 there are four push buttons to the left of the various Module types To 5010 configure the tracker to locate your
30. they differ depending on which sound card you have The different options are DMA Depending on if this is the playback DMA or Record Sample DMA select the correct value found in your sound card manual In playback DMA there s an option to turn off DMA use for the Gravis Ultrasound card Use this if no DMA works IRQ Check the sound card s manual for information This parameter 15 not required if you ve disabled the DMA BASEPORT Mostly this is set to 220h but can differ from different sound cards Again refer to your sound card manual CODEC Only GUS MAX This is the base port used by the CS4231 chip Check your Ultrasound manual 5 2 Options Activating the Config Options feature allows you to enter the dialogue box shown in Figure 7 There are three fields of information within the Options selector There are also a number of push button s each push button represents a section of options for example Desc Ed allows you to A iar uns configure the specifics of the Description Editor n Lir Figure 7 9 Velvet Studio User Manual Basically the Options dialogue can be thought of in a linear manner Area gt Options gt Specifics Information The push buttons located on the left of Figure 7 are Area the center field with the long drag bar are Options the right field with no drag bar are Specifics lastly the bottom field with
31. um The basic Velvet Studio instrument consists of one sample and one volume panning and vibrato envelope Volume Envelope Your sample can have its own attack and release velocities The generic model what you see when you first enter Instrument Edit mode consists of four linear points 1 representing attack 2 representing decay 3 positional of sustain and 4 positional of release You can adjust the points on the envelopes by clicking and dragging them around in the envelope box Dragging them with the LMB will only affect the current point while dragging them with the RMB will drag the entire end of the envelope This is useful if you have created an end of the envelope that you want to keep but you want to change the beginning Time To add or delete a point press the Up Down buttons on the Points field respectively Pressing Up will add a point at exactly halfway between the current point and the next point and pressing Down will delete the current point Value indicates the strength of the point on a scale of 00h to 07Fh Time can be thought of as the amount of time between each point Time is directly reliant upon Envelope Speed which determines the scale time goes forward LE faster or slower A value of zero will cause the current song BPM to be used instead which will make the envelope song speed dependent You can fine tune each point value by selecting the point and 2215 V
32. 2 the orig vol 7 1 2 the orig vol F 2 the orig vol 1Cxx Set Channel Mastervolume Usage 1C new channel volume new channel volume 00 7F This command will set the current channel volume where 7F 127 is the default and maximum volume Example C 5 00 1C20 Set channel volume to 20 32 C 5 00 0C40 Play sample with volume of 40 64 but since channel vol is set to 20 the real volume is 32 127 64 16 1Dxx Long Patternbreak Usage 1D pattern position pattern position 00 FF 64 Velvet Studio User Manual This command just jumps to the next song position and continues play from the patternposition you specify Note that it is very similar to the ODxx command except that it uses hexadecimal values so that patterns over 64 rows long can be accommodated Example C 5 00 1D80 Jump to the next song position and continue play from patternposition 80 128 1F0x Set BPM Decimal Value Usage 1F0 bpm value bpm value 50 99 This command sets the 1 10th fine BPM value the value after the decimal point Example C 5 00 82 Sets the tempo to 128 BPM C 5 00 1F07 Sets the tempo to 128 7 BPM 18xy Slide Panposition Usage 18 left speed right speed left speed 0 F right speed 0 This command will slide the current channel panning position to either the left or the right Example C 5 00 1805 Slides the panpot to the right by 5 NOTE The slide will be
33. 3 Editing a pattern The Edit Board is the big thing on the lower part of the screen filled with digits and characters provided that you ve loaded a demonstration module This Edit Board displays the NOTE data and the COMMANDS that the song consists of A song contains notes and commands fitted together in PATTERNS These patterns are then accessed in a special order as written in the POSITION LIST The musical notes from C to B are represented by the same letter and an octave number like for example C 3 E 2 or G 5 A single channel in a pattern can look like this 00 E 4 010000 01 000000 02 A 4 010209 03 D 5 010103 When this channel is played Velvet Studio will first play the tone E at the fourth octave then tone A also at the fourth octave and at last note D at the fifth octave The first two digits contains the instrument number the following two the command number and the last two digits are the command input data The different commands will be described further down If you didn t understand that have a look at this 02 A 2 010209 L 9 This is the command input 02 This is the command slide down 01 This is the instrument number A 2 This is the note and the octave 02 This is the position in the pattern 18 Velvet Studio User Manual If the command is 00 and the command input is 00 then the tone is played without any special effect just like it was sampled at the correct note and octave
34. 5 9 1 E Re ERE er bre ee hts 35 9 2 SSAMPLE INFOS 35 9 3 POSITION EDITOR perhe eee ee eet ite reete ot tee t icy 35 10 THE BLOCK OF COMMANDS ceres ee eere etta eee e 36 10 1 SPLIT KBD SPLIT enne enne enne enne 36 10 2 CLEAR au tnde ron Hg ho E ten uii hee EE Rupee 36 10 3 OPM E o Ioni 36 10 4 ECHO EDITOR 1 raie eS 36 10 5 coos elk ntm 37 10 6 UNDO 22252483 eerie eth e eei ee eb eti sert deer 37 10 7 PIANO E D ad EE Ig ae ete 37 10 8 PLAY SONG RIGHT CTRL eisen i er e e er ee ka eas 37 10 9 PLAY PATT PLAY PATTERN RIGHT 38 10 10 REC SONG RECORD SONG RIGHT SHIFT sese 38 10 11 REC PATT RECORD PATTERN SHIFT 38 1012 STOP eee teer ee e etra pipe rH 38 10 13 EBDIT SPAGEBAR 3 38 10 14 EQUALIZER 0 38 10 15 SONG SPECIFIC 5 5 38 11 CLEAR SECTION eite esee 12 BUGFIXES 13 APPENDIX A GLOSSARY 14 APPENDIX B DEFAULT KEY MAP 14 1 SURVEYING CURRENT SONG 14 2 PLAYING AND RECORDING CURRENT SONG 14 3 PATTERN EDITING
35. C CD Input ERAS 23 2 23 channel n Ree nS 18 Channels Rer 12 ott E 36 CLEAR SECTION 39 CNVRT init iecore 15 CODEC Ande 9 11 18 command 5 Command 8 13 Command Reference 53 2 12 9 Configure Sound Card 9 Contr ast 5 ree 11 DG 28 Delay iate eie 25 Desc 30 Disclaimer 1 Disk Option 14 67 Velvet Studio User Manual DMA 9 DOS 3 DOS Shellz zu ette ES 17 Drag Bars nene me 8 lcm E 22 E Echo 27 Echo Editor 36 Edita te nti 38 20 Editing a 18 effect 25 Effect envelopes 27 Bfiectszincc Renee 24 Equalizer eee 17 38 Equalizer Editor ss 17 Exit 0404 2 2 1 17 F fadeout EEG 32 Fasttracker 2 11 Feed Back 2 27 File Formats eR 52 Fix
36. Figure 3 Te Velvet Studio User Manual both mouse buttons increases or decreases the number at the fastest speed Velvet Studio incorporates Drag Bars which dramatically speed the process of combing through a field of information In Figure 4 we see two vertical drag bars The function behind the drag bars in our example are explained in the Pattern Editor section Above and below each drag bar are arrow buttons one pointing up and the other down With your mouse you may position the pointer over one of the two arrows depending on which direction you wish to go and click with the Left Mouse Button This increments or decrements the data within the field at a slow rate Clicking with the Right Mouse Button scrolls through the data within the field at a medium rate Clicking with both the Left AND Right Mouse Button scrolls through the field at the fastest speed The drag bars also allow you to grab the bar with your mouse to scroll through the field this can be accomplished by positioning your pointer on the slide bar and holding the Left Mouse Button while you drag the bar up or down the slide When you reach the point within the field you wish simply release the mouse button Figure 4 Although the Command Bar resides on the top of our screen as we shall see later most features allow you to access internal options simply by clicking on the box shown in Figure 5 This box is located in the upper left hand corner of each feat
37. T GANGEL Figure 20 Create single effects Itis also possible to create your own effects Simply press the new button in the upper left corner and another screen will be shown The whole effect engine in built up of different voices A voice is simply a copy of the sample but this copy can be modified in many different ways the different voices can also be mixed together so that you can hear all of them at the same time This may seem to be a little bit hard to understand but when you have worked with the effect editor for a while it s quite logical Each voice can be modified in four different ways Delay Pitch Volume and Time compress The delay is the same thing as it sounds You can decide in micro seconds for how long the delay of the voice should be The Pitch function is a little bit more complex This function changes the frequency of the voice In the Time comp real pitch part you can choose whether you want the pitch to be time invariant or not When the time 25 Velvet Studio User Manual invariant option I selected you can change the frequency of the sample but the sample will remain the playing time The volume function simply changes the volume of the sample and time compress is the opposite to real pitch It changes the playing time but keeps the same frequen
38. Velvet Studio User Manual Velvet Studio version 1 1 Programmed by Patrik Oscarsson and David Broman Documentation User Manual Version 2 0 rev 1 Written by Peter A Kudenov Additional text Pontus Munck David Broman and Patrik Oscarsson Quality Assurance by Marcus Nilsson Velvet Studio is a Copyright owned by Velvet Development 1994 1998 rights reserved Note This is the PDF version of the manual and the manual protection section is left out New features in Version 2 x of Velvet Studio are not included in this manual Also note that the format of this file is A5 Velvet Studio User Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ois scssssssessscsssseasssssessasnsecsssvesaencseesscdisscts soasveaecesosesssbisessosstassoeses 1 Ll DISCLAIMER ease us 1 12 BACKGROUND eeeeeree nenne 1 1 3 WHATIS A TRACKER 2 1 4 THEM ANUALE tetti tre eye ee Velo eei ear eG 2 L5 STATISTICS II GUN 2 2 INSTALLATION et oa ee 3 2 1 DOS INSTALLATION 3 2 22 WINDOWS 3 1 INSTALLATION 0ccc0ccsceseseseseseseseceseseceseseseresesesesereseseserereeerens 3 2 3 WINDOWS 95 INSTALLATION cceeeeeeeeneneee 3 3 5
39. at are explained in the appropriate chapter If you press some keys on the keyboard you can hear the instrument sound in your speakers Now press the EDIT gadget or the spacebar key for a shortcut Now if the screen border changed colors you entered the Edit Mode In this mode you can enter notes into the pattern data in any channel you like You can move around in the pattern by using the arrows keys or by clicking with the mouse anywhere in the data and the cursor will automatically move to the desired position Try pressing some of the note keys and study how the pattern is filled with note data If you press the PLAY PATT gadget you can listen to what you just composed By pressing the STOP gadget the playing will stop The EDIT gadget will do the same and at the same time take you into the Edit Mode 19 Velvet Studio User Manual Now in Edit Mode move the cursor to the digits to the right of the notes Leave the sample number intact but try command 01 with input 20 This command is called Note Slide Up and with speed 20 things will sound pretty weird If you didnt really understand it try to make the line look like this 00 C 5 xx0120 Speed is 20 Command is 01 which is Note Slide Up Dont change this because it s the sample number C 5 is mostly the normal sample frequency This is only the position and cant be edited Now play this again and listen to the difference Hopefully you heard how weird it sounded
40. at around 2 3 of the original volume The Rate field along with the other decay field represents how fast you wish to make the echo fade out This affects the initial echo and not the original volume the decay field is the percentage of the last volume echoed and the rate field is the number of rows plus one on which the echo will take place So for example if you have a rate of 1 and a decay of 33 the tracker will re echo every 2 rows and that re echo will have a third of the last echo s volume You can also save and restore echoes you ve made by pressing the right mouse button on the digits to save the current echo settings in that slot and pressing the left mouse button to restore them The echoes are saved in the configuration file If the Wrap button is pressed the echo engine will wrap the echo to the beginning of the pattern if it goes beyond the end of it 10 5 Info Shows what type of Sound card you are using in the case of Gravis UltraSound users total GUS memory total free GUS memory and how much GUS memory is being used Info also shows how much XMS memory you have how much is free and the amount of XMS presently being utilized If you a Registered User your Serial Number shows up 10 6 Undo didnt mean to do that Thankfully there s the calcium enriched flavor of Undo to fix your problem It costs your heart absolutely nothing and might save you money Use Undo today 10 7 Piano Alt G The Piano b
41. box 12 Press OKAY until you see the desktop again Now you can run Velvet Studio from Windows 95 After exiting the program you may have to type exit at the DOS prompt to return to Windows 95 Velvet Studio User Manual 3 GETTING STARTED If you ve never used a tracker before read this chapter because here we will describe the basics in the program 3 1 Loading a song Assuming you have installed the program described above we will now guide you through the program and we will start loading a song When you have started the program you ll see the main screen In the top of the screen you see the command bar Move the mouse to the part that reads upper block and press left mouse button There you ll see some different menu choices Select the Disk option and see how a part of the screen changes to a file requester In the lower part of that screen you see different buttons Unless the SONG button is pressed press it using left mouse button If you have installed everything correct you ll now see the example songs that are included in the program Double click on any of the filenames and soon the song is loaded You ll see that some parts of the screen gets some data the song 3 2 Playing a song Assuming you have followed the above steps you are now ready to start the song You do that by pressing the right CTRL key on your keyboard If everything went fine you should now hear some music through your speakers If no soun
42. came more and more advanced People got interested in the product and we felt that we had to create something good After one and a half year we were almost finished with the program and we started thinking of how we should release it We didn t want to release it for free because we have spent uncountable hours creating the program so we decided to make it shareware We wanted to have a printed manual in the package so we asked one of our bugtesters to write it Unfortunately he got sick and we lost the contact when the manual was almost finished We became desperate Who could write a manual for us now Lucky enough we had 1 Velvet Studio User Manual another bugtester that was willing to write the manual for us and two months later we finally got it from him rewritten from scratch since the other bugtester never gave us any text And you now see the final result in your hands 1 3 What is a tracker A tracker is a music program based on digital reproduction of analogue sounds i e samples That means that you can sample convert from analogue to digital any sound you like and use it in the song Mostly you sample e g a bass drum and a snare drum to create the drum rhythm in your song and not long drum loops a sequence of drums sampled from an existing song since they consume a vast amount of memory This idea differs a lot from a MIDI program since they most often use pre sampled sounds that comes from different synthesizers The
43. cy Effect Edit Effect Name Chorus 2 voices 3hn down Total Voices 00002 Snooth Voice Break F No Snooth Tine Variant Tine Invariant IG related sanp Arter delay Fined length End voice fir amp er pitch Snoobh length 5 volune rime INVAR 160 Voice Nr 00000 Aly g Value 80 08nn V a g DESP delay Master pitch Master volume C Nr Voice repeat Feed bach Direction Pitch env 1 Eiiine_conp Real piechi Stankorreet 000 00 Point 00000 Nr of Tine 008 0005 4 Value 000 0005 EN LoopStart Loopend APPLY PREVIEW ORAYA CANCEL Figure 21 Top part In the top of the screen you can write in a name of the effect Below that there is a gadget where you can change the number of total voices This is how many voices you would like to hear at the same time Smooth part Then you have a part which is called smooth You should use this function to improve the sound quality when you use real pitch or time compress Otherwise this function should be turned off Voice break part The part named voice break is used to determine the size of the calculated sample There are two different ways to break the sample time va
44. d is heard check the cables and your amplifier If that don t help check if any other program produces sound You might need to configure your sound card if everything else fails Check the configuration section later in this manual To stop the playing of the song press SPACE 3 3 Composing your own song After you ve loaded a song you can use the instruments in it to create your own song If you are still in the disk option block change to the main screen via the upper block choice in the command bar Now press CLEAR in the middle of the screen and clear the song Now you can use the instruments that the composer have used in his music piece to create your own song If you press SPACE one more time the border around the screen will change and that means that you have entered the edit mode Now when you are in that mode you are able to edit the pattern Pressing the key on the keyboard will insert the note C 5 in the pattern Pressing other keys will insert other notes experiment Depending on which instrument that is selected in the upper right part of the screen you ll hear different sounds To the left of the instrument name is a small dot on those instrument slots that have usable sounds the others are just empty space To select an instrument use the mouse and click on any name using the left mouse button You can Velvet Studio User Manual test your song any time by pressing right CTRL key and stop the playback
45. e if you just want some changes in the colors but haven t the wits to do it yourself Just press one of the buttons and you will see the entire palette change instantly 5 6 Keymap If you want you may redefine the keys used as shortcuts in Velvet Studio Config Key map has push buttons at the leftmost of the dialog that tells you for which part you are configuring the keys In the list box all different shortcut possibilities are listed along with the currently selected key If you want to change a key just press the right line in the list box and then press the key If it isn t used for any other option it will be inserted in the list box as the new shortcut key At the bottom of the dialog there are three buttons for predefined keysets They are Velvet Studio default VS Screamtracker 3 S3M and Fasttracker 2 FT2 If you are more familiar with their key sets you will probably want to use them instead 5 7 Pattern defaults In this configuration dialog you can specify the default parameters used when creating new pattern in your song Velvet Studio User Manual Rows The number of rows you want Channels The number of channels you want Commands The number of commands you want for each note Notice that these are only default values Velvet Studio uses a sophisticated dynamic allocation technique for handling of the channels rows and commands so you can change them anytime anywhere in the song Each unique pat
46. e is tight enabling this function can dramatically decrease your files size This process takes slightly longer than a conventional save Name does not directly play a role in the save process Auto enables a function that gets the save name from what is found in the NAME user field for Modules found in the Main Screen This means that if your song s name is Powers that Be youll most commonly see within the file names user field Powersth in the case of saving a module 7 1 4 Renaming a File To rename a file you select the file you want to rename and click on the Rename button Then simply type in the new name within the user field 7 2 Toggle Piano Alt G Toggling the Piano paints a keyboard you can trigger with your mouse You can change which octave range the keyboard responds to by piano Hi or Lo This feature is handy for recognizing the corresponding key on a keyboard the current note in the current track are corresponding to Figure 13 16 Velvet Studio User Manual 7 3 Toggle Equalizer Alt Q Toggling the Equalizer allows you to view the activity on all B 2 3 5 5 7 8 18 11 i 45 your tracks like a volume indicator or VU Meter By examining Figure 14 it is obvious that the numbers that are arrayed across the top of the Equalizer indicate specific tracks Figure 14 In our example track 4 is Struck as designated with a large X You can
47. e song Range 00 Stop song Range 01 Set speed Range 20 FF Set BPM speeds range 32 255 16 3 Finer Protracker Commands 11 Extra Fine Slide Up 4 times finer than normal 12xx Extra Fine Slide Down 4times finer than normal 15 Just Like 5 but with 2 times finer volslide 16xx Just Like 6 but with 2 times finer volslide 1 2 times finer volslide than A 1E1x Just like E1 but this uses all octaves 1 2 Just like E2 but this uses all octaves 61 Velvet Studio User Manual 1 2 times Finer volslide than EA EBx 2 times Finer volslide than EB 21xx Just like 1 but this uses all octaves 22xx Just like 2 but this uses all octaves Notes Finer Protracker Commands are exactly that finer more precise For the most part full blown explanations are not necessary Imagine using portamento down 02xx now imagine using fineslide down 0e2x they are implemented the same Now with extra fine slide down 12xx you implement the pitch bend in exactly the same way but the command itself is four times as fine as is typically encountered 16 4 New Commands 08xx Set panposition 0 80 Break sampleloop 10 Direction control 13xy Retrigger w volume slide 1 Channel mastervolume 1Dxx Long pattern break 1FOx Set decimal BPM value 18xy Slide panposition 20xx Keyoff at tick 23xx Volume Envelope Jump 24xx Panning Envelope Jump 25xx Vibrato Envelope Jump
48. een Delay envelope Pitch envelope Volume envelope and Time compress Real pitch To the right of these buttons you have three other functions Voice repeat is what it sounds like When a voice have reached the end of the sample it starts from the beginning again The Feed back function is a little bit more abstract You should use this function when you create different echoes so that the effect gets a little bit richer sound Bwd Direction simply makes the voice to go backwards instead In the Voice start offset you can type in where you want the voice to start If you for example enter 100 the voice will start at the end By also selecting Direction you have created a voice which will play a sound backwards Effect envelopes The three envelopes Delay Pitch and Volume look almost the same With an envelope you can change the behavior of the effect exactly as you want These envelopes are all time variant which means that you edit everything in micro seconds Therefore it s very important that the sample rate in the sample editor is entered correctly The whole effect engine is based on that frequency In the left part of the effect envelope editor you can see six different edit boxes They are the same for all three envelopes except for the value box For delay it s in microseconds for volume it s percent and for pitch it s a unit called hf which stands for half notes With edit box of pt you
49. elvet Studio User Manual modifying the fields directly Pretty much it takes time to gain experience with crafting a useful envelope so practice Your songs will sound better with properly constructed instruments The top On button to the right of the envelope box toggles whether the envelope is active or not You can also sustain a point until a KeyOff is reached in the pattern 1 the envelope will stop at a specified point and not advance any further until a KeyOff is encountered To activate Sustain select the point which the envelope should halt at in the Sustain field and press the On button to make this active You can also specify a part of the envelope which should be looped to do this select the points of the envelope which represent the start and end of the loop and press the On button next to the Start Loop field If the B button located beneath the field is activated the tracker will Break out of the loop when a KeyOff is encountered The type of curve which a point can produce to the next point can also be changed The default curve is a line curve but a positive and negative parabolic curve to the next point can also be used instead Press the appropriate curve beneath the Curve button to change it There are pre defined envelopes available for your use Click on one of the Pre defined buttons to choose them Often used envelopes can be temporarily saved by pressing a User defined button with the right mouse b
50. eslide up except that it only slides up once It does not continue sliding during the length of the note Example C 5 00 0 Slide volume up 1 at the beginning of the note OEBx Fine volumeslide down Usage value value 0 F This command works just like the normal volumeslide down except that it only slides down once It does not continue sliding during the length of the note Example C 5 00 OEB6 Slide volume down 6 at the beginning of the note Cut note Usage tick 0 F This command will cut the note at the selected tick creating extremely short notes Example C 5 00 OF06 Set speed to 6 C 5 00 OEC3 Cut at tick 3 out of 6 Note that the note is not really cut the volume is just turned down OEDx Delay note Usage 0ED tick tick 0 F This command will delay the note to the selected tick 60 Velvet Studio User Manual Example C 5 00 OF06 Set speed to 6 C 5 00 OED3 Play note at tick 3 out of 6 You can play the same note on two channels delay one and get a nice flanging effect 0 Pattern Delay Usage notes note 0 This command will delay the pattern the selected numbers of notes Example C 5 00 OEE8 Delay pattern 8 notes before playing on other effects are still active when the pattern is being delayed OFxx Set speed Usage 0F songspeed songspeed 00 FF This command will set the speed of th
51. ess the Instrument Edit mode it allows you to load up to sixteen samples into a matrix of sorts you access each sample by assigning a key within the HI or LO octaves the large piano located directly above the Instrument Editor Simply find the tone you want to assign the instrument to Example A drum set using sixteen samples 33 Velvet Studio User Manual the eighth being the DistKick you drag your mouse cursor to the key you feel comfortable with in this case and click on that key until the number 8 appears It s really fairly simple Now when you select the instrument every time you trigger G HI octaves G 4 the DistKick will play You can select the tone the drum is triggered at by choosing the semitone you prefer in the Rel Note box Shadow Instruments An interesting innovation Velvet Studio incorporates are Shadow Instruments The samples are totally unchanged as found in a Multi Sample Instrument but the envelopes and pitch rates can be completely different In other words a shadow instrument uses the sample from another instrument thus taking nearly no space at all of your memory As quoted from the online help text within Velvet Studio This is extremely useful if you have limited sample memory such as if you are restricted by a memory based sound card Make sure you have an Instrument slot open for the new Shadow click on the Shad button located beneath the sample listing your pointer will have
52. fault path C VS just press the OKAY button Velvet Studio also has a manual protection which is built up with different symbols The installation will check your hardware so that you cannot copy the installed program to another computer Illegal copying of the program is strictly forbidden 2 2 Windows 3 1 Installation Velvet studio is not designed to run with Windows 3 1 so you have to run the installation from DOS NOT a DOS prompt 2 3 Windows 95 Installation Running the program under Windows 95 is not tested very much but you might get it working To install Velvet Studio for Windows 95 do the following 1 If you are running Windows 95 Please Restart your computer in DOS mode using the START button and select SHUT DOWN Restart the computer in MS DOS mode 2 Follow the steps in the section DOS Install 3 Restart your computer to load Windows 95 To start Velvet Studio from Windows 95 follow these steps Start up your computer and start Windows 95 Click with your right mouse button on the desktop Select NEW gt SHORTCUT Browse to the directory where you installed Velvet Studio Press Next Type an appropriate name and press next Select an icon for Velvet Studio DI ON 9 Velvet Studio User Manual 8 Now when you see the icon on the desktop press your right mouse button on the icon and select PROPERTIES 9 Select the PROGRAM tab 10 Press the advanced button 11 Check the MS DOS mode check
53. ick on the second row of numbers underneath the title Pattern to edit in which pattern the insert is 35 Velvet Studio User Manual 10 THE BLOCK OF COMMANDS This allows you to split the keyboard or range of notes PLAY PATI over different Zones Each Zone can use a different UPTIMIZE SUNG sample and be set at it s own semitone This feature is PATT especially useful for those composers who love to use those Zen Waves to death or for drum kits sound effect kits etc Pressing the button Active turns the Split Keyboard on Like a light switch press the button again and it turns it off Figure 25 EQUALIZER 10 2 Clear What do you want to clear Song Instrument or All everything 10 3 Optimize Optimize is actually quite useful it removes or compresses the unused samples channels patterns and instruments freeing up memory and making the file size of the final product your song smaller You can remove unused channels remove or compress unused commands remove or compress unused patterns and remove or compress unused instruments You can choose to have the optimization only affect the current pattern you are working on or the entire song Be sure that you save your work before optimizing You might optimize away something you regret 10 4 Echo Editor You can add a level of echo to your song by utilizing the Echo Editor Instead of the tedious work of manually inserting
54. ine volumeslide down Note cut OEDx Note delay OEEx Pattern delay OFxx Set speed 53 Velvet Studio User Manual 00xx Arpeggio Usage 00 1st halfnote add 2nd halfnote add halfnote add 0 F Arpeggio is used to simulate chords This is done by rapidly changing the pitch between 3 or 2 different notes It sounds very noisy and grainy on most samples but OK on monotone ones Example C 5 00 0047 C major chord 4 7 halfnotes C 5 00 0037 C minor chord C D G or C 3 7 halfnotes 01xx Portamento Up Usage 01 portamento speed portamento speed 00 FF Portamento up will simply slide the sample pitch up You can NOT slide higher than B 3 Example C 5 00 0103 1 15 the command 3 is the portamentospeed NOTE The portamento will be called as many times as the speed of the song This means that youll sometimes have trouble sliding accurately If you change the speed without changing the slide rates it will sound bad 02xx Portamento Down Usage 02 portamento speed portamento speed 00 FF Just like command 1 except that this one slides the pitch down instead Adds to the period You can NOT slide lower than C 1 Example C 5 00 0203 2 is the command 3 is the portamentospeed 03xx Tone portamento Usage Dest note 03 slidespeed slidespeed 00 FF 54 Velvet Studio User Manual This command will automatically slide from the old note to the new
55. ker Module Multitracker Module Ed ULT Ultratracker Module 15 3 Instruments AIS Advanced Instrument System Velvet Studio XI Extended instrument FastTracker 2 PAT Gravis UltraSound patch PatchMaker 15 4 Samples ASE Advanced Sample System Velvet Studio SMP Raw sample format FastTracker Velvet Studio S3I ScreamTracker III instrument ScreamTracker III Advanced DigiPlayer AIFF sample FastTracker 2 Microsoft RIFF wave sample CoolEdit 15 5 Pattern Data APS Advanced Pattern System Velvet Studio ACS Advanced Clip System Velvet Studio Extended Track Fast Tracker 2 52 Velvet Studio User Manual 16 APPENDIX D Command Reference 16 1 Overview Velvet Studio has many different commands to use with your tracks There are three types Protracker Finer Protracker and New commands 16 2 Protracker Commands 00 Arpeggio 01 Portamento up 02 Portamento down 03 Tone portamento 04 Vibrato 05 Portamento volumeslide 06 Vibrato volumeslide 07xy Tremolo 09 Sampleoffset OAxy Volumeslide OBxx Jump position Set volume ODxx Break pattern OEyx Extended commands 1 Fineslide up OE2x Fineslide down OE3x Glissando control Set vibrato wave form 5 Set finetune Patternloop OE7x Set tremolo wave form 9 Retrigger OEAx Fine volumeslide up OEBx F
56. llows you to load or save Samples the sounds you hear while playing a module 4 Velvet Studio User Manual After pressing one of the four push buttons a number of various file format selections become available You will note that in Figure 11 the Song button is pushed and various module formats are arrayed to the immediate right in the form of larger push buttons In our example we would click on the ULT button to look for UltraTracker modules Velvet Studio will then reference the path way configuration and if a directory is specified for the ULT file format under the Song directory look to the previous chapter Figure 7 for more information the file selections displayed in the large dialogue box will change Tip If you press the right mouse button when selecting a file type you will remain in the current directory and set it as a temporary default for the file type It will not be saved in the config file unless you specify it See the Configuration section for more information 7 1 2 Loading Files To load a file click on a filename within the current directory it s contents are shown to the left of the drag bar featured in Figure 11 and press the Load button You can also click twice double click with the Left Mouse Button upon the selection you want The file you just loaded will be high lighted by in the default color scheme a white bar Above the Rename button in Figure 12 are five smaller push butto
57. ne many single effects to one multiple effect This is very useful if you want a more powerful effect Choose the different effects in the effect list and press ADD MULTI or just double click on the names The effects that you have chosen are shown in the list box If you want to save it as a multi effect press the SAVE TO LIST button When you have created some different multiple effects that you are pleased with press the SAVE TO DISK button 24 Velvet Studio User Manual ERREGTS ERREGTS Chorus Echo nr 2 voices ghn up voices dhn down j voices 6hn down voices up voices up Chorus 2 Chorus 2 Chorus 2 voices down voices dhn up dn Chorus 2 voices up voices 6hn up dn Chorus voices up dn voices 6 3hn Chorus 3 voices 6hn up dn Crossfade Chorus 5 voices 6 3hn Crowd Crossfade Cucumber Crowd Echo 1 rate 0 055 Cucumber Echo 1 rate 8 185 Echo Vibrato nr 1 Echo rate 0 055 TEST DEL Echo 8 185 ADD Echo rate 0 205 LIST Echo 0 305 Echo 8 185 Echo rate 0 205 Echo 8 255 Echo 8 385 Echo 0 055 Echo raLe 8 185 Echo 8 155 Echo 0 205 Echo 8 255 Echo 0 305 Echo rate 0 355 BRUE LIST DEL Echo rate 0 05 Echo 0 055 rate 8 185 SAVE TO DISK DEL RENANE ORA
58. nk note at cursorposition and move the others down Notes beyond pattern position 63 will be lost Delete note above cursor position and move the others up You can not do this if you re at pattern position 0 As above but with pattern As above but with pattern Push cmds one down Drag cmds one up Store current command on selected key Insert all commands in current track Insert one command in current track Copy all commands above cursor to current row Copy all commands above cursor to current row and add one to the value Copy all commands above cursor to current row and subract one from the value Copy command above cursor to current row Copy command above cursor to current row and add one to the value Copy command above cursor to current row and subract one from the value Halve C4 Rate 48 Velvet Studio User Manual CAPS Double C4 Rate ALT U Undo Exchanges Pattern with the stored Undo Buffer This will NOT undo small changes in the pattern ALT B Backup Pattern to Undo buffer 14 4 Block Marking Commands CAPS ARROWS Mark a block also with Mouse CAPS PGUP Mark a block CAPS PGDN Mark a block CAPS HOME Mark a block CAPS END Mark a block Caps F6 F10 Mark to stored row Ctrl B Mark Block Begin PT compatible Ctrl C Copy Marked Block Ctrl D Delete block drag notes up Ctr F Quick Mark a block Ctrl I Insert block push notes down Ctrl J Join Paste Block Mix Ctrl L
59. ns 22 Sample Editor 21 Sample 35 Sample view functions 22 SAVE 24 TO LIST eene 24 Savine Files ed sees 15 Scale eei eet 32 SCOPES isi ieee eRPT 23 Screamtracker 3 11 ScreamTracker Pattern 18 Shadow sse 11 Shadow Instruments 34 Smooth cesare 26 SONG ie seen 10 14 Song Specific Settings 38 SLOP set db e 38 STOP uelk Ie S 20 Surface cene es 11 THE BLOCK OF COMMANDS 36 Time compress 25 time 26 time 26 tacker eec eR 2 Tune Fork 21 U Upper Block 14 User eR 8 W Wave 21 Vibrato Envelope 33 Windows 3 1 Installation 3 Windows 95 Installation 3 VOICE toe 25 Voice break 26 Voice 27 Voice start 27 Voluit ce rever 24 25 Volume Envelope 31 7 Zero SR eR Ame 23 34 69 Velvet Studio User Manual
60. ns For Loading purposes the CNVRT button should be pushed if you want Amiga Samples to be automatically converted to PC format Loop while activated will try to recognize the looping points in RAW samples Pack plays no significant role in the loading of files Figure 12 Name allows you to see the file s header in the directory list You will most certainly want to enable this function Basically this allows you to look at an extended name for the file The head of a file are typically the first few bytes these bytes are filtered through our tracker s file system and names such as The Fires Fury AN95 appear Much easier than 95 71 3 Saving Files To save a file enter a file name within the user field located directly above the large dialogue box It does not matter if you clear the text within the field your file will be saved in the default directory for it s type Click on the Save button and your work is 15 Velvet Studio User Manual saved If you press once on any other file in the directory that filename will appear in the field and you can use that name when saving CNVRT Convert plays no role in the save process Loop plays no role in the save process Pack will compress your file using the compression method internal to Velvet Studio There is an option within the tracker s configuration which chooses the compression method currently however there are only one available If disk spac
61. ooped sound will continue as long as the key is depressed A sound is usually looped during a point in its evolution where the harmonics and amplitude are relatively static in order to avoid pops and glitches in the sound Low Note Priority When more than one note is played on a monophonic synthesizer only the lowest note will sound M Abbreviation for Mega or million Memory The part of a computer responsible for storing data Merge To combine or unite To Merge means to combine sequences sounds tracks MIDI data etc Monophonic A musical instrument that is only capable of playing one note at a time Music with only one voice part Normalize A digital processing function that increases the amplitude of a sound file until the peak amplitude of its loudest sample reaches 100 of full scale Panning To move an audio signal from one output to the other Panning a sound between two speakers changes the apparent position of the sound Paste To put a copy of the contents of the clipboard whatever was last copied or cut in at the specified insertion point Patch Referring to a particular sound created on a synthesizer Comes from the use of patch cords on the original modular synthesizers Polyphonic 45 Velvet Studio User Manual A musical instrument that is able to play more than one note at the same time Music with more than one voice part RAM Acronym for Random Access Memory The memory in a computer
62. or other parties provide the program as is without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you Should the program prove defective you assume the cost of all necessary servicing repair or correction In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing will any copyright holder or any other party who may redistribute the program as permitted above be liable to you for damages including any general special incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the program to operate with any other programs even if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages 1 2 Background Why did we ever start making such a big project Well we had a very good music system back in 1994 that have been developed by Patrik Oscarsson since 1992 We wanted to do something creative with it and when we started coding there were no good trackers around That seemed to be a good starting point and our goal was not set very high in the beginning Time passed and our bugtesters gave us plenty of ideas that one can implement in a tracker and the program be
63. otes Down Jump 16 notes Up Jump 16 notes Down Jump 32 notes Up Jump 32 notes Down 14 2 Playing and Recording Current Song Enter Backspc Right Ctrl Right Alt Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Alt Right Shift Shift Shift Ctrl Shift Alt F6 F10 Ctrl F6 F10 Play Current Row advance Play Current Row don t advance Play Module Play Pattern Play Module from current row Play Pattern from current row Record Pattern Record Song Record Pattern from current row Play pattern from stored row Record pattern from stored row BAT Velvet Studio User Manual 14 3 Pattern Editing Alt Ctrl K Alt O Ctrl O Alt V Ctrl V Shift F3 Ctrl F3 Alt F3 Shift F4 Ctrl F4 Alt F4 Shift F5 Ctrl F5 Alt F5 Del Shift Del Alt Del Shift Return Ins Shift Backsp Ins Alt Return Alt Backspace Ctrl Return Ctrl Backspace Shift 0 9 Alt 0 9 Ctrl 0 9 Alt Alt Alt Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl CAPS Insert a Note Off the tilde key on some keyboards Kill current sample at current channel Kill rest of channel Contract Pattern Contract Channel Expand Pattern Expand Channel Cut Channel to buffer Cut Commands to buffer Cut Pattern to buffer Copy Channel to buffer Copy Commands to buffer Copy Pattern to buffer Paste Channel buffer to Channel Paste Command buffer to Channel Paste Pattern buffer to pattern Delete note under cursor Delete note command under cursor Delete command under cursor Insert bla
64. ou highlighted Zoom Back Reverses the process of any Zoom command allowing CONVERTI you to step back through your work Undo Simply undoes what you just did to the sample very useful and used button Figure 17 Draw Allows you to edit the actual wave form within the Wave form box Draw is useful for editing zoomed portions of the sine wave When you push the Draw button it remains depressed so you have to click on it again to turn the Draw mode off 8 4 4 Sample edit functions Cut Copy and Paste are all commands that must be used with block commands using the mouse Clear asks you if you want to clear the sample Obviously clicking on yes clears your wave form You can also use Clear to clear a specific portion of the sample Zero Works in much the same way as Clear allows you to zero the entire sample or highlight an area of the sample and zero it out Note that Clear deletes a portion of the sample while Zero flat line 5 it Keep Allows you to a highlighted amount of wave form as the main sample Keep deletes everything around it and the block you highlighted becomes the sample Figure 18 22 Velvet Studio User Manual 8 4 5 Sample When you press Sample a box opens up which has a left and right scope oscillator and equalizer bar On the left side of the box are the commands for your internal CD ROM drive with the buttons play pause stop forward reverse forward track
65. placed beyond the right box and vice versa 8 4 2 Bottom Left zone The Bottom Left zone has a ton of sampling functions and features Play Plays the sample from the beginning Tune Fork Sets a fixed tone to judge one sample versus another to see if the pitch is the same The tone played is C 5 at 16726 Hz Area Screen and Offset are buttons that affect options such as Play Cut Copy Paste Volume Clear and Zero These buttons are fairly apparent When the button is pushed and you Play the sample the entire sample is played SCREEN OFFSET When the Area button is pushed you ll only play the marked area instead of the whole sample Figure 16 21 Velvet Studio User Manual When the Screen button is pushed only the sample displayed within the Wave form box is played The Offset button is used to play the sample from the current location of the red line Note that there are large and buttons that are also a part of Row 1 push and the sample displayed in the Wave form box expands zooms in likewise push and the sample in the Wave form box zooms out 8 4 8 Sample view functions View Expands the view of the sample in the Wave form box quickly to see the entire sample after zooming a lot ALL UUN HHEH Zoom Area Used in conjunction with the mouse highlight an area ZUUN BAGH of the sample and press Zoom Area the Wave form box is filled with a zoom in of the area y
66. rent ways The concept of instruments date back to the first line of affordable professional synthesizers Yamaha manufactured the first broad market synth which spawned many other producers the world had a taste of technology that they could use affordably to produce professional sounding music prime example of a modern day synthesizer that uses the concept of Instruments in lieu of how they are used in Modules the E Mu Morpheus The Morpheus is a wonderful synth taking up one rack space it s a pain to program for it s envelopes are all based in a Matrix shaped like a cube You can route one signal to anything else one envelope to another etc Korg X5R s Roland JV 880 s and just about any modern synthesizer are similar in many ways allowing the user to route a number based in Velocity to PLFO Pitch Low Frequency Oscillator which is commonly used to produce vibrato in samples the harder you press the key the more vibrato you hear BEU EEM 30 Velvet Studio User Manual ITem The instruments modules such as FastTracker 2 Impulse Tracker and Velvet Studio use are not as advanced as what are a on current synthesizers im arc but they suffice for now However in this case Velvet Studio has better Yr and more flexible system dE hes of editing the envelopes within the instrument than Figure 24 any of the currently available music trackers Ee rip
67. riant and time invariant Time variant is the most common If you create simple effects like vibrato you usually choose End 26 Velvet Studio User Manual of sample In this case you write in how many percent of the source sample you want the target sample to be of voice can be selected if you for example create an echo Then you write in the most delayed voice as the voice break number Then we ve got the time invariant break This means that the target sample will get the size that it takes to calculate one envelope part How the envelopes works will be explained later in the text The envelope loop switch hasn t got any effect on the sample if this switch is selected You can choose which envelope that should break by selecting either after delay after pitch or after volume You should also decide which voice that is activated Master part Below that we ve got the Master part Here you can type in the master delay pitch and volume for each voice To the right you see a graphical window which shows all the voices master selections If you click on this window with the left mouse button you will change the data directly but if you use the right mouse button only one voice is selected Miscellaneous options The section at the bottom of the screen is divided into two different parts With the buttons to the left you select which information that should be shown in the lower part You can choose betw
68. rmation a computer needs in order to make decisions or carry out a particular action Decay The second stage in an ADSR type envelope generator See ADSR Decibel dB A reference for the measurement of sound energy The minimum change in volume that the human ear can perceive Named after Alexander Graham Bell A decibel is 1 10th of a Bel Delay A controllable time parameter giving the ability to start an event only after a predetermined amount of time The Delay function on the EIII allows you to delay the start of a sound from 0 to 1 5 seconds from the time a key is pressed Depth The amount of modulation Sometimes called Amount Width Intensity or Modulation Index Digital Equipment that uses quantities represented as binary numbers In a digital synthesizer every aspect of the sound generation is handled as a numeric calculation The digital information is not audible and so must be converted to analog form by a DAC before it is output Digital to Analog Converter DAC A device which interprets Digital information and converts it to an Analog form digital musical instruments must have a DAC so that we can hear their output Edit To change or modify information To change parameters or alter existing data 243 Velvet Studio User Manual Error Message A message shown in the display to alert the user that an error of some type has occurred Flange An effect created by layering two identical sounds with a slight
69. strike a track by clicking upon it once This mutes turns off all activity present within the track In track s 5 and 8 a Key icon are present When you key a track you are locking it a safe guard against making a horrendous mistake The track s that are keyed can not be edited they remain static This feature is useful for editing drum tracks If you do not like the look of the default Equalizer bar you may edit it in the Config gt Equalizer Editor as shown Figure 15 in Figure 15 7 4 DOS Shell When you use the DOS Shell you access DOS Simply type EXIT at the command prompt to return to the tracker Unlike other trackers this DOS Shell actually has a good chunk of memory for you to use 7 5 Exit Tracker Alt X Exit Tracker end s your session with Velvet Studio Velvet Studio User Manual 8 LOWER BLOCK FUNCTIONS 8 1 Protracker Pattern For those of you familiar with Protracker the module tracker which set the standard for all others for too many years on the Amiga platform Velvet Studio allows you to have a Protracker style track layout 8 2 ScreamTracker Pattern And on the other side of the tracker spectrum ScreamTracker set the standard for all other trackers on the PC platform Basically youll have to make up your own mind as to which one suits you better If you are familiar with one and not the other the ability to choose the track layout helps shorten the learning curve 8
70. ted the channel will not output any sound If locked it will not be editable The button to the far right indicates which command that is currently active You can change it by pressing either mouse button 20 Velvet Studio User Manual By pressing the mute button with the right mouse button you will mute all channels except the channel you selected This is a useful shortcut when you want to listen to a specific channel that you are currently editing without having to press the Mute gadget and then enable the channel There are two gadgets shown in Figure 15c used for muting or unmuting all channels 8 4 Sample Editor Alt S When you enter the Sample Editor it covers your view of the tracks For the purpose of simplicity the Sample Editor can be thought of as three zones Figure 15c 8 4 4 Wave form Field Our top zone shows the Wave form of your sample On the far left of the screen a loop point exists with a box facing left To the far right another loop point resides with it s box facing right When you play a sample a red position indicator crawls across the sample You can highlight a block of the wave form by using your mouse and clicking your left mouse button while dragging the pointer over the area you wish to highlight You can change the loop points of the sample by clicking on the left or right boxes of each loop position and placing them where you want Note that the left box can not be
71. tern in your song can have a different number of channels rows and commands which adds a flexible nice touch to editing ds Velvet Studio User Manual 6 MAIN SCREEN When you first enter Velvet Studio you are viewing the Main Screen As Figure 9 shows a Command Bar resides over the top of the screen beginning with the Upper Block Click upon the Command Bar at any point and a menu will appear with specific options depending upon the nearest name POSITION REND RD PATTERN ETE E LENGTH CLEAR PATT 125 8 ECHO ED REG PATT STUP UNDU EDIT S EQUALIZER zit ROWSHIF geu t H Deero Nobe If pec m 12121212 It _________________ ma MEM IE i lt lt M p oo Figure 9 412 Velvet Studio User Manual 7 THE UPPER BLOCK As you can see in Figure 10 the Upper Block dialogue box gives you a number of options that LOWER BLOCK JMain Screen p Disk Option Alt d are inherently critical to the operation of Velvet Toggle Piano Studio Main Screen with the mark to the left of Toggle Equalizer it allows you to quickly arrive at the beginning DOS Shel Exit Tracker of our session
72. the tremolo and 4 is the depth of the tremolo To keep on tremoling just select the command 07 00 To change the tremolo you can alter the rate depth or both Use command OE7x to change the tremolo wave form 09 Set SampleOffset Usage 09 offset offset 00 FF This command will play from a chosen position in the sample and not from the beginning The two numbers equal the two first numbers in the length of the sample Handy for speech samples Example C 5 00 0923 Play sample from offset 2300 8960 0 Volumeslide Usage 0A upspeed downspeed upspeed 0 F downspeed 0 F Example C 5 00 0A05 5 is the speed to turn the volume down C 5 00 0A40 4 is the speed to slide it up NOTE The slide will be called as many times as the speed of the song The slower the song the more the volume will be changed on each note Position jump Usage B position position 00 7F 56 Velvet Studio User Manual This command will stop playback of the current position after the current row and will jump to the specified position number Example C 5 00 B is the command 1 is the position to restart the song at This command will also perform a pattern break see below 0 Set volume Usage 0C volume volume 00 7F Well this old familiar command will set the current volume to your own selected The highest volume is 7F volumes are represented in he
73. the echo this feature does it automatically Select the channel you wish to add the echo to and figure the gradient of Delay and Rate explained further down Then choose the Decay amount for each gradient Delay and Rate each based at 096 to 20096 Note that utilizing an Echo can muddy your song adding too many layers of unwanted sound will cause horrible aliasing just as with Reverb just a reminder Applying the right amount of Echo can make particular parts of a song such as the Moog accompaniment sound really sweet The From field is the channel which you wish to echo It uses zero based numbering so to find out which is the channel number you wish to echo simply copy the channel number above the patterndata The To field represents the channel which will be used for the first echo If you set this field to 2 the echo will be placed on channel 2 zero based 36 Velvet Studio User Manual The Chan field is the number of channels to use for echoing For example if you set the To field to 2 and the Chan 10 3 the tracker will echo to channels 2 3 and 4 The Delay field indicates how much to delay the first echo The tracker will delay the initial echo by one row plus the number in this field The Decay percentage next to this field is how loud the delayed echo should be as a percentage of the original volume So if you set the delay to 5 and the decay to 67 the tracker will set the initial echo to occur 6 rows later
74. to test the different function and to look at the default effects and see how they are created Play with the functions and have fun 8 4 9 Fix Loop Mix and DC Loop editing is a pain and Fix Loop helps you smooth that annoying click that won t go away Simply highlight an area that would sound better within the loop and press the button The area you choose will swap and smooth itself over the area around the right most loop point Mix allows you to overlay the clipboard what is in memory onto the current sample DC allows you to flip a particular area of the wave form up or down center the block or do other weird things to it Experiment with DC for it might lead you to something you like a lot 8 4 10 Loop types In Row 5 their are 5 push buttons for different loop types No Rep Fwd Rep Bwd Rep Bidi F Rep and Bidi B Rep Their are also two other functions Mark and Bits First the looping options No Rep No Repeat no looping Fwd Rep forward repeat standard form of looping Bwd Rep backward ETT repeat is the opposite of forward Bidi F Rep Bidi Forward REF Repeat creates a forward Ping Pong effect Bidi B Rep Bidi MENU Backward Repeat plays the sample in reverse and like wise V BIBI repeats in a Ping Pong way only in reverse Mark may be used in T BIDIB conjunction with Offset and positions the block in reference to the loop points and where the red play indicator bar is
75. ure and always possesses three parallel lines the center being longer than the outer two Accessing the commands within each of these dialogue boxes are done exactly as those of Figure 1 User fields are accessible with the mouse In most input fields you can press the left mouse button to edit the names The instrument sample names and the position editor are a bit different because you select with the left mouse button By pressing the right mouse button on those names you can edit the text Also try to hold down the left mouse button while pressing the right You will notice that the old text disappears and then you can edit a new text without having to remove the old one by hand Figure 5 Velvet Studio User Manual 5 CONFIGURATION After growing accustomed to utilizing the Mouse Mein ABOUT HELP and understanding how to navigate through Velvet Conf igure SoundGard Studio you will most likely want to configure Velvet Opt ions Studio to your preferences There are many configurable options that you may change We begin Pattern Defaults the process of editing our parameter s by selecting Configure Paths Equalizer Editor AutoSave Conf ic Figure 6 5 1 Configure Sound Card If the installation went fine you don t have to configure your sound card at all but if some error occurred so that you cannot hear any music you have to use the sound card configuration There are several input fields available and
76. using the SPACE key For more information on how to create your song keep reading the manual 3 4 Modify a sample Maybe you want to change a particular sound a bit Maybe it s too loud or you want to cut a part from it you can use the sample editor Via the command bar select lower block and sample editor to change the lower part of the screen to a fully featured sample editor If you have selected an instrument you ll see the wave form in the sample editor and there you can edit it in any way you like In this example we will cut away a part of the sound Using the mouse click and drag the pointer across a part of the wave form it doesn t really matter how much you select since this in just an example You ll see that the wave form have inverted the colors where you have selected Now press the cut button on the screen and see how the selected part disappears from the wave form If you want to undo the action press the undo button Velvet Studio User Manual 4 THE MOUSE Within Velvet Studio the Mouse plays an important role for sample editing Nain Soreen navigating the interface and DisH ption enhancing the ease of use The first Toggle Piano example Figure 1 shows a pull down Togg g menu which you access by clickingon DOS Shell it with the Left Mouse Button move Exit Tracer your pointer over the function you Figure 1 wish to use and release the button and you will enter for example the Disk Option screen
77. utton Pressing the left mouse button on these buttons will recall the saved envelope You can use these buttons to copy envelopes from one instrument to another Tip To permanently store user a user defined envelope to disk use the menu choice Config Save Config after having stored it temporarily The Scale buttons can be used to adjust compress or expand the envelope both horizontally and vertically It s hard to describe so experiment with them to see how they work The fadeout is used in conjunction with the normal volume envelope to fade out a sound after a KeyOff is encountered The value decides how many frames the fade will use until the sound is completely faded away gt Velvet Studio User Manual Note When experimenting with the envelope functions try using a looped sample rather than a non looped one Envelope functions will of course work on non looped samples as well but it s easier to hear the effects on a looped sample Note To enter a KeyOff in the pattern press the tilde key it s located to the left of the number 1 key on most keyboards When you press a note on your keyboard the sample is played according to the volume envelope if point 1 is located high the attack or how long the sample takes to fade in is sharp short Likewise if point 2 is low while point 3 is somewhere in the middle youl experience a whooshing sound as the sample is at it s sustain point positioned higher than 2
78. utton toggles the piano box You can play the piano by clicking on keys you can see what note you are triggering corresponds with a real keyboard If you are using a MIDI keyboard as defined in the Options menu explained later you can trigger notes that way 10 8 Play Song Right Ctrl Click on this button or use the right ctrl key and your module plays ri Velvet Studio User Manual 10 9 Play Patt Play Pattern Right Alt Click on this button or use the right alt key and the current pattern plays 10 10 Rec Song Record Song Right Shift Click on this button or use the right shift key and the tracker records what you are playing similar to a MIDI sequencer Note that unlike a MIDI sequencer playing chords will trigger notes in a linear way one after another on opposing tracks However this method of developing a module is useful for playing a lead over the rest of your song Simply go back through the track and fix the timing errors apply effects and add or subtract notes where you feel they best belong 10 11 Rec Patt Record Pattern Shift Shift The same as Rec Song but affecting the current pattern only 10 12 Stop Stops all activity be it module playback or sample playback 10 13 Edit Spacebar Invokes the track editor You will now be able to edit the information within the tracks Your screen will be highlighted by depending upon your color scheme a white bar 10 14 Equalizer Alt Q
79. x Example C 5 00 0 10 C is the command 10 is the volume 16 decimal 0Dxx Pattern break Usage 0D pattern position pattern position 00 64 This command just jumps to the next song position and continues play from the patternposition you specify Note that this uses decimal values and not hexadecimal values unlike most other commands Example C 5 00 0D32 Jump to the next song position and continue play from patternposition 32 0 1 Fineslide up Usage 0E1 value value 0 F This command works just like the normal portamento up except that it only slides up once It does not continue sliding during the length of the note Example 57 Velvet Studio User Manual C 5 00 OE11 Slide up 1 at the beginning of the note 0 2 Fineslide down Usage 0E2 value value 0 F This command works just like the normal portamento down except that it only slides down once It does not continue sliding during the length of the note Example C 5 00 26 Slide up 6 at the beginning of the note Glissando Control Usage 0E3 status status 0 1 Glissando must be used with the tone portamento command When glissando is activated toneportamento will slide a halfnote at a time instead of a straight slide Example C 5 00 OE31 Turn Glissando on 5 00 0 30 Turn Glissando off 0 Set vibrato wave form Usage 4 wavetype wavetype 0 6 Example C 5 00 OE40 Set
80. ystem base 2 Digital computers use this form of numbering because the values of 0 and 1 can easily be represented by an open or closed switch Bit A Bit is a single piece of information assigned a value of 0 or 1 as used in a digital computer Computers use digital words which are combinations of bits A Byte is a digital word consisting of eight Bits The Emulator III uses a 16 bit number to represent a sound word 16 bit word can represent 65 536 different numbers Buffer An area of computer memory that is used to temporarily store data Bug An error in a computer program that causes it to work incorrectly Very annoying Byte A computer word made up of eight bits of data Chorus A voice doubling effect created by layering two identical sounds with a slight delay 20 50 ms and slightly modulating the frequency of one or both of the sounds Clipboard A temporary holding place in RAM for what you last cut or copied Copy 42 Velvet Studio User Manual To make a copy of something either a sound or segment by selecting it and choosing the copy function from the module menu What is copied is placed on the clipboard Crossfade To gradually fade out one sound while fading in another so that a seamless transition is made between the two sounds Cut To remove something either a sound or a segment by selecting it and choosing the cut function from the module menu What you cut is placed on the clipboard Data Info

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