Sit back and watch our Making Waves tutorial cd-rom and let it take you through all you need to know about our software range. Topics include: Configuring and programming VST Effects and Instruments, Audio Recording, Sample Editing, Multi-sampling, remixing MIDI files, Effects envelopes, connecting external equipment inc MIDI keyboards, synths and effects units, chord sequencing, auto fades, tempo changes....its all here in an AVI visual manual format. Below is a list of all the tutorials included:

Getting Started with Making Waves                                       
An Introduction and overview                                        
Registering your software                                        
Setting up your hardware                                        
Building songs - part one                                        
Building songs - part two                                        
Building songs - part three                                        

Using the Features                                       
Step input                                        
The chord sequencer                                        
Record / sample audio                                        
Timestretching                                        
Cutoff sequences                                        
Single bar edit function                                        
Control FX with hardware                                        
Insert tempo changes                                        
Archiving songs & samples                                        
Colour schemes                                        

Making Waves Pro & Studio                                       
Pro         Studio  
 Install VST plug-ins                             
 Multiple audio inputs                             
     Multiple audio outputs                             
Multiple midi devices                             
Standard Midi Files                             

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Making Waves Audio Online Tutorials

Tutorial 1 - Zero Latency Programming
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Fire up Making Waves and call up the Sample Browser by clicking the floppy disc icon at the bottom of the screen. Browse to your sample folder and locate some drum loops. To preview loops, select Sample Loop mode at the bottom of the screen to the right of the floppy disk icon and click each sample. When you ’ve selected a loop, double-click on it so that it appears in your song. The file name will be on the left of the main Track window, adjacent to track 1 and the samples bar/bars will be visually represented in the Arrange window.

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Choose Notes from the bottom of the file browser and repeat the navigation process to find a bass note sample.
Double-click your choice and it will appear in your song as an empty sequence in the main Arrange window. Open the Sequence window (the button on the bass track showing the quaver note icon). Set the the top of the timeline, as shown in the above screenshot. You are now ready to play in your bass line. First click the red circle icon on the right of the Note window to enable Loop Recording.
Making Waves will briefly buffer your bass sample to enable zero latency triggering.

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Now experiment playing a bass line with your MIDI keyboard if you have one. (Alternatively, your PC keyboard can be used. Q to ] represent a chromatic rise from C2 to B2;;1 to +represent C3 to B3.) Depending on your playing ability, you may choose to enable the Auto Quantise feature from the dropdown.
Choose a value that suits the rhythm of your sequence. When you ’re happy with your sequence, click the red +icon to confirm. To re-record, click the red X icon. If you ’ve confirmed but change your mind, you can edit the notes with the mouse or click the white sheet icon to blank the contents of your sequence to start again.

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Samples are easily interchangeable in Making Waves. If you wish to swap your bass sample, click it in the main Track window and its location will be highlighted in the browser at the bottom of the screen. Alternative samples can then be used.
This won ’t affect the sequence you ’ve created, but it can obviously change the nature of a song. This also works while the song is playing back, updating the sound every bar. The optional Performance Mode ensures continuous playback along with the freedom to alter any aspect of your song ,including adding effects during playback.
This facility is ideal for using the software in a live environment.

Tutorial 2 - Time stretching & Pitch-shifting audio
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01
Open a new song and import two sample loops from the file browser. Ensure the Sample Loop option is selected before double-clicking each sample for loading into the sequencer. Making Waves will automatically time stretch each loop to fit your song ’s tempo. Note that the original tempo of each sample is displayed in the BPM column of the Track window.
For the purposes of this exercise, ensure that each loop you select has a different BPM.

02
Uncheck the red +for each sample in order to disable time stretching. The samples will continue to play back at the song tempo, but the pitch of each sample will be adjusted.
For example, a loop with an original tempo of 150BPM will drop in pitch if it ’s made to play back at 135BPM. Now click twice on the individual loop tempos of each loop, so that the BPM column reads
Off for both samples. You will notice that the loops now play out of time with each other as their original tempos no longer match.

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Experimenting with these settings will give you complete control over the pitch and speed of each sample within your song. Time stretching is activated by default to make it easy to compile a song with samples from different sources. Now switch on time stretching and reset the BPM value by clicking Off so that the original BPM value reappears. Click the song tempo at the top of the screen and change it to half of its current value. With time stretching enabled, your pitches will remain locked while you have control of the global tempo of your song or loops.

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Making Waves will enable you to export your song to a .WAV file so it can be burned to CD or opened in another music software package of your choice. From the File menu, choose Copy Song to Sound File or use the keyboard shortcut [Ctrl ]+W. Here you can choose the quality of your saved file with options between 8-bit and 32-bit. This will export the audio with whatever processing you choose to add in Making Waves, be it just time stretching a loop, or an entire song that contains automation and effects information.