Playback, Scrubbing and Monitor Controls

 

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In this section we describe the basic functions for playing audio from Revoice Pro through a monitoring system.

There are many options that support this. The most basic one is to use the computer's built in sound system. However, in professional environments, this is not always possible. Revocie Pro provides monitoring plug-ins and a few other monitoring options which are described in the chapter on Audio Monitoring.

The following instructions assume that Revoice Pro's stereo output is being passed through audio hardware to a monitoring system.

 

Playing Audio

Positioning Playback Start

Double clicking in any waveform window will position the “Playhead” (the vertical white line that spans all the tracks) at the time position of the cursor.

Note: when the Scroll control (see below) is in Continuous Scroll mode, when you Double click the cursor to position the Playhead to the right of the centre of Revoice Pro's window, it will place the cursor where you double click, and then immediately move that time position to the centre of the Revoice Pro window.

A useful way to go to the start or end of blocks of audio is to press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow keys. This will step the playhead backward and forward (respectively) through time-related "events" in the tracks.

Playing audio

Pressing the keyboard SPACE BAR will toggle between starting and stopping audio playback from all playback-enabled tracks (See Monitoring Controls below).

If any process requires rendering first, that will be done automatically (as long as the "Auto render before playing" Preference is active).

Scrubbing

Centring the mouse cursor anywhere over the Playback Position Indicator will change the cursor to a Scrub Cursor (Double yellow arrows). To scrub the playback - hold down the LEFT mouse button and move the mouse left and right (or use equivalent actions on other input devices).

With other devices, instead of using the scrub cursor, you can scrub by pressing the ALT key and "swiping" (moving your finger) left and right on the surface of an Apple Magic Mouse or on a trackpad, using ALT plus moving two fingers left and right.

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Playback Controls

A playback control section is at the bottom of the Revoice PRO window.

From left to right:

• The green link symbol controls whether or not audio can be transferred from a DAW using one of the Link Plug-Ins.
• The "Start" and "End" displays show the displayed Revoice Pro Session's start and end times.
  
  

Rewind control, if ON will make a stopped playback return to start again from where the playback was last started.

Loop control ON works with a Playback Range set. It will allow the playback to loop within the current Playback Range.

• The time position of the Playhead can be shown in Time, Samples, Timecode, or Bars & Beats in the large display window. The display format is controlled by the dropdown selection switch to the right of the time display. The time position can be manually edited from version 3.2, with the play head moving to the entered position.
  
  
• The Scroll Control Drop down offers No Scroll, Page Scroll, or Continuous Scroll of the Window relative to the Playhead during playback.
  
  
• The Master Volume control adjusts the audition level of the mixed tracks output, or the Tuning Preview audition level, selected by means of the drop-down.

NOTE: If a Playback Range has been created (as described in the section on Playback Range Functions) the behaviour of these playback features might be modified and the playback will generally stay within the defined Playback Range).

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Monitoring Controls

Enabling or muting Track Playback

Tracks have Mute and Solo buttons which can be ON (lit up) or OFF

and a Track Monitor display in one of two states:

• Green - when track playback is Enabled (output heard)
• Red - when track playback is Disabled (output not heard)

 

Enabling a Track's output can be controlled in several ways:

1. If no Solo button is on in the Session, then all Track monitors will be Enabled.

2. LEFT Clicking the Track's Solo button will toggle it ON and OFF. If ON, the track is Enabled.

3. Pressing any of the keyboard's 10 numeric keys – one or more at a time will toggle the numbered Tracks' Solo button(s).
   Each of the 10 numeric keys is mapped to a corresponding Track, counting from the top of the Revoice Pro window (top track=1, second track = 2 … etc to 10th track= 0).
   NOTE: If the tracks are re-arranged, the correspondence counting from the top track remains – i.e. the mapping to keys does not stay with a specific track – only the count from the top - which the updated number will show.
   

4. Exclusive Solo:
   • Holding down Alt key and LEFT CLICKing a track's Solo button to turn it ON will Enable that track exclusively and toggle all other track's Playback enable controls OFF.
   • Holding Alt and pressing a numeric key (1 to 0) to turn Solo ON for that track, will Disable all other Tracks.
5. Process-dependent keyboard short-cuts (see APT Track Soloing, below) will Enable specific tracks of the selected process.
6. From v 3.3, Shift+Spacebar will Solo tracks with selected audio, and start playing at the first selected region or selected play area.
   
   

APT Track Soloing

Each APT process has two inputs and one output – and the user might wish to audition different combinations of these tracks, one or two at a time.

To make auditioning the tracks of a process consistent – no matter which tracks the process inputs and outputs are in, the user must first ensure the process of interest is selected (i.e. the Input Process Control Blocks are GREEN. If they are not, click either the Guide or Dub Process Control Blocks to select the Process you wish to audition, and all the corresponding inputs and outputs to that specific process will turn GREEN.

In that state - the keys shown in the picture above will Solo the tracks of the selected APT Process according to the diagram. For example, pressing A will play only the Output, and E will play both the Guide and the Output together.

Additional Tracks not related to that Process can also be enabled to play with the Processed tracks by Left CLICKing the Track's Solo button ON or, if the Track is numbered, pressing the Track's number key to turn its Solo ON.

Doubler Track Soloing

For consistency, if a Doubler's Process Control Block or output is selected, pressing G will play the Doubler's input, pressing A will play the Doubler's Output, and E will play both the Doubler's Input and Output together.

 

Disabling Track's Output

Tracks can be Muted in several ways so the output is Disabled (not heard):

1. If a Track has Mute ON, that Track will be Disabled, even if Solo is ON:
   • If a Track has Solo ON, clicking that Track's Mute button ON will Disable the Track
   • Similarly, if that track is Numbered, pressing CTRL plus the Track number will toggle Mute ON and OFF - and, as above, if Mute is ON, then the Track will be Disabled.
2. Using the APT Keyboard Shortcuts will automatically Disable the Tracks that are not selected by the shortcut.

 

Track groups

Tracks can be grouped together so that monitoring controls affect all the tracks in a group. This is described in the separate section Groups.

 

Auditioning tracks

• Press space bar to start and stop playback. If processing is required, it will be rendered automatically as long as Auto render before playing or background processing is turned on in Preferences.
• Changes to enabled tracks can be made at any time, even while playing, using any of the above methods.

CMD R (Mac) / Alt R (Windows) - will Render (Run any processing) required without playback.

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