Lord Atrac speaks to the brethren...
Brethren and fellow Atracs,
For your further edification:
As per my decrees about the method of creating a *newly edited song* in the CREATE LIST mode:
I urge you all to take a piece of paper and just as you would when using a sequencer, make a series of blocks and columns. The reason is clear -and this will make the whole process much more simple as I will now demonstrate.
First *a newly edited song* is no more than just a re-assembling of our hit record (well, mine anyway) into a new "version" that might feasably begin with the 1st Chorus or indeed, the outro if one wishes to be unfeasable.
Although many permutations are possible - we must remember that all we are trying to achieve is some form of non-destructive edit and by this, we must not enter the realm of confusion! WE ARE ONLY RE-ARRANGING THE SONG AS A WHOLE brethren. If we say the order of play is A B C D E F G, we can arrange the piece to play back as B B E D A C (half of F!!) a few frames of G and then, enable the whole thing to play again in reverse order. Or perverse order.
Those of us with nothing better to do and masochistic tendencies can even make a sequence play until the sun becomes a red giant, or at least, until the neighbours have long since moved out...
But to make this sonic Frankenstein come to life, one must write down the steps. Follow my instructions:
Draw a series of lines - how tiresome that I should have to illustrate this:
-----------*----*------*----*----------------*----*--------------------
Intro * s1 * e2 n=1 FRAME NUMBER * e/END could be MK 3 etc
-----------*----*------*----*----------------*----*--------------------
Similarly s1 (track Mark 1) could be 2
Carry on with seperate lines for visual reference and input the start and end points as you would wish them to be heard/played back. The * symbols above are only illustrating where you might wish to draw in a downward North/South line, dividing East to West ones into neat boxes. In the blank space where I have written FRAME NUMBER, you may wish to make a note of that.
But regarding frame numbers, I advise when shuttling back and forth and trying to aurally locate the "cut", we use a seperate piece of paper for notes!
Locating a cut point is not a simple task! So begin with a rough idea by playing the intended section and then add a track mark. Make a note of the frame, MARK number & part of the song it relates to! Next begins what promises to be a very great challenge indeed. You must advance or retard this MARK by loading ADJUST by pressing ADJUST and then ENTER. Only what seems like a million playbacks later will reveal the true cut point! This process must be repeated for every MARKER where we wish a section to Start & End. We shall call this process "Setting start and end points". You will throughout this listening process write down the different frame numbers, crossing out those which sound obviously wrong/out of time. There will be so many of these, that you will soon realise why it is a LAW to write down the frame numbers
...my benign smile...
When the edited song is finally complete and has been assembled into a new song - we can listen back to the resulting edits. Did it work? If "yes", you may approach me in the inner sanctum where I shall listen to it and declare it worthy. If the answer is "no", then you may not approach me or touch my garment!
If you should approach me, remember that the snake head emblem on the underside of my upper foreskin shall be exposed and my helper, the eunech brother of Green Hornet, will place hot coals around your vile minidisc and you will be forced to watch it melt. My trusted helper, known as REEL PERSON will then escort you to the rear of the sanctum and the gnarled and stinking remains, carried in bbq tongs (until the committee has enough in the kitty to purchase a more suitable icon) will be tossed into the great pit as I watch with the gravity this demands of me.
During this ceremony, you shall repeat to me from memory (in
a voice one unmodulated octave lower than usual), our mantra: (repeating this one octave higher like the brother of Green Hornet (who cannot help it) - is forbidden!! and will result in hot coals being placed around the offenders testicles, causing permanency of pitch and tone. Therefore:
"ATRAC: An acronym for adaptive transform accoustic coding. This is the compression technique used to fit the same amount of data as that of a 120mm CD on a 64mm minidisc. Atrac uses established psychoaccoustic principles to compress audio data to approximately one 5th of its original size, with virtually no loss in sound quality. The "threshold of hearing principle" states that the sensetivity of the human ear is frequency dependent. Two tones of the same level but at different frequencies will not be heard at the same loudness. Another principle used is the "masking effect". That is, softer sounds become inaudible when louder sounds at similar frequencies are present"
LORD ATRAC.
