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Name

The name of the Effect instance.

Effect instances are a group of effect property settings. They can be one of two types: custom instances or ShareSets. Custom instances can be used by only one object, whereas ShareSets can be shared across several objects.

(Object Color)

Displays the object's color. Clicking the icon opens the color selector.

Select a color to apply it to the object. When you choose a color for an object, a palette icon appears on the selected square, as well as a yellow triangle in the lower-right corner, as shown.

To inherit the parent object's color, select the square at the far left of the color selector.

Inclusion

Determines whether the element is included in the SoundBanks when they are generated. When selected, the element is included. When unselected, the element is not included.

To optimize your sound design for each platform, you might want to exclude certain elements on certain platforms. By default, this check box applies across all platforms. Use the Link indicator to the left of the check box to unlink the element. Then you can customize the state of the check box per platform.

When this option is unselected, the property and behavior options in the editor become unavailable.

Default value: true

(Show references)

Indicates the number of elements in your project that contain direct references to the object. The icon is displayed in orange when references to the object exist, and in gray when no references exist.

Selecting the button opens the Reference View with the object's name in the References to: field.

Notes

Additional information about the Effect.

Metering

Indicates the name of the object currently being metered.

Allows you to browse for other objects to meter.

	Note
	The metering interface elements only appear in the Effect Editor for Effects that include VU meters.

Sets the display of the Effect Editor's selected tabs. By default, there is one panel displaying only one selected tab. You can, however, click a splitter button to split the panel into two, either side by side or one on top of the other, for two different tabs. The currently selected option is highlighted with a background color.

	Note
	You cannot display the same tab in both panels. If you select the tab that is currently displayed in the other panel, then the other panel will automatically display another tab.

Time

Time Stretch

Percentage of original sound duration. 100% corresponds to no Time Stretch while 200% is twice as long. Similarly time compression is possible using 50% to get the sound at half the duration. This value supports RTPC and may be smoothly changed during playback without additional artifacts.

Default value: 100

Range: 25 to 1600

Units: % of original duration

Time Stretch Random

Offsets the Time Stretch factor specified by a random amount up to plus or minus the Time Stretch random value. This will be effective for the whole duration of the voice on which the Time Stretch will be applied. RTPC received during the playback will be considered only on the next playback.

Default value: 0

Range: 0 to 200

Units: % of original duration

Pitch

Pitch Shift

The pitch is raised or lowered by the amount specified by this parameter (in Cents). So, +1200 Cents transposes an octave up and -1,200 is an octave down. This value supports RTPC and may be smoothly changed during playback without additional artifacts.

Default value: 0

Range: -4800 to 4800

Units: cents

Pitch Shift Random

Offsets the Pitch Shift amount specified by a random amount up to plus or minus the Pitch Shift random value. This will be effective for the whole duration of the voice on which the Pitch Shift will be applied. RTPC received during the playback will be considered only on the next playback.

Default value: 0

Range: 0 to 4800

Units: cents

Quality

Window Size

Larger window size gives better frequency resolution but more smearing of transients. This parameter is thus a compromise between time resolution and frequency resolution. See section above for a more detailed discussion on how to choose the value for this parameter.

Default value: 2048

Range: 256 to 8192

Units: Sample frames

Stretch Mode

The version of time stretch algorithm to be used.

The following options are available:

Default value: Classic

Quality Level

Allows fine control of the performance of the improved time stretch algorithm, with the tradeoff of reduced sound quality. This control is only available when Stretch Mode is set to Transient Preserving.

With Quality Level at 100, all parts of the sound are processed. As the level decreases, the CPU demands of the algorithm are reduced, with an impact on sound quality. More specifically, lowering the quality slider will introduce a mild noise floor or phasing effect, as the algorithm skips over portions of the input sound spectrum to save on computation.

It is recommended to fine tune this parameter while watching the CPU % values in the Performance Monitor.

Default value: 100

Range: 0 to 100

Output

Output Gain

The amount of gain applied to the output signal after the dynamic compression that makes up for potential gain losses.

Default value: 0

Range: -24 to 24

Units: dB

Stereo Processing

The method used for handling stereo inputs. This control is only available when Stretch Mode is set to Transient Preserving.

The following options are available:

Since the Transient Preserving time stretch mode has a greater effect on the phase of the sound than the Classic stretch mode, the Center Cut option is provided as a way to better preserve complex stereo mixes.

Default value: Left Right