Aetherizer Display - Native Instruments Absynth 5 Reference Manual

6.7.3 Aetherizer Display

At the very bottom, the Aetherizer Display shows you a graphical representation of your grain
cloud. The vertical axis is the pitch, the horizontal axis is the time. Each grain is depicted as
a tiny triangle followed by an horizontal trail (which represents the grain's length).
The picture follows your parameter settings in various ways:
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By playing with the Grain Duration control, the trails' lengths change.
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By raising the Rate control, the grains get closer (and their trails shorter) and vice versa.
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By playing with the Transpose control, all grains move together on the y-axis.
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By raising the Random Transpose control, the grains spread across the y-axis. Indeed, by
doing this, you set a different transposition value for each grain! (By the way, you can
now better see the grains' overlapping in time.)
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By activating the filter, the grains get a color related to the cutoff frequency.
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By raising the resonance (Q control), the grains' color get more intense.
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Etc.
The Aetherizer Display can be very handy to get familiar with the function of each parameter
and to "see" what happens.
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