Welcome To Razor - Native Instruments Razor Manual

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Welcome to RAZOR

Thank you very much for purchasing RAZOR. On behalf of ERRORSMITH and the entire
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS team, we hope this product will truly inspire you.
RAZOR is a state of the art additive synthesizer built with the latest REAKTOR technology.
It is capable of a wide range of sounds. From 'bread and butter' sounds that are refreshed
by new sonic twists to truly new and unheard sounds only possible with RAZOR. All with
an outstanding, high sound quality. Despite its vast possibilities RAZOR is easy to use. Its
lean and clean Interface in conjunction with the huge and beautiful graphical display
makes it easy and fun to edit sounds or build new ones from scratch quickly. Additive syn­
thesis offers the opportunity to design the sound in great detail. RAZOR gives you a simple
tool to do so, like a blade to sculpt the sound. RAZOR the cutting edge synthesizer!
Manual Conventions
This manual uses particular formatting to point out special facts and to warn you of poten­
tial issues. The icons introducing the following notes let you see what kind of information
is to be expected:
Whenever this exclamation mark icon appears, you should read the corresponding note care­
fully and follow the instructions and hints given there if applicable.
This light bulb icon indicates that a note contains useful extra information. This information
may often help you to solve a task more efficiently, but does not necessarily apply to the setup
or operating system you are using; however, it's always worth a look.
Furthermore, the following formatting is used:
▪ Text appearing in (drop-down) menus (such as
cations on your hard drive or other storage devices is printed in
▪ Text appearing elsewhere on the screen (labels of buttons, controls, text next to check­
boxes etc.) is printed in
find the same text appearing somewhere on the screen.
▪ Important names and concepts are printed in bold faced letters.
▪ References to keys on your computer's keyboard you'll find put in square brackets
(e.g., "Press [Shift] + [Return]").
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→ Results of actions are introduced by this smaller arrow.
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