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Chapter
Click the Play button in the upper right of the
screen to begin playing the song. It sounds
really good, doesn't it?
Explanation of the parts of the screen
"Tracks" are listed on the left side of the screen. An icon of an
instrument is displayed beside each track. Each track contains
data from a musical instrument.
A "mixer" is displayed at the bottom of the screen. The mixer is
used to adjust the volume of each track, that is, of each musical
instrument. During playback, the bars of the meters rise and
fall to display the volume level of the different tracks. Drag the
channel level knob down to decrease the volume level and up to
increase the volume level.
As a song is played back, you can see that its waveform is displayed. This is the same type of
waveform as the audio waveform that you saw in WaveLab LE 7. In other words, these tracks
contain audio data.
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This audio data is called a loop. Loops contain parts made by professional musicians. Because
loops already contain amazing parts, anyone can easily make great-sounding music just by
arranging loops.
There are also tracks that show musical instrument
tones instead of waveforms (loops). If you double-
click the data in the "Square Lead" track that is
currently shown at the bottom of the display, a
keyboard and something that looks like a graph will
appear where the mixer was previously displayed.
You can enter the pitch, length, and strength of sounds to enter your own melody.
Now that you understand the Sequel LE screen, let's actually make a song!
Arranging loops in a new project to make an
accompaniment
In this section, we're going to actually make a song.
But, it's incredibly difficult to make a song from
scratch. So let's first make the accompaniment—
the framework using drums, bass, and other
instruments—and then create the melody.
• Creating a new project and
configuring its settings
Click the project menu and then "New Project".
The demo project's tracks and mixer will be
removed, and a new project that is completely
empty will open.
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