Signal Flow
Monitoring Options
Audio input monitoring behavior is set in the Sequencer's menu: Options > Monitor.
The options are:
- Off - Never monitor the input
- Auto - The default; whenever a track is selected, the input will be passed through to the output.
- Record - Monitor a track's input only when the track is recording
- Manual - When this is selected, a button appears on audio tracks which lets you manually control the monitoring for each track.
Track Mute vs. Mixer Mute
As the above image shows, the mute buttons on the track header and on the mixer strip do two different things. Muting a track (from the track header) blocks the output from existing parts on that track. This doesn't affect input monitoring, which is controlled separately. The mixer mute button mutes everything, including input monitoring and parts on the track.
Multi-Sample vs. Single-Sample Parts
There are two types of audio parts in energyXT2, which can be confusing. The differences will be outlined below.
Single-Sample Parts
Recording new audio or dragging a wav/aiff/mp3 file to an audio track will create a single-sample audio part.
You can select a range of the audio and do various processing.
Multi-Sample Parts
Multi-sample parts are created by gluing two or more single-sample parts together. The advantage of a multi-sample part is that you can make ghost copies of it. Within the part, you can rearrange, delete, split, and duplicate the slices, and reverse or stretch each slice separately, and the changes will apply to all ghost copies. You can also save the part as an .xtc clip for later re-use.
Copying a slice from a multi-sample part and pasting it to a blank area of an audio track will create a single-sample part.
Audio Recording
First, make sure the correct input is connected to the track you are recording to. By default, audio tracks are connected to the Audio In component, but you can change this in the Object Bar (click on the track header and look under “Input”). Input connections can also be made in the Modular area.
Audio will be recorded to any tracks that are selected. Use Ctrl-Click to select or unselect multiple tracks. You can also use Shift-Click to select a range of tracks.
You can choose to record in Mono or Stereo, using the “Record” dropdown in the Object Bar.
Recording over an existing part does not overwrite it, but instead creates a new part on top of it.
Punch In/Out
You can start and stop recording while XT2 is playing, either by clicking the Record button, using the keyboard shortcut (R by default), or sending the mapped MIDI CC (see Controller Map).
Doing an automatic punch in/out is possible, but slightly tricky.
Object Bar
Track
- Track
- Track Name
- Move
- Move track up and down
- Shuffle
- Shuffle
- Input
- Input routing menu
- Output
- Output routing menu
- Record
- Record as Mono or Stereo
Single-Sample Part
- Part
- Part Name
- Move
- Move part left and right by snap length
- Direction
- Play forward or reversed in time (non-destructive; you can also reverse audio files destructively)
- Resample
- Normal, Re-Pitch, or Stretch. See Timestretching below.
- Fade In
- Length of the part fade-in, in milliseconds
- Fade Out
- Length of the part fade-out, in milliseconds
- Coarse
- Pitch coarse adjustment, ±48 semitones (not available in Re-Pitch mode)
- Fine
- Pitch fine adjustment, ±100 cents (not available in Re-Pitch mode)
Multi-Sample Part
- Part
- Part Name
- Move
- Move part left and right by snap length
- Length
- Part length in ticks (960 ticks per quarter note). Buttons adjust length according to snap setting.
Sample
- Sample
- Sample filename (not editable)
- Move
- Move part left and right by snap length
- Direction
- Play forward or reversed in time
- Resample
- Normal, Re-Pitch, or Stretch. See Timestretching below.
- Fade In
- Length of the sample fade-in, in milliseconds
- Fade Out
- Length of the sample fade-out, in milliseconds
- Coarse
- Pitch coarse adjustment, ±48 semitones (not available in Re-Pitch mode)
- Fine
- Pitch fine adjustment, ±100 cents (not available in Re-Pitch mode)
Audio Editing
Fade In/Out, Crossfade Parts
Each single-sample part and each sample within a multi-sample part can have a non-destructive fade-in and fade-out applied. Fades are set in the Object Bar in units of milliseconds.
To apply a crossfade to two overlapping items, select them and press Shift X. This adjusts the fade-in and fade-out times to the size of the overlap. The Crossfade command is also available in the main Sequencer menu under Part > Process > Crossfade, as well as in the part right-click menu.
Slicing/Splitting Parts
Single-sample parts can be sliced automatically, either according to the snap size (Beatslice) or by detecting transients (Autoslice).
To split a part by hand, use Alt right-click to split at the mouse pointer position, or Ctrl K to split at the play cursor position.
To combine the sliced parts into one multi-sample part, select them all and Glue them with Ctrl G.
You can also split samples within a multi-sample part.
Destructive Editing
Destructive audio editing is done on single-sample parts only (for the moment). Some processing can be done on a whole audio part, or you can select a range of it and process only that range. For every edit, a copy of the audio file is made. When you're done editing, you can remove the intermediate files from the Audio Pool.
Part Processing
When no audio range selection is made, the following processes apply to the entire selected part:
- Normalize
- Amplifies the part so that it peaks at 0 dB
- Reverse
- Reverses the part in time
- Fade In
- Creates a fade-in over the whole part
- Fade Out
- Creates a fade-out over the whole part
- Beatslice & Autoslice
- Non-destructively slices the part; see Slicing/Splitting Parts above
Range Processing
To select a range of an audio part, open the in-track or popup editor, and drag across the waveform with the mouse. The selection obeys the snap settings, and you can adjust the selection after making it by dragging the edges.
To process a selected range, right-click and look in the Process menu:
- Normalize
- Amplifies the selected area so that it peaks at 0 dB
- Delete
- Silences the selected area
- Cut
- Removes the selected area, shortening the sample. The removed area can then be pasted with Ctrl V.
- Trim
- Silences the area outside the selection
- Reverse
- Reverses the selection in time
- Fade In
- Creates a fade-in over the selected area
- Fade Out
- Creates a fade-out over the selected area
You can also cut, copy and paste the selection with keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl X / Ctrl C / Ctrl V by default). The selection is pasted at the mouse cursor location, either as a new audio part, a new sample in a multi-sample part, or as a destructive addition to a single-sample part.
