Effects. Effects can be applied to sample files from this menu. In each case a new file will be created on disk, with the effect applied, and the new sample is automatically imported to a new track. You can apply another effect to the new sample if desired.

Options are:

Plugins

Normalize

Fade In/Out

Reverse

Plugin Filters. This gives a way to use all the Real Time effects and filters, but not in real time. The advantage is that you are not limited by CPU load problems; the disadvantage is that you cannot alter the settings while the sample plays. However, you can run an effect in real time to judge the best settings, and then apply those settings to the sample to create a new file with the effect pre-applied.

To use the effects in this way, select the effect you want via the Sample List window, adjust the settings, and close the settings window. The new file will then be created on disk. Details of all the plugins are here.

Normalize This inspects the whole sample to find the highest level present, and then increases the level of the whole sample so that the highest level present is the maximum for the system. There is no point in applying this operation routinely to all samples, but it can be useful if one sample is noticeably quieter than others, as it makes mixing simpler. Note that normalizing a sample does not improve the sound quality: it just makes it louder.

If you uncheck the "Normalize" button, this operator can also be used to apply any fixed factor of amplification.

Fade In/Out. This applies a fade to either the beginning or end of the sample, over a time of from 1 millisecond up to 10 seconds.

Reverse This will create a new AIFF file on disk with the sample in reverse order. "_eff1", "_eff2" etc will be appended to the file name.