ixiQuarks : Getting Started

Getting Started
Étude 1 - The bufferPool The bufferPool is perhaps the most important utility of the ixiQuarks. This is the tool you use to load in your soundsamples. It loads samples into RAM, so for longer sounds it might be better to use the Player. Choose the sounds that you want to import (you can select many at the time) and load them. When you have loaded them, you can view the sound by hitting ENTER, and you can select a part of the sound to be used in the other instruments (such as the SoundScratcher). You can record (by hitting the "r" button) into the bufferPool as well by opening up the AudioIn tool and send the audio out on any bus and then record from that bus into the bufferPool. Now, when you have some sounds in the bufferPool, load up some instruments, such as the SoundScratcher and perform with the sounds. You can use as many bufferPools as you want at any one time and you can save the state of the bufferPool in the PoolManager so you don't have load the sounds in again, you just load the named bufferPool. Étude 2- AudioIn and Recording To route Audio in from Mic or Line-in, open the AudioIn tool. To get it straight to the speakers, use audio busses 0 and 1 (left and right). If you want to route the audio through some effects or into instruments choose a bus and listen to it in the respective bus on the instrument. You should be aware that you might have to restart your instrument if you want to get the tail of the audiostream coming from the AudioIn. Recording is simple, you choose the bus to record from and the file will appear in the sounds/ixiquarks folder inside your application. The quarks GUI has a button "f" that opens up that sounds folder. To view the signal choose any of the views that you're interested in: (Frequency Scope, Wave Scope or EQ Meter). Étude 3- StratoSampler This instrument records incoming signal and layers it on top of the older signal. The default inbus is 8 and 9 which are the default inbusses of ixiQuarks. Using the "write" button, the sound is written to the ixiquarks sounds folder and it is registered as a sample in the bufferPool. This allows you to use the sampled sound immediately in the other instruments.