Creating a project

At AVS Music start pane please select Create new mix-project item and click Next>>.

After that you should enter the file name for your project and set it's location. Click the Browse... button to open the standard Windows explorer menu and select the project location. After you are done, click the Finish button to finish creating a project. Please take into account that you will get an info message in case a project with the name you have typed already exists.

Saving a project

Saving your project lets you keep your current work, and then later open the file in Music Mix to make further changes. You can continue editing your project from where you left off when you last saved the project. When you save a project, the arrangement of loops added to the timeline and any other changes you have made are retained. To save the created project click the Save mix-project button .

Opening existing projects

You can use Open existing mix-project item in Welcome to AVS Music Mix window, that opens on the application start, and click Open... button. After that select the project to be opened in the standard explorer window and click Open. To open an existing project when the program is running, you should click the Load mix-project button . After that select the project to be opened in the standard explorer window and click Open.

Editing projects

To start a project and begin creating your music masterpiece, you need to add the imported audio to the Timeline. The loops on timeline become the contents of your project. The timeline displays your work in progress, as it reflects the timing of loops.

Top Toolbar contains the following main buttons to let the user perform common operations quickly. You can find the description of each button in the table below:

Button	Name	Description
	Delete samples from collection	Use this button to delete the selected sample(s) from the collection.
	Import your audio track	Use this button to import any supported audio file to AVS Music Mix.
	Sample sounds from Internet	Use this button to load samples from the AVS Media web site.
	Samples/Effects	Use this button to switch between the Effects and Samples mode.
	New project	Use this button to create a new project.
	Save mix-project	Use this button to save the created project.
	Load mix-project	Use this button to load an existing project.
	Delete all tracks	Use this button to delete all of the tracks from the Timeline.
	Delete the selected track	Use this button to delete the highlighted track from the Timeline.
	Duplicate the selected track	Use this button to duplicated the highlighted track at the Timeline.
	Add new line	Use this button to add a new empty track to the Timeline.
	Delete loop	Use this button to delete the highlighted loop.
	Duplicate loop	Use this button to duplicate the highlighted loop.
	Add loop from the selected collection	Use this button to add loop from the collection to the Timeline.
	Undo	Use this button to undo Timeline operation.
	Redo	Use this button to redo Timeline operation.
	Show Help	Use this button to run AVS Audio Tools Help file.
		Use this button to save the created project or the selected part of it into one of the supported digital audio formats.

At Explorer part you can find the collections containing loops or imported audio tracks. Please note that you can organize the imported files into collection for their further comfortable use in your project. To play a loop or imported audio just double click it in the Explorer part. You also can use Explorer Player Toolbar. You can find the description of each button in the table below:

To import audio to AVS Music Mix:

1. Click the Import your audio track button.
2. In standard explorer window please select file(s) to be imported.
   

   

   
   
3. Select the location for the imported files. It could be one of the existing collections or you can create a new one. Note that you can set the name of new created collection.
   

   

   
   
4. Click the Import button.

AVS Music Mix has an easy to use working area which has a set of buttons. They let the user introduce various effects and modify the parameters of these effects.

AVS Music Mix allows you to apply one or several audio tracks/loops to your project. For convenience of use you can change the sequence of audio reflection or resize them at the Timeline. It's possible to create one track using fragments from several tracks. The simplest way to do that is use drag-and-drop method. Please note how the way of displaying the whole audio track differs from the trimmed one.

Whole Audio Track
Trimmed Audio Track

Timeline Toolbar

Timeline toolbar allows to perform tasks such as introducing the limits of effect, boundaries of fade-in and fade-out areas, zooming in or out the details of your media.

Button Description Zooms the selection in Zooms the selection out 100% view Frames navigation Active Track Passive Track

Envelope

At each audio track reflected at the Timeline you can see an envelope that depicts the volume control. You can regulate it differently according to your project's details. To add a control point to the envelope, double-click within the envelope line (where the mouse cursor changes to a hand) and drag the control point to the location where you want it.

To move a point on the envelope, click and hold the point and drag it to a new location. Note that in case you move the point more than 20 pixels over the track line up or down, the point will be deleted. You can use this feature to create smooth transition between two tracks. When the mouse cursor is located over a point, you will see it change from an arrow to a rhombus.

Selection

To select a part of your project, click the left mouse button and drag the slider along the navigation line. The selected area will be highlighted.

Timeline Player Toolbar

Timeline Player Toolbar consists of four buttons. See the detailed description of each button in the table below:

AVS Music Mix gives you an opportunity to apply various effects and filters to your mix projects. Using them you can achieve the desired sound. All effects and filters are applied using the timeline tool.

Use this button on the Top Toolbar to switch between the Effects mode and Samples mode.

Select an effect to apply from the Effects and Filters list. You can move it along the timeline, to affect a certain audio fragment, adjust the coverage, Fade In and Fade Out areas.

AVS Music Mix gives you an opportunity to apply various effects and filters to your mix projects. Using them you can achieve the desired sound. Below is the list of all the effects and filters and their brief description.

Effects and Filters:

• Amplify
• Low Pass
• High Pass
• Band Pass
• Notch Filter
• Low Shelf
• High Shelf
• Vibrato
• Delay
• Pitch Shift
• Flanger
• Chorus
• Reverberation
• Compressor
• Expander
• Normalize
• Phaser

Amplify

This function enables you to apply the same amount of gain change throughout the audio file.

Low Pass

The Low Pass filter lets you hear only low frequencies; it blocks higher frequencies.

High Pass

High Pass filter lets you hear only high frequencies. It attenuates frequencies below the certain cutoff frequency.

Band Pass

The Band Pass filter lets you hear a certain band of frequencies within an upper and lower range. Frequencies above and below this band are attenuated. The distance between the higher and lower cutoff frequencies in a band pass filter is called the bandwidth of the filter. The center frequency of a band pass filter is the maximum point of amplitude.

Notch Filter

The Notch Filter cuts specified frequency from audio data.

Low Shelf

The Low Shelf filter boosts or cuts frequencies below the cutoff, and passes frequencies above the shelf cutoff with no change made to their gain. Use this effect to enhance or diminish any amount of low frequency material in a sound.

High Shelf

The High Shelf filter boosts or cuts frequencies above the cutoff, and passes frequencies below the shelf cutoff with no change made to their gain. Use this effect to enhance or diminish any adjustable amount of high frequency material in a sound.

Vibrato

Vibrato equals to a cyclical changing of a certain frequency of the input signal.

Delay

You can use this function to create single echoes, as well as a number of other effects. Delays of 35 milliseconds (ms) or more will be perceived as discrete echoes, while those falling within the 35-15 ms range can be used to create a simple chorus or flanging effect. (These effects will not be as effective as the actual chorus or flanging effects, as the delay settings will be fixed and will not change over time).

Pitch Shift

The Pitch Shift effect shifts the frequency spectrum of the input signal. It can be used to disguise a person's voice, or make the voice sound like that of the "chipmunks", through to "Darth Vader". It is also used to create harmony in lead passages, although it is an "unintelligent" harmonizer.

Flanger

You can use this function to create a flanging effect by slightly delaying and phasing a signal at predetermined or random intervals. In the pull-down menu you will find a great variety of different flanger effects, to choose any of them just click the necessary one.

Chorus

You can use this function to set Chorus Effect that is used to mix the signal with a slightly delayed copy of itself, where the length of the delay is constantly changing.

Reverberation

You can use this function to set Reverb Effect that is used to simulate acoustic space, and consists of both early reflections and echoes that are so closely spaced that they are perceived as a single fading sound. Reverb is different from the basic echo function in that the delays are not repeated at regularly spaced intervals. Reverb function can create a wide range of high-quality reverb effects.

Compressor

This function enables you to reduce the dynamic range of an audio signal. For example, compressors can be used to eliminate the variations in the peaks of an electric bass signal by clamping them to a constant level (thus providing an even, solid bass line.) Compressors can also be useful in compensating the wide variations in the level of a signal produced by a singer who moves frequently or has an erratic dynamic range.

Expander

Expander effect is used to expand the dynamic range of an audio signal. Expander boosts the high-level signals and attenuates low-level signals.

Normalize

You can use the Normalize effect to achieve the greatest amount of amplification that will not result in clipping.

Phaser

Here you can choose the desired effect from the options that you will find in the pull-down menu, in case you want to set your own Delay Time, Mix Depth and Feedback Gain, go to View/Show/Hide Effect Panel, on the effect panel open Delay Effects/Phaser.

AVS Music Mix offers the opportunity to save the created audio project in several common audio formats. To save the whole project click the Save As... button at the Top Toolbar. The program will suggest you to select the output file format and specify the output file format parameters such as Sample rate (Frequency), Bitrate and Channels.

It is also possible to save a part of your project as a separate file. For that please select the necessary part at the Timeline and click Save As...

Please note that it is possible to specify Fine tuning parameters for MP3 format clicking the Advanced... button.