Rummage Heap Quickstart for Ryan PRETTY
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1. Rummage Heap Quickstart for Ryan PRETTY PLEASE follow these steps the first time you open Rummage Heap or else things will get real wonky real fast 1 When you open the app give it a good 20 to 30 seconds before you try to do anything This is to ensure everything has had a chance to load and initialize If you re lucky you ll hear several chimes as the application starts up You should see a big green waveform near the top of the page You ll also see some of those orange dots on the right turn green as the program loads That s the last step in the initialization process Let s rock 2 Find the AUDIO SETTINGS tab very top of the page towards the left Then select Built in Output from the DRIVER menu This assumes you want to use your computer s system output to hear playback If you have an audio interface connected it will show up in this menu so you can select that driver if you prefer 3 I know you re gonna want to dive right into this but before you hit play preview the file that loaded by default Find the little grey PREVIEW FILE box on the far left side of the page to the bottom left of the big green waveform Hit the play toggle gt and listen to the original file FYI the same track is loaded into both WAVE 1 and WAVE 2 by default It s a dried up track I did for someone s documentary Pretty lame right Well herein lies the magic of Rummage Heap You can load a crappy track like that and turn it2. into something quite wonderful 4 Hit spacebar and let Rummage Heap run its demo It ll just keep going so you can let it play and watch the sequencers position values subwave parameters etc to get an idea of how things work 5 Now ask the stewardess for a plastic cup full of whiskey and make some music General Notes for Getting Started e Just about everything in the application is hinted so you can hover over most interface objects number boxes sliders text etc and a little hint will pop up telling you about that particular parameter and or how to use it e Take a look at the help windows by clicking their buttons which are to the right of the WAVE 1 4 tabs near the top left of the page There are some handy keyboard shortcuts and other useful info e You ll probably need to mess with the I O SIZE and SIG SIZE parameters in AUDIO SETTINGS to get the best results If you re hearing a lot of clicking and snapping try cranking your I O SIZE to maximum usually 1024 and set the SIG SIZE as low as possible without hearing a bunch of dropouts snaps and stutters I ve found a good combination to be I O SIZE 1024 and SIG SIZE 64 e Save often As soon as you get something you like save it Use shift s or SAVE from the HEAP MANAGER FILE dropdown menu Note this is actually saving your presets so of course you ll need to create presets of your settings first See the SEQUENCER amp PRESET HELP window by clicking
3. the button which explains how to save presets and apply preset sequencing But in a nutshell just shift click on any preset number to store your current settings If you shift click on an existing preset orange it overwrites that preset e See that little red line that s jumping around in the Waveform window That s showing you the current position in the sequence for each Subwaveform To monitor a different Subwaveform use the POS MON menu to select 1 4 which correspond to Subwaves A through D for each WAVE e There s a lot going on by default so to get a better handle on what s happing try muting all of the Subwaveforms except one use the M toggle at the bottom of the Subwaveform mixers to mute that Subwave If you need more specific info such as how to record into Live take a look at the User s Manual
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