Using Waveforms in Peak Pro

Video Transcript

"Peak Pro is a registered trademark of Bias, Incorporated and I am in no way affiliated with Bias, Incorporated. In this lesson I am going to be teaching you about wave forms in Peak Pro. What a wave form is is it is a visual representation of your audio and they are extremely helpful for giving you cues to select parts of your music so you don't have to hit play and then adjust not knowing where you are at. Your wave form is here in the middle. You have got two versions of it. Up top you have your entire song and down here at the bottom you have a zoomed in view and this corresponds to the white box I have up here at the top, that is what I am looking at down here at the bottom and if you just want to view the zoomed in part you can hit this arrow right here and that is going to minimize your entire song so you can come in here and just focus on the zoomed in part and you can get it back, as well, by clicking that arrow as well. You can zoom in and out with the buttons up here in the tool bar and you will notice that the white box changes as well as the view at the bottom as well to correspond to that and I can slide around that white box at the top by coming down here and sliding this slider around and I can nudge it as well with these arrows right here. I am going to go ahead and play the beginning which is just a drum beat and if you will notice whenever the snare hits is where you have got your peaks in your wave form so something like a drum beat is easy to take cues from visually but when other instruments start coming in I am going to go ahead and play that. It gets a little more confusing but usually you are going to be editing based on the drum beat so you are gong to be using your peaks to know where to make your selections at and that is basically how you use wave forms in Peak Pro."