Decomposing Samples

The Decompose function separates the noise and the tonal components of a sample and allows you to save these components separately as new samples.

Prerequisite

  • You have loaded the sample that you want to decompose into a slot.

  • A slot is empty. This is necessary, because two slots are required for the tonal and noise layers.

  • Resynth is deactivated for the layer.

Procedure

  1. Select the layer that you want to decompose.
  2. Solo the layer.
  3. Activate Prelisten.

    Backbone calculates the tonal and the noise components of the layer.

  4. Activate Solo Tonal or Solo Noise and play back the corresponding component.
  5. Try out different Sensitivity, Cutoff, and Duration settings.

    The Prelisten function recalculates the tonal and noise components automatically when you modify the parameters. During this process, an indicator is shown above the Prelisten button.

  6. Optional: Use the Tonal Level and Noise Level controls to adjust the level of the corresponding component.
    Note

    Once you have identified the settings that you want to use, be sure to deactivate Solo Tonal/Solo Noise. Otherwise, only the corresponding component is saved when you click Apply.

  7. Optional: Open the Decompose Settings pane and specify the save locations for the created files.
  8. Click Apply to decompose the sample.

Result

Two new samples are created, one for the tonal and one for the noise component of the sound. They are saved with the extensions “_noise” and “_tonal”, respectively. The tonal sample replaces the original sample in the slot. The noise sample is loaded into the next layer.

Note

If a sample with the same name already exists at the save location, for example, because you tried out different Decompose settings, a number is added to the new file name. No sample files are overwritten by the Decompose function.

After Completing This Task

You can now edit the tonal and noise samples separately, combine them differently, etc.