Editing Any Sample

Translator operates on many multiple-layer/object/sample files. You can use any professional (or non-professional) sample editor to edit samples contained in these files with Translator.

You can do this by simply right-clicking on a file/object, and selecting Edit Sample... if it appears. This will cause the Sample Editor of your choice to appear, opening a temporary version of the sample you have selected. You can choose the Sample Editor from with the Options dialog - Setup tab.

You then can edit the sample to your hearts content, then you can close the Sample Editor. If you save the sample in an edited form, Translator will automatically write the sample back in it's edited form. (If you do not save it, Translator assumes that you canceled your operations and will not write anything back to the original file.

Translator does not lose any information originally in the source file using this technique.

Translator does one thing, however, that's a slight twist, in order to accommodate your Sample Editor. Many if not all Sample Editors are only able to playback samples at certain sample rates, most commonly 44.1k, 22.05k, and others. Many samples you'll export in this fashion may have different sample rates. This can cause problems - what if you have a 35.1k sample, and you export it - and you want to hear your sample in your editor, and it says "sample rate not supported" or something similar? You manually adjust the sample rate in your editor, and do your edits, and then you'll have to switch the sample rate back to where you found it, and then save your edits.

That's a hassle - so Translator does this switching for you. It switches to either 44.1k or 22.05 (whichever is closer) upon sending the sample to the external editor, and switches it back upon reception of the sample.

But what if you want to edit the sample rate in the first place within the external editor? The Options dialog - Setup tab has a switch called Sample Rate Non-Adjust - this defeats this adjustment. (The default setting of this parameter in checked, so you have to uncheck it yourself.)