Antares Infinity user manual

							InfinityInfinity
DSP SAMPLE LOOPING TOOLS 
Owner’s Manual 
						

							©2002 Antares Audio Technologies. All rights reserved.
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Antares Audio Technologies
231 Technology Circle
Scotts Valley, California 95066 USA
voice: (831) 461 7800
fax: (831) 461 7801
email: [email protected]
web: www.antarestech.com
Rev 1.0rgb v3.18 11/2002 
						

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Continuing with the installation process beyond that point constitutes such
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							Contents
Welcome
Infinity Technical Support vii
Installation and Authorization viii
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Infinity Features 1
Chapter 2 Introducing Infinity
The Problem with Looping 4
Crossfade Loops 5
The Soundfile Window 7
The Palette: Mode Icons 10
Status Display + Action Icons 11
Get Info 12
Envelope Files 13
Chapter 3 The Basics of Infinity
Basic Commands 15
Viewing the Soundfile 16
Changing the Display Resolution 17
Listening to the Soundfile 20
Editing the Soundfile 21
Editing Functions 24
Saving the Soundfile 34
Customizing Your Environment 36 
						

							Chapter 4 Looping Tools
Managing Loop Points 39
The Crossfade Looper 41
The Freeze Looper 44
The Rotated Sums Looper 48
The SPR Looper 51
The Synthesis Looper 55
How To Loop a Sound 65
Appendix A: Keyboard Shortcuts 67
Index 70 
						

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Welcome!
e at Antares Audio Technologies offer both our thanks and congratulations
on your decision to purchase Infinity, the world’s best sample-looping
toolkit.
Before proceeding, please register and authorize your copy of Infinity.
(You can skip ahead a few pages to the Authorization and Installation
instructions. We’ll wait.) Also, if you plan to discard that lovely Infinity
jewel case, write down the serial number that appears on the back for
future reference.
As a registered Infinity owner, you’ll receive notification of any software
upgrades, technical support, and advance announcements of upcoming
products. But we can’t send you stuff unless we know who and where you
are. So please, register. Note that we do not share this information with
people who will pester you.
At Antares, we are committed to excellence in quality, customer service,
and technological innovation. With your purchase of Infinity, you have
created a relationship with Antares which we hope will be long and
gratifying. Let us know what you think. You can count on us to listen.
Again, thanks.
The Whole Antares Crew 
						

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Technical Support
n the unlikely event that you experience a problem using Infinity, try the
following:
1. Make another quick scan through this manual. Who knows? You may
have stumbled onto some feature that you didn’t notice the first time
through.
2. Check our web page for tips, techniques, or any late-breaking
information: http://www.antarestech.com
3. Call your local Antares dealer.
4. Email our tech support department by pointing your web browser to:
http://www.antarestech.com/support/etech.shtml and filling in the form
there.
5. Call us at (831) 461-7814 Monday through Friday between 10am and
5pm USA Pacific Standard Time (or leave a message any time and we’ll
get back to you).
For options 3, 4, or 5, please be prepared to provide the Registration Code
of your copy of Infinity.
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							ix
Installation and Authorization
INSTALLING INFINITY
To install Infinity, simply copy the Infinity installer to your hard drive,
double-click the installer and follow the resulting directions. If you have
purchased Infinity as a download, decompress the downloaded file and
double-click the installer. In either case, be sure to read the Read Me file for
any late breaking news.
AUTHORIZING INFINITY
To run Infinity, the computer on which it runs needs to be authorized using
a “challenge/response” authorization technique. The first time you launch
this software, you will be presented with a string of words (the Challenge)
and will be asked to enter another string of words (the Response).
Note: When initially installed, this software will run for ten days
without authorization.
So even if you can’t authorize it right away, you can still use your software.
(During this period, click the “Try It” button whenever you are presented
with the Trial Period screen at launch.) But don’t procrastinate too long.
After those ten days are up, you can’t launch Infinity until you enter the
correct Response.
CHALLENGE/RESPONSE AUTHORIZATION
You can obtain a Response via the Antares web site, email, or fax. Web
authorization, an automated process, is available 24 hours a day. Email and
fax authorization involve the participation of actual live people and,
depending on when you send your challenge, may take from one to three
days to provide a response.
For web authorization, follow these directions:
Launch Infinity. To access Challenge/Response authorization, press
“Next” at the Trial Period screen to access the Challenge screen. 
						

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The Challenge screen displays the Challenge string. To receive the
appropriate Response you will need to provide us with both the
Challenge string and the registration code that was included on the
yellow card in your software package (if you bought a retail package)
or supplied with your download.
To obtain your Response, have your registration code and Challenge
string at hand. (If you will be accessing the web from the same com-
puter that will be running your software, you can press “Copy Chal-
lenge” at the Challenge screen and then simply paste the Challenge
into the appropriate field on the web page below.)
Point your web browser to:
https://transactions.antarestech.com/
and simply follow the directions. (Be extremely careful to enter the
registration code and Challenge string accurately.)
If, for some reason, you do not have access to the web but do have email,
copy and paste your Challenge string and registration code into an email
along with your name and the product name (e.g., Infinity for MAS), and
send it to:
[email protected]
You will receive your Response string by return email.
If you do not have access to the web or email, fax your Challenge string
along with your registration code to us at (831) 461-7801.  Be sure to
include your fax number. We will fax the Response string back to you at
that number.
Note: You may optimize (defragment) the hard disk containing the
Challenge/Response authorization, or even reinstall your system,
without losing the authorization. However, if you reformat the hard
drive or if it fails, contact Antares for the re-authorization procedure
(you are a registered user, right?).