Creating a Track with a Harmonics Source

This procedure shows how to create a track with a Harmonics source in a Sound Composer project.

To Create a Track with a Harmonics Source:

Prerequisites: You need a Sound Composer project.
  1. Click New Track to add a track to the Sound Composer project.
  2. Click Create new track....
  3. In the New track window, type a Track name.
  4. Click New source to create a new source.
    Note: If you want to open a *.src file, click Open a source, then see Adding a Source to a Sound Composer Track.
  5. Enter a Source name.
  6. In the Source type drop-down list, select either Harmonics 1-parameter or Harmonics 2-parameters.
  7. Click Browse to select the *.xml, *.txt, *.csv or *.ord file, then click Open to add the file to the source.
    Note: For the Harmonics 2-parameters source type, only the *.txt format is supported.
  8. Click OK.

    The track appears in the Sound Composer window. The track number remains dark orange until you set the required sound control parameters.

    Note: The track number will remain dark orange if there are any errors once you have set up the sound control parameters (see below). More information about the error is displayed in a tooltip when hovering over the track number.
  9. Click Source control, then:
    • Load > From file to associate to the harmonics source an RPM profile included into a *.wav file or a *.txt file,

      Note: The supported text files are:
      • File starting with the header AnsysSound_SoundSamples (see Source Formats),
      • Any text file with two columns where the first column is time and the second column is the profile.
    • Load > From an already opened signal to associate to the harmonics source an RPM profile included into a signal currently opened in Sound: Analysis and Specification,
    • Load > Create a profile to generate an RPM profile to associate to the harmonics source.
    Note: If you selected Harmonics 2-parameters as the Source type, you must set up a Source control profile for each control parameter.
  10. If you need to add a Filter to the Track, see Adding a Filter to a Track.
  11. If you want to adjust the gain of the track, double-click the dB field and edit the gain value.
  12. You can use the Display profiles button to display a graph showing the evolution of control parameters with respect to time.
  13. For a 2-parameter source you can use the Display trajectory button to open the Dataset Coverage window with the trajectory displayed in orange.
The new track is added to the project.
Save the Sound Composer project to save the track in the project file.
Tip: If you want to save the Track as a *.trk file, click .