reference manual

This reference manual details all the features of HighC. It is organized so as to give a precise explanation of the inner workings of the program, and not thought as a guide on how to create music with HighC. For this reason, it is suggested you either have a bit of experience with HighC, or perform the first tutorial before reading this manual in detail. This reference manual is organized in the following chapters:

Main Concepts
- What is a piece? sets of sounds, duration, pitch range, waveforms, envelopes, patterns, scales & other properties, libraries
- What is a sound? simple sounds: pitch curve, level, envelope, waveform, tags, spatial track ; sound groups: patterns and effects, modulations
User interface
- Main window: zooming and scrolling with the range sliders
- Actions (Menus): File, Edit, View, Effects, Tools, Help
- Toolbars: Tools bar: Select, Edit, Paint, Draw, Tool parameters, Parameters bar: Record, Play, Quality, Duration, Status bar.
Waveforms
- The waveform editor, selecting a waveform, creating a new waveform, editing a waveform, deleting a waveform, waveforms and libraries.
- Waveform types: additive waveforms, wave shape waveforms, noise band waveforms, white noise, functional waveform, composite waveform, other waveform types.
Envelopes
- What is an envelope, the editor,
- selecting an envelope, creating a new envelope, editing an envelope, deleting an envelope,
- envelopes and libraries
Modulation
- Low frequency modulation: vibrato and tremolo
- Frequency modulation synthesis
- Ring modulation (Amplitude modulation)
Organizing/Structuring a piece
- Using Patterns,
- Using Tags,
- Using Libraries,
- Using Scales (tempo and pitch scale)
Input and Output
- MIDI input
- HighC in the production chain
  - HighC in a mixer/sequencer: GarageBand, Anvil Studio
  - HighC in a sampler: Reason
  - HighC file format (for puredata/supercollider/csound and other music programming language users)
Preferences
License Management
Future features