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| Tracks | | Unlimited* |
| Takes | | Unlimited* takes per track. |
| Audio Clips | | Unlimited* clips per take. |
| Audio Devices | | Any supported Mac OS X audio interface with any number of input channels. Output from Intuem is stereo on channels 1 and 2 of a chosen audio output device. Multiple output and input devices per document. |
| AudioUnit Effects | | Unlimited* effects per audio take. Uses standard AudioUnit effects and AudioUnit music effects. Several are pre-installed in Mac OS X, many others available from other software developers. Supports on-screen AudioUnit panels, configuration of parameters for default values and display options. |
| AudioUnit Instruments | | Unlimited* number of instruments per composition. Uses standard AudioUnit instruments. |
| Sample Rate/Size | | Sample rates from 8000Hz up to 96,000Hz. Sample size from 8-32 bits. Processing pathway is 32bit floating point. |
| MIDI Events | | Unlimited* events per take. |
| Resolution | | 1000ppqn, 1ms latency. |
| MIDI Devices | | Internal QuickTime Musical Instruments (A Roland GS SoundCanvas compatible soft-synth), internal DLS & SoundFont based soft-synth, AudioUnit instruments, AudioUnit music effects as MIDI devices, external hardware MIDI devices and 3rd party soft-synths. Works with Mac OS X's Audio MIDI Setup for basic connections. |
| Programs | | User-defined for each hardware MIDI device. Automatically defined for DLS/SoundFont devices. Can be defined as running from 0-127 or 1-128 to match some manufacturer's front panels. |
| Controllers | | All MIDI defined controllers plus velocity on/off, compound bank/program change, compound RPN/NRPN with data and pitch specific after touch. Configurable on a device basis to rename and selectively remove/include controllers and re-sort for display. |
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| MMC | | Intuem sends the following commands: Stop, Play, Deferred Play, Record Punch In, Record Punch Out, Pause, Goto. Intuem recognises the following commands: Stop, Play, Deferred Play, Record Punch In, Record Punch Out, Pause, Goto. Fast forward and reverse are not supported. |
| MTC | | Intuem sends quarter frame messages while playing, and full frame messages when cueing. Intuem does not recognise MTC. |
| MIDI Clock | | Intuem sends MIDI Start, Stop, Continue, and Clock messages. Intuem recognises Start, Stop, Continue, and Clock messages, but will not alter its tempo to match input. |
| SPP | | Intuem uses Song Position Pointer messages for cueing in conjunction with MIDI Clock. |
| MIDI Devices | | Individual external and internal MIDI devices can be used to control Intuem, and be controlled by Intuem. Configuration is done on a device specific basis. Connection is through MIDI interface ports except in the case of internal devices and certain applications where it is done through virtual MIDI ports. |
| Applications | | Intuem can control and be controlled by application programs such as Logic and Soundtrack Pro from Apple. Configuration is on an application-wide basis. Connection is through virtual MIDI ports maintained by Intuem. |
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| Compliance | | Intuem is a ReWire mixer under ReWire 2. |
| Devices | | Unlimited* number of ReWire devices open at once and in use. |
| Channels | | 24 input channels. Selectable from a device's stereo pair up to its maximum or 24 whichever is less. |
| MIDI Devices | | All the MIDI channels/devices the ReWire device presents are available with all the specific controllers plus velocity on/off and volume. |
| Play-Through | | Any combination of channels can be played through via multiple tracks and out to multiple audio output devices simultaneously. |
| Device Panel | | Device panel applications are accessible through the Mac OS Finder and through Intuem's ReWire preferences panel. |
| Sample Rate/Size | | Sample rates are user selectable from 44,100Hz up to 96,000Hz. Sample size is 32 bit floating point. |
| Control | | Intuem can control and synchronise any ReWire device. ReWire devices can control Intuem, however ReWire devices cannot set Intuem's tempo. Looping is fully supported. |
| ReWire Events | | All ReWire 2 events supported. |
| MIDI Events | | All ReWire 2 MIDI events supported. |
| Recording | | ReWire audio can be recorded from any combination of channels. MIDI events from ReWire devices can also be recorded. Audio tracks can be frozen and MIDI tracks converted to audio. |
| Mixing & Processing | | ReWire audio tracks can have AudioUnits and are mixed with the Mixer. |
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| File Types | | Any file that Intuem can read may be included in a playlist such as a composition, project, MIDI file, SysEx and various audio files. |
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| Control | | Play start/stop, pause, loop, previous/next and replay. |
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| Sequencing | | A start time offset can be given for each file to cause it to start playing before the previous file ends or to leave a precise gap in between files. |
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| Saving | | Playlists can be saved for future use. Only one can be played at a time. |
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| Composition | | The Apple Remote can be used to control a composition to start/stop play, move to beginning/end, loop in/out and to record punch-in/out. |
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| Playlist | | The Apple Remote will control the playlist to start/stop play navigate through the list and hide/show the playlist. |
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| Styles | | Micro overview, Standard music notation, Mega editing view (piano roll for MIDI, waveform for audio). Track views individually height settable from 28 pixels up, and re-scalable. Background contrast level selectable in certain configurations. |
| Grouping | | Tracks can be layered on top of each other to view and edit notes and controller data in the same pitch or value space. Audio tracks can also be layered on top of each other. |
| Ordering | | Tracks can be re-ordered by dragging them up/down in the composition window. Grouped tracks can be ordered front to back by similar dragging. |
| Resizing | | Duration of viewed time re-sizable from 1000+ pixels per quarter note, to a maximum of 2 quarter notes per pixel. |
| Guidelines | | Optional display of bar and beat lines in track and controller views. Optional labeling of note "Bands" in Mega view. Four contrast levels for "Band" colours in Mega view. |
| Controllers | | All defined controllers & AudioUnit parameters can be on screen, on each track, all at once. Displayed as blocks or Pedal marks. Controller views individually height settable from 28 pixels up, automatically re-scaling. Controller values can be labelled and value ranges can be labelled. |
| Instrument Tracks | | Instrument controller tracks can be optionally displayed and thereby edited like other controller views. |
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| Composition | | Composition appears in its entirety in one window with option to hide (remove from processing and view) unneeded tracks. Unlimited* number of open compositions at once in one of three styles, Standard, Brushed Metal and Aqua. |
| Mixer | | The Mixer displays one strip for each track and each internal MIDI device. Displayed in one of two styles, Standard and Brushed Metal. |
| Controller | | Translucent controller gives play/loop/pause controls plus navigation to composition start/end, loop start/end, has loop start/end set buttons and also has mouse tools and displays loop times and current scrubber time. |
| Quantise | | Translucent quantise palette gives all quantise settings and apply control. |
| Toolbar | | Composition windows can optionally use a toolbar to access most of the controller and quantise palette functions. |
| Inspector | | Houses composition details such as title, copyright. Also houses track settings for name, colour, take management, MIDI output device and audio input and output devices and channel assignments, audio play-through controls, event, System Exclusive and track-wide and composition/project-wide audio clip management and appearance controls. |
| Monitor | | Monitor for audio input levels and external and virtual MIDI devices with receive indication and test function. |
| Playlist | | For sequenced playing of compositions, projects, MIDI files and various audio files. |
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| Undo/Redo | | Unlimited* |
| Drag & Drop | | Drag and drop tracks between open compositions for copying. |
| Mouse Tools | | Pointer for selecting notes, controllers and audio samples; Pencil to draw notes and controllers free hand as well as straight line, quadratic curve (4 ways), cubic curve (4 ways) and a sinus curve; Hand to scroll left/right up/down in track views; Text to add cue, lyric and comment text in track views. |
| Selecting | | Selections may consist of single disparate notes/clips/samples/controller data blocks or contiguous sections of notes, clips, audio samples and controllers spanning multiple tracks. |
| Copy/Paste | | Audio clips can be cut/pasted, duplicated. Single note/controller event, entire tracks, partial tracks, entire track contents, multiple tracks and multiple track regions. Also Paste at Scrubber to relocate notes/controller data and duplicate. |
| Moving | | Mouse free drag and quantised drag with repeat and copy & repeat. Entire composition time shifting. Insert and delete time. |
| Non-Destructive | | Optional mode permitting adjusting of notated appearance without changing sound or dynamics. |
| Note Refitting | | Notes played at a different tempo than Intuem's settings may be stretched or compressed to fit within bars/beats without changing their sound. |
| Quantise | | Note start & duration, Exact align starts, Dynamic align starts. Quanta: whole to 128th note, dotted and tuple. |
| Note Velocity | | Overlapping notes can have velocity independently edited graphically. |
| Transpose | | +/- Perfect octave and all intervals in between. |
| Meter | | Any meter from 1/2 to 32/64. Unlimited* number of meter changes. |
| Key | | Any of the 15 key signatures, major or minor. Unlimited* number of key changes. |
| Tempo | | Any tempo from 1bpm to 1982bpm, fractional bpms. Edited freely, entered specifically and tapped out. Unlimited* number of tempo changes. |
| Text | | Cue, Lyric and Comment text freely added to track views. Any font, size, language and colour. Positioned by time and pitch. |
| Events | | All of the above events can be edited in list mode using the Inspector. Each event type has specific list appearance and specific editors for easy access to all aspects of the event. Double-clicking any event, note or audio clip will automatically open the event for editing in the inspector. |
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| Audio Inputs | | Unlimited* audio input devices and channels. Can record from any single channel of an input, and combinations of channels are possible. |
| MIDI Inputs | | Unlimited* MIDI hardware inputs from MIDI Keyboards, controllers and sound modules. |
| Enabling | | Tracks individually enabled, records multiple tracks at once. |
| MIDI Routing | | Received MIDI events from a keyboard/controller can be sent to any destination, hardware or software as dictated by the record enabled track. Multiple devices per track in the case of a sound module controlled by a keyboard. |
| Modes | | Metronome Count-In, Wait for Note, Re-trigger Selected Notes, Loop, Insert and Step (with chord entry). All recording modes are insert based. Options for quantising MIDI input and recording at slower tempo. |
| Programs | | Multiple modes for handling incoming program changes: apply to entire track, apply to current program change, real-time insert and ignore. |
| Metronome | | Based on time signature, and desired interval duration. Optional automatic switch-on when recording begins. Tick duration can be adjusted to suit MIDI device and program. |
| Live Updating | | Recorded audio, notes and controllers are updated live on-screen as received. |
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| Audio Outputs | | Multiple unlimited* stereo output audio devices. |
| MIDI Outputs | | Multiple unlimited* outputs to QuickTime Musical Instruments (A Roland GS SoundCanvas compatible soft-synth), internal DLS & SoundFont based soft-synths and MIDI keyboards and sound modules and 3rd party soft-synths. |
| Scrubbing | | Command-Drag scrubber or click note and while writing notes with pencil tool. Scrubber follows music as it plays, optional. |
| Metronome | | Based on time signature, and desired interval duration. Optional automatic switch-on when playing begins. Tick duration can be adjusted to suit MIDI device and program. |
| Looping | | Play arbitrary, user defined loops. |
| Stop | | Composition can be set to automatically stop at its end. Overridden when recording. |
| All Stop | | Command-Period all stop command explicitly cancels all notes on all devices, hardware and software. |
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| Modes | | Automation is handled via the Mixer and AudioUnit panels is several different ways: - Slave: controllers play as recorded and will reset any changes made by the mixer or AudioUnit panels. User changes are set to the devices but not recorded and are overridden as soon as a scheduled recorded change is sent.
- Master: recorded automation is not sent to the devices, instead the current mixer and AudioUnit panel control values are used and user changes are sent to the devices but not recorded.
- Write: The above two modes can be augmented so user changes are inserted into the recorded changes.
- Set Levels: Controller levels can be set over their entire existing duration. Recorded changes are sent as per slave mode.
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| MIDI | | MIDI controllers are all automated via the mixer. |
| AudioUnits | | Parameter changes made through the mixer and through AudioUnit panels can be recorded in real-time. The automation mode can also be set using a pop-up in the toolbar attached to all AudioUnit panel windows. |
| Persistence | | Automation mode stays with the track throughout a session and is restored when reopening a document. |
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| Selecting | | Presets saved in the standard locations will be automatically located and catalogued by Intuem and presented in groups along with default internal presets for the AudioUnit. Presets can also be loaded from any disk location. |
| Access | | Presets are listed in a pop-up on the AudioUnit panel window toolbar for instant access. Also available via main menu. |
| Defaults | | AudioUnits can have presets assigned to them as a start-up state. |
| Creating | | At any time a preset can be created for a capable AudioUnit with one click in the AudioUnit panel toolbar and save to any of the standard locations. |
| Saving | | Compositions and projects are saved with current preset names so re-opening is predictable. |
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| Pitch | | Music can be typed into a MIDI track using the computer keyboard. CHords entered by holding down shift. |
| Duration | | Note duration, can be set by keyboard shortcuts. Shortcuts are shared by the quantise operations so setting note duration for keyboard is the same as setting the quantise duration and vice versa. |
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| Audio Inputs | | Multiple unlimited* inputs routed from ReWire and audio hardware devices, usable simultaneously, any channel accessible separately, combinations possible where devices permit. |
| Audio Outputs | | Multiple unlimited* outputs to hardware audio devices in stereo. |
| Audio Routing | | Input Audio sources can be routed into an audio track, through any AudioUnits onward to the mixer and out to an audio output device. |
| MIDI Inputs | | Multiple unlimited* inputs routed from MIDI hardware devices, usable simultaneously. |
| MIDI Outputs | | Multiple unlimited* outputs to QuickTime Musical Instruments (A Roland GS SoundCanvas compatible soft-synth), internal DLS & SoundFont based soft-synths and MIDI keyboards and sound modules and 3rd party soft-synths. |
| MIDI Routing | | Input MIDI sources can be routed to a record-enabled or focussed track which would normally be controlled by a particular device, to the default device, or back to itself. |
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| Markers | | Text markers in the time ruler with corresponding menu items using keyboard shortcuts Command-1 to Command-9. Also corresponding clickable ticks in the horizontal scroll-bar. |
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| Printing | | Compositions with MIDI trackscan be printed with proportional or mathematical spacing in the standard manuscript format with optional bar and page numbering. Appears as shown on-screen and may be scaled up or down. All tracks are labeled and joined with a systemic bar line. Any text items set to be displayed in notation style views will be printed. Any displayed pedal controllers will also be printed. |
| Exporting | | Compositions can be exported as audio in the following formats: AIFF, AAC (MPEG-4), 3GPP, AU, WAVE, QuickTime movie. Composition can also be exported as type 1 Standard MIDI Files (SMF or .mid files) with the same resolution as Intuem's .composition files. Some formatting is lost, and all but the current take for each track is lost, text, markers tempo changes and signatures are kept. |
| Importing | | Opens CD audio tracks, AIFF, MP3, AAC (MPEG-4), 3GPP, QuickTime, AVI, Sound Designer II, AU, WAVE and System 7 sound files. Reads type 0 and type 1 Standard MIDI files, RMID files. Reads also ".syx" System Exclusive data files as compositions or may be imported directly into a track. |
| Projects | | Compositions with many audio files can be exploded and saved as an Intuem Project with out-board audio files that can be shared among other projects. Projects can be converted back into compositions for simple portability. |
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| * Unlimited means no set limit except those limits determined by your computer's speed, memory and available disk space. |
