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Figure 35.1 shows a Harmonic being edited. This is actually the Harmonic we saw earlier - piano2 - in more detail.
While it is possible to manually enter factors - which correspond to relative amplitudes - in the table, this can be a tedious task, especially where there are a lot of harmonics. The Kangas Sound Editor has a limit of 1024 on the number of harmonics. For this reason, a 'Fill' group of user interface controls has been developed, that allows a reasonable selection of ways to populate the factors in the table. The ubiquitous Graphs can be used, specific range of indexes can be targeted, and it is possible to fill with just a constant value (if fill mode is set to fill from value).
Notice there is also a facility for random generation of values. This can be combined with multi-save, which has nothing to do with offers at your local supermarket! It means you can save a specified number of Harmonic records, with different random numbers applied to each. The Harmonic - paul_RND_3 - we have been using was randomly generated, the suffix RND was used in constructing it's name. Using this (multi-save) mechanism you can generate new instruments at quite a speed - although they may not necessarily sound very different from each other.