Custom Sound Settings: Loop, Sound Check & Credits

When you import a sound, or edit one later, Blankie gives you a few options that decide how it behaves in a mix. Here's what each one actually does.

Loop Sound

Keeps the sound playing on repeat. It's on by default, which is what you want for most ambient audio. Turn it off for sounds meant to play once and stop, like a singing bowl or a chime.

Randomize Start

Drops you into a different spot in the file every time the sound starts, so a loop doesn't feel like the exact same few seconds over and over. This only does anything when Loop Sound is on.

Sound Check

This is the one that saves you the most fiddling. Blankie matches the sound's loudness to everything else in your library, so all of your sounds sit at a comparable level in the mix without you nudging sliders. It's on by default.

Turn Sound Check off and a Volume Adjustment slider takes its place, so you can push the sound's base level up or down by hand.

Credits

If you grabbed a sound from somewhere, you can note its author, source and license here. That's especially handy for openly licensed audio, where attribution is part of the deal. And if your file carries metadata tags, like an ID3 title and artist, Blankie reads them and fills these fields in for you.

Changing settings later

None of this is locked in. Come back and adjust any of it whenever you like:

• Mac: choose File → Manage Sounds, or press ⌘O, then select the sound to edit.
• iPhone & iPad: Settings → Manage Sounds, then tap the sound to edit.