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The Combat Callouts collection includes two subprojects. The Callouts subproject features male and female groups expressing war cries, agony, screams, hurrah, death, pain, fear, and celebration. They were recorded in ORTF Stereo, which produces a wide stereo image.

Using crowd control track envelopes, the Callouts subproject can sonically morph in real time from a five-member crowd to a huge crowd of 1640 members. The tracks are further enhanced by Additional layers that add weight, distortion, and phattening. These exaggerate the crowd's aggression and morph the perceived size from huge to hoard. The Cinematics layer adds drama with different situational impulse response reverbs of forests and stadiums, and even more phattening.

Mixing and processing of all 160 tracks can be controlled with the crowd control track envelopes. This subproject is set up to render 631 variations of the various expressions.

The Single Voices subproject includes five male and five female individuals set up to render 1935 variations of onomatopoeic expressions and common English phrases.

The complete list of all sounds, associated data, and embedded metadata is available in the accompanying Combat Callouts SoundBook.

	Note
	This guide provides information specific to this collection. For general information that applies to all Strata collections, refer to the Strata User Guide.

The Main Project

The main project provides a convenient way to visualize, locate, and audition the sounds in the Combat Callouts collection. It also contains tracks for each subproject, with media items referencing the various subprojects in nested tracks. You can audition any of the media items, which reference the rendered stereo output from the corresponding subprojects.

In the main project, Combat Callouts.rpp, you can double-click any subproject media item to open the Callouts subproject, in which all the tracks and layers available for the crowd are arranged.

Use the Region/Marker Manager to find and jump to the different subproject tracks. For more information, refer to Regions and Markers in the Strata User Guide.

	A subproject media item. Double-click it to open the subproject in a new tab.
	A media item that references the rendered output of the subproject. Place the cursor at any point on the timeline and click Play to audition the rendered output.