# The Control menu

The Control menu lets you display the Output window and pause, continue, or stop a process.

Figure 1: Control menu.

## Show Output command

Displays a window to show your sound whenever SoundHack writes sound to your output sound file, except during file copying and normalization. This slows down processing somewhat.

## Show Spectrum command

Draws the spectrum of the sound file as it's being generated.

## Pause Process command

Lets you pause during a long process in order to use your Macintosh without starting the processing over. If you are running a convolution, it may take a while-up to three minutes-to pause.

## Continue Process command

Resumes processing where you left off.

## Stop Process command

Kills the currently running process and closes the output sound file.

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