Welcome < Features < Hooks

Hooks

A hook is a musical or lyrical phrase that stands out and is easily remembered which is used to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener". Hooks can be created using any of the Editors in Zetta^®. If an asset, does not have a defined hook, Zetta will play the audio starting at the Intro Point and then play into the audio for 10 seconds when using hooks in Audition mode. All audio assets can contain a hook.  Hooks can be played in Audition mode or on the air using Stacks or Hot Keys^®. When a Stack event has a Hook enabled a hook is shown with the asset icon. A Hot Key will display a disabled hook icon if the asset has a hook, simply right-clicking the disabled hook icon will enable the asset as a hook, right-click it again to disable the hook and switch back to the entire audio for the asset.

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Create a Hook

1. Open the Library using the Modules Menu
2. Double-click the desired asset from the list to open the metadata card
3. In the Audio tab right-click the waveform.
   
4. Select Insert Hook, a 30 second portion of the audio will be marked as a hook
5. Click Play Hook to listen to the selected hook
6. To adjust the hook, hover over the selected area until the mouse arrow changes to the multi-directional arrow
   
7. Click and drag the hook to the desired location
8. Click Save  when finished to save the changes to the asset.

Show Hooks in the Library Module

1. Open the Library Module
2. Right-click on any column header
   
3. Select Hook from either the Insert or the Replace menu
4. Sort the column to display the assets with hooks at the top of the column
   

Play a Hook in Audition

1. Open the Library using the Modules Menu
2. Highlight the desired asset
3. Select the drop-down next to the Audition button in the library toolbar
   
4. Select Hook from the drop-down menu. The Hook will start playing.
5. Optionally, if the Default Audition from preference or the Audition button is already set to Hook simply click the Audition button or middle-click the asset in the Library, Logs, Hot Keys, Stacks or On-Air modules.

Add a Hook to a Hot Key

1. Open the Library using the Modules Menu
2. Open the Hot Keys^® from the Modules Menu
3. Select a bank from the Select Hot Keys Bank drop-down menu
4. Locate the asset to add in the Library Module. 
5. Click and Drag the asset from the Library Module to a Hot Key in the bank chosen.
   
6. Drop it on the Hot Key, if the asset has a Hook a disabled hook icon will be visible.
7. Right-click the disabled hook icon or right-click the Hot Key and select Hook OFF from the drop-down menu.
8. Zetta changes the Hook icon to show that the hot key is a hook. Optionally, simply right-click the disabled hook icon to enable the asset as a hook.

Add a Hook to a Stack

1. Open the Library using the Modules Menu
2. Open the Stacks from the Modules Menu
3. Select a Station from the drop-down menu
4. Select a Stack from the drop-down menu
5. Locate the event to add in the Library Module. 
6. Click and Drag the event from the Library Module to a position in the Stack.
   
7. Drop it in the desired position
8. Right-click the asset in the stack
9. Select Hook Enabled
10. Zetta adds the Hook icon to show that the asset is a hook.
    

Welcome < Features < Hooks