Audio Advantage Amigo

Making a Recording with the Record Wizard

Recording is easy with the Record Wizard. Simply press the Record button, then select “Use the Record Wizard” from the dialog box to launch the Record Wizard dialog. From here you can select the recording source and recording resolution, then lets the Wizard automatically adjust the optimum volume level and start recording. After the file has been recorded, it is loaded into the Primary View window so you can edit and save it.

Editing Audio Files

To Load and Play a File

1.Select File menu Æ Open or click the Open File button. Navigate to the directory where your digital audio files are located and click a file name in the Files list.

2.Double-click the file name or highlight the file name and choose OK.

3.After the file loads into the Primary View, click the Play button or press the Spacebar to play the file.

⇒NOTE: If a Range is selected (see below) only the highlighted Range will play, rather than the entire file.

To select a range

1.Click on the desired start point in the display. Drag to the right and at the desired end point, release. The range selected will be highlighted.

2.To adjust the end points, place the mouse cursor at the desired location in the File Display, hold the Shift key and click. The Start or End point, whichever is nearer, jumps to the mouse cursor.

3.To select the entire file, use Edit menu Æ Select All, press Ctrl+A or double-click on the display.

To Play the selected range,

Press the Spacebar or click the Play button and the range will play.

To Zoom in/out on a Range

1.Select a range and click the Zoom In (or Zoom Out) button on the bottom right of the screen. The entire screen will represent the length of the highlighted range, from beginning to end.

2.Select a range in the zoomed view and repeat the procedure to produce successively higher degrees of magnification. Clicking the zoom button without having a range selected increases the magnification by 2. The maximum zoom range is one sample per pixel.

To Insert Silence

1.Click-and-drag in the Graphic File Display to highlight the amount of silence you want to insert.

2.Select Edit menu Æ Insert Silence and silence for the amount selected is inserted. Any data after the insert shifts to the right.

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