"01" " Welcome" "click here to select a sample. Select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu for more information." "0" "Select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu for more information" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "Welcome to the VinylStudio sound samples collection - a small set of sample files you can experiment with before making recordings of your own.\n\nThe first three samples are the same as the 'welcome' collection which was installed with the software. The remainder are additional samples you can declick.\n\nWhen declicking, we recommend that you first scan each sample with the default settings. This, after all, is what you would do with one of your own recordings. You can then read the notes associated with the sample in question to see how VinylStudio's settings can be adjusted to get the best results.\n\nThese are real-world samples, so please don't expect perfect results without a little experimentation - they are designed to show you how to use VinylStudio's declicker most effectively.\n\nPlease refer to the album notes for each individual sample for more details.\n\nTIP: you can leave this window open while working in VinylStudio; it is also resizeable.\n"
>Ext Notes "This sample lets you try out VinylStudio's track splitting functions.\n\nTo split up the tracks on this album:\n - go to the 'Split Tracks' window if necessary (via the Window menu or toolbar button)\n - double-click in the waveform display to insert track breaks between tracks\n\nYou can then zoom in to adjust the trackbreaks precisely. Please note that the tracks have been shortened for copyright reasons and to keep the filesize down.\n\nOnce you have inserted the track breaks, you can try burning a CD or generating MP3 files to copy to your player.\n\nTIP: Mouse over toolbar buttons etc. for a brief description of what they do (click on the 'VinylStudio' window first).\n"
"01" " 2. Joe Jackson" "Loisaida - for declicking" "0" "For more information, please select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "This sample, lets you try out VinylStudio's declicker. To declick this album:\n - go to the 'Cleanup Audio' window if necessary (via the Window menu or toolbar button)\n - click on the 'Scan for Clicks' button in the toolbar beneath the waveform display\n\n(Reminder: click on the 'VinylStudio' window and then mouse over toolbar buttons etc. for a brief description of what they do).\n\nYou should notice a big improvement.\n\nOne click in the right-hand (i.e. bottom) channel is not completely eliminated by scanning at the default settings however. In this case, scanning at a higher sensitivity (4) resolves the problem by slightly widening the repair that VinylStudio makes. If you want to see this in the waveform display, zoom in on the click after scanning at sensitivity 3 and then rescan at sensitivity 4.\n\nTIP: you can toggle between corrected and uncorrected audio at any time by clicking on the third button from the right.\n"
"01" " 3. Vivaldi" "Four Seasons" "0" "For more information, please select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "You can scan this extract for clicks in the same way as the previous one. In this case, there are some very heavy clicks on the recording - pretty unpleasant to listen to in their uncorrected state.\n\nAgain, if you listen carefully, there are a couple faint residual 'thumps' left behind after the largest clicks have been repaired (these result from the needle returning to its normal position after passing over the defect on the record surface) and you might like to try eliminating these by manually extending the repairs made by VinylStudio.\n\nTo do this, click (sorry) on a click and then zoom in, refining the cursor position as necessary, until the display brightens. You can then drag the edges of the repair to completely encompass the click.\n\nThis sort of manual work is usually only necessary on severely damaged recordings, or parts of recordings.\n"
"01" " 4. Mahler" "Langsam Schleppend" "0" "For more information, please select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "This sample cleans up pretty well with the standard settings, although you can still hear a couple of faint scuffs on the record surface. A 2-pass scan at maximum sensitivity improves these, but this is fairly drastic treatment and we would not recommend it for a recording in as good condition as this one.\n\nSomething to bear in mind is that declicking is always a compromise: removing the most clicks without damaging the music. Scanning at the highest sensitivity setting is not usually the best policy for recordings in reasonable condition. For more information, refer to 'Click Repair Tips', under 'Cleanup Audio' in the online help.\n"
"01" " 5. Reiner" "Iberia" "0" "For more information, please select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "Another sample that cleans up well with the standard settings. Lighter clicks / crackles on this one but more of them, along with some examples of percussion protection (PP) in operation (shown in the list of corrections in purple) - uncheck 'Show Clicks' to see these more clearly.\n\nFor more information about percussion protection, please refer to the online help (you'll find it under the 'Cleanup Audio' topic in the table of contents).\n"
"01" " 6. Supertramp" "Dreamer" "0" "For more information, please select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "This album is quite heavily damaged - a blob of tippex [typewriter correction fluid] was spilt on the record, but VinylStudio was able to repair a good deal of the damage automatically. For an example of another section from this album that needed some manual work, you can visit www.alpinesoft.co.uk and click on the Sound Samples link.\n\nThere is one click in the left-hand channel (marked) which is not repaired with the standard settings. Using a higher sensitivity setting (4) resolves this but with the original WAV file this is not in fact necessary (there is some loss of information when compressing files to MP3 format and this reduces the efficiency of the click detector somewhat).\n"
"01" " 7. Topol" "If I Were a Rich Man" "0" "For more information, please select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "Not much to report on this one. Loud, sharp clicks like these generally clean up pretty well, although you can still hear some faint remnants of a couple of them if you listen on headphones.\n"
"01" " 8. Dvorak" "Piano Trio" "0" "For more information, please select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "This sample cleans up fairly well, but the heavy clicks on this recording make it impossible for VinylStudio to produce perfect repairs - although the situation is much improved, you can still hear some residual 'thumps'.\n\nIf you wish, you can zoom in on an imperfectly-repaired click and extend VinylStudio's repair manually, but for normal listening it's probably not worth the bother.\n"
"01" " 9. Deaf School" "Don't Stop the World" "0" "For more information, please select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "This record is worn out, which is why some surface noise remains after the clicks have been removed. Hopefully, your records are in better condition that this, but if not, watch out for more surface removal tools in future releases of VinylStudio.\n\nIf you uncheck the 'Show Clicks' box, you will see that brass protection (BP) is operative in a couple of places, protecting the saxophone passages from damage. If you scan at higher sensitivity you can see this effect more clearly (i.e. more parts of the music will be protected in this way).\n"
"01" "10. Eurythmics" "Sweet Dreams" "0" "For more information, please select 'Edit Album Notes' from the Album menu" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "This recording does not actually need declicking, but we have included it to demonstrate the value of brass protection (BP).\n\n If you scan this sample with brass protection disabled, the synth sound is destroyed, and if you look at the waveform display you can see why: all the little 'spikes' in the waveform have been removed because they look like clicks (indeed they are clicks, of a kind).\n\nWhy should you care about this? Well, if you have another declicking program handy try running this sample through it. If our experiences are anything to go by, you will be surprised at the results.\n\n( End of advertisement :)\n\nIt's also worth scanning this track with a higher percussion protection setting (try 4).\n\nSee the notes for the next album for some suggestions as to where to go from here.\n"
"01" "Where to go from here" "(see album notes)" "0" "See album notes" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "00:00.0" "-" "" "-" "0" "0.0" "0.0" ""
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>Ext Notes "From this point on, you will need to create a collection of your own, which you can do by selecting 'New Collection' from the File menu. Further prompts will then invite you to add an album to your collection and then to record it or (if you have one) import an existing recording.\n\nThen, if your turntable is already hooked up to your PC, you are cleared for takeoff! If not, please refer to the appropriate topic in the online help for details (press F1 after closing this window and you should see the entry you require in the table of contents). The online help contains a lot of useful information, especially on how to get the best out of the declicker.\n\nAnd good luck! - from all at AlpineSoft.\n"
