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- This page shows the music for the active track, selected in the <b>Record</b> page.
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- Since the track's <b>Type</b> is set to <b>Audio</b>, it shows the audio track's wave.
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- Initially, the entire song's wave is shown. To see the wave in more detail, zoom in by
- scrolling the horizontal and vertical Zoom scroll bars.
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- Click <b>Audio Quality</b> to change quality and memory requirements of your recording.
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- <b>CD - Mono</b> quality consumes 88,200 bytes per second, or 5 million bytes per minute (16 bit @ 44 kHz).
- <br><b>Video Game - Mono</b> consumes 44,100 bytes per second, or 2.6 million bytes per minute (8 bit @ 44 kHz).
- <br><b>Phonograph - Mono</b> consumes 44,100 bytes per second, or 2.6 million bytes per minute (16 bit @ 22 kHz).
- <br><b>FM Radio - Mono</b> consumes 22,050 bytes per second, or 1.3 million bytes per minute (16 bit @ 11 kHz).
- <br><b>Radio - Mono</b> consumes 22,050 bytes per second, or 1.3 million bytes per minute (8 bit @ 22 kHz).
- <br><b>Phone - Mono</b> consumes 11,025 bytes per second, or 661,500 bytes per minute (8 bit @ 11 kHz).
- <br><b>Old Radio - Mono</b> consumes 8,000 bytes per second, or 480,000 bytes per minute (8 bit @ 8 kHz).
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- To begin recording to this track, press the record button <img align=center src="recbut.gif">,
- and then press the stop button <img align=center src="stopbut.gif"> when you are ready to stop recording.
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- With the left mouse down, drag the mouse over the sound window to select part of it.
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- If nothing is selected, any of the following operations affect the entire track.
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- To hear only the selected sound,
- press the <b>Play Selection</b> button.
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- To copy the contents of an audio (.WAV) file into this track,
- select the <b>Import Audio from...</b> from the <b><u>F</u>ile</b> menu.
- A private copy of the file is made, so that any changes you make will not
- affect the imported file.
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- To copy the selected sound to the clipboard,
- select <b>Copy</b> from the <b><u>E</u>dit</b> menu.
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- To paste the contents of the clipboard into the song, click the mouse where you want to insert the new sound, and
- select one of the following from the <b><u>E</u>dit</b> menu:
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- <b>Paste Over</b> if you want the audio in the clipboard to replace sound on the current track.
- For example, if the clipboard contains 1 second of audio, and the song's current position is 0:10:00 (10 seconds), then
- the current track from 0:10:00 to 0:11:00 is replaced with the contents of the clipboard.
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- <b>Paste Mix</b> if you want the clipboard to be mixed with the current track.
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- <b>Paste Insert</b> if you want the clipboard inserted into the current song.
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- To delete the selected part of the wave,
- select <b>Delete</b> from the <b><u>E</u>dit</b> menu.
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- To set the selected part of the wave to complete silence,
- select <b>Silent</b> from the <b><u>E</u>dit</b> menu.
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- To replace the selected sound with the same sound played backward,
- select <b>Reverse</b> from the <b><u>E</u>dit</b> menu
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- To filter the entire track, press the <b>Filter</b> button. If you only want to filter part of
- the track, select the desired time period with the mouse, and then press the Filter button.
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- You can adjust the volume by pressing the <b>Volume</b> button.
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- As a short-cut, you can make the track, or part of it, twice as loud by pressing the <b>Louder</b> button.
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- You can adjust the pitch by pressing the <b>Pitch</b> button.
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- To help you synchronize with recorded MIDI instruments, vertical
- <i>tempo</i>
- lines are drawn at the start of each 16th note.
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