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[Klacee Sawatzky]

Studio Recorder was originally written for internal use at American Printing House for the Blind to serve as a tool for creating direct to digital audio recordings for the National Library Service (NLS). It contains many features that ease the task of recording, editing, and proofreading audio books. It also includes features that simplify the production of analog cassette tapes from the digital master, and it aids in the production of Digital Talking Books.

While Studio Recorder was originally written for use by the professional narrator and narration monitor, its simple operation makes it ideal for nearly anyone interested in recording, editing, and producing spoken word audio documents in an efficient manner.

In addition to all of the benefits of digital recording and playback technology common to digital recording software, Studio Recorder provides unique capabilities geared to both spoken word content and, more specifically, recordings intended for distribution on audio cassette or via the World Wide Web. The software supports projects ranging from the quick and simple home recording to the most demanding and professional task.

Features such as the Intercom Mode let recording professionals, who often collaborate from separate booths, communicate through the PC's speakers and sound card. Other features, such as the ability to mark and label points in the recording, make it easy for narrators working on large works to preserve notes about pronunciation and characterization, allowing quick reference to information from past recording sessions. The phrase detection capabilities streamline the process of sifting through cumbersome audio files. Instead of using time as the criterion for navigation, these features let the narrator use content for maneuvering through the audio file in a manner similar to that of moving through text in a word processing program. Studio Recorder also provides advanced capabilities such as punch in/out recording, fade, instantaneous editing, and time-specific alarm tones that assist the user in sizing a document to a cassette tape.

This document contains the entire documentation to Studio Recorder. It is current and accurate as of the date of this writing, but there may be updates to this documentation and software at the APH Web site. See tech.aph.org.

This manual is designed to get you started quickly. It begins with a look at opening and navigating through an existing file. Next, it takes you step-by-step through the process of creating and recording a new document. This section discusses basic recording, playback, and navigation functions. Then, the manual familiarizes you with the program's representation of the documents you create and play, and it shows you how to interpret and adjust the display characteristics. Then the discussion graduates to more advanced topics such as the various ways to use the record function and all its permutations, making selections, and cutting, pasting, and copying selected areas of the document. Next, it describes advanced transport functions and functions related to the transport and selections. Finally, the manual explains the special processing capabilities and advanced features of the program.

The table of contents is arranged to double as a quick reference to hot keys that perform specific functions in Studio Recorder. While there are often many ways to execute a particular command, the one shown in the contents is the global hot key that is most commonly used. Studio Recorder's hot keys are all compatible with the standard Windows hot keys that work with most Windows programs.

This document uses the "+" to indicate a series of keys that should be pressed together. The notation Alt+F, for example, means to hold down the Alt key, then while that key is still down, press the F key. Once the F is down, release both keys. You should not type the +; it is merely used to show that two or more keys should be pressed together.

In addition to this documentation for information about Studio Recorder's operation, you may wish to subscribe to the Studio Recorder email list. This list lets you speak to other users and directly to the developers of the product and provides you an opportunity to make suggestions and observations that can help the product improve.

Studio Recorder makes it easy to begin recording and editing audio. The program is a standard Windows Multiple-Document Interface (MDI) application. This means you may open as many documents as you wish and quickly move from document to document while maintaining your current position in each document.

The program's display is designed to provide all of the critical information you need at a glance. If using the wave view, you see a graphical representation of the sound wave that you may adjust to show as much or as little of the entire file as desired. In the time view, the large time elapsed clock is centered on the screen and provides information about the current position in the current document.

Displayed along with the large Time or Wave view and the status bar is the peak meter. This meter provides information about the strength of your signal. You may read more about its features and characteristics in the Peak Meter section of this manual.

Before you can work with a document, you must open it. To open a file, select Open from the File menu (Ctrl+O). When you do, Studio Recorder shows the Open File dialog. This dialog looks like the Open dialog in other Windows programs, but it contains some special features related to sound files.

Press the Preview button (Alt+P) to preview the file before you open it to hear what the file contains. If you have Auto Preview checked, Studio Recorder automatically previews the file. If you do not have this option checked, you may use the Preview command to listen to a portion of the file on demand before you open it.

Studio Recorder remembers the locations of recently used files and provides a control to easily reopen their folders. The Recent Folders control lists the last 20 folders you used. To open one of the recently used folders, highlight the folder name, then press Enter. You may use Alt+F to move directly to the Recent Folders list.

Once you open a document, you are ready to work with that document. If you have selected the Remember Place in Files option in the Settings dialog, Studio Recorder returns the caret to where it was when you last closed the file. If you select the Auto Play on Open option in the Options menu, Studio Recorder begins playing the document automatically. If neither option is selected, the program makes the beginning of the document the current position, and the transport is in the stop mode. Press Play to begin playing the document.

Transport functions such as Play, Record, Stop, and Rewind, function the same as they do on a cassette or CD player. Studio Recorder also supports several transport functions that you will not find on normal consumer playback equipment. These transport functions make editing and playback tasks simple and convenient. You may access all these transport functions from the Transport menu, the Transport toolbar, or by using the shortcut keys.

The Play command (Space or F5) plays the document. The command begins playback at the current position. Playback continues until the end of the document is reached, or until you use some other transport function.

The Play Looped command (Ctrl+Space) continuously plays the document. This may be used for projects in which you edit a sound effect or short musical piece designed to be played over and over. The Play Looped command lets you see how your looped effect or short musical piece sounds.

The Stop At Start command (Enter) stops at your last starting position. This is helpful if you want to return to the place where you last started playing or recording without having to use the Rewind function to find your place.

The Stop All command (Shift+Esc) stops all transport functions regardless of the document in use. This is useful in situations where you are playing one document and recording in another. You cannot play or record more than one document at a time.

Select Go to Time from the Transport menu (or press g) and enter the time to move to a specific time in the document (absolute). You may also enter a specific amount of time proceeded by a + or - in order to go forward or backward the desired measure of time within the document (relative).

Note that Studio Recorder provides a shortcut method of entering relative values. The shortcut is to use the - and = keys directly from the document (without first opening the Go To dialog.) When you press - or =, the program opens the Go To dialog, enters a - or a +, and puts the caret in position to enter the relative value. Notice that you do not use the +, but instead use the = to make entering these values faster.

Studio Recorder assumes you mean seconds if you enter a number with no ":", so if you entered 20, the program moves you to the position in the document 20 seconds from the beginning. If there is one ":" in the number, the program assumes minute:second. If the number contains two ":" characters, the program assumes hour:minute:second. Note that for convenience, you can substitute either a space or a ";" for the ":".

The Navigation functions available in Studio Recorder are unique to this program. These functions are specifically designed for high quality spoken word documents, and they operate by detecting phrases. The functions let you navigate between sentences, paragraphs, and sections of the recorded text.

Phrase detection works by examining the length of silence between phrases within your recording. In Studio Recorder, pauses of specific lengths are classified under three categories: sentence, paragraph, and section. The program lets you customize each category to represent pauses of different lengths. The Navigation tab in the Settings dialog (on the Options menu) holds the values for these minimum pause times and for the period of time the program searches before determining that no existing pause meets your criteria.

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