| A. |
Opening and playing audio files. |
| Select "Open" from the File menu, or drag an
audio file onto the main AudioExplorer window. Select
"OK" on the New Audio Objects
dialog.
AudioExplorer will create a new (but grayed-out) Audio File object in the project tree, and then spend some time analyzing the audio data and generating information it needs to efficiently draw the audio waveform. When it is finished, the new Audio File icon will become enabled. Double-click the icon to open it.
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| B. |
Playing audio |
| After opening an audio file, select "Play" from
the Audio menu, or hit the space-bar, or click the Play button on the
Timing tool window. You are now playing through the current output
audio device (see Configuring
Playback).
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| C. |
Recording audio |
| Select "New" from the File menu. Select
"Record" from the Audio menu, or, hit the space-bar, or, click
the Record button on the Timing tool window. You are now recording
through the current input audio device (see Configuring
Recording).
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| D. |
Analyzing audio interactively |
| After opening or recording an audio file, drag-selecting a
region of the audio waveform will invoke an analysis of the selected
audio data, with frequency data appearing in either the Piano Panel
or
the Frequency Panel (whichever is currently
selected for display).
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| E. |
Generating a visual image (Note Map) of your music |
| After creating an Audio
File object as in A above, right click on it's icon and
select "New Note Map..." from the context menu. Hit
"OK" on the New Audio
Objects dialog.
AudioExplorer will create a new (but grayed-out) Note Map object in the project tree, and then spend some time analyzing the audio data and generating the Note Map. When it has finished, the icon will become enabled. Double click the icon to open a Note Map Window, or drag the icon onto the Audio File's open audio window to view the Note Map there.
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| F. |
Making a MIDI file from my audio |
| The simplest way to generate MIDI is to simply record or
playback an audio file. MIDI is automatically generated and placed
in the MIDI Window, where it
may be edited, optimized, and/or saved as either a standard MIDI file or
as text. If the MIDI is not satisfactory, you may need to spend
some time experimenting with the real-time
MIDI parameters.
To create MIDI in batch mode, first generate a Note Map from your audio file (section E above), open the Note Map, right-click on the Note Map, and select "Render MIDI". Since AudioExplorer can examine the entire audio file in batch mode, the resulting MIDI is often more satisfying than the real-time MIDI.
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| G. |
General navigation guidelines |
| In interactive (non-playback, non-record) mode, clicking
on the Wave Panel moves the audio cursor to the clicked position, and
subsequent playback will begin at that place.
Double-clicking in any panel un-zooms the view. All panels have a context menu accessible by right-clicking on the panel. Drag Selections - all panels except for the Piano Panel implement drag selection. In the Wave Panel, the selected region is highlighted and analyzed. In the Frequency and Map Panels, the view automatically zooms into the selection. The space bar starts/stops audio playback. |