User manual HAIRERSOFT AMADEUS PRO VERSION 1.5

[. . . ] User reference guide for v1. 5 Martin Hairer Copyright c 2010 by HairerSoft AMADEUSPRO V1. 5 REFERENCE GUIDE 2 Contents 1 2 Introduction Basic notions of sound editing 2. 1 What is a sound?5 5 5 6 7 8 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 12 12 13 13 13 13 14 14 15 15 15 15 15 17 18 18 18 19 20 20 20 20 21 . 3. 6 The AAC ADTS, MPEG-4, and Bookmarkable AAC formats 3. 7 The Apple CAF File format . 5. 2. 2 Changing the characteristics of a sound 5. 3 Applying effects to a sound . [. . . ] A new batch processor can be created by choosing New Batch Processor in the File menu. A batch processor allows you to not only convert files from one file format to another, but it also allows you to apply various effects (normalizing, fadings, etc). An example of a batch processor that converts AIFF files into Mp3 files could look like this: Copyright c 2010 HairerSOFT BATCH PROCESSING 26 The Change Name To field allows you to specify a name for the resulting file. The special sequence of characters `%name' will be replaced by the name of the currently processed file. Other usable special sequences of characters are %title, %artist, %album and %year. These correspond to the contents of the corresponding metadata fields. However, note that these fields can be empty if the sound being processes contains no metadata. The Filter Files setting allows you to enter a regular expression against which filenames will be checked. Explaining in detail what regular expressions are goes beyond the scope of this manual. Information about the type of regular expressions used by AmadeusPro can be found at the following link: http://icu. sourceforge. net/userguide/regexp. html Examples of valid regular expressions are . *\. mp[2-4] Matches any filename ending in `. mp2', `. mp3' or `. mp4'. A file or a collection of files is processed by the batch processor by dragging the file(s) onto the indicated area. If a folder is dragged to this area, only the files at the first level within the folder are processed by default, unless you check the Open subfolders recursively option, in which case the whole folder hierarchy is processed. The Actions tab allows you to choose an arbitrary number of sound effects to be applied to the sound being processed. These effects are applied to the sound in the order in which they appear in the list. They are the same as the ones appearing in the Effects menu, except for a few items that allow to manipulate the current selection of the sound, as well as the sound quality. Suppose for example that you wish to create a 20 seconds summary in the Mp3 format for a collection of audio tracks. In order to achieve this, you would create a batch processor with the following settings: 1. In the Format section, select `Mp3' as your resulting format and select the appropriate settings (see Section 3). Check the Change Name To: checkbox and enter `%name-summary' as your filename. Copyright c 2010 HairerSOFT MANAGING TRACKS 27 3. action and choose 30 seconds from the start in the dialog that will appear. Then, add a Delete Selection action, followed by another Set Selection. . . action with this time 20 seconds from the start and a Crop Selection action. [. . . ] 15. 6 MTCoreAudio The MTCoreAudio framework is licensed under the following terms: MTCoreAudio. framework is Copyright (c) 2004 by Michael C. MTCoreAudio. framework and its source code may be used, modified, incorporated, et ceterated for free by anyone for any purpose. I request, but do not require, that credit for any use of the code is given. I request, but do not require, to be notified of the incorporation of this code into other works. [. . . ]