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?2. 2 How does a computer represent a sound?2. 3 Sound intensities: dB versus percentages . 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 . [. . . ] For example, the window managing the 3-band equalizer is represented in the right margin. The Presets menu contains the list of presets with the name of the currently used preset being displayed inside the menu button. If these don't match any of the presets or if no preset exists, Not a Preset is displayed instead. When you select Save Preset. . . , a dialog allows you to choose the name of the new preset, which will then be a copy of the current preset. function allows to manage the list of presets. In particular, it allows you to rename, to duplicate, and to delete them. Some (but by no means all) functions do have a default set of presets built into AmadeusPro. If this is the case, the presets menu also contains a Revert to Defaults. . . item which allows you to revert to the factory defaults in case you destroyed them by inadvertance. Warning: Your own presets will be lost in this case. 6 Batch processing AmadeusPro includes a powerful batch processing engine. 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. Only files with matching filenames will be processed. 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'. Track. * Matches any filename starting with `Track'. [. . . ] IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. The MTCoreAudio source code can be obtained at http://aldebaran. armory. com/ zenomt/macosx/MTCoreAudio/ . 15. 7 AMPreferencePane AMPreferencePane is free software available from http://www. harmless. de/cocoa. php . It is distributed under the BSD license. [. . . ]