User manual STEINBERG CLEAN PLUS

[. . . ] Reference Manual CLEAN / CLEAN PLUS 1 The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies AG. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies AG. All product and company names are TM or ® trademarks of their respective owners. Operation manual by d. popow@musicandtext. com, introduction by Tom Wendt. CLEAN 2 / CLEAN PLUS Table of Contents Preface 4 Using Clean 7 The IntelliAssistant 9 The Clean window 10 The track list 11 Setting Record and Playback volume 22 The four Effect sections 25 The Restoration section 27 The Enhancement section 30 The Mastering section 35 The Surround section 37 The Equalizer 39 The Waveform display 41 Available disk space 44 Processing the tracks 45 Maximum Level by Normalizing 47 Recording the CD-R 49 Creating CD Labels 53 Using the Label Editor 55 Defining User Variables 68 Printing CD Labels 70 Exporting audio in MP3 format 76 The Menus 78 Working with a less powerful system 81 CLEAN / CLEAN PLUS 3 Preface Welcome and thank you for your decision to use CLEAN or CLEAN PLUS. [. . . ] If you manually set a track to "ready" status by clicking its track number with the right mouse button, its Marker and Fade-in/out settings are not being used as nothing has been processed. You can of course re-define the Start/ End Markers and the Fade-in/ out Markers for each track at any time. If it was processed or manually set to "ready" status before, ­ indicated by the green color of its track number ­ then it will be set back into "not processed" status ­ indicated by a red track number. Effects can be applied on the same track many times. The Fade-in and Fade-out Markers You can use the Fade in and Fade out Markers to gradually increase (fade in) and/or decrease (fade out) the volume within a definable time frame at the beginning and at the end of the audio file. · To fade in a track, drag the Fade in Marker (the upper green dot on the left side) to the right until the fade in has the required length. The length of the fade in hours/minutes/seconds is shown in the "Fade in" field. If you want to fade out a track, drag the Fade out Marker (the upper red dot) to the left until the fade out has the required length. The "Fade out" field below the Waveform display informs you about the exact length of the fade in hours/minutes/seconds. Instead of creating fades with the mouse, you can set them by inputting the desired value into the "Fade In" and "Fade Out" fields below the Waveform display. · · To do this, double click on the respective field and input the value from your computer keyboard. To reset all Markers to the edges of the waveform, hold down the [Ctrl] key and click on the Waveform display with the left mouse button. · You can use the "Undo" function on the Options menu to undo the last 100 Fade in/Fade out Marker changes. CLEAN 42 / CLEAN PLUS Zoom ­ Changing the size of the displayed Waveform · If needed, you can use these two buttons to zoom in or out on the waveform in the Waveform display. As an alternative, you can also use the [+] and [-] keys on your computer keyboard. When you have set a high magnification, the waveform might not be completely visible in the Waveform display. Then you can use the slider under the display to move the visible part of the waveform. To change the zoom factor dynamically, position the mouse cursor within the Waveform display, hold down [Shift] and drag up or down. To make the whole track visible, hold down [Alt] and click once within the Waveform display. · · The AutoMarker functions Material that has already been recorded can also be split into individual tracks later. The four AutoMarker buttons on the lower right-hand side of the Waveform display can be used to insert, delete and edit Markers as well as for splitting the audio material into individual tracks. The "AutoMarker" and "Create track" functions analyse the audio data based on the settings you make in the "Preferences" dialog of the Options menu. Button Function The selected audio track is analysed for silence. Analysis follows the settings that you have made in the "Preferences" dialog of the Options menu. The current audio track is split into individual tracks according to the settings you have made in the "Preferences" dialog of the Options menu and track list and Waveform display are updated. CLEAN / CLEAN PLUS 43 Markers can also be inserted manually (with the mouse or by pressing the [Insert] key), moved (with the mouse) and deleted (by clicking on them with the right mouse button). Markers in the Waveform display. The last selected Marker is on the right. Available disk space This display informs you how much space you have left on your hard disk. The yellow bar represents the relative space on the storage medium that you have selected under "Select temp file directory" in the File menu (see page 78). In the field next to it you can see how much space is left in terms of hours/minutes/seconds. Importing tracks in CLEAN is not limited to the total playing time of an audio CD (up to 80 minutes). to save your restored audio data onto a DAT cassette (longer playing time) instead of on CD. CLEAN 44 / CLEAN PLUS Processing the tracks Before you can actually turn your selection of tracks into an audio CD, CLEAN must calculate the effect settings you have made and create a new audio file that includes them. There's one exception: if you wish to burn unchanged tracks to CD-R, then you can manually set them to "ready" status. [. . . ] Find more detailed information in the section "Exporting audio in MP3 format" on page 76. Selecting this item opens a dialog where you can assemble the list of files that you wish to record onto CD. Here you can also make settings for your CD recorder and start the writing process. Find more detailed information in the section "Creating a data CD" on page 49. Write Data CD. . . The Normalize menu Normalize selected Track Normalize all Tracks This function finds the highest peak level in the track that is currently selected in the track list and optimizes it to a level of 0 dB. [. . . ]