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The Tool Menu

The document provides information about the Tool menu in audio editing software. It allows accessing sound utilities like burning CDs and viewing statistics of sound files. The Synthesis tool creates tones of different pitches and lengths. There are many options to experiment with, including extracting regions of sound files into separate files.

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The Tool Menu

The document provides information about the Tool menu in audio editing software. It allows accessing sound utilities like burning CDs and viewing statistics of sound files. The Synthesis tool creates tones of different pitches and lengths. There are many options to experiment with, including extracting regions of sound files into separate files.

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Lesson 11: The Tool Menu

11.1 What is the Tool menu?


The Tools menu gives you access to various sound utilities. Choose Burn CD to put your sound files onto a CD. Select Statistics and see statistical information about the selected part of your sound file. The Synthesis tool will create a tone of a given pitch and length. There are many options to choose from, I suggest that you go through and experiment to see what you have available to you.

11.2

How do use the tool?

Statistics: This tool opens a window with statistics on your sound wave. PRACTICE:

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Open a sound file.

Pull down the Tools menu and select Statistics. 3. A window with all sorts of statistics on the sound wave will appear. It looks like this: Click the Help button to see an explanation of the various statistics. When done, close the Help file and click OK.

Synthesis: This tool generates a simple waveform of a given shape, pitch, and length. PRACTICE: 1. Open a sound file Go to Tools then click on synthesis and you will get three choices. Choose DTMF/MF Tones. This option will allow you to add sound of a phone being dialed into your sound file. It could add some really neat sounds. The box that will appear will look like this:

2. 3.

There are many options to choose from. Try out some of the options and click on the Preview button to see what sounds you have created. If you want to save

your changes make sure you click on OK. Extracting Regions:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

From the Tools menu, choose Extract Regions. The Extract Regions dialog is displayed. In the Regions to extract box, select the regions you want to extract. You can hold the Ctrl or Shift keys to select multiple regions. In the Destination folder box, specify the folder where the extracted regions will be saved, or click the Browse button to choose a new folder. Enter a name in the File name prefix box if you want add a prefix to extracted regions. For example, enter Test to extract the files Test Region 001.wav, Test Region 002.wav, Test Region 003.wav, and so on. Select the Use long file names for destination file names check box to allow file names of up to 128 characters including spaces. The files names will consist of the value in the File name prefix box and the region name. When this check box is cleared, file names will conform to the 8.3 naming convention. These names consist of the first 5 characters from the File name prefix and a unique three-digit number starting with the number specified in the Start file counter index box. For example, if you have 4 regions selected for extraction, and your prefix is set to PREFIX, the names used will be PREFI000.wav, PREFI001.wav, PREFI002.wav PREFI003.wav. Click the Extract button to extract the selected regions.

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