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Audio Editing with Cool Edit

Richard Riley

208 pp * 244 x 172 mm  ISBN 1870775 740   £14.95   Out May 15 2002

Key features

* For Cool Edit 2000 and Cool Edit Pro ver 2
* Installing and setting up
* Multitrack recording
* Applying effects and using EQ
* Mixdown and mastering
* Troubleshooting and tips and tricks

Cool Edit really is a recording studio in your PC. It's a sophisticated piece of software that enables up to 64 tracks of stereo audio to becombined as a 'multitrack' enabling it to be used as a super high quality'virtual tape recorder'. It's used by beginners and audio professionals to record, edit and play and record audio, add an unlimited range of effects and filters including Direct X and VST effects), clean up audio files, mix up to 64 tracks and master to CD or even for broadcast.

This book shows how to get the best from the Cool Edit with easy tounderstand walkthroughs and helpful hints and tips. It's an essential addition to the Cool Edit manual and help file and reveals many undocumented features and time saving tips.

It explains how to install and set up the program on your PC, how to record from a variety of sources, how to apply EQ and effects like flanging, reverb, delay, and how to sync via MIDI and SMPTE. You'll learn how to use plug-ins to enhance, clean up and generally improve your recordings and how to save in multiple file formats including MP3 and WAV for any platform or system. If you master to CD, Cool Edit has tools for normalising your mix, to do complex multiband compression, noise reduction, inserting silence, test tones and signals etc.

Finally, there's an invaluable troubleshooting section along and a collection of invaluable tips and tricks gleaned from the author's many years of experience using the program.

Contents

1 Introducing Cool Edit

Cool Edit 2000. Cool Edit LE. Cool Edit SE. Cool Edit Pro version 2. Minimum Specifications for Cool Edit 2000 and Cool Edit Pro version 2.

2 Optimising your PC for use with Cool Edit

Memory. Processor. Hard disk space. Operating systems and patches. Run a 'lean machine'. Tuning the host computer in preparation for installing Cool Edit Pro Version 2. Display properties. System properties. Hard disks and hard disk optimisation. Removable storage.

3 Choosing a sound card

Sound card connections. MIDI. USB.

4 Installing Cool Edit 2000

Trial version.

5 Installing and configuring Cool Edit Pro version 2

Options Settings (F4), General, System. Colors. Display Settings. Data settings. Multitrack. SMPTE. Options>Device Properties. Wave Out. Wave In. Calculating multitrack latency. MIDI Out. MIDI In. Ext Controller. Syntrillium Red Rover peripheral for Cool Edit Pro Version 2. Options>Device Order. Useful things to know about Cool Edit Pro version 2. Undo and auto-recovery. Real time disk space information.

6 Using Cool Edit
Navigating the Edit View. Transport and zoom controls. Navigating the toolbars and menu bars above the waveform display in Edit View. Switch view button. Display range bar. Menus and toolbars. File Operations. Opening and playing a wave file. File Open. Auto playing (auditioning) sounds from the File Open dialog. Selecting and editing the new waveform. Open Append. Saving waveform files. Partitioning the waveform using Cues. Making a simple repeated playback loop from an area of a larger waveform. Creating a loop using cues. Cool Edit loop file format (*.cel). Downloading Cool Edit Pro Loops. Non audio information saved with file. Loop Info. EBU Extensions. Samplers.

7 Recording in the Edit View
When to use 24/96? Troubleshooting recording with Cool Edit Pro. Level meters. Connections to the computer. Recording from internal CD drives. CD ripping.

8 Creating original sounds within Cool Edit
Generate noise. Tones (Generate>Tones). Creating original drum sounds from tones and noise. More about modulation.

9 Using effects in Edit View
Effects supplied with Cool Edit Pro and available in the Edit View only. Amplitude. Delay Effects. Filters. Noise reduction. Special. Time Pitch. Other effects: invert, reverse and silence. Amplitude and envelope effects. Amplify. Channel Mixer. Dynamics Processing. Overview. Creative use of Dynamics Processing. Envelope. Hard Limiting. Normalize. Pan and Expand. Stereo Field Rotate. Delay Effects. Filters. Presets. Graphic EQ as a mastering aid. Dynamic EQ. Creating effects using Dynamic EQ. Creating a wah-wah effect. FFT Filter. Graphic Equalizer. Graphical Phase Shifter. Notch Filter. Parametric Equalizer. Quick Filter. Scientific Filters.

10 Waveform and Spectral View
Other Cool Edit tools and effects. Click and Pop Eliminator. Clip Restoration. Hiss Reduction. Noise Reduction. Special effects. Time and pitch effects. Other 'workshop' features for converting and editing waveforms in the Edit View. Converting sample rate and sample types. Convert sample type. Basic audio data concepts. Analyze Menu. Options Menu. Loop Mode. Timed Record. Monitor Record Level. MIDI Trigger Enable. Synchronize Cursor Across Windows. Windows Recording Mixer. Start Default Windows CD Player. Scripts and batch processing.

11 The Multitrack View
Instant gratification. A brief introduction to 'non linear' or hard disk recording. Multitrack device order. Working in the Multitrack View. Creating a new Multitrack Session. Recording directly into a Multitrack session (Multitrack recording). The Mix Gauge and background mixing. Recording a new Multitrack session using bars and beats. Working through the multitrack session towards a finished song. Managing a session. Mixing down. Track controls. Working with MIDI and video in the Multitrack View.

12 Real time effects and mixers
Differences between effects in Edit View and Multitrack View. Modulation effects. Direct X Effects, plug-ins and effects from other software. Effects Racks.

13 Mixdown, mastering and CD burning
Creating a finished product. Post production. Vocal effects. CD burning within Cool Edit.

Appendix
Cub2for3. MIDI OX. Further explanation of digital recording and reproduction.

Glossary

Index

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