2013
Table Of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Before You Start
- Support
- Uninstalling the program
- Serial number
- More about MAGIX
- Introduction
- Stereo phono pre-amp
- Quick start
- Overview of the program interface
- Track window and constant control elements
- Import
- Arranging in the master track
- What is an object?
- Project
- Adjust object volume
- Fading objects in and out
- Duplicate objects
- Reducing and increasing the length of objects
- Deleting and moving objects
- Cut objects
- Join and mix objects
- Fading objects
- Change song order
- Automatic insertion of pauses between objects
- Several songs in a single long object
- Object effects
- Draw volume curve
- Quick zoom
- Set track markers
- Automatic track recognition
- Check and move track markers
- Cleaning
- Mastering
- Sound Effects
- Export
- Batch conversion
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- Effects menu
- CD/DVD menu
- Set track marker
- Set Pause marker
- Set track markers automatically
- Set track marker to object edges
- Split objects at marker positions
- Set auto pause length
- Delete marker
- Delete all markers
- Delete CD track
- Create audio CD
- Show CD-R drive information
- Show CD-R disc information
- Create audio DVD
- Track Agent
- MAGIX Xtreme Print Center
- Get CD track information (freeDB)
- CD info options
- Open CD track list online
- audioid
- Options menu
- Edit mouse mode
- Cut Mouse mode
- Zoom mode
- Delete mouse mode
- Resampling/Timestretching mouse mode
- Volume draw mode
- Wave drawing mode
- Spectral edit mouse mode
- 2 tracks
- Stereo display
- Surround Mode
- Activate volume curve
- Overview mode
- Play parameter
- Video window
- Units of measurement
- Mouse snap active
- Auto crossfade mode active
- Display values scale
- Options for automatic track marker recognition
- Path settings
- Show start selection
- "Share" menu
- Help menu
- Keyboard layout and mouse-wheel support
- Index
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MP3 files
Use the button "MP3 files" to export individual tracks into
MP3 format.
This is a quick access option to the Export project dialog
(accessible via "WAV and other file formats" (view page
119)), where all necessary settings for MP3
export have been
defined already.
MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 2013 contains a high-quality and extremely fast MP3
encoder. Use it to quickly save complete LPs along with the cleaning effects as MP3
files. You can now use them on MP3 CDs, for instance. To do so, use the function
"Burn data CD/DVD" (view page 120).
For go
od quality, we recommend a setting of at least 160 kbit high quality. Sound
quality will hardly be affected despite the compression. If you have memory to spare,
full CD quality can be retained at 256 kbit high quality – at approximately 1/5th of the
original memory. This is ideal for building up a large high-quality music archive on
your PC's hard disk.
Note: For exporting as MP3 format, you may need to activate your MP3 encoder first.
Simply go to "Help" >"Activate additional functions" (view page 157).
Format settings
Output format: Here you can set the output bitrate. The bit rate is the data stream
during playback of audio data. It is given in kilobits per second (kbit/s or kbps) and
also determined the file size. An MP3 file that is 3 minutes long and has a constant bit
rate of 128 kbit/s is ca. 2.8 MB in size.
Common bit rates for music are 192 kBit for good quality, 256 kBit and more for
excellent quality. For Internet streaming and speech recording (in mono), 128 kBit are
enough.
Encoder quality: The included MP3 encoder can be operated in three "Gears": An
especially quick ("Fast"), an especially powerful for high sound quality ("Highest"),
which however requires more time, and a compromise between the two.
Format: Here you can set whether your MP3 file is exported in Stereo or Mono
format.
Variable bitrate: "Use VBR" adjusts the bitrate of the audio material, which means
that a lower bitrate will be used during quieter parts. Therefore, VBR files are smaller
than files of comparable quality without VBR. Instead of a constant bitrate there is a