Reference Manual CLEAN / CLEAN PLUS – 1
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Table of Contents 4 7 9 10 11 23 26 28 31 36 39 41 43 46 47 49 51 55 63 65 78 80 87 89 92 Preface Using CLEAN The IntelliAssistant The CLEAN window The track list Setting Record and Playback volume The four Effect sections The Restoration section The Enhancement section The Mastering section The Surround section The Equalizer The Waveform display Available disk space Processing the tracks Maximum Level by Normalizing Recording a CD-R Recording a DVD Creating CD/DVD Labels Using the Label Editor Defining Us
Preface Welcome and thank you for your decision to use CLEAN or CLEAN PLUS. Using CLEAN/CLEAN PLUS, your PC and your CD recorder, you can create your personal audio CD or MP3 CD (data CD) from other CD, vinyl or cassette recordings. CLEAN gives you the easy-to-use optimized highquality tools that let you compile and even professionally restore the audio in the process. The software of both products is identical. The only difference between CLEAN and CLEAN PLUS is, that the latter comes with a Phono PreAmp.
If you have the program version that includes the Phono PreAmp, then you merely need to fetch your records from the cellar, connect record player and Phono PreAmp, install CLEAN and start to record. • • • If you have the product version without the Phono PreAmp and wish to record from vinyl records, then you will have to dust off your old Hi-fi amplifier and connect the record player to its Phono socket and the sound card to its Tape or Aux out.
As a record can only provide ca. 60 dB, your sound card will most probably be sufficient to produce good recordings on your PC. You should still only use ca. 85% of the theoretically possible recording level. This way, you do not run the risk to produce ugly sounding digital distortions caused by a too high level; or undesired noise, if you record more than 60 dB. These unwanted effects only make the work of the restoration algorithms harder and increase the deep-frequency rumble noise of the record player.
Using CLEAN This section gives you a general overview on how to use CLEAN in practise. It also contains cross-references to the sections that hold the information about the respective issue. The basic concept behind CLEAN is that you work on a CD/DVD Project. To use CLEAN, you must therefore first create a new Project or load one that you have saved previously. A Project is a file that contains the complete data set of the CD or DVD you are about to create.
• You can use a number of very powerful pro-quality tools for restoration, enhancement and mastering as well as internal and external effects to process the sound of each track. In addition, you can open each track directly in WaveLab Lite, the Audio Editor that is part of the CLEAN software package, and process it with extremely powerful editing and restoration tools. Besides many other useful functions, WaveLab Lite does e.g.
The IntelliAssistant This intelligent Assistant actively helps you make appropriate settings and automatically carries out all processing and recording onto CD. This lets you quickly and easily achieve good results. Proceed as follows: 1. Click on the IntelliAssistant button to bring up the IntelliAssistant dialog. Click on this button… to bring up this dialog. Use this scroll bar to move the visible part of the dialog up or down. Click here to close the dialog. 2.
The CLEAN window The CLEAN window is divided into a number of different areas. They represent the major functional groups within the program. The most important of these are: the track list, the Restoration, Enhancement, Mastering and Surround sections and the Waveform display. These are described on the following pages of this manual.
The track list Author name CD Track number Track time Track title Pause length Source medium category Scroll bar to move the visible part of the list up or down List entries Left: Burn audio CD Center: Burn data CD right: Burn DVD Left to right: Load audio file, Remove track, Remove track Delete track and Cycle playback Transport controls, left to right: Previous Track, Rewind, Stop, Play, Fast Forward, Next Track, Record The track list is located in the upper left corner of the CLEAN window.
Importing tracks from hard disk CLEAN can import audio files in the WAV and MPEG1-Layer3 (generally called “MP3”) formats. CLEAN can read files with a resolution of 16 bits and sample rates between 22.050 kHz and 96 kHz. It automatically converts them into the CD standard format (16 bits, 44.1 kHz). MP3 files are automatically converted into WAV format. These files can then be processed in CLEAN as any other WAV files and be recorded onto CD-R.
Drag and Drop You can also use Drag and Drop to drag WAV and MP3 files from the Desktop, “My Computer” window or Windows Explorer into the track list: • Find the desired file, click on it and drag it into the track list while you continue to hold down the mouse button. MP3 files will automatically be converted. ❐ Project files can also be opened by using Drag and Drop, see page 88. Importing tracks from audio CD You can use CLEAN to directly import audio from any audio CD.
2. Select the CD-ROM drive from which you wish to import the audio tracks in the pop-up menu on the top left of the dialog. If you have only one CD-ROM drive installed in your computer system, you can of course only select this drive here. 3. Insert an audio CD in the selected drive. The tracks on the CD are displayed in a list in the middle of the dialog. 4. Select one or several tracks for import on your hard disk by clicking on them.
Changing the entries in the track List To edit the entries Author, Title and Pause in the track list: • Double click the entry that you wish to edit, enter the desired changes using your computer keyboard and confirm by pressing [Return]. Preset Pause time – the length of the pause between two tracks on the CD – is 2 seconds. You can change this to a value between 0 and 4 seconds. Higher values will automatically be corrected to 4 seconds. To edit the Category entry: • Right-click into the “Cat.
Moving the visible part of the track list If the track list contains more than 14 tracks, you can use the fader to the right of the list to move the visible part. Removing a track from the track list When Playback is stopped, you can remove a track from the track list, without deleting its WAV file from your hard disk. •Select the file in the list and click the “Remove” button below the track list or press the [Delete] key on your computer keyboard.
Recording and Playback functions ❐ To use the Recording and Playback functions, you must first create a Project or load one from disk. Except for the Record button, these buttons essentially work in the same way as those on your cassette recorder or CD player. Here’s what each button does: This button is called: Stop If you click on it… …playback stops. Play …playback starts. Rewind …you move the current playback position backwards in time.
The Record Dialog The Record dialog opens when you click on the Record button. Recording any analog signal from record, audio cassette etc. is done in this dialog. Here you find buttons to start or stop the actual recording and a Pause button to set CLEAN into “record ready” mode. You can also control whether recording should start or stop automatically as soon as the input signal reaches or falls below a certain level.
The following table lists all functions in the Record dialog: Input level meters These two “LED” meters display the level of the signal that arrives at CLEAN’s input. It is a good idea to set the input level so that level peaks reach the yellow “LED” area but never the red segment at the top. If the signal is too low, you will record noise, if it is too high, it will clip drastically and not sound good.
Delay AutoStop This function is active if the check mark is visible to the left of the pop-up menu. Activate this function and select a time value. When the signal falls below the Threshold defined under AutoMarker/-Stop (Threshold), the program waits for the time-span defined here before it stops recording. This may be useful if the song ends with a long fade-out. This function is not available, if you have defined a Record Duration. Record Clicking on this switch will immediately start recording.
What can I do if recording does not work immediately? CLEAN uses the hardware (and its active ports) that you have selected in Windows’ Control Panel folder. Depending on the Windows version you use, the corresponding control panel may be named “Multimedia Properties” or “Sounds and Audio Devices”. If you e.g.
The Soundcard dialog This dialog is used to select the sound card inputs and outputs that you use with CLEAN and to which you have connected an external analog sound source like e.g. the combination of record player and Hi-fi amplifier and your sound monitoring system. If have CLEAN PLUS, this is where you can select the Phono PreAmp as the sound card. The sound card is used for analog/digital conversion. • Open the pop-up menus to select the desired inputs and outputs.
Setting Record and Playback volume Record volume When you use CLEAN to record audio on your hard disk, this is what happens: • The audio signal from an external source (e.g. from the record player/Hi-fi amplifier combination) arrives at the input of your sound card where it is converted from an analog to a digital signal.
Before you use CLEAN for recording from vinyl or cassette, you should check the Recording Control settings of your audio card. The sound source and recording level settings are very important for a successful recording. Proceed as follows: 1. Open the Mixer application of your audio card: On the Start menu, on the Programs submenu, select Accessories. From the submenu that appears, select Entertainment, then Volume Control. The Window Mixer dialog opens. 2.
4. Specify the audio source by activating the Select checkbox in the Line In section of the dialog. Use the fader in this section to accurately predefine the recording level. You can later fine tune this setting from within the program. 5. Connect the desired sound source (a cassette recorder or a record player with PreAmp or PreAmp/Equalizer) with the corresponding socket of your audio card (usually marked in red) and activate playback of the source signal.
The four Effect sections CLEAN has four different effect sections: Restoration, Enhancement, Mastering and Surround. Four tabs, similar to those found in many Windows dialogs, are visible at the top of the CLEAN window. Use these tabs to switch the upper right part of the window to display any of the four effect sections. The four tabs Use this to switch all Effects on or off. If you activate this function, the three main restoration effects will use their high quality mode.
Things the effects have in common All CLEAN effects combine extremely simple handling with excellent quality. Except for the VST plug-ins (see page 34), the Sound Morph effect (see page 32), which provide their own editing windows, and the Surround effect (see page 39) all effects are controlled in the same way, in spite of their totally different effect on the audio material: • Each effect can be activated/deactivated by clicking on its On/Off switch and you can use its fader to control effect intensity.
The Restoration section Audition mode switches Stereo switch AutoClean menu and switch All effects On/Off & High Quality On/Off On/Off switches & Effect intensity faders Value fields The Restoration section • Click on the Restoration Tab to make this section visible. The Restoration section contains seven effects. You can use the first five effects to fight clicks, crackles, background noise, predefined noise and sibilants. The other two effects are used to remove rumble noise and mains hum.
DeClicker The DeClicker removes single short clicks, as they are often found on vinyl records. Such clicks can also occur during recording. Then they are often caused by digital drop outs or by electrical devices (refrigerators, neon tubes, etc.) that are connected to the same electrical circuit. DeCrackler Other than the DeClicker the DeCrackler concentrates on constant background crackles. These are often audible when you play shellac or vinyl records, but can e.g.
DeEsser The DeEsser can be used to remove sibilants from the signal, that may occur on some vinyl record and tape recordings. Use the Audition mode switch to make sure you don’t remove any parts of the useful signal. DeRumbler This subsonic filter cuts off the frequencies below 20 Hz and therefore the noise caused by pick-up needle and groove when a record is played back. DeHummer This useful function lets you remove a mains hum noise of 50 Hz (as is typical in Europe) or 60 Hz (as is typical in the U.S.
The Enhancement section Stereo switch The Faders All effects On/Off & High Quality On/Off On/Off switches Value fields Two VST Plug-In Slots. Elements of each from left to right: On/Off switch, pop-up menu, Edit button, name field The Enhancement section • Click on the Enhancement Tab to make this section visible. The Enhancement section can contain up to eight effects.
Brilliance This effect will add second and third harmonics to the sound that you process with it. It thus expands the harmonic content of the sound, which will in effect get more brilliance and a better presence. Stereo Spread The stereo effect of audio material retrieved from older media does not always meet the expectations: Maybe someone recorded his or her first own demo tapes without a sound engineer, or maybe a vinyl record suffered from the many times it was played.
3. A dialog opens. There is a pop-up menu on its left side. Here you must select a source for the audio analysis. The audio to be analysed can either be a Wave file (file extension.wav) on your hard disk or a Live input signal that is played back via your sound card (e.g. a CD track that you play back from your computer’s CD drive. 4. Click the “Analyse” button to analyse the reference audio. In the display below the “Analyse” button the word “Busy” will appear and flash.
Reverb This effect simulates track playback in a room. The proportion between original signal and room signal always remains the same. What you change by using the fader is the size and type of the room and therefore its reverb characteristics. Car Sim(ulation) You can use this effect to process tracks in way that they sound better when played back via a car stereo system.
2. Click on the “E” button to bring up the Edit window of the plug-in where you can make the desired settings. Most VST plug-ins have their own Edit window, few don’t. For the latter type, CLEAN creates a simple edit dialog. Two different Edit windows.
The Mastering section On/Off switches Stereo switch The Faders Value fields All effects On/Off & High Quality On/Off Multi Band Compressor Solo switches The Mastering section In the professional audio sector, the process of optimizing and finalizing audio before it is transferred to production is called Mastering. • Click on the Mastering Tab to make this section visible. The Mastering section contains five effects.
Here’s what the individual effects do: Vari Speed This effect lets you change the tempo and the pitch of a track. Vari Speed works in real time and re-samples the audio. You can pitch a track up or down by up to two semitones. Its tempo will change accordingly. You can therefore use this effect to correct false tempi or pitches caused by the differing basic playback speed of different cassette recorder models.
Loud(ness) Max(imizer) This is a very special effect. You can use it to increase the average volume of a recording. Imagine you have recorded a track that contains music with a wide dynamic range. That is, the music contains a few very loud parts, but also very low parts. During recording you have taken great care that the few loud peak signals did not cause distortion. Now you find that – compared to the peaks – the rest of the music is not loud enough. Try Loud Max to level out the different levels.
The Surround section The Surround section • To bring up this section click on the Surround Tab in the top right of the CLEAN window. The Surround section can be used to create stereo compatible Surround recordings. In other words: Here you can turn a normal stereo recording into a Surround recording with spatial sound characteristics which can also be played back via a normal stereo system.
Using the Surround section The settings described hereafter can be used to adapt Surround playback to your individual monitoring setup. It is after all not uncommon that speakers can not be positioned in the optimal places for practical reasons. This can be taken into account with this method. 1. Switch on the Surround section. 2. Use the Surround level fader at the bottom left of the Surround section to distribute the volume level between the front and rear speakers.
The Equalizer CLEAN includes an 8-band Graphic Equalizer with fifteen fixed and fifteen user-definable Presets. The Equalizer is located in the middle of the CLEAN window below the IntelliAssistant. You can separately set each of its eight filter bands. By moving one of the handles up or down, you increase or decrease the level of the corresponding frequency band within the overall signal by up to +/- 12 dB.
Creating an Equalizer Preset To create your own preset proceed as follows: 1. Activate the Equalizer by clicking on the “Equalizer” button. 2. Start playback and move the Equalizer faders up or down until you’ve got the sound right. 3. Double click on the name field to the right of the “X” button and name your Preset. 4. Click on the “Return” symbol button. The right part of the pop-up menu opens. 5. Click on the desired slot where your new Preset should wind up.
The Waveform display Fade In Marker (top) Start Marker (bottom) The Waveform display Fade Out Marker (top) End Marker (bottom) Fader for moving the visible part of the Waveform display Controls, upper row from left to right: Current Track Time, Zoom out, Zoom in, Fade in, Fade out, Open WaveLab Lite audio editor, Automarker Analysis switch, New Marker, Delete Marker, Create Tracks function.
❐ The Start and End Markers disappear, once an imported track or one that you have recorded with CLEAN has been processed or manually been set to “ready” status – see “Processing the tracks” on page 47. 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.
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.
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 blue bar represents the relative space on the storage medium that you have selected under “Select temp file directory” in the File menu (see page 88).
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. All tracks that are ready to be recorded onto CD have a green track number. You can even re-define the Start/End and Fade in/out Markers after the tracks have been processed. See page 44.
The Process Time display During the processing, this display informs you how long it will presumably take until CLEAN finishes processing the current track. Current Time and Remaining Time CD-R These two displays at the bottom of the CLEAN window are meant to facilitate your overview of the current Project. • • • The “Current Time” display shows the total time of all tracks that are currently in the track list.
Maximum Level by Normalizing While analog systems generally show a relatively tolerant behaviour when fed with signal peaks higher than 0 dB, a digital system for technical reasons responds to levels above 0 dB by creating very unpleasant distortions, called digital clipping. Digital recordings with a very low level – on the other hand – suffer from a low resolution and therefore from background noise.
Normalizing one or all tracks To normalize one track in your track list, proceed as follows: 1. Select the desired track in the track list by clicking on it. 2. Select “Normalize selected track” on the Normalize menu. The corresponding line in the track list will be highlighted. A dialog box appears, where you can confirm the action by clicking “Yes” or cancel it by clicking “No”. If you click “Yes”, the calculation starts immediately.
Recording a CD-R CLEAN provides two different CD formats for recording: audio CD and data CD. • • CDs in audio format contain audio data – e.g. music – and can be played back in audio CD players or CD-ROM drives. Data CDs in ISO format (i.e. CD-ROMs) can contain different data formats – e.g. MP3 files. The funny thing is that the files may very well be audio files. But here, they are stored in a way that a computer operating system recognizes them, but most audio CD players don’t.
2. Use the buttons at the bottom of the dialog to add the desired files. 3. If you also wish to add the files listed in the track list, click the “Get Project” button. This doesn’t change the CD format to Mixed Mode. Instead, the files are simply added as computer files. ❐ If you close the dialog before writing the CD, the list will be deleted. The total size of all files in the list is displayed in the lower right corner of the dialog.
Here you can make all necessary settings for the CD to be recorded. Setting Description Write The CD writing process is started. Close The dialog is closed. Settings This opens a dialog where you can make settings for your CD recorder. The contents of this dialog depends on the CD recorder used. Disc Info If a CD-R is in the CD recorder, you can use this to get information about its size and available space. Write speed Here you can select a Write speed supported by your CD recorder.
Write to hard disk If this function is active (ticked), the writing program first writes an first image file onto your hard disk (which must have enough free space to hold the file). An image file has the advantage that the data to be recorded doesn’t have to be converted into CD format during recording, as this is done when the image file is created. The actual burning (recording) procedure will therefore be faster and performed with greater reliability and less risk of malfunction.
Recording a DVD You can also use CLEAN to record your music onto DVD in DVD Video format. If you have prepared all files in your current project using the processing and possibly normalizing functions or if you have not processed and instead manually set them to “ready” status, then you can now record them onto DVD. • To do so, click on the “DVD” switch below the track list. The DVD Menu Editor dialog opens. This dialog lets you edit the menu structure and menu design of the DVD.
Selecting a Menu Template A considerable number of ready-made DVD menu templates can be selected “as is” or edited and saved as your own template. Templates in the selection section If you click on the light bulb icon, the templates are shown in the selection section of the dialog. Click on a template to select it. The visible part of the selection section can be moved.
Selecting a Switch shape Switch shapes can also be selected: The switch shape templates in the selection section Click on the third icon from the top to display and select switch shape templates in the selection section. The visible part of the selection section can be moved. When you click on a switch shape template, it will be highlighted in the selection section and the switches in the View section get the new shape. Selecting Switch backgrounds.
Selecting Text styles, Fonts and Font sizes You can of course replace the text style of the selected template by another: The text style templates in the selection section Click on the fourth icon from the top to display and select text style templates in the selection section. The pop-up menus below the selection section can be used to select other font types and sizes. The visible part of the selection section can be moved.
Saving your own Templates When you have completed your own template, you should save it using Save Template…” in the Advanced pop-up menu (at the bottom right of the DVD Menu Editor dialog). Your templates are also displayed in the template collection and can be selected there. DVD Title • To name your compilation, click into the “DVD Title” field on the upper left side of the dialog and type in the desired title.
The Video Settings, DVD Settings and Burn Settings dialogs At the top of the DVD Menu Editor dialog you can find three switches. By clicking on any of these, you can open the corresponding dialog: • The following options are available in the Video settings dialog: Option Result, if option is activated Show Info Text (Artist, Album etc.) Text information is displayed during DVD playback.
• In the Burn Settings dialog you can make the usual settings. Start Recording If you have made all necessary settings and there is an empty DVD-R in your DVD recorder, you can now start recording. • To do so, click on the “Burn DVD!” button at the bottom right of the DVD Menu Editor dialog.
Creating CD/DVD Labels The Label Editor allows you to design and print custom labels for your projects. You can design separate layouts for front, inside, back and disk labels. Both text information and a wide range of image file formats can be imported and edited in various ways. About Variables and Templates Every project has a default set of “variables”, text that consists of a short code string plus a value. Variables provide information about a project, such as track titles, personal data etc.
Selecting a Template Before you open the Label Editor, you select a template. As mentioned previously, templates provide some information based on the current project, and have ready-made layouts: 1. Open the project you wish to create CD/DVD labels for. 2. Select the “Label Editor” option from the Options menu. 3. A dialog appears, allowing you to select a template for your project. On the right, you find a list of available templates, divided into three groups “Audio”, “Data” and “Audio + Data”.
Using the Label Editor The Label Editor always displays one of the three available views or pages: the Front, Back or Disk label. You switch between these pages by selecting the corresponding tabs below the Menu/Toolbar. The layout is completely independent for each page. • Please note that the Front Label can either be single or double-sided. This option is set in the Page Layout dialog on the Printing menu, see page 80.
About the Label Editor Window The Label Editor displays a frame with the selected label (Front, Back or Disk) layout. Layouts are made up of editable objects. Objects can be either images, text boxes, lines or circles. You can also select either an image or color as background for the layout as a whole. Horizontal & Vertical Rulers (optional) Front/Back/Disk Layout buttons Background (with “Show Grid” option selected).
Basic Object handling in the Label Editor The Label Editor Tools Insert Circle Insert Line Insert Image Insert Box with Text Insert Track List Zoom Object Print Label Zoom In/Out Selection Tool Tools can be selected in three ways: • • • From the Tools menu By clicking the corresponding icon on the Menu/Toolbar By right-clicking in the background area (not an object), and selecting from the context menu that appears The following tools are available: Tool Description Selection Tool Used to select,
Selecting Objects Clicking an object with the Selection tool selects it. • • • Selected objects are indicated by a dotted outline and square “handles” which can be used to scale the size of the object. To select several objects, hold down [Shift] or [Ctrl] and click. Selected objects can be deselected by [Shift]-clicking. When several objects are selected, one of the objects will always have the “focus”. This is indicated by red handles.
Resizing Objects • If you click on a handle of a selected object, the pointer changes to a double arrow, indicating the directions you can drag. Images or circle objects will be scaled, whereas dragging the handles of text box objects will resize the size of the box, not the text itself. • You can also right-click an object and select “Edit position and size...” from the context menu. A dialog appears allowing you to edit size (width and height) numerically, in cm/mm.
Positioning objects There are several methods you can use to position objects: • Manually • Automatically in relation to the layout frame You can drag objects using the Selection tool. By right-clicking an object, you can automatically center the placement of an object either horizontally or vertically by selecting the corresponding item from the context menu. • Automatically in relation to other selected objects See page 75. • Numerically If you select “Edit position and size...
About the Edit Properties Dialog The Edit Properties dialog can be opened in three ways: • • • By selecting an object and selecting “Edit properties…” from the Objects menu. By right-clicking an object and selecting the same item from the context menu. By double-clicking an object. The contents of the dialog vary depending on the object type.
Property Description Font... This opens a standard font dialog, where you can select font type, text format, text color, and text size etc. Text Orientation Here you can set the orientation of the text. Select between Horizontal, Vertical top down, or Vertical down top. In addition you can set whether the text should “wrap” or not. If text wrap is on, the text orientation will adapt according to the size of the text box. Text Justification This allows you to set the text justification, i.e.
Circle Properties The Circle/Ellipse properties dialog can set the following parameters: Property Description Border Options Here you can define whether the Circle should have a border line surrounding it, and to set the thickness of the border line. Background Color Sets the background color of the Circle. By clicking in the Color field, a standard color dialog appears where you can pick a color.
The CD Track List Edit Properties dialog has the following options: Property Description Border Options Here you can define whether the track list should have a border line surrounding it and set the thickness of the border line. In addition, the track list corners can be rounded. The Size of the rounded corners can also be set, the higher the number the rounder the corners will be. • Background Color Sets the background color of the track list.
Image Properties This opens a standard file dialog, where you can navigate to the image you would like to import. The supported image formats are: • BMP/JPEG/PCX/PNG/PSD/TGA/TIF and TIFF/WMF/EMF Line Properties Here you can define the thickness and the color of the line. The Objects Menu The Objects menu can be selected from the Menu/Toolbar, or opened by right-clicking an object (context menu). The items on the Objects menu are greyed out if no object is selected.
If several objects are selected when opening the Objects menu, the following additional items are selectable: Item Description Apply same properties This item allows you to apply properties from the focused obas focused object ject to all of the selected objects of the same type. Space evenly horizontally This distributes the selected objects horizontally, using the top center handle as a guide.
About Label Sets You can save as many Label sets as you like for a project. However, whenever you open the Label Editor, a new Label set opens which is untitled and only contains the auto-generated data. Whenever you have edited layouts in the Label Editor, you will be asked to save it as a Label Set if you close the Label Editor or exit the program without first having saved your changes. If you don’t save, any changes are gone forever.
Defining User Variables Apart from the auto-generated data such as CD information, date and time etc., you can define a number of user editable variables that are local to the project you are working on. Once you have defined a set of user variables, this is saved with the current project. To define user variables, proceed as follows: 1. Open the project you wish to set user variables for. 2. Select “Default text variables...” from the Options menu.
Saving Variable Sets as Presets Clicking the name field pop-up at the bottom of the window opens a menu which allows you to save sets of Label variables as Presets. You can then switch between different presets of already “filled in” variables. A Preset could typically represent the information belonging to a client you work with regularly, for example. Naturally, the auto-generated variables will still adapt to the current project as usual.
Printing CD Labels You print your CD labels directly from the Label Editor, either on standard paper or on specialized CD label papers (usually available in computer peripheral stores, etc.). Calibrating the Printer If you are printing on specialized CD label paper, it is very important that the printer is “calibrated”, that is, the measurements in the program (for margins, positioning, etc.) must be exactly the same as the actual results you get when printing.
Case front label Proceed as follows: 1. Select the case front label by clicking on its tab. 2. Select “Page layout” from the Printing menu. The Page layout dialog for the case front label appears. 3. Make the appropriate settings: Setting Description Paper height/width This is where you specify the size of the paper used in the printer. Landscape orientation Allows you to specify the orientation of the papers: “lying down” (Landscape) or “standing up”.
4. Setting Description Double-sided When this is activated, the label will include both the front and the inside of the front cover label. Note: You will probably have to use Landscape printing to fit a double-sided layout on paper (depending on the paper size). After printing a double-sided front cover, you need to fold the paper at the correct position. Offsets These settings determine the positioning of the label on the printed page.
Case back label Proceed as follows: 1. Select the case back label by clicking on its tab. 2. Select “Page layout” from the Printing menu. The Page layout dialog for the case back label appears. 3. Make the appropriate settings: Setting Description Paper height and width This is where you specify the size of the paper used in the printer. Landscape orientation Allows you to specify the orientation of the papers: “lying down” (Landscape) or “standing up”.
Setting Description Offsets These settings determine the positioning of the label on the printed page. This is extra important when you are printing on specialized CD label paper. Note: If you are printing multiple views, you make independent Offset settings for each view. To make settings for a view, you first need to select it by clicking on its object in the preview display above the Offset values. A selected view is indicated by a coloured object in the display. 4.
Disc label Proceed as follows: 1. Select the disc label by clicking on its tab. 2. Select “Page layout” from the Printing menu. The Page layout dialog for the disc label appears. 3. Make the appropriate settings: Setting Description Paper height and width This is where you specify the size of the paper used in the printer. Landscape orientation Allows you to specify the orientation of the papers: “lying down” (Landscape) or “standing up”.
Setting Description Offsets These settings determine the positioning of the label on the printed page. This is extra important when you are printing on specialized CD label paper. Note: If you are printing multiple views, you make independent Offset settings for each view. To make settings for a view, you first need to select it by clicking on its object in the preview display above the Offset values. A selected view is indicated by a coloured object in the display. 4.
Exporting audio in MP3 format CLEAN can also export audio in MP3 format. ❐ You can use CLEAN to decode an unlimited number of MP3 files. For license reasons, encoding audio data into MP3 format is limited to 20 encoding processes. An MP3 Update that allows unlimited encoding can be purchased from Steinberg. You can thus record or import music from other media/formats (CD, record, cassette, WAV or MP3 file), process it with CLEAN and save it as MP3 file. CLEAN supports a whole range of MP3 quality options.
MP3 Options CRC This is an abbreviation for Cyclic Redundancy Checksum. If CRC is active, then the program adds checksums to the file. These do e.g. enable an MP3 Player to solve smaller data glitches that might have happened somewhere during data transfer. The checksum information helps to reconstruct the data. Copyright If this is active, a copyright bit per data frame is inserted into the data stream.
The CLEAN Menus This section contains a short description of all items on the CLEAN menus. The File menu New Project… Selecting this item creates an empty new Project. In the dialog that opens, select the directory in which you want to save the Project and give the new Project a name. Open Project… Selecting this opens a previously saved Project from hard disk. A project can also be opened using Drag & Drop; a previously open Project will then automatically be saved.
The Options Menu Labeleditor Use this item to open CLEAN’s CD/DVD Label Editor. Undo (Start/End This is a multiple Undo function. The last 100 changes that you and Fade in/Fade have made to the Marker positions can be cancelled, one by one. out Markers) Mono playback Here you can set which channel should be used for monophonic playback. Soundcard settings… Opens a dialog where you can select a sound card for recording and playback as well as the number and size of its buffers.
The CD menu CD info… Checks the size of the CD-R. Write Audio CD-R… Selecting this item opens a dialog where you can make a number of settings concerning your CD recorder and start the writing process. Find more detailed information in the section “Recording a CD-R” on page 51. Write Data CD… 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.
Working with a less powerful system One of CLEAN’s advantages is that you can pre-listen to the effect of its restoration and effect functions in real time before you start to process the actual data and create a file. The time-consuming calculation process is therefore only necessary when you are satisfied with the settings you have made. Pre-listening, however, puts a heavy burden on your processor.
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