Audio Menu
The audio menu has audio-specific commands.
Loops while Playing (key shortcut: 4)
Checking this option will keep playback going in an endless loop. If there is selected audio, only the selection will play in a loop. Otherwise, the entire file will repeat. You can turn it on and off while playing.
Play (key shortcut: space)
This command starts playback from the start of the selection or the insertion point, and plays to the end of the selection or end of the file. To start playback using the mouse, click the right mouse button or control-click (by holding down the control key while clicking with the mouse button) in either the upper or lower waveform views, and playback will start where you clicked.
During playback, use these keys to control playback:
1 Rewind
2 Fast Forward
4 Loop
M Drop Marker
return Jump to 0:00 time
Pause (key shortcut: P or .)
This command toggles the paused state of playback or recording. It keeps the play/record head at the current position when paused.
Stop (key shortcut: escape)
This command stops playback or recording, and returns the play/record head to its original position.
Record (key shortcut: 3)
This command starts recording to a temporary storage file on disk. When you press the stop button, the recorded audio will be inserted into the file at the cursor, replacing any selected audio.
Auto Start/Stop Recording
See Auto Start/Stop Recording
Change Sample Rate
See Change Sample Rate
Sample Size
The Sample Size submenu allows you to change the sample size of the document as it is saved to disk. It does not have any effect on the file while it is open in Sound Studio, because audio data is stored as 32-bit floating-point data within the application. Only when the file is saved to disk is the sample size used.
The sample size will affect the sound quality and file size of the file on disk. A smaller sample size (8-bit being the smallest) will result in a smaller file size, but also lower sound quality. The 16-bit setting will produce a file twice the size of an 8-bit file, but with significantly better sound quality, while the 24-bit setting will produce a file three times the size of an 8-bit file. The 16-bit settings is usually the best compromise between file size and sound quality.
Mixdown to Stereo/Mono
These two commands allow you to convert the file between mono and stereo formats.
Fourier Spectrum Analysis
This command charts the frequency spectrum of the selected audio.