KLARSTEIN USB TURNTABLE - User`s manual - Hifi
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1. if there is another track below this one joins them to make a single stereo track with the top track representing the left speaker and the bottom track representing the right speaker When tracks are joined into a stereo pair all edits automatically apply to both the left and right channel Split Stereo Track if the selected track is a stereo track a pair of left and right tracks joined together as a single track this operation splits them into two separate tracks that you can modify and edit independently Set Sample Format this determines the quality of the audio data and the amount of space it takes up 16 bit is the quality used by audio CD s and is the minimum quality that Audacity uses internally converted when you open them 24 bit is used in higher end audio hardware 32 bit float unless you have a slow computer or are running out of disk space Set Rate sets the number of samples per second of the track 44100Hz is used by audio CDs Tracks can have different sample rates in Audacity they are automatically resampled to the project sample rate in the lower left corner of the window File Menu New creates a new empty window Open opens an audio file or an Audacity project in a new window unless the current window is empty To add audio files to an existing project window use one of the Import commands in the Project menu Close closes the current window asking you if you want to save chan2. a copy of all or part of a track or set of tracks into new tracks See the figure below Select gt ALL Selects all of the audio in all of the tracks in the project Select gt Start to Cursor Selects from the beginning of the selected tracks to the cursor position Select gt Cursor to End Selects from the cursor position to the end of the selected tracks Find Zero Crossings Modifies the selection slightly so that both the left and right edge of the selection appear on a positive slope zero crossing This makes it easier to cut and paste audio without hearing clicking sounds Selection Save Remembers the current selection or cursor position allowing you to restore it later Selection Restore Restores the cursor position to the last position saved by Selection Save Move Cursor gt to Track Start Moves the cursor to the start of the current track Move Cursor gt to Track End Move the cursor to the end of the currently selected track Move Cursor gt to Selection Start Moves the cursor to the end of the current selection Move Cursor gt to Selection End Moves the cursor to the end of the current selection Snap To gt Snap On Enable Snap To mode When Snap To mode is enabled the selection will be constrained to the nearest interval on the time scale by default the nearest second So if you click and drag from 4 2 seconds to 9 8 seconds it will result in a selection from 4 s
3. can jump back and forth between editing steps quite easily by simply clicking on the entries in the window the same as selecting Undo or Redo many times in a row You can also discard Undo history window can be kept open while you work Float Control Toolbar moves the Control Toolbar out of the window and into its own floating window so you can position it wherever you want TheMenu item changes to Dock Control Toolbar which you can use to put the toolbar back into the main window Float Edit Toolbar moves the Edit Toolbar out of the window and into its own floating window so you can position it wherever you want The menu item changes to Dock Edit Toolbar which you can use to put the toolbar back into the main window Float Edit Toolbar moves the Edit Toolbar out of the window and into its own floating window so you can position it wherever you want The menu item changes to Dock Edit Toolbar which you can use to put the toolbar back into the main window Float Meter Toolbar does the same thing for audacity s VU meters which you use to set recording levels and adjust playback Float Mixer Toolbar moves the Mixer Toolbar out of the window and into its own floating window as above Project Menu Import Audio This command is used to import audio from a standard audio format into your project Use this command if you already have a couple of tracks and you want to add another track to the same project ma
4. exercise extreme care whilst performing this operation so as to avoid the tone arm and audio line wires from any damage Installing a new cartridge Please refer to figures 5 and 6 NOTES For maximum enjoyment and a longer lifetime of your records We advise you to clean your records using a rag impregnated with an anti static product For the same reason your stylus should be replaced periodically approximately every 250 hours Dust the stylus from time to time using a very soft brush dipped in alcohol brushing from back to front When transporting your record player do not forget to Replace the protective cap on the stylus Put the rest clip into the pick up arm 4 Recording editing LP Records to PC using Audacity For the complete manual please check the following website http audacity sourceforge net help documentation lang en Before recording and editing the music please first install the supplied software To Install Software PC 1 2 Insert the CD that came with your USB turntable Read the installation menu and click Install Audacity pro software button on install screen to install Audacity software Once installed run the Audacity program which should be on your desktop With the software installed you can record vinyl records onto your PC and convert to MP3 Plug your record player into an AC outlet and connect the USB port of the record player with the USB port of your computer Turn on
5. the power switch of your record player and open the Audacity program that you have installed Hit the record button in the toolbar and then play the LP record Software Configuration 1 Click on Microphone in the drop down menu and select Stereo Mix Figure 1 Select Stereo Mix 2 Select the Edit menu and then Preferences Select the USB audio device under the Recording selection as shown Select Software Playthrough to hear the audio while recording NOTE Depending on your computer model and operating system the USB record player may show up with a different name in your windows system Audacity Preferences Audio 1 0 Quality File Formats Spectrograms Directories Interface Keyboard Mouse Playback Device SoundMAX Digital Audio Recording eE S TT Devic USB Audio CODEC wi Channels Fa SCE Play other tracks while fecording new one tware Playthrough Play new track while recording it Figure 2 Select USB Audio Device from Preferences Maybe as ee ee ae ely FE ee ee YOU Note Actually the turntable is a plug n play device and most computer system support for hot plugging so user can use some other recording device such as Microsoft mapping Input or the sound card of your computer After completed the above settings you are ready for recording Toolbars AAEE n m x t lapki T Selection tool for selec
6. up much less disk space but they lose some audio quality Another compressed alternative is Ogg Vorbis below You can set the quality of MP3 compression in the File Format Preferences See also MP3 Exporting Export Selection As MP3 same as above but only exports the current selection Export as Ogg Vorbis exports all of the audio as an Ogg Vorbis file Ogg Vorbis files are compressed and therefore take up much less disk space but they lose some audio quality Ogg Vorbis files tend to take up a little less disk space than MP3 for similar compression quality and Ogg Vorbis is free from patents and licensing restrictions but Ogg Vorbis files are not as widespread You can set the quality of Ogg compression in the File Format Preferences Export Selection As Ogg Vorbis same as above but only exports the current selection Export Labels if you have a Label Track in your project this lets you export the labels as a text file You can import labels in the same text format using the Import Label command in the Project Menu Export Multiple lets you split your project into multiple files all in one step You can either split them vertically one new file per track or horizontally using labels in a Label Track to indicate the breaks between exported files Page Setup configure how Audacity will print out the track waveforms using the Print option and what printer to use Print Print out th
7. users only Allows you to express arbitrary transormations using a powerful functional programming language See the Nyquist section of the Audacity website for more information Phaser the name Phaser comes from Phase Shifter because it works by combining phase shifted signals with the original signal The movement of the phase shifted signals is controlled using a low Frequency Oscillator LFO Repeat repeats the selection a certain number of times This operation is quite fast and space efficient so it is practical to use it to create nearly infinite loops Reverse This effect reverses the selected audio temporally after the effect the end of the audio will be heard first and the beginning last Wahwah uses a moving bandpass filter to create its sound A low frequency oscillator LFO is used to control the movement of the filter throughout the frequency spectrum Adjusts the phase of the left and right channels when given a stereo selection so that the effect seems to travel across the speakers Plugins 1 to 15 etc These submenus contain any VST Ladspa or Nyquist plug ins loaded by audacity It is possible for a poorly written plug in to crash Audacity so always save your work before using a plug in effect Analyze Menu Plot Spectrum To use this feature first select a audio region from a single track then select Plot Spectrum It opens up a window that displays the Power Spectrum
8. KLARSTEIN USB TURNTABLE User s manual Unpack the main unit and find the mains power plug and plug into an available socket Amplifier connection Connect audio plugs to Alert input on your mixer or amplifier Red plug into R H channel input White plug into L H channel input Playing a record Place the record of your choice on the turntable If it is a 45 rom do not forget to place the adapter on the record spindle Choose the desired playing speed using the Speed switch Release the arm lock Gently push the tone arm with your hand Place the cartridge vertically over the first track of the record The turntable will start turning automatically Slowly put down the cartridge until it touches the record The record player will start playing When records has finished the platter will stop automatically if the Autostop switch has been switched to ON NOTE Lift the tone arm and put it on the rest Place the protective cap on the stylus and close the arm lock Turn off by unplugging the plug from the socket MAINTENANCE Replacing the stylus Please refer to the figures 1 8 push the arm lock to release take off cap of the cartridge to separate the cartridge from the take off the audio line from the tone arm expose the needle out socket lightly the cartridges completely to fit a new one just in opposite deals insert the audio line accordingly and install the cartridge to the socket lightly NOTE Please
9. art of the audio in a track use Delete or Silence Align Tracks All the Align functions work on whole tracks or groups of tracks not on selections even if they span across multiple tracks They all operate by time shifting tracks moving them left or right making it easier to synchronize tracks or get rid of silence at the beginning The cursor or selection stays in the same place unless you use Align and move cursor below Align and move cursor same as the functions above except that the cursor or selection is moved along with the tracks That allows you to shift the tracks without losing your relative place Add Label at Selection This menu item lets you create a new label at the current selection You can title the label by typing with the keyboard and then hitting Enter when you re done Add Label at Playback Position This menu item lets you create a new label at the current location where you are playing or recording Do this if you want to mark a certain passage while you re listening to it You can title the label by typing with the keyboard and then hitting Enter or Return when you re done Only available whilst audacity is playing Generate Menu If you choose an item from the Generate menu when there are no tracks in a project a new track is created Otherwise the current track is used If a track is selected and the cursor is placed in a single place in the track audio is inser
10. e applying it using the Generate Menu Equalization Boost or reduce arbitrary frequencies You can select one of a number of different curves designed to equalize the sound of some popular record manufacturers or draw your own curve Fade In fades the selection in linearly Fade Out fades the selection out linearly FFT Filter similar to Equalization lets you enhance or reduce arbitrary frequencies The curve here uses a linear scale for frequency Invert Flips the waveform vertically the same as a phase inversion in the analogue domain Noise Removal This effect lets you clean up noise from a recording First select a small piece of audio that is silent except for the noise select Noise Removal and click on the Get Noise Profile button Then select all of the audio you want filtered select Noise Removal again and click the Remove Noise button You can experiment with the slider to try to remove more or less noise It is normal for Noise Removal to result in some distortion It works best when the audio signal is much louder than the noise Normalize allows you to correct for DC offset a vertical displacement of the track and or amplify such that the maximum amplitude is a fixed amount 3Db It s useful to normalize all of your tracks before mixing If you have a lot of tracks you may then need to use the track gain sliders to turn some down Nyquist Prompt for advanced
11. e main window view from audacity showing the tracks and waveforms Exit Quit closes all windows and exits Audacity prompting you to save any unsaved changes first Edit Menu Undo This will undo the last editing operation you performed to your project Audacity supports full unlimited undo meaning you can undo every editing operation back to when you opened the window Redo This will redo any editing operations that were just undone After you perform a new editing operation you can no longer redo the operations that were undone Cut Removes the selected audio data and places it on the clipboard Only one thing can be on the clipboard at a time but it may contain multiple tracks Copy Copies the selected audio data to the clipboard without removing it from the project Paste Inserts whatever is on the clipboard at the position of the selection or cursor in the project replacing whatever audio data is currently selected if any Trim Removes everything to the left and right of the selection Delete Removes the audio data that is currently selected without copying it to the clipboard Silence Erases the audio data currently selected replacing it with silence instead of removing it Split Moves the selected region into its own track or tracks replacing the affected portion of the original track with silence See the figure below 1 Oy IH 1 0 Duplicate Makes
12. econds to 10 seconds exactly You can change the units that are snapped to using the Set Selection Format option in the View Menu Snap To gt Snap Off Turns Snap To mode off letting you select arbitrary ranges of time Preferences opens the Preferences dialog View Menu Zoom In Zooms in on the horizontal axis of the audio displaying more detail about less time You can also use the zoom tool to zoom inona particular part of the window Zoom Normal Zooms to the default view which displays about one inch per second Zoom Out Zooms out displaying less detail about more time Fit in Window Zooms out until the entire project just fits in the window Fit Vertically Resizes all of the tracks vertically so they all fit inside of the window if possible Zoom to Selection Zooms in or out so that the selection fills the window Set Selection Format lets you choose the formatting that is displayed at the bottom of the window indicating the current selection time Options include film video and audio CD frames seconds samples or pure time If you turn on Snap To mode in the Edit Menu the selection will snap to the frames or other quantization you have selected in this menu History Bring up the history window It shows all the actions you have performed during the current session including importing The right hand column shows the amount of hard disk space your operations used You
13. ges On Windows and Unix closing the last window will quit Audacity unless you modify this behavior in the Interface Preferences Save Project saves everything in the window into an Audacity specific format so that you can save and quickly continue your work later An Audacity project consists of a project file ending in aup and a project data folder ending in _data For example if you name your project Composition then Audacity will create a file called Composition aup and a folder called Composition_data Audacity project files are not meant to be shared with other programs use one of the Export commands below when you are finished editing a file Save Project As same as Save Project above but lets you save a project as a new name Recent Files brings up a list of files you have recently opened in audacity to be re opened quickly Export As WAV exports all of the audio in your project as a WAV file an industry standard format for uncompressed audio You can change the standard file format used for exporting from Audacity by opening the File Format Preferences Note that exporting will automatically mix and resample if you have more than one track or varying sample rates See also File Formats Export Selection As WAV same as above but only exports the current selection Export as MP3 exports all of the audio as an MP3 file MP3 files are compressed and therefore take
14. ls otherwise the result will be mono Your tracks are implicitly mixed whenever you hit the Play button and whenever you export This command offers a way to do it permanently and save the results to disk saving on playback resources Note that if you try to mix two very loud tracks together you may get clipping it will sound like pops clicks and noise To avoid this drag the gain slider on the tracks down to reduce their volume before mixing New Audio Track This creates a new empty Audio Track This command is rarely needed since importing recording and mixing automatically create new tracks as needed But you can use this to cut or copy data from an existing track and paste it into a blank track If that track was at a non default rate then you may need to use Set Rate from the Track Pop Down menu to set the correct sample rate New Stereo Track same as above but creates a stereo track You can also create a stereo track by joining two tracks using the track pop down menu New Label Track This creates a new Label Track which can be very useful for textual annotation New Time Track This creates a new Time Track which is used to vary the speed of playback over time Remove Tracks This command removes the selected track or tracks from the project Even if only part of a track is selected the entire track is removed You can also delete a track by clicking the X in its upper left corner To cut out only p
15. of the audio region calculated using the Fast Fourier Transform The graph represents the energy of each frequency As you move the cursor over the display it shows you the nearest peak frequency This window can also display other common functions that are calculated using the Fast Fourier Transform including three versions of the Autocorrelation function The Enhanced Autocorrelation function is very good at identifying the pitch of a note The Analyze menu is used for effects and plug in effects that do not modify the audio data but simply open a dialog with descriptive information Audacity also supports Analyze commands that create annotations in a Label Track Help Menu About Audacity To displays the version number and credits If you have compiled Audacity yourself check here to verify which optional modules have successfully compiled
16. ted at the cursor position The default duration is 30 seconds The audio created with replace the any selection otherwise it is inserted into the track shifting up later parts of the track Silence inserts silence Tone you can create a Sine wave Square wave or Sawtooth wave White Noise inserts random audio samples which sounds like pure static Any items which appear after these three built ins are VST LADSPA or NYQUIST plug ins It is possible for a poorly written plug in to crash Audacity so always save your work before using a plug in Note that any effect that doesn t take any audio as input will automatically be placed in the Generate menu Effect Menu The items in this menu only work when you have audio selected Audacity does not have any real time effects you must select the audio apply the effect and then listen to the results Most effects have a Preview button Clicking on this button plays up to three seconds of audio allowing you to hear what it will sound like after the effect is applied This is useful for fine tuning the effect parameters Repeat Last Effect selecting this command is a shortcut to applying the most recent effect with the same settings This is a convenient way to quickly apply the same effect to many different parts of a file Amplify changes the volume of the selected audio If you click the Allow clipping checkbox it will let you amplify so much
17. that the audio ends up beyond the range of the waveform and is clipped distorted The default value when you open the effect is to amplify so that the loudest part of the selection is as loud as possible without distortion Bass Boost enhances the bass frequencies in the audio Change Pitch changes the pitch frequency of the selected audio without changing the tempo When you open the dialog the starting frequency is set to Audacity s best guess as to the frequency of the selection This works well for recordings of singing or musical instruments without background noise You can specify the pitch change in one of four different ways musical note semitones frequency or percent change Change Speed changes the speed of the audio by resampling Making the speed higher will also increase the pitch and vice versa This will change the length of the selection Change Tempo changes the tempo speed of the audio without changing the pitch This will change the length of the selection Compressor compresses the dynamic range of the selection so that the loud parts are soft parts the same You can optionally normalise the recording afterwards resulting in the entire piece having higher perceived volume Echo very simple effect that repeats the selection with a decay sounding like a series of echo s This effect does not change the length of the selection so you may want to add silence to the end of the track befor
18. ting the range of audio you want to edit or listen to Envelope tool for changing the volume over time Draw tool for modifying individual samples Zoom tool for zooming in and out Timeshift tool for sliding tracks left or right Multi tool lets you access all of these tools at once depending on the location of the mouse and the keys you are holding down Audio Control Buttons amp Skip to Start moves the cursor to time 0 If you press Play at this point your project will play from the beginning Play starts playing audio at the cursor position If some audio is selected only the selection is played Loop if you hold down the Shift key the Play button changes to a Loop button which lets you keep playing the selection over and over again Record starts recording audio at the project sample rate the sample rate in the lower left corner of the window The new track will begin at the current cursor position so click the Skip to Start button first if you want the track to begin at time 0 Pause temporarily stops playback or recording until you press pause again Stop stops recording or playing You must do this before applying effects saving or exporting Skip to End moves the cursor to the end of the last track Edit Toolbar EEEE Ea mta z jme oje al alaie All button on this toolbar perform actions and with a couple of exceptions they re all just shortcuts of existing menu items to save
19. ybe to mix them together You cannot use this option to import Audacity Projects The only way to combine two Audacity Projects is to open them in separate windows then copy and paste the tracks Import Labels This command takes a text file which contains time codes and labels and turns them into a Label Track Import MIDI This menu command imports MIDI files and puts them into a MIDI Track Audacity can display MIDI files but cannot play edit or save them yet Import Raw Data This menu command allows you to open a file in virtually any uncompressed format When you select the file Audacity will analyze it and try to guess its format It will guess correctly about 90 of the time so you can try just pressing OK and listening to the result If it is not correct however you can use the options in the dialog to try some other possible encodings At the beginning of your imported track s you may notice a little bit of noise This is probably the file s header which Audacity was not able to parse Just zoom in and select the noise with the Selection Tool and then choose Delete from the Edit Menu Edit ID3 Tags Opens a dialog allowing you to edit the ID3 tags associated with a project for MP3 exporting Quick Mix This command mixes all of the selected tracks together If you are mixing stereo tracks or mixing tracks that are marked as Left or Right channel the result will be a stereo track two channe
20. you time Holding the mouse over a tool will show a tooltip in case you forget which one is which w aA E A 2 Qi Cut Copy Paste Trim away the audio outside the selection Mute the selected audio Undo Redo repeat last command Zoom In Zoom Out Fit selection in window zooms until the selection just fits inside the window Fit project in window zooms until all of the audio just fits inside the window Track Pop Down Menu The Track Pop Down Menu appears when you click in a track s title This lets you access a few special commands that apply to individual tracks Name lets you change the name of the track Move Track Up exchange places with the track above this one Move Track Down exchange places with the track below this one Waveform dB similar to Waveform but on a logarithmic scale measured in decibels dB Spectrum display the track as a spectrogram showing the amount of energy in different frequency bands Pitch EAC highlights the contour of the fundamental frequency musical pitch of the audio using the Enhanced Autocorrelation EAC algorithm Mono makes this track a mono track meaning it is played out of just one speaker or played out of the left and right speakers equally Left Channel makes this track come out of only the left speaker Right Channel makes this track come out of only the right speaker Make Stereo Track
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