Acoustica Mixcraft 7 - Manual (Page 376)

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ASIO
ASIO provides an interface between
the audio application and sound card.
It’s an acronym for Audio Stream
Input/Output. It was developed by
Steinberg Media Technologies and
helps manufacturers and developers
to create hardware and driver software
extending the personal computer's
audio connectivity to meet the needs
of musicians and audio engineers.
ASIO offers a relatively simple way of
accessing multiple audio inputs and
outputs. The Audio Stream I/O API
addresses the areas of efficient audio
processing, high data throughput,
synchronization, low latency and
extensibility on the audio hardware side.
The interface is not bound to any fixed
number of input and output channels,
and provides a constant streaming
model.
ASPI
ASPI stands for Advanced SCSI
Programming interface and standardizes
communication between a SCSI host
adapter and CD drives, hard drives and
other devices. (Most people can think
of it as a special driver to communicate
with your CD writer.)
Audio Clips
Audio clips represent audio files that can
be stretched, edited, looped and played
in Mixcraft. Audio clips will usually
be in OGG, WAV, MP3, WMA or AIFF
format.
AVI
AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a
Microsoft video file format standard
for storing audio and video on PCs.
AVI files can contain compressed or
uncompressed video and audio.
BPM
Beats per minute. The usual
measurement of tempo in music. In
Mixcraft, BPM means quarter notes /
minute.
Burn Proof
Burn Proof is a proprietary technology
for buffer under-run protection
developed by Plextor. Other buffer
under-run avoidance technologies are
called Safe Burn, Power Burn and Just
Speed. Most new drives have a buffer
under-run protection technology.
Buffer Under-run
This is when the computer cannot
deliver data fast enough to a CD writer.
CD-Quality
CD-Quality is the standard quality
used on audio CDs. Its audio specs are
44,100 Hz sample rate, 16-bit, stereo.
Clipboard
The clipboard is a buffer of sounds
that can be stored and pasted later.
Clipboard operations involving sound is
limited to Mixcraft and it will not share
audio data with other programs unless
you add the audio file directly.
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