Gemini iKEYplus User Manual
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PLAYING BACK YOUR RECORDINGS ON A WINDOWS XP-BASED PERSONAL
COMPUTER (
CONTINUED
):
Something to take note of is the fact that most PC applications have a 2 GB limit
when dealing with WAV files. If you must record in WAV format for an extended peri-
od, try to make your recordings no longer than 3 hours for each file. At the time of
this publication, a free utility called Wave Splitter exists to split WAV files into small-
er pieces, and can be found at http://claudiosoft.online.fr/wavsplit.html. NOTE
THAT THIS SOFT WARE IS NOT SUPPORTED IN ANY WAY BY GCI OR IKEY
AUDIO, AND YOUR DECISION TO USE IT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
SUGGESTIONS FOR EDITING YOUR RECORDINGS:
For some people, simply having the capability to make high quality recordings to a
USB storage device is satisfactory. However, there are a whole range of others who
wish to trim, edit, and manipulate the recordings they have made. With the proper
know-ow, editing can bring out the best in your recordings. Although the iKEYplus
does not come with any type of editing software, customers wishing to perform edit-
ing may obtain a number of software titles. Here is a list of software that is recom-
mended by the iKEY Audio development team (at the time of this publication):
Audacity is a free cross-platform audio editing software for Windows and Macintosh,
and can be found at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Sony Sound Forge and Sound Forge Audio Studio are programs widely used for
professional audio editing and can be found at http://www.sonymediasoftware.com.
Steinberg WaveLab can be found at http://www.steinberg.de
NOTE THAT THE AFOREMENTIONED SOFT WARE IS NOT SUPPORTED IN ANY
WAY BY GCI OR IKEY AUDIO, AND YOUR DECISION TO USE IT IS AT YOUR
OWN RISK.
If you wish to learn more about digital audio editing, as well as the principles of dig-
ital audio recording, you may want to check out Chris Middleton’s book, titled
Complete Guide To Digital Audio.
TIPS FOR EDITING:
- When editing a recording you’ve made on the iKEYplus, copy the file to your PC’s
hard drive before making edits.
- Try to keep backup copies of the original recordings, just in case you make a change
that you decide later to be unfavorable.
- If you plan on editing excessively large files often, you may want to consider a high
performance PC hard drive and some extra RAM to make the process quicker.
Using an audio editing application (not included) can allow you to
mainpulate the recordings that you have made with the iKEYplus.
Pictured: Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio 7.0
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