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Vista Recording Problems

• Updated to run on Windows Vista.

• Windows Xp Style buttons.

• Two types of bookmark display are supported now, one is “colored mountains” and the other is “dotted line box”. You have option to switch between them using the Book mark menu.
• Grid display added in the background of the waveform display. You can use “Show Grid” menu under view menu to switch ON or OFF.
• Both end of the selected/highlighted portion is shown with a border line instead of a post, now it is easy to drag that to fine adjust the selection.
• Tool button color improved. Now the tool button is available in two sizes and you can switch to the other size using the “Tool button size” menu under view menu.
• New commands added:
  Save As MP3 - Saves the current .wav file to .mp3 file format using the same name.
  Copy to New - Copies the selected audio and places that in a new file.
  Batch Process - Automated to do the same operation for many file. In this version Stretch/Shrink, Equalizer, and Band Pass Stop Filter are supported.
  One more (second) gear button added to fine change the play speed between 70%, 80%, 90%, 100% and 110%.
• Equalizer settings can be saved to call and reuse later.
• In recording window one more Advanced Options added "Switch to new file if silent for ..." added.
• In Equalizer, Band Pass Filter and Echo windows a "Short Preview" button added.
• When the “File > New” command is used it will ask you to choose the file format.
• License price increased from US$15 to US$20. A new menu “Register” is added to the main menu for convenience.
• Progress bar and XY position display of the mouse is moved to the bottom.
• Book mark tool bar buttons added.

• Filename tabs are added on the top of the wave form window to switch from one file to another. When opening multiple windows, each wave file was opening a sub window, which made it difficult to manage many files.  The new tabs make it easier, now.

• Play speed slider now stays with the tool button always visible. Earlier, it was in a separate window that was difficult to access.

• Multiple file waveform windows can be opened under one main window, so you can handle many audio files together.

• Now, most of the commands have tool buttons, which are bigger and more beautiful!

• Status bar display is improved. For the Y-position display, you can now change between display sample height, percentage or DB value.

• There are two posts at the start and end of the selection, which can be used to drag the selection for fine adjustment. The selection post has a flag that will expand (on mouse movement over it) as a multiple button toolbox, where you have a few quick command buttons.

• Added one more hotkey. Use "-" to add a bookmark while playing.

• In the record box, added one more advance option to Start recording at ____ time. Add/insert silence while recording (in-between recording with a hot key). Add/insert bookmark while recording.

• Many bookmark enhancements. Bookmark is now displayed like colorful mountains, and there is a small box on top of the bookmark that will expand (on mouse movement over it) as multiple button toolbox for quick command buttons related to the bookmark. Manage bookmark box enhancement to edit name and rename it directly. Now, there is one more option to display a bookmark remark on the screen. Floating bookmark type supported; it will move when you insert or delete part of the audio before the floating bookmark.

• Frequency scale view on top of a wave form added (with option to show/hide frequency scale).

• More effects: Reverb effect, Dynamic compressor/expander.

• More commands: Select Previous, View previous.

• Play speed gear to change speed, so you do not need fast forward or reverse.  Simply use the gear to change to fast forward.

• Now the user-guide will not pop-up intrusively; it will stay as a separate window.

• Different color schemes are added.  You can choose a set of colors from the scheme, or you can set each color separately as before.

• Noise reduction/filter added under effects menu.

• Two options for silence delete, namely deleting to a fixed duration, and deleting by a fixed percentage. Two options for stretch/shrink/change speed, namely move the audio after the working area or not.

• Save book-marked parts command added to be able to save one or many book-marked parts to various files in one go.

• Important: A bug fixed on internal database handling (This is related to mono file only, no change for stereo file handling).

• Major improvement in Record box: Record indicator (L/R) shows even while not recording. Pause button on record added. Four advanced options, added Stop after recording for ___, Stop if silent for ___, Pause if silent for ___ and Restart if not silent. Silence threshold can be set.

• New effect: "Band pass/Band stop filter".

• New Edit commands: Lap command for simple and smooth transition. Copy another file to clipboard.

• Export to wma (also install another encoder and point the WM8EUTIL.exe)
  (http://download.microsoft.com/download/winmediatech40/wm8eu/8/w982kme/en-us/wm8eutil_setup.exe)

• "How to .." menu topic with frequently asked questions.

• Additional file types (au, raw/snd/binary) support added. Now Wave Editor can open/save the sound/audio clip file of Sun/Next (.au). And you can open or save .raw/.snd file type. You can also open any binary file by renaming it to .raw to look for audio data in any file (like sound font .sf2 files etc..)

• Band Volume View - A small window dynamically showing the volume of each frequency band at mouse position. This helps in selecting. Move the mouse and select.  When the volume is shown low, it will select at the valley.

• Volume maximize and Volume optimize/normalize to any percentage, commands added.

• Delete silence (and Delete low volume) commands added.

• Open in New window command added.

• Bookmark: All bookmark commands are consolidated in one new main menu. Add, Delete book mark commands added.

• License price increased from $10 to $15.

• Flexible sampling rate - now you can use any sampling rate. Earlier it was able to handle 11025, 22050 and 44100Hz, now added to handle 48000, 32000, 24000, 16000, 12000 and 8000 Hz with menu. And other custom sampling rates can be entered in the range 1 to 200 kHz.

• Internal database improved a lot. Now it responds faster for memory and file transfer for any operation, speed increased, files opens instantly. When the disk free space is low it will inform you in advance and allow you to clear files to continue.

• Quick play - Now you can start play at any position, just click on the middle scale to start playing at that position, now it starts playing immediately. Additional play selection - you can select separately and play a part with out changing the main selection - this helps in fine adjusting the main selection by test playing at various small play selections.

• Undo data can be cleared part by part as needed - one by one or all or a few of the oldest ones.

• Channel mix command added.

• Any sample rate files can be open and saved by doing a conversion while saving and opening.

• Trim command added - under Edit menu.

• Some improvements on recording window. Now you can choose the recording device.
• Few minor bugs fixed.

• Mp3 read/write support (with the help of command line encoder).

• Wave form display improved to show 5 different styles that can be chosen in options.

• Scale added to show the running time.

• Variable speed play, the tempo can be set. Rewind / Play backwards is possible with instant U-turn while playing. Now able to play long duration using hard disk.

• Display now can be changed to show Hours : Minutes : Seconds or Samples as you need.

• New user guide - a popup box to guide you while you are working.

• Disk space for temp folder can be set.

• Bookmark and bookmaking system improved.

• Record box improved with recording source button and volume scale.

• More keyboard short cut keys added for easy operation.

• Last opened files can be quickly opened from file menu.

• Huge file (3+ hours) editing supported.
• Bug fixed on copying long duration.
• Menu added to open another window. Rarely used "others" menu removed.

• Color of the screen (waveform viewing) can be customized.
• While the wave play,s a pointer moves on the waveform to show the playing position.

• Undo feature added (multiple step undo)

• Lot of improvements in selection and Viewing (zoom), real user friendly now. Additional zoom and pan (drag with mouse) commands. Digitally fine adjusting by entering values. Display colors improved.

• Tool bar buttons added for frequently used commands.

• Additional paste features, Paste Modulate, Paste Cross Fade.

• On volume Fade in and Fade out added.

• Change size command (under format menu) added: You can directly set the duration of the total file (to increase or decrease).

• Option dialog box added. where you can put the sound drive On/Off and set loop delay. Loop delay: you can set some delay time in-between looping sound.

• All "Wave Marker" features moved from FlexiMusic Wave Editor to FlexiMusic Generator (that is where it is needed).

• Equalizer - Effect Added, select a part of a wave and apply selective volume change for each frequency band. Number of frequency bands can be changed as needed.

• Echo - Effect Added, select a part of a wave and apply Echo / Reverb specifying delay, number of repeats, additional hi-frequency volume reduction, etc.

• Modulate - Effect Added, select a part of a wave and apply Amplitude modulation current wave, using a simple sine wave as per the desired frequency. Additionally you can specify 2 frequencies and modulate with varying frequencies that can produce unusual special sounds.

• Draw sine waves - select part of a length and ask it to draw a sine wave with the desired frequency. You can also specify 2 frequencies, and draw a varying pitch wave.

• Draw noise - Multi frequency noise can be added for a selected area.

• Stretch or shrink (Frequency/Pitch change) - Stretch or shrink a wave to produce special sounds.

• Insert silence - Silence can be inserted to add space.

• While converting formats from stereo to mono, there is an option to choose left, right or both.

• Interchange left-right - Command to interchange.

• All Menus are re-arranged for easy use.  Additional save menu added

• Selective Play - Can play only left channel or right or both.

• FlexiMusic Wave Editor was separated from FlexiMusic Producer.