Bias Cover Peak 4.1 Software User’s Guide 4 UG EN
User Manual: bias Peak - 4.1 - Software User’s Guide Free User Guide for BIAS Peak Software, Manual
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- BIAS Product Support
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introducing Peak
- Chapter 2: Installing & Configuring Peak
- Chapter 3: Peak Basics
- Introduction
- A Brief Explanation of Digital Audio
- Sampling and Sampling Rate
- Bit Resolution
- About Disk-Based Recording and Editing
- Non-Linear Versus Linear Recording
- Non-Destructive Versus Desctructive Editing
- Hard Disk Storage Requirements
- Hard Disk Maintenance
- Creating a New Peak Document
- Opening Existing Audio Documents
- Opening Compressed Audio Documents
- Recently Opened Documents
- Opening "Dual Mono" Files
- Dragging and Dropping Folders, Disks, and CD Audio Tracks
- Saving and Closing Documents
- Supported File Formats
- Using the Save As and Save A Copy As Commands
- Using POW-r™ Dithering
- Saving Compressed Audio Documents
- Closing Audio Documents
- Peak Windows and Palettes
- Setting Preferences
- Setting Peak's Playback Parameters
- Dynamic Scrub Time
- Scroll During Playback
- Move Waveform During Playback
- Show Marker Times
- Auditioning
- Blending
- Auto-Import Dual Mono
- Choosing Colors for the Audio Document Window
- Choosing a Time Format
- Audio File Meter, Tempo, and Timestamp Settings
- Choosing a Scratch Disk
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- The Toolbar
- Quitting Peak
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Playback & Recording
- Chapter 5: Editing
- Editing Audio with Peak
- The Audio Document Window
- Selecting Audio
- Auditioning Audio
- Scrubbing
- Using Unlimited Undo & Redo
- Using the Edits Command to Undo a Series of Actions
- Essential Editing Functions
- Scratch Disks
- Clearing the Clipboard to Reclaim Disk Space
- Deleting Audio
- Copying Audio
- Pasting Audio
- Replacing Audio
- Inserting Audio
- Duplicating Audio
- Cropping a Selection
- New Document from Selection
- Silencing a Selection
- Inserting Silence into a Document
- Show Edits
- Using Crossfades and Blending to Smooth Edits
- Creating Fade-Ins & Fade-Outs
- Creating and Using Markers
- Regions
- Creating Loops
- Crossfading Loops
- Using Loop Surfer
- Using the Guess Tempo and Threshold Commands to Find Tempo
- Using the Loop Tuner
- Exporting Regions
- Editing QuickTime Soundtracks in Peak
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Playlists & CD Burning
- Introduction
- Regions
- Creating a Playlist
- Modifying Playlist Events
- The Nudge Regions Dialog
- Applying VST Plug-Ins to the Playlist
- Creating a New Audio Document from a Playlist
- Exporting the Playlist as a Text Document
- Saving & Opening Playlists
- Burning Audio CDs
- Regions and the JAM Image File Format
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7: DSP
- Introduction
- Processing Audio with Peak's DSP Tools
- Peak's Audio Processing Tools
- Add
- Amplitude Fit
- Bit Usage
- Change Duration
- Change Gain
- Change Pitch
- Convert Sample Rate
- Convolve
- Crossfade Loop
- Fade In & Fade Out
- Find Peak
- Gain Envelope
- Harmonic Rotate
- ImpulseVerb
- Invert
- Loop Tuner
- Mono To Stereo & Stereo To Mono
- Mix
- Modulate
- Normalize
- Panner
- Phase Vocoder
- Rappify
- Repair Click
- Repair Clicks
- Remove DC Offset
- Reverse Boomerang
- Reverse
- Swap Channels
- Threshold
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8: Plug-Ins
- Introduction
- Installing VST Plug-Ins
- Using VST Plug-Ins
- Using Peak with Inserts
- Using Peak with Vbox SE
- The Vbox SE Matrix
- The Vbox SE Matrix Graphical User Interface
- Box Controls
- Effect Assignment Pop-Up
- Assigning a VST Plug-In in Vbox SE
- Organizing Plug-Ins with Folders
- Level Controls
- Mute
- Bypass
- Solo
- Edit
- Moving Plug-Ins
- Changing Input Routing
- Creating Serial Effects Chains
- Creating Parallel Effects Chains
- Master Wet/Dry Controls
- Master Input/Output Levels
- Loading & Restoring Vbox SE Presets
- A/B Comparisons
- Vbox SE Preferences
- Editing VST Plug-In Parameters
- BIAS Freq
- BIAS Sqweez
- Bouncing VST Plug-Ins
- VST Envelope
- VST Plug-In Delays
- Recording Through VST Plug-Ins
- Using VST Plug-Ins with the Batch File Processor
- Using Audio Unit Plug-Ins
- Using Audio Unit Plug-Ins with the Batch File Processor
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9: Batch File Processor & Apple Events
- Chapter 10: Samplers
- Chapter 11: Peak Menus
- Peak Menu
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- Action Menu
- Zoom Out
- Zoom In
- Increase Vertical Zoom
- Decrease Vertical Zoom
- Fit Selection
- Zoom Out All the Way
- Zoom at Sample Level
- Zoom at Sample Level (End)
- Snap Selection to Zeros
- Loop this Selection
- Nudge Loop Backward
- Nudge Loop Forward
- New Marker
- Markers from Tempo
- New Region
- Capture Region to Playlist
- Markers to Regions
- Nudge
- Go To
- Loop Surfer
- Guess Tempo
- Audio Menu
- DSP Menu
- Add
- Amplitude Fit
- Bit Usage
- Change Duration
- Change Gain
- Change Pitch
- Convert Sample Rate
- Convolve
- Crossfade Loop
- Fade In & Fade Out
- Find Peak
- Gain Envelope
- Harmonic Rotate
- ImpuseVerb
- Invert
- Loop Tuner
- Mono To Stereo & Stereo To Mono
- Mix
- Modulate
- Normalize
- Panner
- Phase Vocoder
- Rappify
- Repair Click
- Repair Clicks
- Remove DC Offset
- Reverse Boomerang
- Reverse
- Swap Channels
- Threshold
- Sampler Menu
- Plug-Ins Menu
- Options Menu
- Window Menu
- Links Menu
- Appendix 1: Keyboard Shortcuts
- Appendix 2: Peak Actions
- Appendix 3: Troubleshooting – Before Calling for Help
- Glossary
- Index