User manual WAVE ARTS MASTER RESTORATION SUITE 2007

[. . . ] Wave Arts Master Restoration Suite User Manual Last updated: April 27, 2007 Copyright © 2007, Wave Arts, Inc. All Rights Reserved 1 Table of Contents Table of Contents 1. Installation and Registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. 1 Mac OS X Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. 2 Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1. 3 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. 4 Registration Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Plug-in Control Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] To change the time range, right-click (SHIFT-click on Mac) the horizontal time axis and a popup menu will appear with different choices for the time range in seconds. To change the vertical range, right-click (SHIFT-click on Mac) the vertical amplitude axis and a popup menu will appear with different choices for the amplitude range in dB. 36 4. MR Click MR Click Operation When processing phonograph recordings to remove clicks and crackle, the strategy is to first remove the loud clicks and pops and then remove the lower level crackle. You should first audition the material to be processed and listen for offending clicks. Then, rewind your track and enable the click processor by clicking on the ENABLE button. Start playback of the track and adjust the click threshold knob until all the offending clicks are detected. Lower threshold values will detect more click events, and higher threshold values will detect fewer click events (only the loudest clicks will be detected at high threshold settings). You can also enable the monitor feature and listen to the detected clicks in the monitor signal. When the monitor feature is off, you can also enable/disable the click processor to compare the results of click removal versus no processing. A click duration of 1 msec usually works well, but in some cases you might want to lengthen the duration, if there is still a residual thump sound after click removal. Once you are satisfied that the loud clicks and pops have been suppressed, you can proceed to process the crackle. Again, it is good to audition the track ahead of time to get a good idea of the amount of crackle present. You will see the detected crackle events appear as yellow lines in the display. Adjust the threshold to change the number of crackle events detected; lower thresholds will detect fainter crackle and will create more crackle events, while higher thresholds will detect louder crackle and will create fewer crackle events. The monitor feature is particularly useful for hearing the detected and removed crackle events. Note that if the click processor is still engaged you will also hear the removed click events. With lower thresholds, the crackle processor will detect high frequency portions of your signal and process these as crackle; this will be apparent when monitoring because you will be able to hear parts of your signal in the monitor signal. Basically, the monitored crackle signal should sound like random crackle events and should not resemble your input signal. If your signal is fairly percussive, it is likely that the crackle processor will detect the percussive onsets as crackle events. This will be audible in the monitor signal because you will hear the underlying rhythm. Your choices here are to increase the threshold, or to engage the onset bypass mechanism. To use the onset bypass, adjust the onset threshold until you see onset events (white lines in the display) that correspond to the underlying rhythm of your track. [. . . ] COPYRIGHT All title and copyrights in and to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT (including but not limited to any images, text, and "applets" incorporated into the SOFTWARE PRODUCT), the accompanying printed materials, and any copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT are owned by Wave Arts or its suppliers. The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is protected by copyright laws and international treaty provisions. Therefore, you must treat the SOFTWARE PRODUCT like any other copyrighted material. The SOFTWARE PRODUCT and any related documentation is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, the implied warranties or merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or noninfringement. [. . . ]