Mac User Guide
Reference Guide: 5.1 Colouring Audio Chunks
Chunks of audio can be marked using colours. These can be selected from the Audio Side Bar: The boundary line below each group can be dragged to reveal or hide colours. To colour a chunk of audio place the cursor in the chunk (if the cursor is ...
Reference Guide: 5. Colouring Tools
You can use colour to categorise similar sections, highlight important snippets of audio and gather whole sections or audio chunks into a new project. A selection of colours can be chosen from the Side Bar and you can pick ...
Reference Guide: 4.15 Audio Linking
You can now create direct links between your Text and the Audio Chunks in a project. Creating Links Recording - Whilst recording we create a link between the audio chunks and any text that you enter. Typing from the Audio Pane - If you have focus in ...
Reference Guide: 4.14 Exporting Audio
The Export Button allows you to export in four ways: When exporting audio you can select whether to export with changes to your playback settings (this is on by default); Speed (excluding export as video), Volume, Audio Clean-Up settings and Voice ...
Reference Guide: 4.13 Editing Audio
Editing As well as editing in the Text Pane and Reference Pane in the usual way, you can edit in the Audio Pane, or in all panes at once. Editing in the Audio Pane allows you delete, copy, paste, split and merge audio chunks. Editing in all panes ...
Reference Guide: 4.12 Voice Shift
You can alter the voice of all the audio. This is useful where you have recorded yourself and you don't like listening to your own voice or if you have a hearing impairment and prefer to listen at a different pitch. You can choose from any of the ...
Reference Guide: 4.11 Audio Cleanup
We have a number of features to allow you to optimise your audio during playback (and export), you can find the Audio Clean-up options on the toolbar. These features do not completely remove the noise as this can adversely affect the audio that you ...
Reference Guide: 4.10 Typing In The Audio Pane
With the focus in the Audio Pane you can type without changing panes. Simply start typing and your text will go into the text pane. You return back to the audio pane when you hit Enter. The only exceptions are where the keys are Audio Pane Shortcuts ...
Reference Guide: 4.9 Volume Control
We have introduced an option to automatically adjust the volume of your recording. This setting is On by default when you create a new project or when you open a project created in an older version. The setting can be found under Audio Cleanup on the ...
Reference Guide: 4.8 Audio Pane Shortcuts
You can use generic shortcut keys to control playback and positioning in the audio pane even when you are typing into the Reference or Text panes. However, it is usually easiest to change focus to the audio pane, so you can use the simplified set of ...
Reference Guide: 4.7 Zoom
f you have a lot of audio, you may prefer for the audio chunks to take up less space on the screen. You can temporarily change the audio pane with Zoom. This is a button in the bar at the top of the pane . By default Zoom just shortens each chunk to ...
Reference Guide: 4.6 Colouring Tools
Colouring tools can be used to categorise similar sections, highlight important snippets of audio and gather together sections of images, text and audio into a new file. For more details see the main section on Colouring Tools.
Reference Guide: 4.5 Section Numbering and Time Codes
The clock icon at the top of the Audio Pane will display the section number as well as the time code for the start and end of each section and the duration in brackets. If you want to always show the section numbering and time codes then you can ...
Reference Guide: 4.4 Sections
You can break your audio recordings into sections to highlight an important point or a change in topic. Sections are displayed with an alternating background shade. The base colour for the two shades is set in App Menu → System → Settings → Themes. ...
Reference Guide: 4.3 Audio Cursor Indicator
During playback and recording the audio cursor can now move off-screen. When you are focused in the Text or Reference Panes the audio cursor will move off-screen but the view will not change; this allows you to continue to work with your text. The ...
Reference Guide: 4.2 Playback Control
The Audio toolbar has the usual Play, Pause (icon changes), Forward and Rewind controls: Forward and rewind will always jump to the start of a chunk so you can quickly judge where you are. There is also a playback speed control which allows you to ...
Reference Guide: 4.1 Audio Chunks
As audio is imported into Audio Notetaker it is analysed and broken into chunks. Speakers naturally pause when talking. These pauses are automatically picked up by Audio Notetaker and each break in speech is displayed as a gap in the line of the ...
Reference Guide: 4. Audio Display Pane
The Audio Pane has it's own cursor; If you are working in another Pane the Audio Pane cursor will still be visible and certain actions, like inserting sections during playback and recording, will always affect the chunk/section that the Audio Pane ...
Reference Guide: 3.8 Index Marks
Audio Notetaker will recogniserecognize index marks inserted into WMA, MP3 and WAV files by most Olympus recorders, T-Marks inserted into MP3 and WAV files by Sony recorders and the bookmarks in your LiveScribe *.pencast files. We also support the ...
Reference Guide: 3.7 Supported Audio Formats
Audio Notetaker supports the following audio file formats: *.wav *.wma *.opus *.ogg *.mp3 *.aac *.m4a *.mp4 *.mov *.pencast All audio files are converted to our internal format OPUS when you import; see Audio File Conversion for more details. WMA ...
Reference Guide: 3.6 Audio File Conversion
Audio Notetaker converts all audio into Opus, by default. Conversion on import is a useful option because: If your audio is uncompressed (.WAV), an hour's recording is very large and makes ran file loading and saving slow, as well as using up a lot ...
Reference Guide: 3.5 Audio Replace
Audio replace lets you swap a poor recording for a better quality one, while keeping all your slides, text, sections and colours intact. The feature will let you record with a digital recorder at the front of a lecture while you sit further back ...
Reference Guide: 3.4 Importing Audio From The Cloud - Dropbox
Audio Notetaker can import audio or open Audio Notetaker projects from any folder on your computer. If you have Cloud folders such as Dropbox or Google Drive set up on your computer you can access these files.
Reference Guide: 3.3 Importing a File from your computer
Unless you are recording live, you will need to import your audio into Audio Notetaker. If you have recorded using the Sonocent Recorder App see here for how to transfer your files, if you have files on a digital recorder then you can transfer ...
Reference Guide: 3.2 Importing Audio From A Digital Recorder
If you have audio files on a Digital Recorder you will need to first transfer them to your computer using the manufacturers recommended process. You can then use Import on the tool bar to import into an existing project or from the Home Tab → New ...
Reference Guide: 3.1 Importing Files from The Sonocent Recorder App
You will need to first transfer your files from the app to your computer: Wifi Transfer (IOS and Android) iTunes Transfer (IOS only) File Explorer (Android only) File Sharing (IOS and Android) Files transferred from the app will be in a *.mran ...
Reference Guide: 3. Importing Audio
You can import Audio from virtually any source; If you have a better quality audio file than the one you used to make your notes then you can use Audio Replace: We support the majority of file formats but by default we convert all imported audio ...
Reference Guide: 2.3 Opus Encoding
Recording Audio Notetaker now records in the standardised Opus audio encoding system (standardised by the Internet Engineering Task Force - IETF). It is particularly suitable for Audio Notetaker as it combines technology from both audio (perceptual) ...
Reference Guide: 2.2 Audio Setup
Audio Setup Audio Notetaker will now record into the Opus format, see Opus Encoding for more information. You can set the recording level manually through your Mac's System Preferences. Some digital recorders (e.g. the Olympus DM-670 and DM-450) ...
Reference Guide: 2.1 Device Selection
As well as importing an existing audio file, you can record audio live using the Record button You can only record into a blank section, or onto the end of a section which already has audio in. Audio Notetaker will now record into the Opus format, ...
Reference Guide: 2. Recording Audio
As well as importing an existing audio file, you can record audio live using the Record button You can only record into a blank section, or onto the end of a section which already has audio in. In This Section Device Selection Audio Set-up Opus ...
Reference Guide: 1.5 File Tags
Once you have imported an audio file or recorded live, the date and time of the recording will appear in the tagging fields at the top right of the Project tab. You can add a Title, Topic and Speaker to your file; just click on the tags to edit. To ...
Reference Guide: 1.4 Portable Device Manager
The Portable Devices Tab can be opened from the App menu (green button in the top left) → Manage, or from the Home Tab → Transfer → Transfer from Sonocent Recorder Use the Portable Device Manager to transfer your project files from the Sonocent ...
Reference Guide: 1.3 All Projects Tab
The All Projects Tab can be opened from the App menu (green button in the top left) → Manage, or from the Home Tab → Open Project → View All Projects You can use 'Search in the top right to find specific text in any of your Audio Notetaker projects. ...
Reference Guide: 1.2 Project Tab
The Project tab is made up of the Toolbar, Sidebar and your workspace, which is split into four panes. When you first start only three panes are displayed; they can each be shown or hidden using the pane selector at the bottom left of the screen: ...
Reference Guide: 1.1 Home Tab
The Home tab is the first page shown when you start Audio Notetaker. You can choose whether to show the Home Tab on start-up from Settings → General. The Home Tab is split into 3 parts; On the right there is the Help pane, where you can access ...
Reference Guide: 1. Audio Notetaker Tabs
There are several different kinds of tabs in Audio Notetaker; the Home Tab a Project tab, and various file managertabs. When you first start Audio Notetaker you will see the Home Tab, to open a Project tab either click on one of the HomeTab options ...
Reference Guide
In This Section Audio Notetaker Tabs Recording Audio Importing Audio Audio Pane Colouring Tools Image Pane Text and Reference Panes Audio Notetaker Files Recovery System Settings Short Cuts
4. Audio Replace
Audio Replace allows you to use a better quality recording in place of your existing one; keeping all your section breaks, slides, text and colours! This lets you create your notes while recording live even when you know you'll get a better quality ...
3. Importing Slides
You can import slides and images to go with your audio recordings. The best way is to get a copy of the slides before recording, import them and record live into Audio Notetaker. You can also import slides afterwards; useful if you have used a ...
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