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burwenaudio.com AUDIO SPLENDOR™ INSTALLATION AND SETUP READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY
Version 1.01 Copyright © 2006, Burwen Technology, Inc. Patent pending
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MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS MAIN COMPUTER - 3 GHz Pentium 4 processor, 800 MHz FSB or 1.66 GHz Intel Duo processor Firewire (IEEE 1394) connector z For multi-channel - FireWire Audio Interface, Mark of the Unicorn, MOTU 828MKII Firewire cable for Notebooks: Comprehensive FW6PFW4P25S (6 pin to 4 pin, if applicable) z REMOTE or 2-channel COMPUTER - 1.4 GHz Pentium M, Pentium 4, or Intel Duo processor z 1 GB RAM z 200 MB disk space on drive C: for installation z Microsoft Windows XP, XP Media Edition, or higher z Latest Windows XP updates z Microsoft Office 2003, OEM, or higher z Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 – may be downloaded from Microsoft at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157034d1e7cf3a3&DisplayLang=en z Microsoft .Net Framework 2 – may be downloaded from Microsoft at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDDAAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en. z Microsoft patch, may be downloaded at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908002 z CDROM or CD/DVD drive z Windows Media Player 10 – may be downloaded from Microsoft at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx z z
INSTALLATION Click OK or press ENTER in each dialog box when finished. Installing from CD First download and install the Microsoft requisites above. When you download, save each file in a anew folder, C:\Net Framework. To install double click on each file and follow the prompts. The install utility setup.msi, located on the setup CD-ROM, creates any necessary folders and copies all files required by Audio Splendor to C:\Program Files\Burwen Technology on your computer. It also installs Burwen Bobcat and Burwen Output plug-ins for your Windows Media Player, and it installs the multichannel Burwen Recorder-Player. Do not place the files in a different location. Ignore “To install in a different folder........" 1. Place the Audio Splendor CD-ROM in the drive. If you have disabled the CD-ROM AutoPlay feature, click the Start button and choose Run. Type D:\Burwensetup.exe, where D is the drive letter of your CD- ROM drive. 2. Click Install BURWEN AUDIO and then click Install AUDIO SPLENDOR. When finished, click Exit. Before connecting the MOTU 828MKII, install its software. 1. Place the MOTU Audio Setup CD-ROM in the drive. If you have disabled the AutoPlay feature, click the Start button and choose Run. Type D:\setup.exe, where D is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.
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2. Follow the on-screen prompts and select installation of both the “Cubase VST ASIO Driver” and the “Multimedia Audio driver.” Allow restart at Finish. Start the MOTU 828MKII Connect your audio inputs and outputs according to the following: For single-ended systems it is OK to use mono phone plugs which short one side of the audio output to ground. 1 FL Front Left 2 FR Front Right 3 FC Front Center 4 Input: AUX, Output: SUBW, Subwoofer 5 RL Rear Left 6 RR Rear Right 7 SL Side Left 8 SR Side Right 1. Connect the Firewire cable and power on the MOTU 828MKII to install its driver. If hardware detection initiates a procedure requiring answers, when asked, select “Continue Anyway”. 2. Go to Start, All Programs, MOTU, MOTU Audio Setup, and click to open. On the General tab select Sample Rate. “88200”, Clock Source “Internal”, Samples Per Buffer “2048”, and uncheck the three boxes. On the 88mk2 tab set Optical Input and Optical Output at “Off”, set phones at “Analog 1-2”, and Word Clock Out at “System Clock”. Click OK OPTIMIZE COMPUTER Burwen Audio needs all the processing power it can get, without interruptions from non-vital computer operations or automatic updates of other programs. 1. Go to Start, Control Panel, System, Advanced, Performance, Settings, Visual Effects, and click click “System Cache”. On the Automatic Updates tab click “Turn Off Automatic Updates”. You can boot. 3. Go to Start, Control Panel, Sounds and Audio Devices, Audio and select “MOTO Analog” for both of the default playback and recording devices. If this is not your main multi-channel processor on the Sounds tab and select “No Sounds”. 4. Go to Start, My Computer, C:\BURWEN AUDIO\Theme and double click “Burwen.Theme”. This will open Display Properties. The Burwen theme establishes the colors of the Audio Splendor controls and installs the "Black Security" screen saver which is useful when watching movies. You can shut off “Black Security” by selecting “None”. Do not use any other screen saver. Choose a different Desktop background if you prefer, using the Display, Desktop tab. 5. In all your programs that update, such as Norton Internet Security, set updates at manual instead of automatic. 6. Go to Start, All Progrms, Burwen Audio, and click to open Burwen Audio Last settings. Its four speaker icon should appear at the right end of your Taskbar. In the next step it will be set to always show. 7. Go down to your Taskbar and right click on a blank area. Click Properties, and check every box except “Lock the Taskbar”. Click Customize. Go through the entire list and choose “Always Show” for Burwen Audio, your network such as “Wireless Connection 1”, Power Options as shown by a power plug or battery and any other items of interest to you. Click “OK”, then “OK” to close Properties. 10. Right click on the Burwen Audio icon at the right of the Taskbar and choose “Exit”, “Yes”. Burwen Audio normally opens with Excel, but you have to close it this way. 11. If you have an Excel 2003 icon on your desktop, click and drag it to the Quick Launch area of your Taskbar next to the Start button. Drag the Windows Media Player icon there too. If either icon is not on your desktop, find the Windows Media Player at Start, All Programs, Accessories, Entertainment, Windows Media Player. Right click to copy; and paste a shortcut on your desktop. Excel is at Start, All programs Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel 2003. You can sort your desktop icons by type by right clicking on the desktop. 12. Resize the Taskbar to accommodate two or three rows of windows by dragging its top edge. Similarly make the Quick Launch area wide enough to view all its icons. Then right click in a blank area and lock the Taskbar. 13. If you like to tweak computers, open Internet Explorer and go to http://www.burwenaudio.com/Questions_and_Answers.html where you can link to “PC Audio Optimization Rev2005 pdf” which recommends additional setup changes that may help a little
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Optimization_Rev2005.pdf which recommends additional setup changes that may help a little. Otherwise, you have done enough with steps 1 through 5.
SET MICROSOFT EXCEL OPTIONS 1. Click on the Microsoft Excel 2003 icon, next to the Start button on your Taskbar, to open it. 2. Go to the Tools, Options, General tab. Set the recently used file list at 5. Type “C:\BURWEN AUDIO” without the quotes in Default File Location and At startup open all files in:. Fill in your name. 3. On the Security Tab, Macro Security, select “Low”. 4. On the Save Tab, check “Disable Autorecover”. 5. On the View Tab check only: “Status Bar”, “Windows in Taskbar”, “Zero Values”, "Horizontal Scroll Bar”, “Vertical scroll Bar”, and "Sheet tabs". 6. In Options leave everything else alone. Each worksheet in Audio Splendor sets its own critical options. 7. Close Excel. SET UP WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 1. Click on the Windows media player icon next to the Start button on your Taskbar, to open it. 2. On the topmost menu click on Tools, Options, Devices, Speakers, Properties. Select "Direct Sound MOTU Analog". Check "Use 24-bit audio for audio CDs". Click “OK”. 3. On the Library tab, Monitor Folders, Add, specify where you want to store different types of music files and create the folders. For highest possible quality I rip my CDs to .wma lossless files located in E:\Music on a 500 GB external USB drive. MP3 files are in E:\MUSIC MP3. Burwen Bobcat processed MP3 files are in E:\MUSIC BOBCAT, and 32-bit AUDIO SPLENDOR processed multi-channel .wav files are in E:\MUSIC\DEMO. If all these folders are listed in Monitor Folders, can be conveniently grouped by clicking on the top of a column to sort by Subtitle or Bit Rate. At other times you may want to remove all but the folder of interest in Monitor Folders, so the files will be played with the correct processing.
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burwenaudio.com AUDIO SPLENDOR™ HOW TO USE IT PROGRAM Open Excel. It will automatically open all the files in C:\BURWEN AUDIO, and Burwen Audio (SigProce.exe), a C++, C#, Direct Show program that digitally processes a 2, 5.1 or 7.1 channel audio signal. AUDIO SPLENDOR.XLS is a huge 51 MB Excel workbook that contains 1,400,000 long formulas for generating all the tone control, reverberation, and mix parameters it sends to Burwen Audio. SPLENDOR LIBRARY.XLS stores the TONE CTRL settings for each piece of music. When recalling your settings it retrieves the reverberation parameters from AMBIANCE NORMAL LIBRARY.XLS, and other settings from MIX, RVRB MIX, SPKR COMP, and SOURCE COMP libraries in AUDIO SPLENDOR.XLS. You can save a custom mix in the MIX LIB worksheet of SPLENDOR LIBRARY.XLS, and a custom reverberation mix in the RVRB MIX LIB worksheet of AMBIANCE LIBRARY.XLS. AUDIO SPLENDOR.XLS can connect to Burwen Audio, either on this computer or over your network to Burwen Audio on another computer, for remote control. Each click on the PROCESS AUDIO button renews connection to Burwen Audio and the Windows Media Player and sends the tone, reverberation and mix parameters. NORMAL LISTENING Screens For normal listening, two windows, TONE CTRL and RVRB SEL provide all the controls you need for all your channels. There are more controls, raising the total to 298 sliders and 201 buttons, using Pg Dn and the MIX and RVRB tabs, but they are rarely needed. Read the green and red instructions in each window for help. The HELP button links to these burwenaudio.com web pages. Tone Controls On the TONE CTRL screen set the 43-position INPUT CH - SPKRS horizontal slider at “2 - ALL” for stereo input or “5 – ALL, FC MIX” for multi-channel input. Set the VOL slider at right and click PROCESS AUDIO. If there is no sound from your analog input, click the MIX tab, Pg Dn and click the ANALOG button; then PROCESS AUDIO again on either screen. Adjust the sound to your taste using the 11 tone sliders at left and occasionally adding one or more at the right. You can see the composite frequency response or that of a single slider by clicking GRAPH. Compare 2-channel bypass to your multi-channel settings by repeatedly clicking 2BP. Try other INPUT CH – SPKRS mixes and fine tune with the RVRB and REAR level controls. LEFT-RIGHT BAL is at top left. Compare your settings (click EQ) vs. saved settings (click FILE) vs. flat (click FLAT). Reverberation On the RVRB SEL screen select a pleasing ambiance. Try many of the 150 selections and check mark your favorites. As you become a more experienced listener you will realize the importance of subtle differences in transient response, smoothness, ambiance, clarity, fullness, distance, and the apparent size and shape of the listening space. At the right of each button are the maximum delay times for each channel. No Screech Many vocal recordings and some instrumentals can be equalized to sound good during quiet passages, but burn your ears with screechy high notes. No Screech dynamically attenuates the 3000 Hz region only
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during the loudest high notes without muffling the quiet passages. As you approach the optimum slider setting, use it like a tone control, adjusting in tenths of a DB. FOR SPECIAL PROBLEMS Difference Controls Separate tone controls of the same types as the main controls allow you to make fine differences in the front center FC, rear plus sides R + S, left-right L - R, side - rear S - R, rear left - rear right RL - RR, and side left - side right SL – SR. These controls are especially useful for compensating asymmetry in your speaker and room, and saving it to be selected by the SPEAKER compensation slider. The optionally separate FC NO SCREECH control is for movies and vocals. A HUM filter can notch out 50, 100, and 150 Hz or 60, 120, and 180 Hz with hardly any effect on the music. For restoring or cutting off low bass or extreme high frequencies use the 15 Hz and 25 kHz peaking controls in addition to identical controls on the main screen. Together they boost or attenuate as much as 60 dB in 0.1 dB steps, providing more than 12 dB/octave. GRAPHS show the frequency response curves of all the controls in dB. MIXER and RVRB MIX The input mixes, and corresponding reverberation mixes, selected by the 43-position INPUT CH - SPKRS selector (duplicated in each control window), show above sliders in each of these windows. You can customize either type of mix by clicking its MIX button and setting the controls to your liking. Compare your settings (click MIX) vs. saved custom settings (click FILE) vs. NORMAL (click NORMAL). The check boxes invert phase. SAVING YOUR SETTINGS MIX LIB and RVRB MIX LIB If you are using a custom mix or reverberation mix, you must both save and recall your custom mix before saving the TONE CTRL settings. Your recalled settings will show up in FILE mode. If you forget, and leave the settings in MIX mode, a dialog box will remind you when you try to save the TONE CTRL settings. In MIXER, clicking SAVE MIX copies the current mix settings to the MIX LIB window in SPLENDOR LIBRARY.XLS, appearing as the CURRENT mix on line 11. Copy line 11 and paste special, values, into the desired row according to green instructions on line 13. Press CTRL + S to save the workbook. Recall the new mix by selecting its entire line (click its line number at left) and clicking MIX SET. RVRB MIX works the same way and your new mix appears at AMBIANCE LIBRARY.XLS, RVRB MIX LIB, line 11. TONE CTRL Click SAVE at upper left to copy all your settings to SPLENDOR LIBRARY.XLS, TONE LIB, PROGRAM LIBRARY, line 15. Type the music information you want and click PROG SAVE. This copies line 15 to the library, sorts alphabetically, and renumbers the entries. If you are replacing previously saved settings, first select the library line and delete it (use the delete key). Press CTRL + S to save the entire SPLENDOR LIBRARY.XLS. Recall your settings by selecting the entire desired line and then click TONE SET (or CTRL + SHIFT + T). You can automatically recall your track settings from the Windows Media Player (WMP) by typing a unique 5 or more character SUBTITLE on both line 15 and in WMP. Click CONCERT to go to a section where you can copy and paste special, values, the entries you want for a special occasion. SPEAKER and SOURCE COMPENSATIONS After acquiring some skill at optimizing your sound and saving settings, you should save compensations for your speaker system and headphones. The SPEAKER slider at left in the TONE CTRL window (Pg Dn) selects up to 15 different tone and balance characteristics for various rooms, speakers with or without a subwoofer, and headphones. Using highest quality music sources find tone control settings that are a best compromise for balanced sound and extended high and low frequencies. When you save the settings they appear not only at SPLENDOR LIBRARY.XLS, TONE LIB, PROGRAM LIBRARY, line 15, but also in the SPKR LIB section of the same window, line 49995, and in the SRC LIB, line 59995. Click the SPKR LIB button to get to line 49995. Type a suitable name and remarks, click line number
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49995 to select the line, copy and paste special, values, to any of compensation numbers 1 – 15. Click SAVE LIB to copy this library to AUDIO SPLENDOR.XLS where it is accessed by the SPEAKER slider in TONE CTRL. Subwoofer Extremely flexible low-pass and boost-cut filtering for a single subwoofer is controlled at the bottom of the TONE CTRL window. You can cut off high frequencies at from 6 to 24 dB/octave and boost or cut more than 60 dB with 8 peaking controls from 15 Hz to 50 Hz. Adjust the controls by ear using a variety of wide range program material. For better fidelity separate subwoofers using their manufacturers crossovers for each channel, or at least FL and FR are preferable. Use the main tone and difference controls to set up your saved SPEAKER compensation. Saved Settings Actual subwoofer settings, speaker compensation, and source compensation are saved with your tone, reverberation, and mix settings in the TONE LIB. If you have later changed your speaker compensation or subwoofer settings and selected the same SPEAKER compensation you will hear the sound with the new settings. You can change compensation to another speaker of headphone type with this slider for similar sound. The first and unnamed positions are FLAT; they eliminate speaker compensation, but use current subwoofer settings. The second SAVED position in FILE mode recalls the original subwoofer and speaker compensation heard at the time the settings were saved. Named speaker compensation positions recall saved speaker and subwoofer settings. Original SOURCE compensation is always combined into recalled tone settings. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION Change the use, channels, sample rate, and library recall actions as instructed, at the bottom of the MIXER. If you uncheck "Check to make library calls set the controls." you can make a three-way comparison of saved settings in FILE mode vs. new settings EQ mode vs FLAT.
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burwenaudio.com AUDIO SPLENDOR™ RECORDING, PLAYING, AND BACKUP
BURWEN RECORDER-PLAYER Go to Start, All Programs, Burwen Audio and click to open the Burwen Recorder-Player. Under RECORDER click OPEN, and select the destination folder and name for your recording. Use the realtime SPEAKER-RECORD fader for fine volume adjustment of both the AUDIO SPLENDOR output and the record level. Normal recording is 5.1 channels at 88200 Hz, 32-bit floating point, (127 MB/min limited to 4 GB, 31.4minutes), but saving as W64 (127 MB/min) eliminates this limitation. These characteristics can be changed at the bottom of MIXER. Both the Burwen Recorder-Player and the Windows Media Player can play these files via the MOTU 828MKII. HIGH SPEED FILE CONVERSION Convert WAV, WMA, MP3, or W64 files to any of these AUDIO SPLENDOR processed formats by dragging and dropping one or more files or a folder full onto the Burwen Recorder-Player. In the dialog box that appears, select the type of file, bit rate, and number of channels, and select a destination. Processing is set by a Preset file, C:\BURWEN AUDIO\BACKUPS\MULTICH.BIN, produced every time you click PROCESS AUDIO. Copy and paste MULTICH.BIN for future use to the same destination and change its name (keep .BIN) to associate it with the music file. PLAYBACK Under PLAYER, click OPEN and select the file you want to hear. PLAY uses 8-BYPASS mode to give you exactly what you heard during recording. Checking CHAIN FILES plays the selected file and those below in the same folder. Change the PLAY VOLUME with the slider. ALT + the underlined letter operates the control from the keyboard provided the Burwen Recorder-Player window has focus (recently clicked on). After pressing ALT + V hold down the left or right arrow keys for smooth PLAY fades. ALT + D and the arrow keys produce smooth record fades. Check PROCESS if you want to apply new AUDIO SPLENDOR processing for listening or recording. You may also want to use PROCESS with INPUT CH – SPEAKER set at 7 BYPASS to avoid hearing at the start of PLAY 50 milliseconds of ANALOG input if it has not been externally shut off. BACKUP YOUR FILES Every time you make a new entry in a library press CTRL + S to save it. Backup your libraries after just a few or every entry. Simply push BKUP at TONE CTRL, Pg Dn. All three library files will be saved and renamed copies will appear in C:\BURWEN AUDIO\BACKUPS with the word “BACKUP” added into each name. To restore any of the library files in C:\BURWEN AUDIO, copy and paste from C:\BURWEN AUDIO\BACKUPS. Then rename it to remove “BACKUP” after pasting. AUDIO SPLENDOR.XLS should be saved with settings you want the next time you open the workbook, Click SAVE WORKBOOK at TONE CTRL, Pg Dn. Copy C:\BURWEN AUDIO\ AUDIO SPLENDOR.XLS and paste it in C:\BURWEN AUDIO\BACKUPS. This file can also be restored from the installation disc. USE WITH WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER Either Burwen Output (AUDIO SPLENDOR) or Burwen Bobcat, but not both, can be used with WMP. Open the Windows Media Player by inserting a music CD in your CD-ROM drive or by double clicking its icon. Go to the menu item View, Plug-ins, Other, and click to place a checkmark at either Burwen Output or Burwen Bobcat. When checked the Burwen Bobcat window will open. If Burwen Output is checked,
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click PROCESS AUDIO to connect with WMP. In each of your Library categories such as Album, Composer, Artist, etc., after selecting your music, right click on the right title bar and select from the list of fields, more, “Subtitle”. It is a good idea to place the Subtitle high in the list and include the File Path at the end. Typing a unique Subtitle of 5 or more letters and numbers and then saving the same subtitle in the TONE LIB allows WMP to automatically recall the library settings when you select the track. CALCULATION Because of the immense number of calculations involved, real time operation of the controls is not practical without a super computer. The SPEAKER-RECORD fader on the Burwen Recorder-Player is the only real-time control. It controls all output channels. To avoid jerky TONE CTRL slider operation, Excel calculation is held off until you release the left mouse button after moving a control, when you see an hourglass. If you use Excel for accounting or other uses press F9 when you need calculation. If AUDIO SPLENDOR is closed or not touched you can set Excel calculation at Automatic at Tools, Options, Calculation. The first time you operate a control, calculation will switch to manual.
BURWEN BOBCAT LISTENING Burwen Bobcat provides 19 fixed processing selections for simple operation. 18 are in the big bobcat window and a universal Basic selection appears in the basic bobcat window. 1. When playing your movie, disc, or music file select the sound you like best. Basic, vocal, jazz, pop, classical, or movies are only suggested starting points. In the Big Bobcat window try all 18 selections and compare to no bobcat. Use the sound you like best. For additional tone adjustment, especially to compensate your speakers, use the graphic equalizer available in the Windows Media Player under View, Enhancements, Graphic Equalizer. The player disables the equalizer when playing ordinary movie DVD's but BURWEN BOBCAT still works. 2. Selection basic 3 works on any program material. Basic 2 has a darker sound. Basic 1 Is slightly wider. All the other selections are specialized for program sources with various problems. Choosing one of these will improve or degrade the sound depending upon how well the processing is matched to the problem. Use the one you like best. Compare the sound with no bobcat which is the same as bypass but 5 dB softer. The lower level prevents overload due extreme low frequency boost. 3. Clicking on the bobcat face at the top opens http://www.burwenaudio.com/BURWEN_BOBCAT.html where you can find information on settings. 4. If you are too busy to think about selections, click "go to basic bobcat" to go the a small window with only one processing selection. This selection has very little low frequency compensation, enabling the same level as bypass. 5. Files previously processed by BURWEB BOBCAT automatically play in Bypass mode instead of your selection. Both your selection and bypass are highlighted. RECORDING CDS Record CDs using the Windows Media Player’s Burn window. If the BURWEN BOBCAT window shows, the entire CD will have the BURWEN BOBCAT sound. For highest fidelity start with unprocessed WMA lossless files. RIPPING CDS Rip CDs to WMA compressed or WMA lossless (preferred) files using the Windows Media Player’s Rip window. If the BURWEN BOBCAT window shows and you have selected one of the 19 processing selections, the .wma file will have the BURWEN BOBCAT sound. For no processing, close BURWEN BOBCAT. To make MP3 files use the Burwen Audio Converter below. Important: In the Windows Media Player top menu item, Tools, Options, Library, do not check “Rearrange music in rip music folder, using rip music settings” if you want your MP3s to appear in your chosen folder. If checked the MP3s will appear in the original music folder and the chosen folder may
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disappear. CONVERTING TO MP3 128 KBPS Convert WMA or MP3 files to Burwen Bobcat processed MP3 128 kbps files using the Burwen Audio Converter. In Windows Explorer or My Computer, pick up a number of individual files with the mouse, or a folder full of files, and drag and drop them on the BURWEN BOBCAT window. A dialog box will ask you to select a destination folder. All the files will be automatically converted using the circled BURWEN BOBCAT process selection. It is best to start with WMA lossless files to avoid double degradation in converting to MP3. IDENTIFYING BURWEN BOBCAT PROCESSED FILES In the Windows media Player a file processed by Burwen Bobcat has a subtitle “BURWEN BOBCAT B” if processed using basic bobcat. A file processed using versions of Burwen Bobcat having 19 selections has a subtitle “BURWEN BOBCAT C1” if processed using classical 1. The last letter is the first letter of the processing type, Basic, Vocal, Jazz, Pop Classical, or Movies and the number indicates selection 1, 2, or 3. Basic bobcat files B are at 0 dB level, the same as bypass or unprocessed files. .The other 18 selections are at a softer -5 dB level to avoid overloading due to boosting extreme low frequencies. It is best to separate the two types into different folders. In Windows Explorer or My Computer BURWEN BOBCAT Processed files are identified by a bobcat icon. On computers that do not have Burwen software installed the icons will become visible if you install the utility,bobcatshell_inst.msi, availlable free at www.burwenbobcat.com.
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PROFESSIONAL EDITING AUDIO SPLENDOR IS ALSO A DIRECTX PLUG-IN FOR AUDIO EDITORS Set up AUDIO SPLENDOR and BURWEN BOBCAT as a DirectX plug-in using the check box at the bottom of MIXER. Select the BURWEN BOBCAT FILTER in the list of plug-ins. Preview using it. Use any of the 19 BURWEN BOBCAT button selections or send all the AUDIO SPLENDOR parameters by clicking PROCESS AUDIO. Individual BURWEN BOBCAT programs, not part of AUDIO SPLENDOR, plug into the Windows Media Player but not into audio editors. A separate program BURWEN BOBCAT DX is available for editors.
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burwenaudio.com TIPS ON WINDOWS If you are not clear on selecting, copying, pasting, where to save or find music, documents, programs, etc. and what they do, this may help. MOUSE OR TOUCH PAD Press the left button (click = left click) to select the item at the pointer. Press the right button (right click) to get a menu pertinent to the point where you clicked. If in an open area, the menu applies there. In most cases, the same menu items are available at the top of the window in which you are working. WINDOW Everything that has a frame is a window, even a small dialog box, and most, but not all, can be adjusted in size from tiny to full screen. Windows that have three small squares at the upper right corner can be toggled back and forth from full screen to smaller by clicking the middle square. When they are smaller, you can click to select one side, top or bottom of the frame, hold down the button, and drag (move) it with the mouse to stretch or compress it. Then release the button. Clicking the left button containing the minus sign reduces the window to an icon (symbol + name on a button) on the Taskbar at the bottom of your screen. Clicking that restores the last size. Clicking the right button containing X closes the window and its contents. When a window is full screen, the others have not gone away. They are behind it or down on the Taskbar. Clicking anywhere on a window generally puts in front of the others and changes the color of its title bar at its top. To move a window, click within its title bar, hold the button down, and drag it to a new position. FILE A file is a distinct batch of information that is stored somewhere, usually in a folder (directory) on your hard drive or a removable CD or DVD. There are lots of different types of files designated by a three letter extension after a dot that separates it from the name. Each different extension is generally associated with the program that created the file or can view or utilize its contents. For instance, a Microsoft Word document has a name that ends in .doc; a music file ends in .wav, .mp3, .wma, or .w64; a plain text file ends in .txt; an executable file that performs an action ends in .exe, .com, or .dll; a Photoshop image ends in .psd; a lot of photos end in .jpg, and an Excel workbook ends in .xls. Almost everything on your computer is stored in a file or group of files including programs. ORGANIZING FILES Just as you might save a paper document inside a folder, within another folder, within a drawer, within a certain file cabinet, you save files in a hierarchy of folders. From the Windows Start button, you can see a table of contents of each of separate groups of folders in My Documents, My Computer, and My Network Places. You can think of each as a different file cabinet. I prefer using (Windows) Explorer, which shows all these in a single window, and placing two Explorer windows side by side. Then, when I move or copy and paste a file from one place to another, I see on one screen where it came from and where it is going. Here is how. First, for convenience, let’s place a shortcut to Explorer on your desktop and on your Taskbar. From a fresh boot (opening Windows) Go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, Windows Explorer. Right click, and click Copy. In a blank area of your desktop, right click and Paste. Click on your new icon and drag it onto the Quick Launch area of your Taskbar next to the Start button. In a blank area of your desktop right
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click and click on Arrange Icons by Type. Click the Explorer icon on the Taskbar to open an Explorer window. In its top menu click Tools, Folder Options, General, Use Windows classic folders. In its View window tab click to place check marks at: 1. Launch folder windows in a separate process 2. Restore previous windows at logon 3. Show Control panel in my computer Uncheck (check again if checked) Hide extensions for known file types. Click Apply to All Folders. Yes. OK. Click the Explorer icon on your Taskbar again. Right click an open area of your Taskbar. Click Tile Vertically to place the two windows side by side. If you have not opened any other windows they will be arranged as in this screen view. The right column of each window shows the contents of the item selected in the left column.
COPY, PASTE, SAVE Memorize: CTRL + C = Copy, CTRL + V = Paste, and CTRL + S = Save. They are also in the top File and Edit menus in many windows, and often when you right click. Get in the habit of using CTRL + S to save your work every few minutes in any program in which you might lose work if your computer crashes. Sometimes when you save a file you will want to place it in its own folder within some other folder. In the right hand Explorer window, expand My Computer in the left column by clicking either its name or the preceding + sign. If you click a name, its contents appear in the right hand column. Expand Local Disc (C:), then the next folder of interest, and on until you reach the folder where you want to place your file or a new folder for it.. Right click in the right column, and click “New…Folder”. Then right click on it; click Rename, and type the name you want to use. Press “enter”. Practice finding a file in the left Explorer window starting from drive C:. Then Copy it, and paste it into a
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suitable existing or new folder in the right hand Explorer window. When you create a music file, you have to give it a name and put it somewhere. Usually a dialog box will present the same hierarchy of folders you see in Windows Explorer and you use the same procedure. Notice that the address at top grows as you click down through the hierarchy of folders giving you the complete PATH from hard drive C: to your file folder, if you have clicked on it. Folder levels are separated by a backslash \. You can go back up one level at a time by clicking the folder “up” icon in the toolbar. DRAG AND DROP Find a file, and click to select it. Hold down the left button while you pull it to another folder and release the button. CAUTION – Drag and Drop from one window to another copies. Within a window it moves. To convert music files, instead of dropping them into a folder you drop them anywhere inside the BURWEN BOBCAT window. A dialog box will enable you to select a folder or subfolder where the converted files will appear. To select a group, click on the first file, and use Shift + Click on the last file. To add a file to a group select it using Control + Click. Then click and hold while dragging the files to the window, and release them. NETWORK A network connects your computer to other computers either by wire or wirelessly. In either Explorer window above, expanding My Network places shows you folders that are shared on other computers. You can copy or view a file (a photo for example) on another computer and paste it into a folder on yours, the same as if it were really on your own computer. The internet extends your network to computers all over the world. Just as your home is identified by its unique address, computers are identified by their IP (Internet Protocol) address. DIALOG BOXES Answer every dialog box, or your computer may get stuck waiting for your action. If you see a down arrow in a dialog box, click it to view a list of selections. When finished click OK, Finish, or Exit if such a button is present. If you can reduce each window an icon, a troublesome dialog box hidden behind may show up. CRASHES If one or more programs gets stuck, press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to open Task Manager. On its Applications tab, click any program not responding, and click End Task.
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burwenaudio.com TIPS ON WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER (WMP) MENU BAR If you do not see File, View, Play, Tools, and Help, at the top, click the small square in the upper right hand corner that toggles the window size. There is also a tiny down arrow in the upper right corner that produces the same menu selections. View Menu - As shown below, click on View, Plug-ins, Other, Burwen Output to place a check mark. Then in AUDIO SPLENDOR.XLS at TONE CTRL click PROCESS AUDIO to connect. If you check Burwen Bobcat the BURWEN BOBCAT window will open. You can convert WMA or MP3 files to BURWEN BOBCAT processed MP3, 128 kbps files while listening via Burwen Output. To instead listen thru BURWEN BOBCAT, uncheck Burwen Output. At the right end of your Taskbar, right click on Burwen Audio and close it.
PLAY CONTROLS Conventional player controls, Play, Stop, Previous, Next, Mute, and a horizontal Volume slider are in the
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lower left corner. The slider above shows progress along the track being played. You can move it to any part. When using AUDIO SPLENDOR’s VOL control, set the WMP Volume at maximum. First be sure you have connected by clicking the PROCESS AUDIO button in the Tone CTRL window. Graphic Equalizer Use this only with Burwen Bobcat. The AUDIO SPLENDOR controls are far superior. Click on View, Enhancements, Show Enhancements to place a check mark. Then click on View, Enhancements, Graphic equalizer. There are three circles below Turn On/Turn Off that determine how closely the sliders are coupled together. Click the middle circle which couples the controls loosely to produce gradual curves. For final fine adjustment click the top circle which makes the sliders independent. Move the sliders only a little bit at a time to zero in on your preferred setting. The Graphic Equalizer is useful for balancing the sound of your speakers or headphones using basIc 3. Once set, you can optimize a lot of different program sources using the 18 BURWEN BOBCAT selections. Visualizations The colorful pattern above changes with the music and is available at View, Visualizations, Musical Colors, Electric Rainbow. There are a lot more in the player and download able. PLAY LIST The playlist in the right hand column is available by clicking View, Now playing, Options, Show Playlist. Then click View, Now playing Options, Show Media Information. TOOLS MENU You can get to BURWEN BOBCAT faster by clicking Tools, Plug-ins, Burwen Bobcat, but you can't get to the Graphic Equalizer or Visualizations that way PLAYER ON THE TASK BAR You can shrink the player to the size of a button on your Task Bar. Right click any empty area of the Task Bar. Then click Toolbars, Windows Media Player. CRASHES The Windows Media Player and even your entire computer might freeze if you change files or tracks faster than the Player or your CDROM drive can follow. Change slowly! Recover as follows. If Burwen Audio (SigProc.exe) is open and refuses to close normally, Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to open Task Manager. Go to the Processes tab, click on SigProc.exe, and the click End Process. Then if WMP will not close normally, go to Task Manager, Applications, click Windows Media Player, and click End Task. It may be necessary to reboot the computer. If the Windows Media Player crashes it disables all plug-ins upon reopening. Go to the View menu on View, Plug-ins, Other and place a check mark at Burwen Output or Burwen Bobcat . Before you push Play be sure the Volume setting is low enough. If you are using AUDIO SPLENDOR.XLS, go to TONE CTRL and click PROCESS AUDIO to connect.
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