PRS PRESENTS:
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Name:	Audiotools v3.00i3
Date:	05/21/00
Type:	Util
Disks:	01

Info:
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  Audiotools was initially created to speed up the process of creating audio
  cd's from lp's and tapes - this, as I found when I wished to do it, was a
  slow and painful experience - first you had to record audio (and some programs
  couldn't record a whole lp side in one go), then load it into an editor and
  visually split it into chunks which you would save individually to hard disk.
  Sure, you could do bags of extra processing on them, but the sheer size of the
  samples would mean that most of your time was spent waiting for the hard drive
  to sort itself out. 

  Audiotools 1.0 set out to solve this problem. Subsequent versions have ironed
  out little niggles, improved performance and added features such as real-time
  noise reduction and parametric eq as well as expanding file support from just
  PCM wave files to ACM files, allowing compression. Although Audiotools doesn't
  (yet) write to CD itself, it does simplify the rest of the process.

  The nature of Audiotools means that it is also suitable for other tasks such
  recording from radio, telephone (or any other source you care to mention) and
  producing audio for burning to Audio CD, mastering into .MP3s or just burning
  to CD-ROM.

New in v3.00i3:
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File plugins which only support reading (e.g. Stimulus and the Module example) were
causing problems with configuring newer file plugins which had been installed
subsequently. This has been corrected.

The Profiles tab is now the first tab on the Configure plugins dialog. This makes
more sense as it is more regularly accessed.

The Default profile (and in fact any profile which Audiotools adds an asterisk
(*) to its name) is not intended to be modified by users and is therefore not
saved. This was confusing people so these profiles now have no "+" signs between
plugins in order to prevent editing. You can still edit any new profiles you create.

The Plugin Info list showed read only file plugins in the write only column and
vice versa.

Audiotools now returns to the last directory used for any given file dialog (e.g.
save/load) and retains the last filename selected.

Configure menu items have been added for recording methods (previously only
accessible through the '...' button by the record method selector). This helps
beginners whilst leaving the context-sensitive method for more confident users.

Auto-ear failed to operate on some soundcards including older Creative Labs cards
such as the AWE-64. This has been fixed and an error is reported for any cards
not covered by the fix.

Analyse has been improved and now produces much more accurate noise floor levels
for Auto-tracking.


Setup:
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Unpack and run the setup. Then unzip unzipme.zip to the installed dir (overwrite) and
import the .reg file. Enjoy.