Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Switching Between Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Player View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Edit/Recording View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
The Songlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Master Volume/Input Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Peak/Level Meter and Clip Indicator . . . . . . . . . .5
Using the Peak Hold Function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Clearing the Peak Hold Indicators Manually . . . . . . . 6
AudioGate 4 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Registering Files and Projects . . . . . . . . . 7
Song Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Registering an MR project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Registering an Audio File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Registering an iTunes Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Registering a new AudioGate 4 Recording . . . . . . . . 8
Selecting a Registered Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Removing a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Sorting the Songlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Using Playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Creating a new Empty Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Creating a new Playlist by Selecting a Song . .11
Sorting the Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Removing, Exporting,
and Writing a Playlist to Disc . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Playing Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Playing Back a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Transport Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Contents of the Upper Viewer Display . . . . . . .14
Direct Locate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Repeat Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Shuffle Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Audio Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Automatic Sample Rate Switching . . . . . . . . . .17
Playing Back 1-bit Audio Files Directly . . . . . .18
Playback Volume Auto Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Playing an Audio CD/DSD Disc . . . . . . . 20
Eject Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Transport Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Contents of the Upper Viewer Display . . . . . . 22
Recording Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Recording File Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Recording Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Editing a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Editing the Current Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Editing the Text Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Editing the Picture Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Editing the Control Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Batch Editing—Current Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Batch Editing—Multiple Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Dividing a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Combining Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Channel Linking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Normalizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Marks that are Imported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Marks that are Exported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Editing Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Undo and Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Reverting an Edit (Undo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Re-executing the Edit (Redo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Converting Songs for Export . . . . . . . . . 38
Exporting an Audio File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Optional Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Creating an Audio CD or DSD Disc . . . . . . . . 45
Optional Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Auto Update Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Manually Checking for Updates . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Automatically Checking for Updates . . . . . . . 51
Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Changing the Folder
where Temporary Files are Created . . . . . 52
Resetting the Warnings of All Dialog Boxes . 52
Changing the Type of Real-time Conversion 53
Switching Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Supported Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Supported File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Supported Disc Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
List of Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58