Korg AudioGate3 Owner's manual

Brand: Korg

Model: AudioGate3

Category: Software

Type: Owner's manual

USER’SGUIDE

AudioGate3

Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Supported formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Supported disc formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Items on the screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Player View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Edit View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

About the songlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

About the master volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

About the level meter and clip indicator . . . . . .7

Changing the peak hold time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Clearing the peak hold indication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

About the Menu / help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Registration to library and editing . . . . . . 8

Song Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Registering an MR project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Audio File Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

iTunes Song Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Select a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Remove a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Rearrange the songs (sort) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Creating a Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Creating a new Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Creating a new Playlist by selecting Songs . .12

Rearrange the songs in a Playlist (sort) . . . . .12

Removing and 

Exporting Playlist and Writing to a Disc . . .12

Song Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Playing back a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Transport Controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Contents of the upper viewer display . . . . . . .15

Direct Locate function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Repeat playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Shuffle playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Audio device settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Auto sample rate switching function . . . . . . . .18

Playing back 1-bit audio files directly . . . . . . .19

Playback Volume Auto Adjustment Function .20

Audio CD/DSD disc Playback . . . . . . . . . 21

Eject Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Song editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Current song editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Text Data editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Attached picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Control Data editing . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Batch Editing Current Song Information. . . . . . . . . .24

Batch Edit Song 

Information for Multiple Songs . . . . . . . . . 26

Dividing a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Combining songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Channel Link function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Normalization Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Mark function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Importing marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Exporting marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Editing marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Other convenient functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Reverting an edit (Undo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Re-executing the edit (Redo) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Exporting in a different audio format . . . 31

Exporting an audio file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Optional settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Creating an audio CD or DSD disc . . . . . . . . . 38

Optional settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Auto Update function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Manually checking for updates . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Automatically checking for updates . . . . . . . 44

Other settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Changing the folder 

where temporary files are created . . . . . . . 45

Resetting the warnings of all dialog boxes . . 45

Changing the type of real-time conversion . . 46

Switching background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

List of shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Introduction

AudioGate3HighDefinitionAudioPlayerSoftwareisahighfunctionaudioplayerandfileconversionapplication

thatsupports1‐bitaudio.

UsingAu

dioGate3,audiofilesthathav

edifferingformatsinthecomputercanbecontrolledandplayed,andthe

playbackfunctionalityprovidesdirectplaybackof 1‐bitaudiofilesbyusingcertifiedaudiodevicessuchastheKorg

DS‐DACseries.

Inaddition,usingAu

dioGate3,MRprojectsorothe

rvariousaudiofilesrecordedbytheKorgMRseriescanbecon‐

vertedtoyourdes

iredformattoexport,andyoucanalsocreateaudioCDsorDSDdiscs.Editingproceduressuchas

cut,fade,andnormalizearealsosupported.

InA

udioGate3,eachitemofau

diodatainthesonglistiscalledasong.

Supported formats

Supported file formats

AudioGateisabletoimport/export(input/output)audiofilesofthefollowingformats.

Fileformat

(extension)

Windows Mac Numberof

channels

Samplerate Bitdepth

In Out In Out

PCM WAV(.wa

v)    

1ch

2ch

44.1kHz,48kHz

88.2kHz,96kHz

176.4kHz,192kHz

bit,24bi

32bit(float)

BWF(.wav)    

AIFF(.aif/

.aiff)     16bit,24bit

‐bit DSDIFF(.dff

)    

1ch

2ch

2.8224MH

5.6448MHz 1‐bit

DSF(.ds

f)    

WSD(.ws

d)    

Irreversible

compr

ession

MP3(.mp3)  

*3 

1ch

2ch

44.1kHz,48kHz

‐

AAC(.m4a) *1  

WMA(.wma)   

WMAProfessional

(.wma)

  *2 2ch 44.1kHz,48kHz

88.2kHz,96kHz

Lossless

compression

WMALossless

(.wma)

  

*2 2ch 44.1kHz,48kHz

88.2kHz,96kHz

16bit(only44.1

kHz),24bit

AppleLossless

[ALA

C](.m4a)

*1   1ch

2ch

44.1kHz,48kHz

88.2kHz,96kHz

176.4kHz,192kHz

16bit,24bi

FLAC(.flac)    

*1 Suppor

tedifQuickTim

e7isinstalled

*2SupportedifFlip4MacWMV isinstall

ed.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx

*3 Suppor

tedifWindowsMediaPl

ayer10orlaterisinstalled

Insomecases,itmaynotbepossibletocorrectlyreadfilesthatwerenotcreatedbyaKorgMRseriesunitorby

AudioGate.

AudiofilesprotectedbyDRM(DigitalRightsManagement)cannotbeloaded.

Supported disc formats

AudioGate3supportsreadingandwritingofaudioCDsandDSDdiscs.

AudioGate3cancreatediscsinthefo

llowingformats.

Discformat AudioCD(CD‐DA) DSDdiscs

Discmedia CD‐R,CD‐RW DVD‐R,DVD‐RW

DVD+R,DVD+RW

Approxim

aterecordingtime Approx.74minutes

(whenusing700MBmedia)

Approx.100minute

s

(whenusing4.7GBmedia)

Numberofalbums

thatcanberecordedononedi

1 1

Maximumnumber

oftracks

thatcanberecordedononedi

99 99

Recordingtimeforonetr

ack Minimum 4seconds 0seconds

Maximum Approx.74minutes Approx.100minutes(4GB)

Samplingfrequency 44.1kHz 2.8224MH

Bitdepth 16 1

Numberofchannels 2 2

Recordablemetadata CD‐TEXTformat

(alphanumericonly)

•Title

•Ar

tistname

*Notrecordableforsome

driv

ID3v2.3format

•Title

•Title(Read)

•Artistnam

•Artistname(Read

)

•Albumname

•Albumname(Read)

•Albu

mArtistname

•Albu

mArtistname

(Read)

•TrackNo.

•DiscNo.

•Genr

•Dateandtimeofrecording

•Attachedpicture

 Writingtodual‐layerDVDmediaisnotsupported.

 AwritableCD/DVDdriveisrequiredinordertocreateaudioCDsorDSDdiscs.

What are DSD discs?

DSDdiscsareanew discform atthatwascreatedasawayforanindividualtorecordandplaybackDSDformat

material.ThismeansthatthemethodsusedtocreateaudiodiscsonCD‐RorCD‐RWmediaarenowalsoavail‐

ablefor the wo

rld ofDSDau

dio.DSD discscan be playedoncompatibleplayersand enjoyedin their original

highquality.

DSDdiscisadiscformatthatisdifferentthantheSuperAudioCD.NotallSuperAudioCDplayerswillnec‐

essarilybeabletoplaybackaDSDdisc.

*DSD dis

cs (1‐bit; 2.8 MHz) created by Au

dioGate 3 can be played back on players such as the Sony SCD‐

XA5400ES Super AudioCD/CD player, the SonySCD‐XE800 Super Audio CD/CD playeror PlayStation®3

from Sony Comp uter Entertainment Inc. DSD discs to be played on the Sony SCD‐XA5 400ES or the Sony

SCD‐XE800 require the f

ollow

ing conditions. AudioGate meets these conditions. (As of August 21st, 2010,

confirmedbyKORGInc.)

‐ Disc:DVD‐R,DVD‐RW,DVD+R,andDVD‐RW,tha

tarecompatiblewithDVD‐ROMspecifications

‐ Fileextension:dsf

‐ Foldertype:DSD_DISCfold

‐ Maximumsizeofa

file:upto4GB

‐ Channel:2‐channel

‐ Ma

ximumnumberofplayab

lefiles:upto150filesperfolder

‐ Maximumnumberofplayab

lefolders:upto200foldersperdisc

‐ Maximumnumberofplayab

lelayers:upto8thlayer

‐ Samplingfreque

ncy:2.8224MHz

*Theavailabilityoftheseproductsmayvar

ybycountry.

* PlayStationisaregisteredtrad

emarkofSonyComputerEntertainmentInc.

Japan:http://www.jp.playstation.com/

US:http:/

/www.us.playstation.com/

Europe

:http://uk.p

laystation.com/country‐selector/

Pleasecheckfoll

owingURLforothercountries.

http://www.playstation.com/country ‐select

or/

*“DSDDiscFormat”

isatrademarkofSonyCorporation.

Items on the screen

MostofAudioGate3isusedintheviewer.Thisviewersizecanbechangedfreely.Inaddition,theviewerwillbe

changedbetweenplayscreens(PlayerView)andeditingscreen(EditView)eachtimeyouclicktheeditbutton.

Byclickingthemenubu

ttontoselect[Vi

ew]‐[SwitchView],youcanalsochangethescreen.

Player View

Level meter

Menu button

Edit button

Master volume

Songlist

Controller

Song waveform

display

Attached picture

Search window

Side bar

Display button

Context

menu icon

Edit View

Menu button

Edit button

Clip

Indicator

Level meter

Master volume

Songlist

Controller

Search window

Side bar

Display button

Context

menu icon

Song waveform display L

Song waveform display R

About the songlist

Theinfoviewerwilldisplay information aboutthesongs (audiofiles)registeredinthelibrary(seepage 8)orthe

playlist(seepage11)inthesonglist.Whenswit

chingthedisplayofthesonglist,clickthesidebardisplaybuttonto

selectanitem.

About the master volume

AudioGate3canadjusttheleveltosendsignalstoaudiodevicessuchasanaudioplayerseparatelyfromthegain.

Youcandragthemastervolumeupward/downwardtomakeadjustmentstothelevel.

About the level meter and clip indicator

Duringsong playback andexport, AudioGate 3ʹs levelmeter shows the peak values of the output data fo llowing

samplerateconversion.Inaddition,theclipindicatorisdisplayedintheeditingscreenonly.

WhenplayingPCMdata,exportingaPCMfi

le,orcreatin

ganaudioCD,theunitsaredBFSrelativetofull‐scalelin‐

earPCMdata(0dB).

Exceptforwhenexportinga32‐bit(float)file,theclipindicatorwilllightupwhenthereisasignalthatwould

exceed0dBFS,and thesi

gnalwillbeclippedto0dBFSandexported.

Whenplayingorexportinga

1‐bitaudiofileandwhencreatingaDSDdisc,theunitsaredB‐SACD,withthetheoret‐

icallimitofDelta‐Si

gmaconversiondefinedas+6dB‐SACD.

Theconversionalgorit

hmofmostPCM↔DSDconverters(includingAudioGate3)isdesignedsothatbydefault,0

dBFS=0dB‐SACD.

During1‐bitaudiooutput,the clipindicatorwillalsolightupwhenaclipinDelta‐Sigmaconversionisdetected.

Changing the peak hold time

AudioGate3ʹslevelmeterandclipindicatorprovideapeakholdfunction.Hereʹshowtochangethelengthoftime

thattheseindicationsareheld.

1. Right‐click(Mac:Cont

rol+click)thelevelmeter.

2. Choose[PeakHoldDurationofLevelmeter]or[Ho

ldDurationofClipIndicator]andselectthedesiredtime

fromtheoptionsshown.

Byclickingthe menubuttontoselect[V

iew]‐[PeakHoldDurationofLevelmeter]or[HoldDurationofClipIndica‐

tor],youcanalsochangethetime.

Clearing the peak hold indication

Whenthelevelmeterisinuse,clickingitwillcleartheholdindicatorswithoutwaitingforthespecifiedholdtimes.

About the Menu / help

Whenyouclickthemenubuttonandselect[Help],youcan getthelatestinformationaboutAudioGate3.

Registration to library and editing

ByregisteringMRprojects oraudiofilestothelibraryofAudioGate3onyourcomputer,audiofilescanbeplayed

backor,convertedtoanotherformattoexport.

InA

udioGate3,eachitemofau

diodatainthesonglistiscalledasong.

WhenregisteringsongstotheA udioGate3library,acopyofthefilewillnotbecreatedbutthefileinformation

willstillberegisteredtothelibra

ry.

Whenalotofsongsareregisteredatatime,itwilltaketimetodisplaytheminthesonglist.Alsothesongwave‐

formdisplayrequirestime tobeanal

yzedduringregistration,sothesongwaveformdisplayremainsinabar

stateforawhile.

Song Registration

Registering an MR project

YoucanregisteraprojectthatwasrecordedonaKorgMRseriesunit.

Althoughitispossibletoregisteronlyanaudiofi

lerecordedonyourMRseriesregisteringanMRprojectwillallow

themarks that were added during recording to beimported. Evenif the audio fileshave been divided, they will

automaticallybejoinedsothattheycanbehandledasasi

nglesong.

•Dra

gtheMRproje

ct(theentireMRprojectfolder)thatyouwanttoregisterintothesonglist.

Alternatively,youcanclickthemenubuttonandsele

ctthe.prjfile(locatedinthefolder)byselectingthe[File]‐

[AddAudioFiles...].

When the songlist  of the li

brary is displ

ayed, the MR project is registered to the library as songs. When the

selectedplaylistisdisplayed,itisregisteredtotheplaylistaswellasthelibrary.

SimplyregisteringanitemintoanAudioGate3librarydoesnotbackupthefile.

Beforeyouproceed,werecommendthatprojectsrecorde

donyourMRseriesunitbecopiedtotheharddiskof

yourcom puter.

drag & drop

Audio File Registration

Audiofilescanberegisteredassongs.AnyfileformatwhichAudioGatesupportscanbeimportedandregisteredas

asong.(seepage3)

Youcannotregisterasongthatisalreadyregistered.

• Dragtheaudiofileth

atyouwanttoregisterintothesonglist.

Alternativ ely,youcandothesamethingbyclickingthemenubuttonandselectingthe[File]‐[AddAudioFiles...].

Whenthesonglistofthelibraryisdisplayed,audiofilesareregisteredtothelibraryassongs.Whenthesonglist

oftheselectedplaylistisdisplayed,songsareregisteredtotheplaylistaswellasthelibrary.

drag & drop

iTunes Song Registration

iTunessongscanberegisteredintothelibrary.

1. Clickthemenubuttontoselect[Fi

le]‐[AddiTunessongs].

2. TheiTunessongisnowregistered in

tothelibrary.

SongsrecentlyaddedtotheiTuneslibrary willonlyberegisteredintothelibrarywhentheyareselected[Add

iTunessongs].Duplicateregistrationofsongsisnotallo

wed.

Select a song

Clickthesongonthesonglist.

Toselectmultiplesongs,holddow

ntheCtrlkey(Mac:Commandkey)andclick.

Theselectedsongwillbedisp

layedinbold.

Selected Song

Remove a song

Movethemousepointerontothetargeted song,andclickthecontextmenuicondisplayedontherightsideof the

Titletoselectthe[RemoveSongs]option.

Alternatively,yo

ucanselect[Fil

e]‐[RemoveSongs]byclickingthemenubutton.

Youcanalsoselectthe[RemoveSongs]optionbyright‐clickingontheselection(Windows)orcontrol‐clicking

(Mac).

Removingsongsdeletesthesongsfromtheplaylist.Inaddition,removingthesongsfromtheplaylistdoesnot

deletethesongsfromthelibrary.

Rearrange the songs (sort)

Inthesonglist,youcansortthesongsbyclickingonTitle,Time,Artist,Album,GenreorFormatfromthesection

headingsatthetopofthe list.Thesongsaresortedinalphabeticalascendingorderordescendingordereachtime

youclickthebutton.

Creating a Playlist

YoucancreateanoriginalPlaylistbycollectingfavoriteorthemedsongsfromyourAudioGate3library.

InthisPlaylist,youcanadd,sel

ect,removeandsortthesongsaswellasinthelibrary.

WhenyouregistersongsthatarenotregisteredinthelibraryintothePlaylist,the songswillbeautomatically

registeredintothelibraryaswe

llasthePlaylist.

Whensonginformationisupdatedforasongthatʹsinaplaylist,thesonginformationwillalsobeupdatedin

thelibrary..

Creating a new Playlist

1. Clickthesidebardisplaybuttonattheupperleftcornerofthesonglist.

Side bar

Display button

Context

menu icon

Side bar

Display button

2. APlaylistbarwillappear.Clickthe+buttonintherightcorner.

Theplaylistnamed“Playlist”willappear. If youdonot changethe

nam e, new playlistnamesafter the second

instancewillbe“Playlistn(n:autoincrementstartat1)”.

3. Tochangeth

eplayli

stname,clickonthenamesection.

4. ClicktheLibraryonthepl

aylistbartodisplaythesongsregisteredinthelibrary.

5. SelectsongsintheLibrarytoregisterthemintothepl

aylistdisplayedinthesidebar.

Toselectmultiplesongs,holddow

ntheCtrlkey(Mac:Commandkey)andclick.

Movethemousepointerontotheselectingsong,andclickthecontextmenu icondispl

ayedontherightsideof

theTitletoselectthe[AddtoPlaylist]functiontoregisterthesong.

Youcanalsoselectthe[AddtoPlaylist]functiontoregisterthesongby right‐clicking(Windows)orcontrol‐

clicking(Mac).

6. Whenyo

uselecttheplaylistdi

splayedundertheplaylistbar,theregisteredsongswillappearintheSonglist.

Creating a new Playlist by selecting Songs

Movethemousepointerontothetargeted song intheSonglist,and click the contextmenuicondisplayedonthe

rightsideoftheTitletoselectthe[NewPlaylistfromSelection]function.

Theplaylistwi

llbename

daftertheselectedsong.

Youcanalsoselectandregisterthe[NewPlaylistfromSelection]byright‐clicking(Windows)orcontrol‐clicking

(Mac).

Rearrange the songs in a Playlist (sort)

Songsinaplaylistcanbesorted(seepage10)aswellastheSonglistofthelibrary.Inaddition,selectingtheitemsof

theSonglistNo.enablesdraggingthesongsandsortingthesongstoadesiredorder.

Removing and Exporting Playlist and Writing to a Disc

SelectthePlaylisttoremovebyright‐clicking(control‐clickingfortheMac.device)andselectExporting(seepage

31)andCreatingDisc(seepage38).

RemovingthePlaylistdeletestheregisteredinformationoftheSonginthePlaylistonly.Thesongsofthelibrary

andotherPlaylistsarenotdelet

ed.

Song Playback

InAudioGate3,youcanplaybacktheSongsregisteredintheSonglist.Thisprovidesausefulwaytoplaybackthe

songsineachformatincluding1‐bitaudiofileswithuniformsamplingfrequency,tocheckthefilecontentsortoset

aneditingpoint(seepage29).

The song playback functionality thatʹs provided by  AudioGate 3 is a convenient feature that utilizes a high‐

speedfilter,anddirectoutput

of1‐bitDSD.Inordertoexperiencethefullsoundqu alityof1‐bitaudio,please

usetheKorgDS‐DACseries,acertifiedUSBaudiodevice,oradevicethatsupports1‐bitaudio,suchastheKorg

MRseries.

InAudioGate3,thesongthatʹsplaying(orpausedforplayback)iscalledthe“currentsong.”Thecurrentsongis

displayedinbold andindicatedbyaPlayback/Paus

eiconontheleftsideofthetitle,andtheviewerwilldisplay

theartistname, titleandalbumnameaboutthatsongontheuppersection.Thecurrent locationinthecurrent

songiscalledthe“currentposition.”Thecurrentpositioncanbeseeninthetimedi

spl

ay.(Referto“Contentsof

theupperviewerdisplay”onpage15.)

Playing back a song

Double‐clickasonginthesonglisttomakeitthecurrentsong.Playbackwillbeginautomat ically.

Ifyouexperienceproblemswithplayback,forexampleifthereisnosound oriftherearefrequentclicksorpops

intheplayback,pleasereferto“A

u d i o devicesettings”onpage17.

Play/Pause

Icon

Double-click the song

you want to play

Transport Controllers

Youcanusethefollowingfeaturestocontroltheplayback.

Alternatively,youcanselect[Controls]byclickingth

emenubutton.

From

REW

Play/Pause

Playback point



Controllername Action

Play/Pausebutton Switchesthecurrentsongbetweenpla

ybackandpause

FFbutton Changes the currentpositiontothenext marklocation.Ifthereisno

next mark,the  current

position will change to the next song in the songlist. By holding down this button you can

fast‐forwardtheplaybackpoint.

REWbu

tton Changesthecurrentpositiontothepreviousmarklocation. Ifthe

reisnopreviousmark,you

willmovetothebeginningofthesong.Byholdingdownthisbuttonyoucanrewindtheplay‐

backpoint.

Tobu

tton Ifyouclickthiswhil

epaused,atwo‐secondregionendingatthecurrentpositionwillplay.

Frombutton Ifyouclickthiswh

ilepaused,atwo‐secondregionstartingfromthecurrentpositionwillplay.

Playbackpoint Wherethecolora

song’swaveformisinvertedindicatesthecurrentplayback point.Youcan

changetheplaybackpointbyclickingonthedesiredpointonthesong’swaveformdisplayor

bydraggingthistoleftorright.

Contents of the upper viewer display

Theupperviewershowsinformationaboutthecurrentsong.

Sample rate of the audio device

Title

Artist

Album

Format

Time information

Artist

Album

Format

Search window

Sample rate of the audio device

Search window

Song waveform display L

Song waveform display R

Song waveform display



Item Method

Samplerateof

theaudiodevice

Indicatesthesamplerateoftheaudiodevi

ce.Thecurrentsongisconvertedto

thissamplerateinrealtimeasitplays.

Artist Indicatestheartistnameofthecurr

entsong.

Title Indicatesthetitlenameofth

ecurrentsong.

Album Indicatesthealbumnameofthecurrentsong.

Sear

chwindow YoucanselectAll,Titl

e,ArtistandAlbum.

Clickthemagnifiermarkontheleftsideofthesear

chwindowtosearchinthe

selecteditems.WhenselectingAll,thesearchisexecutedusingalloftheitems,

Title,ArtistandAlbum.

Ifthesonglistcontainsthefi

ttedit

ems,thefittedsongswillbedisplayed.

Format Indicatesthefileformat,numberofchann

els,samplerate,andbitdepthofthe 

currentsong.Whenplayingfileswithirreversiblecompression,the“bitdepth”

iconwillbethe“bitrate”indication(e.g.,128kbps).

Timeinformation Thecurrentpositiontimeandthewholeti

meofthecurrentsongaredisplayed.

Direct Locate function

Thisallowsyoutospecifythecurrentpositiondirectlyfromthekeyboard.

1. Whileasongisplayingorstopped,clickthetimeinformation.

2. Th

ecounterwillbecomeaneditablefield.Fromth

ekeyboard,enterthenewcounterposition(e.g.,2:30).

Youmayomitthecolon(:),andsimplyenter“230

”(interpretedas“2:30”)or“1204”(interpretedas“12:0 4”).

Click

3. PresstheEnterkey onthekeyboard.

Notethatthecurrentposi

tionhaschanged.

Repeat playback

TheviewerwillcyclebetweenRepeat,RepeatofCurrentSongorNo repeateachtimeyouclickthebutton.(Player

Viewonly)

Shuffle playback

TheviewerwillcyclebetweenPlayinShuffledorderandNoPlayinShuffledordereachtimeyouclickthebutton.

(PlayerViewonly)

Audio device settings

Youcanchangethesettingsoftheaudiodevicebyclickingthedisplaysectionofthesamplerateintheaudiodevice.

Ifthesongdoesnotplaycorrectly,pleasecheckthesesetti

ngstomakesurethateachitemisconfiguredproperly.In

addition,youcanalsoclickthemenubuttonandselect[Edit]‐[Preferences...]todisplaythesettingsoftheaudio

device.

AfastCPUisrequiredforstableplaybackof1‐bitaudiofilesdirectly,orreal‐timeconversionfromPCMto1‐bit

audiofiles.

Ifanyskipor

noiseoccursfreque

ntlyduringplayback,adjustingtheoutputbuffersizemayhelpimprovethe

performance.

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Auto sample rate switching function

AudioGate3canautomatically switchthesamplerateoftheaudiodevicetomatchthesamplerateofthecurrent

song.

1. Clickthedisplaysectionofth

esamplerateintheaudiodevice.

Youcanalsoclickthemenubuttonandselect[

Edit]‐[Preferences...]todisplayit.

2. Clickthe[AudioDevice

]tab.

3. Inthe[SampleRate]section,select[Auto

Ifthesamplerate of the current song is not supportedon the audio  device,the sample rate willbe settothe

highestvalueofthedevice.

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Playing back 1-bit audio files directly

AudioGate3canplayback1‐bitaudiofiles(DSDIFF,DSForWSD)directly,withoutanyconversiontoPCM(*1).

*1Thisfeature isonlyavailablewhenyouareusingaKORGUSBAudioDeviceDriver(Windows“A S I O ” /Mac).

YoucanonlyusethisfunctionwithdevicesthatarecertifiedbyKORGInc.includingtheKORGDS‐DACseries.

Pleaseseethedeviceliston

ourwebsite.

http://www.korg.com/products/audio/audiogate3/

Pleaseperformthefollowingstep,whilebein

gconnectedtocomputeraudioequipment.

1. Clickthedisplaysectionofth

esamplerateintheaudiodevice.

Youcanalsoclickthemenubuttonandselect[

Edit]‐[Preferences...]todisplayit.

2. Clickthe[AudioDevice

]tab.

3. Inthe[Drive

rType]section,select[ASIO](Mac[CoreAudio]).

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4. Selectthecorrectaudiodeviceinthe[DriverName]section.

5. Inthe[SampleRate]section,select[Auto

],[2.8MHz]or[5.6MHz].

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6. Double‐clicka1‐bitsong(DSDIFF,DSForWSD)in the songlistortheplaylistto makeitthecurrentsong.

Playbackwillbeginautomatically.

Playback Volume Auto Adjustment Function

Thisfunctionenablesyoutolistentosongsatalmostthesamevolumelevelwhileautomaticallyadjustingthevol‐

umeofallsongsduringplay

backofsongsfromtheSonglist.Inaddition,thisfunctionworksduringplaybackonly

anddoesnotadjustthegainoftheaudiofileitself.

1. Clickthedisplaysectionofth

esamplerateintheaudiodevice.

Youcanalsoclickthemenubuttonandselect[

Edit]‐[Preferences...]todisplayit.

2. Clickthe[Other]tab.

3. Selectth

esettingofthe[Aut

oAdjustPlaybackVolu me ] feature.

Off:TheAutoAdjustmentPl

aybackVolumefunctionwillnotbeapplied.

Song:Playbackvolu

meofeachsongwillbeadjusted.

Album:Playbackvolu

meofeachsongwillbeadjustedwhilepreservingthevolumebalancebetweensongsin

thealbum.

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Korg AudioGate3 Owner's manual

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Model: AudioGate3

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