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PYLE Audio PLTTB3U User Manual

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Track Pop-Down Menu

The Track Pop-Down Menu

appears when you click in a track's

title. This lets you access a few

special commands that apply to

individual tracks.

Name... - lets you change the name

of the track.

Move Track Up - exchange places

with the track above this one.

Move Track Down - exchange

places with the track below this one.

Waveform - sets the display to

Waveform - this is the default way

of visualizing audio.

Waveform (dB) - similar to

Waveform, but on a logarithmic

scale, measured in decibels (dB).

Spectrum - display the track as a

spectrogram, showing the amount

of energy in different frequency

bands.

Pitch (EAC) - highlights the contour

of the fundamental frequency

(musical pitch) of the audio, using

the Enhanced Autocorrelation (EAC)

algorithm.

Mono - makes this track a mono

track, meaning it is played out of

just one speaker, or played out of

the left and right speakers equally.

Left Channel - makes this track

come out of only the left speaker.

Right Channel - makes this track

come out of only the right speaker.

Make Stereo Track - if there is

another track below this one, joins

them to make a single stereo track,

with the top track representing the

left speaker, and the bottom track

representing the right speaker.

When tracks are joined into a stereo

pair, all edits automatically apply to

both the left and right channel.

Split Stereo Track - if the selected

track is a stereo track (a pair of left

and right tracks joined together as a

single track), this operation splits

them into two separate tracks that

you can modify and edit

independently.

Set Sample Format - this

determines the quality of the audio

data and the amount of space it

takes up. 16-bit is the quality used

by audio CD's and is the minimum

quality that Audacity uses internally

(8-bit audio files are automatically

converted when you open them).

24-bit is used in higher-end audio

hardware. 32-bit float is the highest

quality that Audacity supports, and

it is recommended that you use 32-

bit float unless you have a slow

computer or are running out of disk

space.