Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec - Manual (Page 62)

7.3 Encode-DecodeSection 7 THE PRO-CODEC MANAGER APPLICATION
7.3.2 CodecSettingsPresets
Codec settings can be saved as presets for later use. To display the codec settings preset
manager, click the
CodecPresets tab in the lower right-hand area of the Manager.
Hover the mouse cursor over a preset name to preview the saved codec settings. Click
on a preset name to load these settings into the
CodecList.
The list of presets is ordered alphabetically, and is immediately re-ordered when a new
preset is saved.
To delete or remove a preset, hover the mouse cursor over the preset name, and press the
red X button that appears at the right-hand side of the row. Since this is not undoable, a
pop-up window will request confirmation before deleting the preset.
If you have saved a Pro-Codec Plug-In preset of various codec settings that you wish to
use, you can load this into the Manager application as above (and vice versa). By default,
any presets saved by the Plug-In will appear in the
CodecPresets tab in the Manager
application, and vice versa.
Note:
The Plug-In has two separate banks of settings. Only the codec settings from the
active bank of a Plug-In preset will be loaded into the Manager application. The active
bank can be either
A or B – whichever bank was visible (in use) when the preset was
saved! See section 6 (Preset Manager Toolbar) for details).
7.3.3 Decoding
The Manager can also decode compressed files for import into a host sequencer (or for
general purpose decoding). To decode supported M4A or MP3 files, simply select them in
the
FileList, choose WAV or AIFF, and press the DECODE button.
The CLIP SAFE button enables a level-correction feature which is essentially the same as
CLIP SAFE when Encoding. It works by decoding the compressed file, calculating the
maximum sample value in the PCM stream and, if necessary, applying the precise amount
of gain trim required to ensure that the peak level is less than 0 dBFS, before writing the
output file to disk at your chosen bit depth.
Files that were previously encoded without correct attention to the post-decoder peak
level may have caused clipping in the DAC during playback. These files can now be
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