Finally got some time to work with Vinyl Studio Pro.
As list members will recall, I got some time this past weekend to sample
a few Vinyl singles in my collection, I didn't have a lot of time at my
disposal then so it was a hurried session, sample the singles using a
Zoom H1 recorder connected to the line-out of the Rotal Amp to which the
turntable was connected and hope to be able to import the recordings to
Vinyl Studio Pro when time permitted, well time permitted today and I
will summaries what took place and how everything was done.
The first thing that needs to be done - when you launch Vinyl Studio for
the first time - is to create a record collection, Vinyl Studio Pro will
do this by default.
Next you select ad a new Album - when the record collection database is
created a new album is the next default screen You must fill in the data
fields for that album and make adjustments - it may be a single you're
bringing into your record collection so you tell Vinyl Studio Pro that
with the "Single" Checkbox etc -.
Once all the data is entered you can start importing the audio for that
album and that's simply done by selecting the audio file/files that you
sampled.
I had my audio in FLAC format which Vinyl Studio Pro had no problem with
importing.
Once the audio is present in your Album you can tell Vinyl Studio Pro if
the imported audio is a single file - needing splitting into
tracks/sides - or if each file is a track/side thus you then have the
ability to edit the data for each track of your Album or single.
Once that step is completed Vinyl Studio performs some true magic
offering the user the choice of where the audio is located.
You can leave the original audio where you imported it from and Vinyl
Studio Pro will link to it, move it to the "Recordings" folder of Vinyl
Studio Pro or move the audio into your Album collection so the choice is
yours.
That's as far as I've gone but I still need to do more, I wish to clean
the audio up a bit - the singles I imported are a little warn with a
little fire in them (crackle) - and I wish to see how effective Vinyl
Studio Pro is at handling a cleanup job so will look at that aspect
again when time permits.
You can of course record your records directly into Vinyl Studio Pro and
that's what I had initially set out to do, never mind will tackle that
at another time.
Once the recording has been made you can have Vinyl Studio Pro split the
recording into tracks thus you can edit the data for each at that point.
And most importantly, Vinyl Studio Pro keeps track of all data at all
times so the user can revert back to previous events or undo changes easily.
