Front Panel - Claudio - XemiComputers

Title Ticker

Shows the name of the current cassette and current track as well as time stamp when the track was recorded. Ticker temporarily stops when mouse pointer is over it and tooltip shows full information. Click on it to edit message notation. Right-click on it to get quick menu with following commands and options:

Mix Tracks
Delete Track
Empty cassette
Rename cassette
Rearrange cassette
Edit Title
Ticker Speed
Ticker Direction

Volume (master/wave out)

Click "+" or "-" to increase or decrease volume. Open Settings/Options dialog to choose whether this volume control will affect Master or WaveOut volume.

Minimize to SysTray

Minimizes Claudio to systray icon. To bring it back on the screen just click on its systray icon or choose Show Claudio command from right-click systray menu. If you wish to exit the program right click on its systray icon and choose Exit command.

Time counter

Shows current track length (left) and current position within the track (right).

Recording quality indicator

Shows sound quality parameters for the current cassette:

Mono/Stereo
Low/Medium/High sample rates (11/22/32/44/
48/88/96/192kHz)
8/16-bit samples

Track number

Shows current track number and total number of tracks on the cassette.

Settings menu

Register Claudio
Contact Technical Support
Visit Program Homepage
About Claudio
Help
Transcription Playback Mode
Always on top
Available space
Available shortcuts (F12)
Effects
Options

Exact time positioner (ETP)

Use this slider in stop and playback mode by simple click or click and drag technique to get quick access to any part of a recorded track.

If your mouse has a wheel you can use it for navigation both in stop and play mode.

Volume Controls

Depending on selection in Settings dialog, click on this button will either give you easy access to Windows Volume Controls (default behavior) or act as a switch to show/hide Claudio's Volume Controls Panel.

NOTE: Windows Vista users will always have three options here: Mixers, Playback Devices and Recording Devices.

Pause

Standard self-explanatory command.

Record

Standard self-explanatory command. If pressed during recording works like Pause.

You can make scheduled recordings with Claudio but for that to work you need one more program of ours called Smooth Program Scheduler. That program is free to use and available for download from www.xemico.com. For detailed instructions on setting up a scheduled recording please refer to help files in Smooth Program Scheduler.

Play

Standard self-explanatory command. If pressed during playback works like Pause.

Stop

Standard self-explanatory command.

Previous track / Slow play

This is a multifunctional button. Clicking it in Play mode will slow down track reproduction. Four lower speed levels are available by successive clicks and to get back to normal speed just click back the same number of times in the opposite direction (Fast Play). In Stop mode this button allows you to move towards the first track recorded on the current cassette.

Rewind

Standard self-explanatory command. If your mouse has a wheel you can use it for navigation both in stop and play mode.

Forward

Standard self-explanatory command. If your mouse has a wheel you can use it for navigation both in stop and play mode.

Next track / Fast play

This is a multifunctional button. Clicking it in Playback mode will speed up track reproduction. Four higher speed levels are available by successive clicks and to get back to normal speed just click back the same number of times in the opposite direction (Slow Play). In Stop mode this button allows you to move towards the last track recorded on the current cassette.

Eject

Opens dialog for creating new or loading old cassette file.
When you want to create a new cassette select sound quality parameters first, then click Create New Cassette File button. You can choose any combination of following parameters:

Stereo/Mono
(11/22/32/44/
48/88.2/96/192Khz) sampling rate
8/16-bit samples

To open an existing cassette file click Open Old Cassette File. If cassette file you are opening was created with a version of the program lower than 6.0 its header will automatically be converted to the new format.

Edit track title

Opens dialog for editing current track title.

Delete track

Deletes current track.

Rearrange tracks

Opens dialog for rearranging contents of the current cassette. It gives you the oportunity to move tracks up or down the list, delete more than one at a time, merge two or more tracks into one and save all those changes at once to the current or brand new cassette. Available options:

Move Up
Move Down
Delete
Merge
Save Changes
Save As New Cassette
Append to Existing Cassette

Rename cassette file

Opens dialog for changing the file name of the current cassette.

Empty cassette

Completely deletes (empties) current cassette. All previously recorded tracks are lost.

Signal animation

Visual representation of record/playback signal.

Direct track selection

Click on a track on the list to select it, double-click to start playback immediately.

Scroll track list

If track list is long use these arrows to scroll it.

Recording quality indicator

Shows sampling rate parameter for the current cassette.

L - 11/22Khz (low)
M - 32/44/48Khz (medium)
H - 88/96/192KHz (high)

Import WAV/OGG/MP3

Use this option to import WAV, OGG Vorbis or MP3 sound files.

Note: Claudio supports MP3 on conditional basis. It requires Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer3 (MP3) codec to be already installed on your computer.

Export track/cassette

Export option allows you to export current track/cassette to one of six available file types:

WAV
OGG
MP3
WAV in EXE
OGG in EXE
MP3 in EXE

Send to e-mail recipient

This option allows you to send current track/cassette by E-Mail as an attachment. There are six file types to choose from:

WAV
OGG
MP3
WAV in EXE
OGG in EXE
MP3 in EXE

Scroll mixers (volume controls)

Use these arrows to access all available sound mixers (volume controls).

Mixers (volume controls)

Number of available sliders depends on the sound card driver. You can use direct click or click and drag technique to set volume level.

Master volume control

This volume control is fixed to master playback volume. Click "+" or "-" to increase or decrease volume.

Mute all

Standard self-explanatory command.

Select recording mixers (volume controls)

Volume controls are divided into two groups: recording controls and playback controls. Click this button to select recording volume controls.

Select playback mixers (volume controls)

Volume controls are divided into two groups: recording controls and playback controls. Click this button to select playback volume controls.