X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=audio.rst;h=bb6876ecb85f5da3cf9c99a0428ab4ff4025dbf8;hb=HEAD;hp=e17a2acd2bb5807a3602e9d63e77414f86b9bbfa;hpb=0a6bb4813e2238a4a5a2867db9de01f0aa798953;p=nageru-docs diff --git a/audio.rst b/audio.rst index e17a2ac..bb6876e 100644 --- a/audio.rst +++ b/audio.rst @@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ use, reusing such a mix isn't the worst choice you can make. Simple mode ----------- -**Simple** audio mode is the default, and was the only mode available -up until Nageru 1.4.0. Despite its name, it contains a powerful +**Simple** audio mode is the default. Despite its name, it contains a powerful audio processing chain; however, in many cases, you won't need to understand or twiddle any of the knobs available. @@ -136,7 +135,7 @@ of taste (and also depends on the speaker), but the main point is that it gets rid of low-frequency hum and a lot of the background noise that is not related to the speaker's voice. (If you were producing music, you'd probably want it there to make room for -music *under* it, but the you'd want it higher than the default 120 Hz.) +music *under* it, but then you'd want it higher than the default 120 Hz.) Next comes a chain of no less than four compressors. They are based on the same basic structure, but have very different settings, @@ -322,14 +321,14 @@ headroom, while some are much more variable and need tighter settings. Nearly at the top (and nearly first in the chain), there's the EQ section. The **lo-cut** is again well-known from the simple audio mode (the filter is separate for each bus, the cutoff **frequency** is the same across all buses), -but there's now also a simple **three-band EQ** per bus. Simply ask the speaker +but there's now also a simple **three-band EQ** per bus. Ask the speaker to talk normally for a bit, and tweak the controls until it sounds good. People have different voices and different ways of holding the microphone, and if you have a reasonable ear, you can use the EQ to your advantage to make them sound a little more even on the stream. Either that, or just put it in neutral, and the entire EQ code will be bypassed. -Finally (or, well, first), since 1.7.3, there's the **stereo width** knob. +Finally (or, well, first), there's the **stereo width** knob. At the default, 100%, it makes no change to the signal, but if you turn it to 0% (at the middle), the signal becomes perfect mono. Between these two, there's a range where the channels leak partially over into each other. @@ -415,7 +414,7 @@ Unless you have a reference sheet for your MIDI controller, specifying which controller and number numbers the different physical knobs and faders emit, inputting these numbers by hand can be a frustrating procedure. (Actually, even with a reference sheet, it probably is.) Thus, the preferred -way is by autosensing; simply select the given mapping with the mouse +way is by autosensing; select the given mapping with the mouse and use the control you want to bind it to, and Nageru automatically fills it in. @@ -465,7 +464,7 @@ same position for the two controllers. (There is a similar problem when starting up Nageru for the first time, where the controllers are not necessarily in the place matching Nageru's startup settings.) Some more expensive controllers support *motorized faders*, where -the host can simply tell the control to move to the right place +the host can tell the control to move to the right place and thus solve the problem, but Nageru does not currently support them. .. image:: images/highlight.png