Quick Start Guide

Did you know that you have a recording studio in your computer?

You really do! If your Windows computer has a sound card, Cool Edit 2000 can turn it into a recording studio with all of the features used by professional audio engineers. You can use Cool Edit 2000 to record your own music, voice or other audio, edit it, mix it with other audio or musical parts, add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo to it, equalize it, and master it so that you can burn it to a CD, post it on the World Wide Web, or email it. Once you get started, you'll be amazed at what you can achieve!

If you're just getting started in computer audio, there are some things you might want to learn about your computer first. Check out the Hardware section of this guide for information on how your computer stores and plays sound.

Almost all sound cards have ports that enable you to record audio from external sources. The Windows mixer makes it easy to control playback and record levels. This means that you can plug a microphone or just about any other piece of audio equipment into your computer, and record right into Cool Edit 2000! You can also record music straight from your CD-ROM drive.

Once you've got something recorded or loaded into Cool Edit 2000, you can cut, paste, and move audio around just as you do text in a word processor. It slices! It dices! And if you make a mistake, the undo feature will let you back up and try it again.