Opening Files

DART XP Pro allows you to view, play and process uncompressed audio signals put in a standard Windows format called WAVE. Each wave file <*.wav> consists of a header, containing basic information about the recording (sampling rate, sampling resolution, number of channels etc.), followed by an unformatted string of bytes (for 8-bit sampling) or words (for 16-bit sampling) representing the values of consecutive signal samples. If a soundfile you wish to open is not a wave file the system will inform you of not being able to find the wave header.

In order to convert the raw PCM soundfile (i.e. a wave file deprived of its header) into a WAV file use the RAW to WAV command available from the File menu.

When renovating soundfiles, DART XP Pro creates special compressed detection files <*.det> which contain information about all system and/or operator interventions. Detection files can be opened and viewed in pretty much the same way as soundfiles.

Opening a single file

The file select dialog allows you to browse the list of available soundfiles in different disk directories. After choosing a soundfile

Press the ENTER key or click on the OK button.

You can audition a selected soundfile before loading it (press the Play button placed inside the dialog), get basic information about it (press the Info button) or delete (press the Delete button).

To open a detection file change the default <wav> extension to <det> (use the box situated in the lower left corner of a file select dialog) and proceed as above.

NOTICE

For your convenience a list of recently opened files is provided at the bottom of the File menu. To open such files simply select them from the list.

Opening several files

When convenient you can open or delete several files at once.

In order to mark more than one file shown in the Open file dialog, press the CTRL key while making your selections (all selected files will become highlighted).

NOTICE

When more than one file is selected the Play and Info buttons are disabled.