Author: Clive Whitear
Date: December 21st 1998
Version: ER5 release
Record
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Record: Quick start
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Record is for recording and playing back sounds. You can also:
•	Insert recordings as objects in EPOC Word, Data or Agenda files, and send them to another EPOC machine user.
•	Use them as alarm sounds, in addition to the sounds built into the EPOC machine.
•	Record "voice notes" using the buttons on the exterior of the EPOC machine.
Use the Record buttons to record, play, and move through sound files. Use the volume control to set a playback level, and use the numeric indicators to check details of the current sound file length, available time remaining (during recording), and the number of repeats which have been set (if applicable).
The EPOC machine saves recordings as files on disks. There is no need for tapes.
•	The microphone is #add location of the microphone#. You can experiment with placement to obtain the clearest recording, with the least distortion and background noise.
•	The loudspeaker is #add location of the loudspeaker#
•	The buttons are used to record, play and move around sound files; use the external "voice notes" buttons to record notes when you are on the move.
•	The Progress bar, above the buttons on the screen, displays a graphic representation of the current file.
•	If, during the recording (or playing) of a sound file, an alarm was due to sound, it will be delayed until the recording has finished.
Progress bar (Record)
When Record is first started the progress bar is light grey. During recording it turns white and begins to fill up with grey from the left, like a fuel gauge. When recording stops, the entire progress bar turns dark grey, representing the full length of the recorded sound.
During playback the progress bar turns to light grey again and a similar dark grey area sweeps across it. The boundary between dark and light greys is the position marker which shows the current point within the recording, with the far right position being the end.
The start points of multiple recordings made in the current session are marked with vertical lines (the lines will be lost when Record is closed).
•	The 'Position' counter also shows the current point, but measured in minutes and seconds.
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Recording a sound (Record)
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To record a new sound:
1.	Press the Extras button on the icon bar and press the Record program icon, or tap the New file button in the System screen Toolbar and select Record.
2.	Tap the REC button, or press the Enter key, to begin recording. The 'Recorded' indicator shows how long your recording is in seconds.
3.	Tap the STOP button, or press the Esc key, to finish recording. The recording is stored as a file named 'Record' on the Internal disk, unless you use Save as on the File menu to specify a different name or location.
To save a recording and work on a copy of it, use Save as on the File menu and specify a different name for the new version.
The maximum length of a recording depends on the amount of free space left on the disk drive (one minute of sound using standard compression takes up 500K of disk space). The 'Time remaining' indicator shows how much more recording could be done if you wanted to use up all the free space, but in general its advisable to leave plenty of space for running other programs.
•	Record will not allow you to completely fill up the Internal disk, and always leaves a minimum of 100K free.
Playing a sound (Record)
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To listen to the current sound:
1.	Tap the PLAY button, or press the Spacebar, to start playback.
2.	Tap the STOP button, or press the Esc key, to stop playback before the end.
•	The PLAY button can also be used to pause, and then restart playback.
To change the volume, use the pen to drag the volume control, or use the up and down arrow keys.
To listen to part of the current sound:
1.	Use the FFWD and REW buttons to move the position marker, or drag it with the pen, to the point in the file where you want to begin playback.
2.	Tap the PLAY button, or press the Spacebar, to start playback. Record will play the sound from the position marker and stop at the end unless you press the STOP button.
•	Select Open file on the File menu to open, then listen to another sound.
Recording alarm sounds (Record)
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Use Record to make alarm sounds for use in the EPOC Time and Agenda programs. You can also save a copy of an existing Record file as an alarm sound.
1.	Select the Record icon.
2.	Open a sound file or record a new one.
3.	Edit the recording and set repeats, if desired.
4.	Tap the Alarm sound button on the Toolbar or select the command on the File menu and enter a name.
The alarm sound will appear alongside the in-built sounds in the EPOC Time and Agenda programs.
•	To delete a custom alarm sound, select Delete alarm sound on the File menu.
•	The in-built alarm sounds cannot be deleted.
Rewinding & fast forwarding (Record)
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You can jump to the beginning or end of a sound, or move to any other point within it.
•	Use the pen to tap at any point in the progress bar to move the position marker or to drag the position marker to the beginning or end of a sound file.
•	Tap the REW button, or hold down Fn and use the left arrow key to jump backwards through a sound in two-second intervals.
•	Tap the FFWD button, or hold down Fn and use the right arrow key to jump forwards through a sound in two-second intervals.
•	Hold down the left arrow key to move quickly backwards through a sound.
•	Hold down the right arrow key to move quickly forwards through a sound.
•	Select Go to time on the Play menu and enter a position in minutes and seconds.
Press PLAY to start playback from the position marker.
Select Record & replace on the Record menu to start recording from the position marker.
Changing a sound (Record)
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To add further recorded sound on to the end of an existing recording, select Record & append on the Record menu.
All or part of an existing sound can be recorded over. To do this:
1.	Use the pen to drag the position marker to any point in the file, or select Go to time on the Play menu and enter a position in minutes and seconds.
2.	Select Record and replace on the Record menu.
The recording starts from the current cursor position. This will delete and overwrite any previously recorded sound from this point in the file.
•	You can shorten a sound file by selecting Crop from the Record menu. All sound after the selected point is deleted.
•	To erase all sound from the current file, select Erase all on the Record menu.
Repeating a sound (Record)
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To play a sound file several times in succession, set it to repeat by selecting the Repeat sound command on the Tools menu and entering a number between 1 and 60000.
•	A pause between repeats of up to 2000 seconds can be set.
Compressing sound files (Record)
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The EPOC machine normally compresses recorded sound so that 2 minutes of sound takes up 1Mbyte of memory. You can reduce the amount of space used for a new recording even further by selecting Compress sound on the Tools menu and then ADPCM Compression (4 minutes per Mbyte) before starting the recording.
Use standard compression to use a Record file in a program that cannot use ADPCM compressed files.
•	Skipping and searching through sound files may be slightly quicker with uncompressed files.