CLIPPER


CLIPPER is JAGUAR's built-in sound editor that can be used to create audio clips from wideband recordings.

When you have the relevant audio material in the CLIPPER window, you can play/edit/process the clip before saving it (see the options below). The clip name is of the standard JAGUAR format unless you have defined your own clip name format in SETTINGS > PLAYBACK > CLIPNAME. The clip name is displayed on the bottom of the CLIPPER window, and this name can be edited. But do not change the WAV/MP3 suffix here, go to CLIPPER > FORMAT to do that.

HOW TO


KEY = C

CLIPPER can be started during the playback by pressing the "C" key, or by clicking the TOOLBAR > SCISSORS icon, or from STATION MENU > CLIPPER. Another press or click on the relevant key/icon/menu will stop the flow of the audible sound to the CLIPPER editor window. You can also click STOP on the CLIPPER menu. If you want, you can add more than one segment of audio to the same clip, using any of the ways described above to start CLIPPER.

You can play the audio clip by clicking on PLAY in the menu, or by clicking the waveform in the editor window at any position. You can also highlight an area in the waveform to limit the playback or editing to that specific area. Clicking the waveform outside the highlighted area will remove the highlight. If you edit the waveform without highlighting any particular area, the entire audio clip will be subject to these edits.

The CLIPPER menu contains the following options:

When you have finalized your edits, you have the following save options in the menu:

CLIPPER contains also a precision tool for bit fiddlers to get the maximum out of the audio:

You can close CLIPPER by clicking EXIT or by right-clicking the CLIPPER window.





TEMPO AND PITCH BUTTONS

Modifying the audio by changing tempo and/or pitch may help in some tough IDs. These functions use the 3rd party audio library called "SoundTouch" (http://surina.net/soundtouch/index.html ).

Note that changing tempo does not change the pitch and changing pitch does not change tempo, but if you necessarily want, you can change both of them (in that case you get the classic "chipmunk/klingon" effect just as when changing the plain audio playback sampling rate.

How to use TEMPO and PITCH functions in JAGUAR:





SILENT CLIPPER (ALT-C)

You can also extract and record the audio by pressing ALT-C: this mode does not start the GUI (there's only "RECORDING AUDIO" text visible on the STATUSBAR when this mode is active). This mode will record ANY audio you will currently hear on the headphones: it can be the Jaguar audio, the Perseus audio, the internet stream played within or outside Jaguar, Youtube video, etc. This recording ends when you press ALT-C again, then you can save the audio clip in the mp3 format.

NOTE: Some Windows setups do not support this feature.