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Introduction
The Basics
Files and Documents
Recording
Effects
Settings Panel
Recipes / Cookbook
FAQ
Support

Introduction

Welcome to Vector 3

Vector 3 is the newest and latest version of the highly popular Vector audio editor for macOS. Version 3 has been completely re-worked from the ground up and has received many much requested features and bugfixes.

Vector 3 now supports 3rd party Audio Unit plugins, multi selection, adjustable loop points, adjustable selections and markers, a low power recording mode to save battery life and a transparent temporary workspace system which doesn’t prompt you anymore to create a new document every time you want to edit an existing audio file.

We have also significantly improved rendering speed on Retina Macs making Vector 3 the audio editor with the smoothest UI experience on the Mac today.

We hope you will be delighted using Vector 3!

The Basics

The Editing Window

Wave View
This is where most of the action happens. Vector renders an audio signal’s graphical representation in this view. This simply is a representation of the signal’s volume at a given time. The higher the spike the louder the sound is. Behind the wave form you can see the grid. The horizontal grid lines represent the volume on a logarithmic scale. From one line to the next the perceived sound loudness doubles for human ears. The vertical lines represent a time grid which adjusts itself to the current zoom level.
Single-clicking on the Wave View will set the cursor position to the clicked location and deselect all active selections. Double clicking will select the currently visible portion of the document.
You can use your mouse’s scroll wheel to zoom in and out (by scrolling up/down) or to scroll through the document by holding shift and scrolling up/down.
If your Mac has a touchpad you can zoom by using the two finder scroll gesture or by using the pinch zoom gesture. To scroll with a touchpad just two-finger scroll to the left/right.
Selecting works as expected: Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse around.
Time Band
The numbers correspond to time code locations in the edited document. In the screenshot above you can see that the cursor (3) is located at ~03:00 minutes.
Cursor
The Cursor indicates the current playback/recording position within the document. You can move the cursor by left-clicking anywhere in the wave view. (This is disabled during recording for obvious reasons.) If you want to change the cursor position without deselecting the current selection hold down the alt/option key when you click in the wave view or drag the cursor by its header.
Generators, pasting, playback, etc. always are applied to the cursor’s location. So if you place the cursor at 05:00 minutes and generate 10 seconds of silence those 10 seconds silence will be inserted at 05:00.
Loop Points
These two elements represent locations for looped playback. You can drag them around by their handles (the upper area). The blue marker is the looping start point while the red one is the end point at which playback will stop and jump back to the position indicated by the blue marker.
Transport Area
These are standard transport buttons you know from iTunes and co. Pressing the red circle ‘record’ button will start audio recording. Pressing the play button will start playback and with the prev/next buttons you can move the cursor around. (The cursor snaps then to the vertical grid lines in the wave view).
VU Meter
To the right and left of the transport area are VU bars. During recording these bars display the current input audio level and during playback the output level is shown. The range shown by the vu meter is [-36, -24, -18, -12, -9, -6, -3, -0] dB.
Mini Map
The mini map always displays the whole document. The map is handy to orient yourself when the wave view is zoomed in as it highlights the range which is currently shown by the wave view and has its own cursor position indicator.
Info Display
In the info display’s upper section you can see the current document’s file name. Right-clicking on it will pop up a menu where you can chose to display the document in Finder.
The numbers below the file name represent the current playback/recording position.
Audio Channel
As you can see there are two wave forms displayed. This happens when you edit a stereo audio file. The upper wave form represents the left audio channel and the lower wave form represents the right audio channel.
You can limit selections to each channel by dragging near the outer edge of a channel. If you drag near the inner edge the selection will contain both channels.
Info Label
The Info Label displays either the document’s total length or if there’s a selection it displays the selection’s parameters (location and length).
Right next to the label is an eye shaped button. Pressing this button results in the wave view zooming out/in to display the selected range.
Device Selector (A)
Clicking this speaker shaped button will open a popup which allows to change the current input and output device.
There’s also a volume slider which changes the playback volume. (This slider has no influence on actual document data but only affects the playback volume. To change the document’s levels use “Edit” -> “Amplify”!)
Selected Region
The region marked in light blue color is the currently selected region. Every operation (like effects, delete, copy, etc.) you might perform is applied only to selected regions. You can select regions by left clicking and dragging in the wave view. Not unlike you would select text in a text editor.
Note the selevtion header which will display how long the selected area is.
Selections can also be modified: You can either drag the whole selection around via the selection’s header or by dragging around its edges.
Marked Region
Marked regions are somewhat like persistent selection. You can always easilz mark the region under a marker simply by double clicking the marker’s title. Markers are also used for batch export where each marker gets exported into its own file. And if you save your document as a Vector Project (.vpj) markers will also persist between working sessions.
To mark an area first select it and then go to the “Markers” menu and select “Drop Marker”. You can also right-click the marker’s header to show a context menu of possible options (like rename).
Just like selections markers can also be dragged around or resized.

Basics of Audio Editing

Audio editors conceptually work similar to text editors. The cursor is regarded as the insertion point. Operations like record or paste always take place at the cursor location. Other operations like effects, delete or copy are applied to selected ranges.

To move the cursor just click inside the wave view. You can also specify the location more accurately by going to the “Transport” menu and choosing “Go to Custom Location”.

Selecting a certain range again is similar to a text editor: Click and drag inside the wave view to select a range. The selected range will be highlighted. There’s also a “Select Custom Range” command in the “Edit” menu for more accurate selection.

Vector has some advanced selection features: For example you’re not limited to having just one selection at a time. You can have multiple selections. To add a selection just press the CMD key while you drag inside the wave view. You then can apply effects to those selections at once. For example you could select from 05:00 to 05:10 and from 06:00 to 06:15 and apply the ‘reverse’ effect. This would result in only the selected ranges being reversed and the rest of the document would stay unchanged.

Please note that copy and paste works only with one active selection. You can’t copy multiple selections. (Though this is supposed to change

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