VoiceTracking

You can use the drop down box to select the date you wish to VoiceTrack, then click Load Schedule.

If a new schedule is created while you have the VoiceTracker open, you can click Refresh Schedule List to load the new info.

This is an indicator that you are connected to the OnAir and editing the live log for today.

If a change is made in the active OnAir, then you will see this indication:

Everything will be grayed out until you refresh your log to match the OnAir's.

Just below the Player and Input Volume Levels is a date and time.

Green indicates the last succesful log refresh.  The time turns gray when it is waiting to refresh.

 

 

This windows acts just like the Log Editor (If the Edit Functions are Enabled) and shows the events in a particular day's log.

This area contains all of the information you need as well as the controls to record and play back your Voice Track.

The software calculates a Voice Track Length to fit the intro of the second element.

Record plays the last few seconds of the element before the VT and then allows you to record. 

Before you can record, the button says Set Song Seg in case you want to start your VT earlier than the segue point set in Production.

While recording the button says Set VT Seg which tells the element after the VT to start.  

You can continue to record over the intro of the second element until you push the button which now reads Stop.

This gives you the full DJ experience: hearing the outro and talking over the intro of the next song.

You can drag the 2nd and 3rd elements to adjust the timing.

 

The second record option says Quick Record which only records your voice track.

Zone then calculates the intro and outro times to automatically place your voice track with auto-segues.

To see about setting the intro times, look HERE

 

Also during recording the Abort VT Rec button lights up if you need to abort the Voice Track.

 

The green Audition button allows you to hear the outro, VT, and intro as it will air.

 

The Edit VT Audio button will open the built-in Audio Editor where you can trim heads and tails or adjust levels of your VT.

 

Refresh VT Waveform redraws the visualizations.

As you would expect, this closes the Voice Tracking interface.

This area shows each hour of the day and how much audio file time is scheduled as well as a total for the day.

 

Note: If you run satellite programming or other alternate programming the hours may appear too short.

For example if a satellite show only gives you 12 minutes of local breaks, that hour may only show 12:00 instead of 60:00.

It also does not take into account microphone time.

Go To Next VT:  Moves the index to the next VT to record.

Go To Hour:  Allows you to choose the hour you want to see in military time (00-23)

Go To On Air:  If you are editing today's log it moves the index to the currently playing item.

Open Hot Keys:  Opens the Hot Keys window.

Open Weather:  Opens a floating Weather window so you can read the forecast.

 

Enable Edit Functions: By default the edit functions are disabled to prevent accidental log edits while Voice Tracking. 

This button prompts you to make sure you want to be able to edit the log. 

After you click OK, the next 3 buttons become active active and the Enable button becomes the Disable button.

 

Insert VT:  Inserts a User VT slot to record.

Delete Item:  Deletes an item from the schedule.

Audio Library:  Opens the Audio Library to allow insertion of audio.

Import VT File:  Allows you to select an existing audio file and import it into the VT slot.

 

This shows the master record level.  If your microphone is clipping you can slide the volume slider to the left.

The individual player volumes allow you to see the ducking when recording or playing back a VT.