The main Vox Studio window looks like this:
Most program and graph windows (including the main window of Vox Studio itself) can be resized by holding the cursor over the bottom right corner of the window (until a double arrow appears) and then clicking and dragging until the window has the desired size. Double clicking the colored program title bar at the very top is a simple trick to rapidly maximize the size of the main Vox Studio window. Another double click on the title bar will restore the window to its previous size.
All commands can be activated from the menu bar at the top of the main Vox Studio window. The menu bar is located at the top of the screen underneath the program's title bar. It has the menu commands "File", "Edit", "View" and so on. You can activate the menu commands by clicking on any of the menu items. This will then open a list of actions from which you can select the one you want to perform. The menu bar simply looks like this:
Under the menu bar you will find toolbars that have one-click buttons for most of the important commands, but not for all of them. The toolbars look like this:
In the beginning, while you are still learning Vox Studio, you can rest your mouse cursor over the toolbar buttons for about half a second and a yellow ScreenTip will appear to explain what the button does.
The graph pane on the right, under the toolbars, is where the currently loaded files are shown as waveforms, each in its own graphical window. The files can be edited in the graphical windows: you can select, copy, cut, delete and insert sound chunks. Each of the graphical windows has a status bar at the bottom that shows detailed information on the file's type, encoding, sampling rate, number of samples and length in seconds. You can change the default display font for the horizontal and vertical scales by setting it in the Tools/Options/Graph fonts dialog box. You can even show or hide various elements of the graph window such as the position bar on top, the scales, the sound file format and other visible items by configuring this in the Tools/Options/Layout dialog box.
The sound signal can also be displayed as energy expressed in decibels, it then looks like this:
Under the graph pane you will find buttons that make it possible to record, rewind, play, pause, stop or fast forward, very much like a cassette recorder. This is what the player buttons look like:
The file tree pane, located on the left of the main window under the toolbars, shows the names and icons of all the files you have loaded in Vox Studio. When you click one of those file icons the corresponding waveform is shown in a graphical window in the graph pane on the right. When a filename has ** appended to it, this signals that the image in memory has been changed from the original disk image (the sound signal has been edited, filtered or converted in Vox Studio).
There is also a general status bar at the bottom of the main window. It tells you what Vox Studio is busy doing and also gives useful information on the cursor position in a file while you view or edit a file.
All commands and dialog-box selections are normally executed by clicking the left mouse button, but they can also be given from the keyboard. Each menu command or dialog box selection is shown on-screen with one of the characters underlined. The underlined character is the keyboard shortcut for that command.
Note to program developers: all file conversion commands can also be given from external programs using the command-line API or a conversion DLL API. Contact Xentec for detailed programming information.