Audio can be inserted into Canvastic documents and played directly. Document sounds will also play in slide shows but first they must be added to the documents.

The functions are accessed by selecting the Audio Tool from the tool palette. It is an object tool and will create audio objects on the canvas.

Recording

To record sounds you first must have your computer configured to use an attached or built-in microphone. See your Macintosh or Windows help and documentation for directions for doing this.

Choose the Audio tool and you will be presented with the audio input dialog box. The microphone function is already selected by default.

To record click the red record button once.

To stop recording click the stop button once.

To listen to the recording click the green play button once.

To insert the recorded sound into your current document click the OK button once.

The sound will show up in your document as a selected rectangle object that is special. It has the green play symbol in the corner.

To play the sound, double-click the sound object. Double-click again to stop the playback.

Note: If you click OK without first stopping the recording, the audio object will not appear in the document.

iTunes

To insert a song from your iTunes library, choose the Audio tool and you will be presented with the audio input dialog box. The microphone function is selected by default.

Click the iTunes function. You will be presented with a menu of the songs in your iTunes library.

To insert a song, choose the song and click the OK button.

You can preview the song by double-clicking it.

The sound will show up in your document as a selected rectangle object that is special. It has the green play symbol in the corner.

To play the sound, double-click the sound object. Double-click again to stop the playback.

Inserted MP3 Sound Files

MP3 sound files can be inserted in two ways:

1. Using the Audio tool to insert sounds from Canvastic's slide show background sounds and effects.

To insert a sound from Canvastic's slide show background sounds, choose the Audio tool and you will be presented with the audio input dialog box. The microphone function is selected by default.

Click the Folder function. You will be presented with a list of the sounds in the Canvastic Audio folder.

To insert a sound, choose the sound and click the OK button.

You can preview the song by double-clicking it.

The sound will show up in your document as a selected rectangle object that is special. It has the green play symbol in the corner.

To play the sound, double-click the sound object. Double-click again to stop the playback.

2. Using the Insert command to insert sounds that came from some other source.

To insert a sound from some other source:

Choose Insert... from the File menu.

Navigate to the sound file (mp3, m4a, aac, wav)

Select the sound, click the Open button.

The sound will show up in your document as a selected rectangle object that is special. It has the green play symbol in the corner.

Pause a moment while the sound is copied into the Canvastic document.

To play the sound, double-click the sound object. Double-click again to stop the playback.

Note:

Windows 2000 computers cannot access songs from iTunes. The version needed on that platform is too old to function correctly with Canvastic.