Steinberg Wavelab - 7.0 User Guide
Getting into the details
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Release Date: November 29, 2011
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Contents
1 WaveLab 7 Help 1
2 Getting Help 3
2.1 Help menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Using the interface 5
3.1 About Tool Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2 Adjusting Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3 Command bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4 Context menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.5 Docking windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.6 Double clicking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.7 Dragging operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.8 Playback shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.9 Select-clicking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.10 Shortcut system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.11 Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.12 Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.13 Switcher window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.14 Tab Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.15 Transport controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.16 Value editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.17 Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.18 Zooming and scrolling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4 WaveLab Concepts 27
4.1 Features Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.2 Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.2.1 Global analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.2.2 Audio file comparer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.2.3 3D Frequency Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.2.4 Loudness distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.3 Authoring CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
4.4 Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4.4.1 Marker types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.5 Metering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
4.5.1 VU Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4.5.2 Spectroscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
4.5.3 Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.5.4 Bit Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.5.5 Phasescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.5.6 Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
4.5.7 Wavescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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4.6 Offline processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.6.1 Change Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.6.2 Level envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.6.3 Normalize Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.6.4 Silence Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.6.5 Loop Tone Uniformizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.6.6 Pitch correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.6.7 Time stretching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.6.8 Loop Tweaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4.6.9 Effect morphing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
4.6.10 Loudness distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.6.11 Loudness normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.6.12 Pan Normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.6.13 Pitch bend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.6.14 Pitch quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.6.15 Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.6.16 Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4.7 Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.8 Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.9 Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.9.1 WaveLab Scripting Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.9.2 ECMAScript Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
4.10 The Spectrum display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
4.10.1 Spectrogram options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
4.11 Spectrum editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
4.11.0.1 Spectrum Processing Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
4.12 About Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5 Audio File editing 89
5.1 Offline processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.1.1 Change Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
5.1.2 Level envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
5.1.3 Normalize Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
5.1.4 Silence Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
5.1.5 Loop Tone Uniformizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
5.1.6 Pitch correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.1.7 Time stretching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5.1.8 Loop Tweaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
5.1.9 Effect morphing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
5.1.10 Loudness distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
5.1.11 Loudness normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
5.1.12 Pan Normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.1.13 Pitch bend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.1.14 Pitch quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.1.15 Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
5.1.16 Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.2 Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.2.1 Global analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.2.2 Audio file comparer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5.2.3 3D Frequency Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5.2.4 Loudness distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5.3 Metering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5.3.1 VU Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5.3.2 Spectroscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
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5.3.3 Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.3.4 Bit Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.3.5 Phasescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
5.3.6 Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
5.3.7 Wavescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
5.4 Transport controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.5 Specific tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.5.1 Basic Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.5.2 Error detection and correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.5.3 File Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
5.5.4 Marker Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
5.5.5 Metadata window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
5.5.6 Sample attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
5.5.7 Scripting window (Audio File Workspace) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
5.5.8 Spectrum editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
5.5.8.1 Spectrum Processing Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
5.6 Shared tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
5.6.1 Phasescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
5.6.2 VU Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
5.6.3 Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
5.6.4 Bit Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
5.6.5 Spectroscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
5.6.6 Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
5.6.7 Wavescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
5.6.8 Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
5.6.9 Background task monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
5.6.10 Log window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
5.7 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
5.7.1 Error detection and correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
5.7.2 Auto Split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
5.7.3 Signal generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
5.7.4 DTMF Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
5.8 Peak Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
6 Audio Montages 141
6.1 Metering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
6.1.1 VU Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
6.1.2 Spectroscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
6.1.3 Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
6.1.4 Bit Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
6.1.5 Phasescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
6.1.6 Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6.1.7 Wavescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
6.2 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
6.2.1 Meta-normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
6.2.2 Configure external tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
6.3 Transport controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
6.4 Specific tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
6.4.1 File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
6.4.2 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
6.4.3 File Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
6.4.4 Marker Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
6.4.5 History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
6.4.6 Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
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6.4.7 Focused Clip window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
6.4.8 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
6.4.9 Scripting window (Audio Montage Workspace) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
6.4.10 Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
6.4.11 DVD-Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
6.4.12 Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
6.4.13 Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
6.4.14 Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
6.4.15 Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
6.5 Shared tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
6.5.1 Phasescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
6.5.2 VU Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
6.5.3 Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
6.5.4 Bit Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
6.5.5 Spectroscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
6.5.6 Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
6.5.7 Wavescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
6.5.8 Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
6.5.9 Background task monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
6.5.10 Log window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
6.6 Audio Montage Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
6.7 Audio Montage contextual information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
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7.1 Specific tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
7.1.1 File Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
7.1.2 Batch Processing Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
7.1.2.1 Audio Injector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
7.1.2.2 Trimmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
7.1.2.3 Resizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
7.1.2.4 Fade-In/Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
7.1.2.5 Instructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
7.1.2.6 Time Stretch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.1.2.7 Pitch Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
7.1.2.8 Normalize Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
7.1.2.9 Stereo to Mono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
7.1.2.10 Pan Normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
7.1.2.11 Loudness normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
7.1.2.12 DC Remover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
7.1.2.13 Loudness Restorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
7.1.2.14 Meta-Normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
7.1.2.15 Meta-Leveler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
7.2 Shared tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
7.2.1 Background task monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
7.2.2 Log window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
7.3 Batch Processing Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
7.3.0.1 Audio Injector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
7.3.0.2 Trimmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
7.3.0.3 Resizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
7.3.0.4 Fade-In/Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
7.3.0.5 Instructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
7.3.0.6 Time Stretch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
7.3.0.7 Pitch Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
7.3.0.8 Normalize Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
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7.3.0.9 Stereo to Mono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
7.3.0.10 Pan Normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
7.3.0.11 Loudness normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
7.3.0.12 DC Remover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
7.3.0.13 Loudness Restorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
7.3.0.14 Meta-Normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
7.3.0.15 Meta-Leveler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
8 Podcasts 205
8.1 FTP site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
8.2 Episodes menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
8.3 Publish menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
8.4 Specific tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
8.4.1 File Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
9 Control Window 211
9.1 Specific tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
9.2 Shared tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
9.2.1 Phasescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
9.2.2 VU Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
9.2.3 Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
9.2.4 Bit Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
9.2.5 Spectroscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
9.2.6 Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
9.2.7 Wavescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
9.2.8 Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
9.2.9 Background task monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
9.2.10 Log window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
9.3 Metering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
9.3.1 VU Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
9.3.2 Spectroscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
9.3.3 Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
9.3.4 Bit Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
9.3.5 Phasescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
9.3.6 Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
9.3.7 Wavescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
10 Master Section 231
10.1 Render Wave window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
10.2 Render Montage window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
10.3 Plug-ins settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
11 Interface Elements 235
11.1 Dialogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
11.1.1 Insert link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
11.1.2 Align Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
11.1.3 Recording channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
11.1.4 Audio CD Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
11.1.5 Audio file comparer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
11.1.6 Audio File Format Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
11.1.7 Audio Montage properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
11.1.8 Split Clip at silences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
11.1.9 Audio properties dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
11.1.10 Audio Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
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11.1.11 Audio Streaming Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
11.1.12 Auto Split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
11.1.13 Batch Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
11.1.14 Basic Audio CD Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
11.1.15 Batch Renaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
11.1.16 CD Text Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
11.1.17 CD-Text Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
11.1.18 CD Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
11.1.19 Copy audio information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
11.1.20 Customize Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
11.1.21 Data CD/DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
11.1.22 DVD-Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
11.1.23 DVD-Audio Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
11.1.24 Document list dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
11.1.25 Ducking options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
11.1.26 Effect morphing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
11.1.27 Edit playback times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
11.1.28 Error detection and correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
11.1.29 Configure external tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
11.1.30 Folder Preferences dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
11.1.31 Frequency range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
11.1.32 FTP site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
11.1.33 Change Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
11.1.34 File attributes (OGG/WMA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
11.1.35 Global analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
11.1.36 Import Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
11.1.37 Insert Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
11.1.38 Level envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
11.1.39 Loop Tone Uniformizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
11.1.40 Loudness distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
11.1.41 Loudness normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
11.1.42 Global Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
11.1.43 Convert marker type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
11.1.44 Load Master Section Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
11.1.45 Save Master Section Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
11.1.46 Audio Montage Clone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
11.1.47 Write Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
11.1.48 Meta-normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
11.1.49 Audio Montage Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
11.1.50 MP2 encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
11.1.51 MP3 attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
11.1.52 MP3 encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
11.1.53 Normalize Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
11.1.54 OGG encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
11.1.55 Open files list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
11.1.56 Pan Normalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
11.1.57 Mix dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
11.1.58 Pitch bend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
11.1.59 Pitch correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
11.1.60 Pitch quantize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
11.1.61 Playback speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
11.1.62 Podcast options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
11.1.63 Text format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
11.1.64 Repeat Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
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11.1.65 Recently used files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
11.1.66 Recording Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
11.1.67 Record create marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
11.1.68 Remote control devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
11.1.68.1CC121 Advanced Integration Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
11.1.69 Rename File dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
11.1.70 Render ASIO input to file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
11.1.71 Render Montage window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
11.1.72 Render Wave window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
11.1.73 Loudness envelope options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
11.1.74 Sample attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
11.1.75 Modified files dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
11.1.76 Save Audio File dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
11.1.77 Select where and how Audio Files will be saved . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
11.1.78 Save Batch Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
11.1.79 Save File As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
11.1.80 Save Preset As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
11.1.81 Save picture of active window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
11.1.82 Scripting window (Audio Montage Workspace) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
11.1.83 Scripting window (Audio File Workspace) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
11.1.84 Definition of shortcut(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
11.1.85 Signal generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
11.1.86 Silence Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
11.1.87 Smart bypass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
11.1.88 Special File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
11.1.89 Spectrogram options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
11.1.90 Surround Panner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
11.1.91 Create Document Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
11.1.92 Template List Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
11.1.93 Time Format dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
11.1.94 Time stretching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
11.1.95 Track dispatching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
11.1.96 Value Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
11.1.97 File attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
11.1.98 Audio File editing preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
11.1.99 Write Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
11.1.100 WMA encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
11.1.101 Workspace layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
11.1.102 Write Data CD/DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
11.1.103 Loop Tweaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
11.1.104 Zoom factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
11.2 Shared tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
11.2.1 Phasescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
11.2.2 VU Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
11.2.3 Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
11.2.4 Bit Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
11.2.5 Spectroscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
11.2.6 Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
11.2.7 Wavescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
11.2.8 Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
11.2.9 Background task monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
11.2.10 Log window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
11.3 Specific tool windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
11.3.1 File Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
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11.3.2 Spectrum editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
11.3.2.1 Spectrum Processing Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
11.3.3 Basic Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
11.3.4 Scripting window (Audio File Workspace) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
11.3.5 Metadata window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
11.3.6 Marker Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
11.3.7 Sample attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
11.3.8 Upload to SoundCloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
11.3.9 Error detection and correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
11.3.10 Master Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
11.3.11 Focused Clip window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
11.3.12 Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
11.3.13 File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
11.3.14 Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
11.3.15 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
11.3.16 Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
11.3.17 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
11.3.18 Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
11.3.19 DVD-Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
11.3.20 Scripting window (Audio Montage Workspace) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
11.3.21 History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
11.3.22 Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
11.3.23 Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
12 Audio Plug-ins 327
12.1 Audio Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
12.2 Using External effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
12.3 Sonnox DeClicker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
12.4 Sonnox DeNoiser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
12.5 Sonnox DeBuzzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
12.6 Steinberg Autopan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
12.7 Steinberg Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
12.8 Steinberg Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
12.9 Steinberg DeEsser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
12.10 Steinberg Mono Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
12.11 Steinberg Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
12.12 Steinberg Dual Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
12.13 Steinberg Envelope Shaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
12.14 Steinberg Expander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
12.15 Steinberg Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
12.16 Steinberg GEQ-10/GEQ-30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
12.17 Steinberg Limiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
12.18 Steinberg Maximizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
12.19 Steinberg Mix 6 to 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
12.20 Steinberg Mix 8 to 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
12.21 Steinberg Mono to Stereo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
12.22 Steinberg Multiband Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
12.23 Steinberg Octaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
12.24 Steinberg Pingpong Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
12.25 Steinberg PostFilter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
12.26 Steinberg Roomworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
12.27 Steinberg Roomworks SE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
12.28 Stereo Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
12.29 Steinberg Stereo Enhancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
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12.30 Steinberg Studio Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
12.31 Steinberg Studio EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
12.32 Steinberg Test Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
12.33 UV22HR Dithering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
12.34 Steinberg Vintage Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
12.35 Steinberg VST Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
12.36 Crystal Resampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
12.37 Leveler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
12.38 Leveler Multi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
12.39 Peak Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
12.40 Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
12.41 Stereo Expander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
12.42 Internal Dithering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
13 Utilities 385
13.1 Import Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
13.2 Burn Audio CD from DDP Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
13.3 Data CD/DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
13.4 Batch Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
13.5 Batch Renaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
13.6 Log window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
13.7 Background task monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
13.8 Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
14 How do I... 393
14.1 ... import songs from an audio CD into WaveLab? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
14.2 ... use VST Plug-ins? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
14.3 ... edit an existing Audio File? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
14.4 ... compile and edit several Audio Files on multiple tracks? . . . . . . . . . . . 394
14.5 ... apply processing to an Audio File? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
14.6 ... convert an Audio File into another audio format? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
14.7 ... play back with real-time effects? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
14.8 ... record new Audio File? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
14.9 ... convert the sample rate of an Audio File? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
14.10 ... create a Podcast? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
14.11 ... open an aac, m4a or m4p Audio File from Apple iTunes? . . . . . . . . . . 396
15 Glossary 397
15.1 ADPCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
15.2 AES31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
15.3 AIFF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
15.4 Apple Lossless files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
15.5 ALAW files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
15.6 Aliasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
15.7 Amplitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
15.8 ASIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
15.9 Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.10 Audio montage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.11 Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.12 Bit depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.13 Blu-ray Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.14 CD Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
15.15 CD Pre-emphasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
15.16 CD Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
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15.17 Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
15.18 Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
15.19 Clipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
15.20 Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
15.21 Cross fade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
15.22 DAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
15.23 DC Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
15.24 DDP files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
15.25 Decibel (dB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
15.26 Dithering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
15.27 DVD-A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
15.28 ECMAScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
15.29 Ensoniq Paris files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
15.30 Equalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
15.31 FFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
15.32 Focused Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
15.33 Formant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
15.34 FTP Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
15.35 Headroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
15.36 ISO image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
15.37 ISRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
15.38 Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
15.39 Loudness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
15.40 Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.41 Media Catalog Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.42 MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.43 MIDI Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.44 Mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.45 Mobile phone Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.46 MP2 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
15.47 MP3 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
15.48 Non-destructive editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
15.49 Normalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
15.50 NTSC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
15.51 Ogg Vorbis files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
15.52 OSQ files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
15.53 PAL/SECAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
15.54 Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
15.55 Peak level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
15.56 Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
15.57 Pre-roll and Post-roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
15.58 Preset system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
15.59 Processor cores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
15.60 Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
15.61 Raw PCM files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
15.62 Red Book CD-DA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
15.63 Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
15.64 RF64 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
15.65 RMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
15.66 Sample rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
15.67 SMPTE timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
15.68 Sound Designer II files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
15.69 Spectrogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
15.70 Sun/Java files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
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15.71 Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
15.72 Text/Excel files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
15.73 ULAW files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
15.74 UPC/EAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
15.75 WAV files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
15.76 WAV64 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
15.77 Waveform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
15.78 Wet/Dry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
15.79 WMA files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
15.80 Zero crossing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
WaveLab 7
Chapter 1
WaveLab 7 Help
Welcome to the WaveLab Help browser. You can expand the tree structure in the panel on
the left (under the Contents tab) to find individual Help topics. You can also use the Index
and Bookmarks tabs, in addition to a powerful Search feature (under the Search tab).
Please see Getting Help for more ways of using the Help browser and other help features
available throughout WaveLab.
For a quick overview of the features provided in WaveLab see Features Overview.
Top-level topics
Getting Help
Using the interface
WaveLab Concepts
Audio File editing
Audio Montages
Batch Processing
Podcasts
Control Window
Master Section
Master Project
Interface Elements
Audio Plug-ins
Utilities
How do I...
Glossary
2 WaveLab 7 Help
WaveLab 7
Chapter 2
Getting Help
WaveLab's detailed help system makes it easy to look up interface features and get information from within the program. There are three main types of help available:
What is this?
Access this by clicking on the icon, or the question mark icon in a dialog window titlebar,
or by holding down [Shift]+[F1]. Once activated, the cursor changes to a question mark.
Click on an interface feature for information on what it does and details of any settings/values/functions involved. This is a quick way to learn about the more detailed features of
WaveLab.
When a Context menu is open, holding down [Shift]+[F1] allows the "What is This?" mode
to activate while the menu is open, and this is actually the only way to get help for Context
menu features.
It is worth noting too that "What is This?" help is sometimes available for sub-parts of controls,
such as List headers.
Tooltips
Hold your cursor over a button to show a brief description of its function wherever available.
Help window
This window provides you with detailed information on WaveLab's features and functionality.
You can access this help window in several ways:
via the Help menu. See Help menu.
from each dialog window provided with a Help button. This opens the Help window at
the relevant entry.
by pressing [F1]/[Command]+[?]. If a window is active, the Help window opens to the
relevant entry. If a dialog box is open, the dialog is described.
4 Getting Help
Related topics
Help menu
Command bars
2.1 Help menu
The Help menu gives you a convenient point of access to WaveLab's Help system.
Help about the active window...
Select this (or press [F1]/[Command]+[?]) to give help on the active window. If a dialog
box is open, the dialog is described.
Contents...
This lists the Help contents as a "tree structure" in the Contents window. Like many
WaveLab windows, you can make this a floating window, if you want to park it in a
convenient place on screen.
Index...
This accesses an Index to Help entries. Type in the "Look for:" box, or scroll down the
alphabetical list. If there is more than one entry for the Index item, you'll be given a
choice of entries to be displayed, in the "Choose Topic" box.
Search...
Type the name of the topic you wish to find in the "Search for:" box. If more than one
topic is found to match the search string, a list is displayed: click on the most likely
entry to display the topic. If there are too many entries, you can refine the search by
clicking on [+] "Advanced search".
Bookmarks...
Click the [+] Add button to add the displayed topic to the list of Bookmarked favorites.
Now you can return to the entry speedily.
What is this?
This gives a short "Tooltip" explanation by pointing and clicking on the interface feature
you need information on. This can also be used to get help on any menu item. Activate the question mark icon by selecting "What is this?" from the Help system; using
[Shift]+[F1]; or by selecting from the command bar button.
Steinberg on the internet - This fly-out menu opens a window on your browser with
the appropriate URL to support, update, upgrade or register WaveLab. You can also
access the Steinberg Home Page.
Related topics
Getting Help
WaveLab 7
Chapter 3
Using the interface
This section gives information on interface features that may not be obvious and which may
help to speed up your workflow, especially as your experience with WaveLab increases.
WaveLab is incredibly flexible in the ways that you can set up your working environment.
Interface elements can be arranged to suit your workflow, the type of project you are creating
and the size and number of your displays.
You can move, reorder and detach windows and tabs from frames and tear off groups of buttons in the Toolbar. You can slide and quickly partition different panes (areas) of the WaveLab
window.It's easy to set up different layouts for different projects and switch between them.
WaveLab has distinct Workspaces where you can work on a "session". Each Workspace
lets you collect a number of files that you want to keep together. This could be all of the
Audio Files used in a single song for instance, or all the Audio Files that go to make up a
Podcast episode.
Tip: If you're a user of Nuendo (a Steinberg product), don't forget that you can drag files
directly from within WaveLab.
Related topics
About Tool Windows
Adjusting Envelopes
Command bars
Context menus
Docking windows
Double clicking
Dragging operations
Playback shortcuts
Select-clicking
Shortcut system
Sliders
Status Bar
6 Using the interface
Switcher window
Tab Groups
Transport controls
Value editing
Workspaces
Zooming and scrolling
3.1 About Tool Windows
Throughout WaveLab there are various tool windows available that enable you to view, analyze and edit the current active document. Generally the content of a tool window is synchronized with the active document, with the exception of the audio meters which can display
information related to other documents.
There are two types of Tool windows:
Specific tool windows - these are dedicated to a given Workspace type. The File
Browser and Marker windows are examples of specific tool windows.
Shared tool windows - Only one instance of these windows can exist at any one
time in WaveLab, and it can be shared between Workspaces. The Master Section is
an example of a shared window and as such there is only ever one instance of it.
All tool windows can be accessed via the Workspace menu. See Docking windows for
information on docking and undocking tool windows.
Specific Tool windows
Specific tool windows are specific to the current Workspace and are dedicated to that
Workspace type. They perform useful tasks in the active Workspace. The File Browser
and Marker windows are examples of specific tool windows.
Specific tool windows can be docked and un-docked anywhere within their Workspace,
and saved in your custom layouts. They can also float as standalone windows in a specific
Workspace.
Shared tool windows
Shared tool windows are shared between certain Workspaces and are independent of any
one Workspace. Like specific tool windows, they can be docked and un-docked, and saved
in your custom layouts. The Master Section is an example of a shared window.
The main difference with Specific tool windows is that only one instance of a Shared tool
window can exist at any one time in WaveLab. When you open a shared tool window that is
referenced in another Workspace it will "move" from the other Workspace to the active one.
A shared tool window can be moved and docked exactly like a specific tool window, however in addition Shared tool windows can "float as an independent window", that is, independent of any Workspace. Each shared tool window has a menu entry to allow this floating
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mode.They can also be placed in the Control Window, in a tab group. Each shared tool
window has a menu entry to allow this ("Place in Control Window").
Differences between Mac and Windows
Floating windows behave slightly differently on Apple Mac and Windows, due to some basic
differences between the platforms:
Mac - On the Mac, a tool window is always on top of all other windows and a floating
window remains visible even if its dependent Workspace is not active or is minimized.
If WaveLab is no longer the active application, all its floating windows are hidden.
Windows - A floating window is hidden when its dependent Workspace is minimized
or covered by another window. If WaveLab is no longer the active application, all its
independent floating windows are hidden.
Saving a windows location
Once you have your tools windows, command bars and tab groups set up the way you wish
to work, you can save their location in the current Workspace by choosing Workspace >
Layout > Save as... and saving a preset; or you can save the current layout as the default
layout by choosing Workspace > Layout > Save current layout as default.
If you wish to save the location of all Workspaces, then use the global option by choosing
Global > General Window Layout > Save as... and saving a preset; or you can save
the current layout as the default layout by choosing Global > General Window Layout >
Save current layout as default.
Related topics
Workspaces
Shared tool windows
Specific tool windows
3.2 Adjusting Envelopes
At various places in WaveLab, envelopes are used to constrain the way effects are expressed.
Some offline processes such as Level Envelope, use envelopes to adjust an effect over time.
You can edit the profile of these envelopes quickly and easily.
Adjusting an envelope
Edit the envelope using the envelope editor window in the following ways:
Create and erase points by double clicking.
Select points by clicking on them.
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To select more than one point, press [Ctrl]/[Command] when clicking - you can then
move them together. Selected points don't have to be contiguous. You can also click
anywhere in the window and drag the cursor over the envelope points to select them.
You can drag any segment to move the whole envelope profile up and down.
You can drag a single segment vertically by pressing [Ctrl]/[Command] and move the
segment up and down.
You can drag a single segment horizontally by pressing [Ctrl]/[Command] + [Shift]
and move the segment left and right.
You can also use the controls at the top of the editor window to delete or reset points in
the envelope. Use the envelope smoothing button to toggle the envelope points between a
linear (polygonal) or a curved path. The envelope is not applied until you click "Apply".
For an explanation of each parameter and interface feature, click on , or the 'What's this?'
question mark icon. For more information see Getting Help
Related topics
Level envelope
Time stretching
Pitch correction
Pitch bend
3.3 Command bars
Commonly used tools, shortcuts and commands are represented by "Command buttons",
each with their own icon. Related buttons are grouped into various Command bars. You
can dock Command bars to any window edge and rearrange them. Each Workspace has
an appropriate set of command bars that are available to be displayed. All the commands
accessed via the Command buttons can also be found in the menus.
Hiding and displaying Command bars
To view a list of available command bars right-click on an empty part of the top edge of the
Workspace. More precisely, on Windows computers right click anywhere along the window's
top menu, on Apple Macintosh computers right click in the window's caption bar. This displays the Peripheral Windows context menu, which you can use to select which Command
bars are displayed.You can also choose which individual Command buttons are displayed
from the Customize commands dialog.
To move a set of Command bar tools
Drag on the left side of the command, or at top for vertical command bars - the pointer
changes to when you have "grip". Drag the group of Commands to any side of the appli-
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cation window and release the mouse button. The application window and other Command
bars will automatically make space for the Command bar in its new position.
By default, Command bars are docked and don't float. You can make them float individually
or not, by right clicking and selecting the desired option from the menu. Once the option has
been selected, move the command bar.
You can drag Command groups below an existing row to form a new row (or next to an
existing column, to form a new column). You can also reorder their position within a row or
column, to customize your layout.
If a Command bar does not have room to display all of its icons, it will have a double right (or
down) arrow >>. Click on the double arrow to reveal any obscured Command buttons.
Finding out what a Command button does
Hover over an individual Command button to display its tooltip. If no tooltip appears, make
sure "Show tips when mouse stays over buttons" is activated in Preferences... > Global
Preferences > Display tab.
For an explanation of each parameter and interface feature, click on , or the 'What's this?'
question mark icon. For more information see Getting Help
Related topics
Global Preferences
Customize Commands
Context menus
3.4 Context menus
Throughout WaveLab there are various Context menus available. These menus group together a range of commands and/or options specific to the window you are working in. They
appear when clicking with the right mouse button in certain places and may be useful for
speeding up your workflow.
Some Context menus have colored title bars (these were formerly known as "Speed menus"
in WaveLab 6), and their title indicates the part of the interface they relate to.
Using Context Menus
To bring up a context menu, right-click in the desired area. This is normally somewhere
along the edges of a window, or in some cases anywhere on the window itself or its title.
Right-clicking on a File tab, for example, shows a context menu with some relevant file options. Right-clicking on the waveform window header brings up the Time Ruler context menu
allowing you to access a number options for changing the Time Ruler display format.
Tip: Most context menu commands can be found on the normal menu bar but some unique
commands are only found in context menus. As they are not always obvious, when
searching for a function, it may be worth checking for a Context menu in the window in which
you are working by right-clicking on it, or around its edges.
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Related topics
Shortcut system
3.5 Docking windows
All of WaveLab's tool windows can be used as docked windows or as stand-alone "floating"
windows. They can be freely dragged around and docked at various locations. Command
bars can also be freely moved around and docked along the edges of most windows. See
Command bars for more information.
Undocking a window
Double-click on the title bar. This works with all tool windows, Specific and Shared.
About Specific tool windows
To undock a Specific tool window use one of the following methods:
double-click on the title bar.
click on the small double window icon which is located at the top left hand corner of
the window.
click and drag the window by its title bar.
Once un-docked, you can freely drag the window around by clicking and dragging on the
window's title header bar.
To dock the window again, drag it to any location where you are visually prompted to release
the window. Around the edges and the top of the Workspace is where this normally occurs.
Most windows can be docked horizontally or vertically, but some can only be docked in one
direction, because of the nature of their contents. To dock the window again, you can also
double-click in the title bar.
Tip: To move a window and prevent it from docking, hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] before
you begin to undock the window. This will avoid the window docking again and allow you to
place it anywhere. Once you begin to drag, you can release [Ctrl]/[Command].
About Shared tool windows
Shared tool windows such as the meters and the Master Section are slightly different to
other tool windows as there is only ever one of them available and it can only appear in
one Workspace at a time. As such, when you open a shared tool window from the menus
in another Workspace it undocks and moves from its original Workspace. An empty tab
container with a vertical title bar will remain in its previous Workspace.
To retrieve a window again from another Workspace use the button at the top left of these
empty containers. For example, if you have the VU Meter displayed in the Audio Montage
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Workspace and you wish to display it in the Audio File Workspace, you can simply click the
blue button and the VU Meter window will move back into its tab container.
You can choose to deactivate the default moving behavior by deselecting Workspace >
Auto move shared tool windows. Shared tool windows do not then move when you
switch between Workspaces.
Docking/Undocking in the Control Window
Certain windows (those with a Window and Global menu in their title header) can also be
arranged in the Control Window. These are placed centrally - slightly differently to how they
behave in the other Workspaces. For more information on docking/undocking windows in
the Control Window see Control Window.
Related topics
Tab Groups
About Tool Windows
Command bars
Control Window
3.6 Double clicking
A double click is the act of pressing the mouse button twice quickly without moving the
mouse.
Throughout WaveLab you can achieve the following by double clicking in certain places:
Create a new empty document - double click on the empty part of a tab bar. See
Tab Groups for more information.
Edit a marker name - double click at the right side of a marker's icon (in the Audio
File or Montage Workspace) above the time ruler.
Select a region (Audio File Workspace) - double click to select the whole Audio
File. Where markers exist, the region between the markers is selected. If markers exist
and you wish to select the entire file you can triple-click to select the whole file.
Set zoom to display entire waveform (Audio File/Montage Workspace) - double click on the horizontal zoom wheel to reset the zoom to display the whole Audio
File.
Set zoom to default value (Audio File/Montage Workspace) - double click on
the vertical zoom wheel to reset the zoom to its default value.
Center the waveform (Audio File Workspace) - double click on the vertical scroll
bar to center the waveform around the horizontal axis.
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Start playback (Audio File/Montage Workspace) - double click in the time line to
start playback from that point.
In addition to these specific examples, in various places throughout WaveLab, doubleclicking can be used to begin editing certain values. Depending on the context the type
of editing triggered will vary. In most list views for example, double-clicking in a cell will allow
you to edit its value.
Related topics
Tab Groups
Select-clicking
3.7 Dragging operations
WaveLab makes much use of "drag-and-drop" techniques to perform various operations,
some of which can't be performed otherwise. These are referred to as drag operations in
this documentation.
To drag an object, press and hold down the left mouse button while over the object and drag
it to the desired destination. Drop the object by releasing the button.
Many types of objects can be dragged between different source and destination locations
including files, text, Clips, the playback head and markers.
Tip: This help entry describes some of the most important drag and drop operations. There
are many other possibilities, especially within the various list views for example where you
can possibly drag from the list to an external window, drag a file into the list (to import), or
reorder, these vary of course according to the context). Therefore we encourage you to try
drag and drop wherever you feel it may make sense.
Within Workspaces
Drag objects within and between Workspaces to perform the following functions:
Docking a tool window - drag a window's title bar to any side of the Workspace,
beside or above an existing tool window, to dock the window at a new place.
Moving a Command bar - drag the bar grip at the left-hand end of a command bar
and reposition it. See Command bars for more information.
Moving a Document Tab - drag the tab to a new location within its own tabbed group
to reorder.You can also drag a tab to another group of tabs.
Open a file - drag a compatible file from the WaveLab's File Browser, from the operating system's file browser or from another application to the tab bar.
Insert a file in another Workspace - drag an Audio File by its title bar tab between
the Audio File and Audio Montage Workspaces. You can also use the Switcher window
to drag any object to another Workspace. Drag the object over the corresponding
Workspace icon in the Switcher window and wait until the new Workspace becomes
active. Then you can release the file in the target Workspace.
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Within the Audio File Workspace
Drag objects within the Audio File Workspace to perform the following functions:
Paste an Audio File - drag a document's title bar tab or document button onto the
waveform area of another file, to copy and paste its audio content. You can also drag
a compatible file directly from the File Browser, the operating system's file browser, or
from another application.
Delete/Move a marker - drag the marker along the time ruler to change its position.
Drag while pressing the [Shift] key to create a copy of this marker. Drag above the
time ruler to delete the marker.
Copy an audio selection - drag a selected region of audio onto the waveform area
of the same file, or of another file. Left, right or both channels can be copied.
Create a new file from an audio selection - drag a selected region of audio onto
the empty space of a tab bar to create a new copy of the audio. If dragging happens
right after double clicking, the selection is quantized and extended up to the marker's
"region" under the mouse.
Modify a selection - drag left or right to change the extent of the selection.
Move the waveform - drag anywhere above the time ruler to move it horizontally.
Create a marker from selected text - drop text that you have selected in an external
application onto the time ruler to create a generic marker there. The text becomes the
marker's name.
Scroll the waveform - drag the cursor to the left or right sides of the waveform area
to display the region before or after.
Mix to Mono - by holding down [Control + Alt]/[Command + Alt] while dragging the
file to a new tab, you can quickly mix a stereo file to mono.
Convert from Mono to Stereo - by holding down [Control + Alt]/[Command + Alt]
while dragging the file to a new tab, you can quickly convert a mono file to stereo .
Tip: When aligning some objects in the waveform area, labeled prompts will help you to
snap to other locations in the waveform (for example, the end points of Audio Files, markers
or cursors).
Audio Montage Workspace
Drag objects within the Audio Montage Workspace to perform the following functions:
Paste an Audio File - drag a document's title bar tab or document button onto
the Montage area of another file, to copy and paste its audio content. You can also drag
a compatible file directly from the File Browser, the operating system's file browser, or
from another application.
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Delete/Move a marker - drag the marker along the time ruler to change its position.
Drag while pressing the [Shift] key to create a copy of this marker. Drag above the
time ruler to delete the marker.
Create a marker from selected text - drop text that you have selected in an external
application onto the time ruler to create a generic marker there. The text becomes the
marker's name.
Scroll the Montage - drag the cursor to the left and right sides of the Montage to
display what comes before or after.
Paste a Clip - drag a document's title bar tab or document button onto the Montage
area to copy and paste its audio content. You can also drag a compatible file directly
from the File Browser, the operating system's file browser, or from another application.
Within the Podcast Workspace
You can drag episodes in the Episodes list to reorder them.
Within the Master Section
You can drag effects between different Effects slots to change the order of processing (which
takes place from top to bottom).
Within the Batch Processor Workspace
Change the order of effects - you can change the order in which plug-ins are processed by dragging plug-ins within the Audio plug-in chain window.
Add to batch process - you can drag a file (via its tab) to the batch conversion tool
or batch processor, for "instant" processing.
Related topics
Docking windows
Switcher window
3.8 Playback shortcuts
Playing back audio is a common repetitive task in WaveLab. In addition to the playback
command buttons in the Transport controls, there are a few extra commands that can only be
accessed via special keyboard shortcuts. These shortcuts can be used even when the audio
window is not the active window. These special keyboard shortcuts cannot be customized.
They are:
Space bar - Start/Stop
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0 or F7 - Stop. When pressed while already stopped, the cursor jumps to the previous
playback start position. A further "0" returns the cursor to the start of the file.
Enter (Numeric Pad) or F8 - Start
[Ctrl]/[Command] + F6 - Plays from the beginning to the end of the selection, if any.
Where there are markers it plays between them. If there are no markers it plays from
the beginning to the end of the Audio File.
[Win]/[Ctrl] + F6 - As above, but playback starts with a preroll before the region and
stops at its end.
[Shift] + F6 - As above, but playback ends with a postroll after the region.
[Win]/[Ctrl] + [Shift] + F6 - As above, but playback starts with a preroll before the
region and ends with a postroll after the region.
Related topics
Transport controls
3.9 Select-clicking
Select-clicking is the act of selecting an object with the mouse and while it is selected,
clicking again. This is a common interface interaction when renaming a file or folder in your
computer's native file browser.
Throughout WaveLab there are places where you need to select-click fields to edit values. In
some lists such as the Basic Audio CD window, you need to select-click cells to edit a track
name or ISRC code. Generally if a value can be edited, a double click selects all characters
in that cell and allows you to begin editing; if not, then try select-clicking the cell instead.
Related topics
Tab Groups
Double clicking
3.10 Shortcut system
Throughout WaveLab there are many predefined shortcuts and custom commands that can
be used to speed up your workflow. The offline process "Fade-in", for example can be triggered from its menu entry, from its command bar icon, using a custom key sequence, and you
can use MIDI events as well. Each shortcut is restricted to its specific Workspace, which
means you can re-use the same shortcut in different Workspaces. When a command is
available from more than one Workspace, then the shortcut applies to all Workspaces and
cannot be reused.
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Not all commands are restricted to a Workspace, for example, all Master Section commands
are global to the application, and Record commands (Record dialog) are active only when
the Record dialog has focus. In addition, a few specific Global shortcuts can be defined
from Preferences... > Global Preferences > Global shortcuts tab.
Shortcuts are defined and can be edited in the Customize commands dialog. There are
various places where you can access this dialog, and each dialog restricts editing of the
shortcut to the related context. You can generate a summary of custom commands in a Print
preview or HTML format from the dialog's "Summary" button.
There are several types of shortcuts available in WaveLab:
Key sequences
You can define a sequence of up to four keys to trigger a desired action. Note that these
keys must be pressed/released one after the other, and the action is performed when the last
key has been pressed. Key stroke sequences give you a very large choice of combinations,
which is useful in an application with a large feature set. There are however possible pitfalls,
if for example:
Shortcut #1 is defined with the sequence: Control+D, Control+E
Shortcut #2 is defined with the sequence: Control+D
The application watches for key strokes, and when Control+D is pressed, Shortcut #2 won't
be triggered because Control+D is also used in a longer sequence (the application can't
know if it should wait for Control+E or not).
Note: A few very basic shortcuts cannot be redefined. If this is the case, the relevant edit
field is disabled. On the Mac, only the first key of native menus can be displayed.
MIDI event sequences
This is the same as with keyboard sequences, but using MIDI events sent from an external
MIDI device instead.
Keywords
Unless you use them frequently, key sequences are not always easy to remember but keywords normally are. In WaveLab you can define any unique keyword to trigger a command.
Type the keyword in the dedicated "Keyword" field in the "Definition of shortcut(s)" dialog,
and click OK.
To trigger the command, enter the keyword in the Keyword command bar, found in all
Workspace, and press Return. This command bar keeps a list of recent commands, to improve performance.
Keywords are useful in conjunction with presets, because a specific preset is easier to remember from a keyword (for example, "norm-1" to trigger a "Normalize to -1dB" process, if
such a preset has been set).
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Adding menu items to a Command bar button
Each Workspace has a number of default Command bars defined, but you can add further
menu items to customize Command bars.
Each menu command with an icon can be potentially added to a Command bar. Commands
are internally grouped by functionality, so the button always appears in its related command
bar (File commands appear in the File command bar, for example).
Add a menu command using the Customize commands dialog. Each command has a checkbox in the "Bar" column.
Other shortcuts
There are many other shortcuts in WaveLab that are accessed using the mouse. These are
described in Double clicking, Dragging operations and Tab Groups. Clicking the right button
on the mouse in certain places will produce a Context menu which offers quick access to
relevant commands.
Related topics
Customize Commands
Definition of shortcut(s)
Double clicking
Dragging operations
Tab Groups
Context menus
3.11 Sliders
At various places in WaveLab, slider controls are available to change parameters. There are
a number of ways to change a slider's value:
Turn the mouse wheel over the slider (no click is required). Press [Ctrl]/[Command]
simultaneously to scroll faster. This modifier also applies to the zoom wheels.
Left click on the button to move it.
Left click outside the button to move the button directly to that position.
Right click before or after the button, to move the button step by step. Keep the mouse
button pressed to automatically step to the next value.
Middle click anywhere to reset the slider to the default value (if a default is available).
Left click and press [Ctrl]/[Command] anywhere to reset the default value (if a default
value is available).
Double click on the button to reset the default value (if a default value is available).
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