User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Requirements
- Installing and setting up
- Overview
- Basic methods
- Editing in the Wave window
- About this chapter
- Creating new empty documents
- Opening Waves
- Window overview and adjustments
- Setting the zoom factor
- Navigating through the file
- Snapshots
- Setting the ruler start position
- Working with a meter based display
- Setting the wave cursor position
- Selecting
- Basic editing commands
- File handling in Wave windows
- Editing attributes and getting information
- About the Loudness envelope display mode
- Playback and recording
- Metering
- Off-line processing
- Introduction
- Applying processing
- Level Normalizer
- Gain Change
- Loudness Normalizer
- Pan Normalizer
- Dynamics
- Level envelope
- Fade-in and fade-out
- Crossfade
- Invert Phase
- Reverse
- Eliminate DC Offset
- Waveform Restorer
- Time Stretch
- Pitch Correction
- Pitch Quantize
- Pitch Bend
- Harmonization
- Hi-fi Chorus
- EQ
- Convert sample rate
- Effect Morphing
- Support for reNOVAtor™
- Master Section
- Spectrum Editor
- Batch processing
- Batch file encoding
- Batch renaming
- Markers
- Using Auto Split
- Preparing a Basic Audio CD
- Creating, opening and saving Basic Audio CDs
- About the Basic Audio CD window
- Adding files to a Basic Audio CD
- Setting the order of the tracks on the CD
- Deleting files from Basic Audio CDs
- Managing list columns
- “Unfolding” a track
- Opening CD tracks for wave editing
- About the relation between the track list and CD markers
- Working with CD markers
- Adjusting pauses
- Naming tracks
- Other settings
- Checking the total length of the CD
- Playing files in the track list
- Creating a disc image
- Exporting audio files from a track list
- Preparations done!
- About the DVD-Audio format
- The Audio Montage
- Introduction
- The Audio Montage window
- Assembling the Montage
- Zooming and navigating
- Playing back
- Recording
- Rearranging clips
- The Zoom view
- Editing in the Clips view
- Managing clips and source files
- The volume envelope
- Using fades and crossfades in the Montage
- The pan envelope
- Transforming clips
- Adding effects to tracks and clips
- Managing effects in the Plug-ins view
- The Meta Normalizer
- Groups
- Using markers in the Montage
- Undo/Redo and History
- File handling in the Audio Montage
- Using video tracks
- Multichannel operation in the Montage
- Mixing down – The Render function
- Preparing the Audio Montage for CD/DVD- Audio burning
- Creating an Audio CD report
- Using DVD-A picture and text tracks
- Exporting and importing AES-31 files
- XML Export/Import of Audio Montages
- DVD-Audio projects
- Burning an audio CD
- Data CD/DVD Projects
- Importing audio CD/DVD tracks
- Creating labels
- Analysis
- Generating signals
- Synchronizing WaveLab to external devices
- Using samplers and creating loops
- Introduction
- Background information
- Setting up your sampler(s)
- Transmitting samples
- Receiving samples
- Deleting and getting information about samples
- The Transmit Back feature
- In case of problems
- Using WaveLab with Steinberg HALion
- Editing sample attributes
- Basic looping
- Using the Crossfade Looper
- Using the Loop Tone Equalizer
- Audio Databases
- What is an Audio Database and why do I need it?
- Creating and opening Audio Databases
- How Audio Databases are saved
- Window overview and adjustments
- Adding files to the Audio Database
- Customizing the File List
- Selecting in the File List
- Finding out where files are located
- Opening a file for editing
- Playing a file
- Other file operations
- Working with categories
- Location operations
- Filtering the list
- Finding files
- Changing the default categories and keywords
- Workspaces
- Using WaveLab for backup
- Customizing
- Plug-in Processor Reference
- Sampler Details
- SDS - Generic Sample Dump Standard
- SMDI (Standard SCSI transfer)
- Akai S1000/1100 including PB models
- Akai S2000/S2800/S3000/S3200, including all “i”, CD, and “XL” derivatives etc.
- Ensoniq, EPS, EPS16+, ASR-10, ASR-88
- E-mu Esi-32
- E-mu EIV, e64 and other samplers running the EOS operating system
- Kurzweil K2000 and K2500
- Roland S-760
- Troubleshooting
- General problems
- Problems with opening files
- Problems with saving files
- Recording problems
- Playback problems
- Editing problems
- Audio database and workspace problems
- Troubleshooting and precautions
- Sampler communication problems
- Problems and solutions
- Questions and Answers
- Day to day precautions for trouble free CD writing
- Hardware and setup issues
- Key commands
- Index
WAVELAB
Editing in the Wave window 6 – 115
The “$$$” file type is WaveLab’s own temporary file format. In case you ex-
perience a computer crash you may restore some of your work by opening
any stray “$$$” files on your hard disk(s).
About 20-, 24- and 32-bit float files
You do not need a 20- or 24-bit audio card to take advantage of the fact
that WaveLab can handle 20- and 24-bit audio files. Any processing or
editing performed on the files is always done at full resolution, even if your
card doesn’t support the full resolution. For playback, WaveLab automat-
ically adapts to whatever card you have installed.
About temporary files
As you work in WaveLab, temporary files used for Undo, etc. are created
on your hard disk, see “Temporary files” on page 28.
You can decide whether these files should be in 16-, 24- or 32 bit format.
This is done on the Preferences–File tab.
The higher this value, the better the quality of the temporary file. However,
32-bit files are also twice as big as 16-bit files and take longer to process.
Text/Excel (.txt) This is a text representation of a waveform. By saving an audio file as a
text file and then opening it in a spreadsheet application such as Excel,
you can view it in textual, decimal form and edit the sample values. When
you open a text file representing a waveform in WaveLab, it will be de-
coded and opened as an audio file. Note that these files are not com-
pressed in any way, so they can get very large! Therefore, avoid creating
and opening extremely large .txt files. Also note that when using 32 bit
float files, the .txt format is not 100% lossless – i.e. information may be
lost! This is because it is not possible to express a binary floating point
value in textual decimal form without some precision loss.
Windows Media
Audio (.wma, .asf))
Microsoft’s own compressed format. WaveLab lets you import/export
audio in this format. Note that it is also possible to import/export audio in
WMA surround format, provided that you have Windows Media Player 9
(or later) installed on your system.
Ensoniq Paris (.paf) Used by the Ensoniq Paris™ system (16 bit resolution).
Raw PCM files
(.raw, .bin, .pcm,
.$$$)
In this format, no information about bit resolution or sample rate is in-
cluded. If you open a file in this format, WaveLab will ask you to specify
the bit resolution and sample rate. If you don’t do this correctly, the file
will not play back as intended.
Format Description