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
7 – 140 Playback and recording
Play tool – Playing one or both channels in stereo files
Selecting the Play tool momentarily
The Play tool can of course be selected by clicking in the Toolbox, but
there are situations when you are working with another tool and just mo-
mentarily want to use the Play tool.
• To momentarily select the Play tool, hold down [Alt]. When you have fin-
ished playing, release [Alt].
Using the Play tool
The Play tool allows you to play back from any position:
1. Point at the position where you want playback to start.
2. If the wave is in stereo, move the pointer up or down to decide whether
only one channel should be played back.
Watch the cursor shape, it indicates what will be played back (L, R or both).
3. Press the mouse button.
Playback continues for as long as you keep the mouse button pressed, or until the wave
ends. After playback has stopped, the cursor will be moved to the playback start position,
making this a quick way to locate to certain positions in the audio.
Using the Playback Browser
The Playback Browser feature helps you find a certain position in an audio
file, by restarting playback repeatedly when you click or drag to move the
wave cursor.
1. Activate playback using the regular Play function, or select the Play tool.
Note that depending on your Preferences settings, Playback Browsing may only be avail-
able for the Play tool.
2. Click or drag in the ruler.
If you click, playback jumps immediately to the position at which you clicked. If you drag
continuously, a short snippet of audio from each new position is played (looped).
Playback Browser preferences
On the Preferences–Wave edit tab you will find two preferences for Play-
back Browsing:
• The Sensitivity setting is used to determine the size of the “snippets of audio”
played back when you drag.
• When the “Restrict to Play tool” option is activated, Playback Browsing is not avail-
able when you activate Playback using the transport bar or computer keyboard.